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Google Chrome: a new OS War

September 7, 2008 – 5:25 pm

TweetNot browser, OS.  More about that in a moment. . But, first, our kind, venture capitalists, loves disruption. When the established companies take too much room on the Petri dish, there is no way for a new bacterium to prosper.  When a Microsoft dominates a market, to pick a random example, launching a competitor becomes [...]

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The perspectives of the two Lévys

June 23, 2008 – 6:07 pm

TweetMaurice Levy, 66, is chairman and CEO of Publicis, n°3 advertising group in the world. His son, Alain Levy, 45, is the CEO of Weborama, one of the leaders of Internet analytics in Europe. Two generations, two different vantage points on the changing advertising market, confronted in this interview by Le Monde (full text in [...]

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Google — The case for buying Associated Press

June 23, 2008 – 6:04 pm

TweetWould it makes sense for Google to buy AP? Yes, says a contributor to Wired.Com. AP is a non-profit cooperative with 1500 members, many of them on the verge of extinction. (See the latest’s figures form the New York Times which is bleeding ad revenue at a yearly rate of 13%), or the terrible situation [...]

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