One of the biggest challenges technology companies face these days is to maintain a fast pace of innovation and try to foster an entrepreneurial culture where employees can bring lead and drive the development of new ideas.
Google is a great example of innovative culture and one of the programs that I really like is their Innovation 80/20 model, so called “innovation time off”, where employees are encourages spending up to 20% of their time working in their own innovation projects or ideas.
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Last week Vision Mobile consulting released a new study regarding application stores. The report is extremely interesting since the main sponsor is Telefonica developer community and some of the findings are quite disruptive showing how mobile operators losing the battle for application developer’s heart. continue reading »
Some weeks back, the United States Federal Communications Commission released a survey on consumer mobile experience. The survey indicated that 30 million Americans or one in six mobile users have experienced “bill shock,” a sudden increase in their monthly bill that is not caused by a change in service plan.
It also discovered that almost 50% of mobile users who have plans with early termination fees and 66% of home broadband users with early termination plans don’t know the amount of the fees they’re accountable for.
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During a Barclay’s conference last week, Verizon Wireless CEO, Lowell McAdam stated that for the commericial launch of its LTE network some time this year, the company will be introducing a tiered or metered pricing data plans.
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GlaxoSmithKline, The pharmaceutical giant, has decided to open to public the design of 13,500 chemical compounds that could inhibit malaria, In order to foster collaboration among scientists and researchers interested on developing a drug that can control this disease. The malaria is a condition caused by parasites which are transmitted to the human blood through a mosquito bite. It is one of the world’s biggest health problems with more than 210 million cases annually. Most of these cases affect poor countries where people live with less than 1USD per day.
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New research into online behavior suggests that up to 44% of users using illegal download sites could be converted into paying music subscribers if services were priced correctly. Most of 44% P2P users would be willing to pay a small fee every month to continue downloading from their favorite sites on a legal basis.
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Internet is evolving rapidly and in different directions. Anticipating what could happen in the web future is a constant effort for those who play a role in it.
As Marshall McLuhan famously said “We shape our tools. And then our tools shape us.”. Internet has changed many things: who we work, communicates, relate, learn, investigate, study, play, to entertain becoming an essential part of our everyday life for millions of people.
Like any technology, internet is evolving rapidly and every new step allows more people to access it, while users become are demanding more services that they would like to find on the net. Hence, companies that live in this network are always re-thinking their business and creating outstanding innovation to create more options and services.
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A recent statement Nikesh Arora, President of Global Sales Operations and Business Development of Google demonstrate the exponential growth of the online advertising market in the mid term and the maturity of channels like the internet which in turn has captured the trust of the brands and advertisers.
Nikesh expected that within 5 to 8 years, between 30 and 50 percent of advertising will be digital. This means that online advertising would grab up to half the overall share of the advertising market.
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According to data provided by comScore regarding digital advertising spending for the first quarter in the U.S., Facebook could reach a advertising revenue potential of $ 1,500 million USD during this year. Additionally, the Social network sites is leading online advertising impressions in the U.S.
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comScore latest social networking market study found that more than 30% of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile phones in January 2010 , up 36% compared to 22.5% one year back.
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