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• Mass of Media: Financial crisis

  Thursday, September 18th, 2008

  A financial crisis happens when some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value. Many financial crises are banking panics, and many recessions coincided with these panics. Other situations that are often called financial crises include stock market crashes and the bursting of other financial bubbles, as well as international phenomena [...]

• Twitter has acquired Summize

  Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

  Twitter purchased Summize these days, in order to improve the search of the Twitter network, for relevant topics. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts, ranging up to 140 characters long, via SMS, mobile, or Twitter’s web site Twitter [...]

• Yahoo spurns Microsoft last offer

  Monday, July 14th, 2008

  Like I said in a previous post, the strategy of a big company like Microsoft to buy a big company like Yahoo!, cannot be based on a simple offer only. It takes into consideration multiple denies of the targeted company, and it can be foresee for several years, even 10 years, if needed. And, of [...]

• One more try for Microsoft to buy Yahoo

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  As I said in a previous post when everyone considered Microsoft gave up, it lost a battle, but not the war. Such a transaction is not a simple business deal, to make an offer and wait for an answer. It implies a very complex strategy over several years. So, a first refusal from Yahoo! was [...]

• The digital Europe – i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470} INTRODUCTION Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services are now [...]

• Fusu, the Domain Stock Exchange for premium domain names

  Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

  I thought longtime ago for a stock exchange for domain names. As any other domainer. It is the perfect tool for the domain name market. An emerging market. Fusu did it. Domaining, as it is defined by Wikipedia, is the business of buying, selling, developing and monetizing Internet domain names. The domain name market is [...]

• The big known surprise: Microsoft buys Yahoo!

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  So, the decisive step is done: Microsoft Corp. has made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, in order to better compete with Google Inc. If Yahoo! agree, it will be the problem of the U.S. Justice Department to check if this deal complies with the antitrust rules, especially that Microsoft is already [...]

• Daimler will invest in a new plant in Romania

  Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

  Daimler AG intends to open a new automobile plant in Romania or Poland (most probable in Romania), where it will be manufactured the class A and B models, beginning with 2011. One of the Mercedes manager confirmed that these two possibilities are taken into consideration and discussed. Daimler AG (ex DaimlerChrysler AG) is a German [...]

• eBay auction business downgraded

  Thursday, January 24th, 2008

  In my opinion as an user eBay was losing its competitiveness due to its own rules. Too many rules, too restricting rules, a very complicated system for sellers, not a very good search system for buyers, and not a very good integration of all its parts. Now the new CEO, John Donahoe, who was named [...]

• UN report on the world economy

  Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

  The United Nations has published a report on “the world economic situation and perspectives for 2008.” According to the study’s conclusions a slowing is to be expected. It provides an overview of recent global economic performance and short-term prospects for the world economy and of some key global economic policy and development issues. On the [...]

• MySQL bought by Sun Microsystems

  Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

  A new try for Sun Microsystems to come back between the leaders of the IT industry, by buying the most popular open source database, for $1 billion. MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system which has, according to MySQL AB, more than 10 million installations. The basic program runs as a server providing [...]

• Big investment in the Black Sea area (Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine)

  Sunday, January 13th, 2008

  0 billions Euros will be invest by Voest Alpine (voestalpine AG), Austria, in eight areas at the Black Sea, in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine, in order to build a siderurgical aggregated group of plants with 10,000 employees, build on 1,000 ha of land. Petru Ianc, the chief of the General Department for Industrial Policy within [...]