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Category Name: Management : sur la sellette

Why Shane Ginsberg did not go to Web2.0 Expo?

I met Shane Ginsberg, executive director of Organic, at his offices, a couple of blocs from the Moscone Center in San Francisco. He did not attend the Web 2.0 conference and i strongly recommend that you listen to his brilliant rationale, stained by more than a drop of humour and immersed in earthy business sense. […]

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$550 million: Slide.com survalorisé?

     Slide.com vient de lever $50 million lors d’un quatrième tour en cédant 9% de son capital, soit une valorisation de $550 million. Pas mal de réactions ici sur le NYT (lisez les commentaires) parlent de sur-valorisation, à l’image de celle de Facebook estimée à $15 milliard suite à la prise de participation de 1,6% […]

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Baidu wins against music labels: digital music to grow.

A Beijing appeals court has found top Chinese search engine Baidu.com not guilty of property rights infringement for posting links to websites offering illegal music downloads, state media said Monday. (Source AFP/Xinhua) This ruling is important for the Jurisprudence it creates – not so much for the money – 1.67 million yuan (222,666 dollars). EMI, […]

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Sarkozy with Carla Bruni: a teaching in management?

     French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who recently divorced his wife Cecilia, is dating model and singer Carla Bruni. He made it public, which is clearly a new behavior for French presidents. Although i’m not often commenting about celebrities and “red carpet”, here is what I take away from it from a management point of view, […]

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