Get in With the Out Crowd In conversation with IESE Prof. Evgeny Kaganer, the co-founder of Crowdspring Mike Samson talks about how crowdsourcing creates a community that goes beyond the mere marketplace. While the marketplace simply connects the seller with the buyer, crowdsourcing...
Too Much Information The data explosion is revolutionizing social science because it allows us to look at the individual and not just at the organizational level, says Prof. Javier Zamora. However, our databases aren’t designed to cope with these quantities and we need...
Game is Over for TV Times are changing for TV channels, which have existed until now because they owned exclusive rights to broadcast content. Now anyone can broadcast content through the internet, which will make TV channels irrelevant and prompt new ways for content to...
The Shift to Digital Content What impact will a digital, paperless environment have on students’ learning experience? asks Prof. Evgeny Káganer. In an experiment providing half of Executive MBA students with paper materials and the other half with tablets, the main concern of...
The Age of Movement, Touch and Sound Text is essentially over and we’re moving into the era of movement, touch and sound, says Prof. Sandra Sieber. The importance of text will decline over the next five years as voice-recognition programs become more sophisticated and the technical obstacles...
Travel agencies are among Google’s most important clients and Josep Valor wonders if the search engine hasn’t shot itself in the foot with its application that allows users to search for travel bargains. Once users find the best offer they bypass the agent and go directly to the airline’s site to book it, allowing the [...]
Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com, believes that mobile devices are the future of newspapers and says the handset makers are the Financial Times’ partners in reaching readers. He adds that the HTML5 is the talk of the town and thinks it will open up the applications market and make it more diverse. He says [...]
“Europe is a center of innovation for social networks, for mobile and gaming,” says Facebook’s Christian Hernandez. “Good stuff is coming out of Berlin and Turkey and Finland. And innovation and entrepreneurship is what drives growth, so there’s hope for Europe.” He adds that, while many people see HTML5 as the future of the Internet, [...]
Much of the final day of the World Mobile Congress was spent talking about emerging markets, says Prof. Javier Zamora. We are on transition from connectivity to hyper-connectivity and we are not far off the figure 50 billion interconnected devices.
Prof. Javier Zamora discusses the key points from the first day at the MWC, in particular the agreement between Telefónica and Mozilla. CEOs from big operators such as Telecom Italia, Vodafone and ATT all spoke about the role of Apple and Android. It also became clear that shopping and making payments via mobile phones is [...]
In 2006, Barcelona held for the first time the Mobile Congress. At that edition the CEOs from VODAFONE, TELEFÓNICA, MOTOROLA, NOKIA and MICROSOFT were the keynote speakers. Those companies reflected to some extent the mobile industry value chain in 2006, accounting for an aggregated market value capitalization of more than $600B. Only six years later, [...]
02.24.2012 | News | jzamora
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IESE Climbs to No. 1 in FT Executive Education Survey 2012! http://t.co/iw1XHe6Y [VIDEO] New FaceIT blogpost :: Get in With the Out Crowd http://t.co/90brlCZo via @sharethis "You know Zuck..." :: The Education of Mark Zuckerberg http://t.co/fcSplLzp Phase 1: use FB cretentials in your App, Phase 2: Only HTML5 Apps? :: App Center Will Be Its Mobile Extension http://t.co/h5TrQmvW Facebook Highlights: The beginning of paid social networking? http://t.co/zTRItmLb Measuring 10,000 data points per store visit :: Big Data in the Physical World: Will It Trump Online Analytics? http://t.co/eNyAlJyN Is it LIKE(ly) to switch from Google? :: Bing to Be Revamped in War for Search Engine Supremacy http://t.co/LRZXD3Lg
Telefónica launches own smartphone chat app. Is this a "me too" strategy in a non-money generating business? - http://t.co/7L1c1acW IESE neighbour in NYC - Portzamparc's Blue Heaven on 57th Street http://t.co/L4dJhecS via @CurbedNY