Last Friday, Adobe and Condé Nast unveiled a new digital magazine experience based on WIRED magazine at the TED conference in Long Beach, California. Built on Adobe AIR and developed with Condé Nast, the tablet prototype we showed during the TED “Play” session illustrates the possibilities for magazine publishers to reach readers in new ways. The concept enables — in digital form — the immersive content experience magazines are known for, and allows new interactive features to stimulate reader engagement, including: (more…)
Ebay Can’t Win Mobile Shopping With Apps Alone
Ebay (EBAY) has five fast-evolving apps in Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes store, with another one — specially geared towards fashion — on the way. BusinessWeek has taken eBay’s aggressive app strategy to be a sign that it will be “an early winner” in mobile commerce. But apps may not be enough.
The 5th China Venture Capital & Private Equity Forum @ Silicon Valley 2010
As world economies have struggled through the downturn, China stands uniquely alone as a vast market with the promise of strong, attractive growth. While the US market was contracting, China saw GDP growth of 8% in 2009. After building a tight knit VC/PE infrastructure for over a decade, a new crop of seasoned China VCs are [...]
10 Ways to Save Time During the Work Day
Time is the single resource in our lives that it’s impossible to make more of. Which is unfortunate, because we waste tons of the stuff — especially at work. Want to make better use of your time, get more stuff done, and possibly save some extra time for yourself and your family? I won’t promise [...]
Dreamwalk is a Bargain Hunter’s Dream
Just released this week, Dreamwalk is touted as “the mobile treasure hunt” and in essence, that’s pretty much what it is. It sort of equates to commercialized geocaching, but it’s really a pretty simple concept. Dreamwalk uses GPS technology to show users where prizes, or “treasure,” is waiting to be discovered. If you decide you [...]
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Smaller Teams, Less Communication Equals Better Productivity
I don’t work in your office, but I bet that I can describe how a typical project gets accomplished. Not only are the SMEs — the subject matter experts — assigned to the operation, but so are partners from across the company. These are people that have little direct impact on the outcome, but are included in the spirit of collaboration and cooperation. The end result: You spend half your time just communicating, and the project inevitably falls behind schedule.
What’s the right way to manage a project like that? I’ve got some logical, yet nontraditional advice for how to organize our team.
In the current issue of Inc, Joel Spolsky contends that organizationally, we have a tendency to over communicate. Specifically, by adding nonessential participants to projects, meetings and e-mail conversations, we dramatically slow down the overall process. (more…)
Finance
Youshang.com SaaS Paying Accounts hit 77,000
China’s paying accounts rose 30.9% quarter on quarter to 77,000 in the management-type software-as-a-service (SaaS) market in the third quarter of 2009, according to a data report released lately by Analysys International. Of the total paying accounts, 21,800 or 28.2% were from www.Youshang.com, an e-commerce platform under Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd. (SEHK: 0268). Youshang.com ranked [...]
Finance
A case study in profits and job losses
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA’S run for the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy has stirred up memories of the bitter 1994 challenge for the seat by Mitt Romney. When polls showed Romney edging ahead on the basis of his business experience, Kennedy’s media consultant, Tad Devine, went to film angry workers [...]
Finance
SupportSpace Raises $10 Million Series B
SupportSpace, a company that provides on-demand remote tech support solutions, announced today that it has raised $10 million in funding. The round was led byEmergence Capital Partners and also included previous investors BRM Group and Gemini Israel. SupportSpace has raised $24.25M in total funding so far. Kevin Spain of Emergence Capital Partners has also taken a board seat as [...]
