We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Solar Farm in Tucson, Arizona. Image courtesy of IBM Research, Flickr Creative Commons. A123 Systems Alphabet Energy Amyris Battery Battery Ventures Biofuel Bloom Energy BP BrightSource Energy California Cleantech Open California Public Utilities Commission Cap and Trade Carbon Capture Carbon Emissions Cellulosic Ethanol Charging Clean Power Cleantech Climate Change Climos Coal Coskata Coulomb Tec
【翻訳 by Conyac】 【原文】 Baidu (NASDAQ銘柄BIDU)は去年、Baidu Browserという名の独創性あふれる自身のブラウザアプリケーションを立ち上げた。中国最大手サーチエンジンBaiduはそのバージョン2.0を発表し、大幅な改良点をアピールした。 初版ブラウザが開始された際は同僚のスティーブンが調査報告をしたが、今回のバージョンに関しては私が少し見てみることにする。ちなみにこのアプリケーションはWindows限定なので、Macユーザーはご了承を。 ブラウザと私のバトルは不吉なスタートで幕を開けた。まずインストールの過程で、デスクトップに自動でショートカットを作るかどうか聞かれたが、私は作らなかった。つまり、「いいえ」を選択したのだが、インストール後のデスクトップを見ると、そこにはなぜかHao123のショートカットがあった。これはよろしくない。 しかも、実はそれ
Developing story: Pivotal Labs, one of the smartest Web consulting firms, known for its pioneering work in agile development, is in talks to be acquired, according to some of my sources. The San Francisco–based company held an all-hands meeting on Monday that lasted for hours, a source tells me. Pivotal is going to stay in its current Market Street offices. The buyer is said to be a large technolo
Unlike Light’s older phones, the Light III sports a larger OLED display and an NFC chip to make way for future payment tools, as well as a camera.
Everyone Has The Features Yahoo’s Suing Facebook For: Here They Are Yahoo reared its patent troll head this week, and it’s not just Facebook that has reason to be worried — at least, judging by the extremely broad features that it’s being targeted for. Yahoo could easily sue Twitter, Pinterest, Google and many other popular web services whenever it thinks it would be most lucrative since their pro
【翻訳 by Conyac】 【原文】 中国最大の動画共有サイトYouku(优酷)(NYSE:YOKU)が、動画録画&投稿用のiPhoneとAndroidアプリをリリースした。アプリはYouku Paike(优酷拍客)と呼ばれ、ユーザーが作るコンテンツをWeibo(微博)などのソーシャルメディアで素早くシェアできるようにすることに焦点を絞っている。 中国のネット市民の中には、熱心なアマチュア動画投稿者がたくさんいる。彼らはニュースやバイラルになりそうな動画を撮影することで、フォロワーを増やすことを目的としている。Youku Paike(优酷拍客)アプリは、それが誰でも簡単にできるようにするものだ。もちろんただ猫の動画を撮るといった用途にも使える。 しかしこれは、Youku(优酷)にとってリスクが伴う。政府機関は、自由な情報流通、特にオンラインでの流通を好まない。(Youkuなどの)企業は、
この記事をゲスト寄稿してくれたのは、スマートフォン向けアドネットワークの株式会社medibaで海外戦略部部長を務めておられる、合田ジョージさん。合田さんは東芝、村田製作所を経て、2011年1月から mediba前身のNobotに参画し、海外展開・マーケティングを担当されてきました。昨夏のKDDIによるNobot買収に関する一連のニュースもどうぞ。 2012年3月初旬に、サンフランシスコ・デザインセンターで開催された「LAUNCH Festival 2012」の模様をお届けします。 イベント”LAUNCH”について LAUNCHは5年前、サンフランシスコのパレスホテルで開催されたテックイベント「TechCrunch 40」にルーツがあります。TechCrunch 40(後に、TechCrunch 50) は、TechCrunch 創業者の Michael Arrington と、Mahalo
Venture firms like to pull in experienced founders to become entrepreneurs in residence — people who typically come in without a clear idea of what they want to do, who may simply be tasked with thinking up a new company. Y Combinator is now bringing this type of free-form entrepreneurialism to its seed-stage fund. With a twist. If you’re a prospective founding team (or a uniquely promising indivi
Live Nation says its Ticketmaster subsidiary was hacked. A hacker claims to be selling 560 million customer records. An autonomous pod. A solid-state battery-powered sports car. An electric pickup truck. A convertible grand tourer EV with up to 600 miles of range. A “fully connected mobility device” for young urban innovators to be built by Foxconn and priced under $30,000. The next Popemobile. Ov
Media & Entertainment AT&T Gets Dirty, Threatens Plaintiff With Termination Of Service Unless He Shuts Up [Update: AT&T Responds] Let me catch you up: Matt Spaccarelli, an everyday guy from California, recently took AT&T to small claims court regarding its questionable throttling practices. The judge ruled in his favor on February 24 and ordered AT&T to pay Spaccarelli $850 on the basis that the t
Anyone familiar with the concept of big data should know that social media are a great source of information on consumer sentiment. But the next wave of analytics in social media will be influence. It’s easy to categorize friends and co-workers who are concerned with their Klout scores or number of Twitter followers as vain, but the truth is that this stuff matters. If you’re a marketer looking to
A look at two new reports about shipments of media tablets and e-readers shows that nobody really has any idea yet whether tablets are cannibalizing e-reader sales. First up is today’s report from market research firm IDC, which finds “worldwide media tablet shipments into sales channels” increased by 56.1 percent in Q4 2011, to 28.2 million units (up 155 percent over Q4 2010 shipments). The compa
Solar Farm in Tucson, Arizona. Image courtesy of IBM Research, Flickr Creative Commons. A123 Systems Alphabet Energy Amyris Battery Battery Ventures Biofuel Bloom Energy BP BrightSource Energy California Cleantech Open California Public Utilities Commission Cap and Trade Carbon Capture Carbon Emissions Cellulosic Ethanol Charging Clean Power Cleantech Climate Change Climos Coal Coskata Coulomb Tec
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here The latest company to throw its hat into the streaming video service business might be chip manufacturing giant Intel, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The move would mark a new direction for the company in regards to the television industry. The report indicates that Intel will produce its
LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Gives Kiva $1 Million To “Empower Everyone” “How you build the future is you motivate people to pay attention and act, to improve their circumstances and run their own lives”, LinkedIn co-founder and philanthropist Reid Hoffman tells me. That’s why his support of microlending platform Kiva’s kiva.org/free program has a double positive impact. He put up $1 million so 40,000
Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/38445475 w=640] Aya Zook, a Microsoftie focused on Bing, sat down with VentureBeat at South By Southwest today for a brief interview. We got to chat about why the Bing team is scouring Austin for people and ideas, how Bing measures search quality, and how its exclusive deals with T
Solar Farm in Tucson, Arizona. Image courtesy of IBM Research, Flickr Creative Commons. A123 Systems Alphabet Energy Amyris Battery Battery Ventures Biofuel Bloom Energy BP BrightSource Energy California Cleantech Open California Public Utilities Commission Cap and Trade Carbon Capture Carbon Emissions Cellulosic Ethanol Charging Clean Power Cleantech Climate Change Climos Coal Coskata Coulomb Tec
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Nokia has just announced the launch of an iOS and Android-compatible version of its mapping service known as Nokia Maps. The service, which powers Nokia’s native mapping applications on its own devices, has not arrived as a native iOS and Android app, however, but as a HTML5-based web service available at m.maps.nokia.com. In addition to basic mapping, Nokia Maps provides navigation support, throu
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
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