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The Challenge Of Building A 'Moore's Law' For Healthcare
I've often marveled at how healthcare has managed to resist the productivity gains that computers and IT, have enabled in so many other industries. By making healthcare more efficient the outcome...
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Smart Money Versus Dumb Money - Silicon Valley's War With Wall Street
Here's Roger McNamee on BloombergTV hyping his unfortunately named "The Hypernet," and blaming NASDAQ and Wall Street greed on the botched Facebook [$FB] IPO.It's worth a...
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Amazon's Smartphone Advantage - It Can Make Money From Mobile
MarketWatch columnist Therese Poletti writes: Why an Amazon smartphone is a bad idea . She reports that it looks like an Amazon smartphone is in the works and could be available by the end of this...
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'Access Journalism' - An Insidious Corruption of Silicon Valley Reporters
David Weidner, a 15 year veteran reporter on the Wall Street beat, recently wrote an interesting article about his observations: So long, suckers -- I'm leaving Wall Street - MarketWatch He notes that...
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When VCs Seek Ink - There's Flacks And Then There's Super Hero Costumes
It was interesting to see Margit Wennmachers, co-founder of Outcast PR, and now working at VC firm Andreesen Horowitz, so prominently quoted in the New York Times today:Venture Capital Firms, Once...
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Women In Silicon Valley VC Firms: Equal Partners Or Just Publicists?
I used to know Margit Wennmachers, co-founder of Outcast Communications, a prominent San Francisco PR firm, fairly well and noted with interest when a press release in mid-2010 announced she had left...
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Pearltrees iPhone App Launches - A Curated Web In Your Pocket
Pearltrees, the web site curation service, today launched an iPhone version. Users can now access their "pearls" - bookmarked web pages - on PCs or Macs, iPads, and now on the iPhone. An Android...
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Ubokia: Putting The Buyer Back In Charge
Mark Pine is a former venture capital investor who decided to come out of retirement recently to lead Ubokia, a startup that creates flexible marketplaces around any type of product or service, with...
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The Fast Unravelling Web: Here's Why Google Is Killing The Hyperlink
There is something extraordinary taking place. Google's war on spam sites is tipping the online world upside down and now threatens that most fundamental element of the world wide web: the hyperlink....
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Ready, Set, Go! The Ancient Olympic Technology Of Fair Starts
A modern version of the ancient hysplex starting mechanism was reconstructed in the stadium at Nemea, Greece in 1993.By Intel Free PressWhen Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin kneel in the...
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Intel China Chairman On: Lessons From Deng Xiaoping And Andy Grove
(Sean Maloney - Chairman of Intel China.)By Sean Maloney - Chairman of Intel China"Not fooled by success, or stopped by failure." What we can learn from Deng Xiaoping and Andy Grove.China's market has...
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Has TED 'Become An Insatiable Kingpin Of International Meme Laundering'?
(Gopi Kallayil, head of Google+ speaking at TEDxBerkeley earlier this year.)TED, the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference, has expanded its brand across the globe over the past two years, with...
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The Disappearing Disk Drive - Flash Taking Over
"We're not talking 10, 20 percent improvement here. It (SSDs) can be 10 times more reliable. It can be a thousand times faster than a hard disk. This is very disruptive." -- Rob Crooke, vice president,...
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What's Your Best Business Book Of 2012? Mine Is Nearly 150 Years Old
The Financial Times has released a list of 16 business books as part of its for its "Best Business Book of the Year." Looking for your next read? We've just released the longlist for the Financial...
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SocialxDesign Launches - PR Firms Move Into Business Consulting
SocialxDesign (Social by Design) a high end social media consulting firm launched this week with Eastwick, a top Silicon Valley PR firm, as investor.The CEO is Giovanni Rodriguez, who just left...
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Interview: Ericsson Remakes Itself Around Open Innovation
(Patrik Regardh, head of strategic marketing, Ericsson.)By Intel Free PressEricsson's head of strategic marketing, Patrik Regardh, talks about how the company has changed its approach to innovation to...
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Should Facebook Board Members Wait To Sell Their Shares?
Dashiell Bennett, writing at The Atlantic Wire, wonders why Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook with a $500,000 initial stake, and a member of the board, recently sold more than 20 million...
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'Every Company Is A Media Company' Is Fueling M&A
For many years I've been saying that every company is a media company and writing about what that means and its importance to business. At first people were puzzled by that statement but these days it...
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Any SEO -- White Hat Or Black -- Could Flag You As A Spammer
I've always advised people not to worry about search engine optimization (SEO) with the explanation that it's the job of the search engine to optimize its performance -- not yours.Over on SEOBook,...
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Improving Web Site Quality Could Sink Your Google Rank
My recent post about Google's battle with spammers seems to have confused some people in the Search Engine Optimization industry.There's a perception that I'm advising web sites not to improve the...
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