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Leveraging IT and Social Networking to score in German football

It is now quite unlikely that TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, an upstart football club from a small town near Heidelberg, will achieve the ultimate goal of winning Germany’s football championship this year. Having led the country’s premier division, the Bundesliga, for many weeks this winter, it has now slipped to sixth place. And much to the […]

Yahoo! Partners With Four Top Universities to Advance Cloud Computing Systems and Applications Research

April 9, 2009, ebizq.net reports: Yahoo! Inc. , a leading global Internet company, today announced it has expanded its partnerships with top U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster […]

Putting a Price on Social Connections: Messaging with the boss much? Maybe you ought to be

Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production

Clayton M. Christensen: A Competitive Attack called Disruption

Posted by Clayton Christensen, April 8, 2009 How did GM, Chrysler, and Ford get in this mess? It is the result of a competitive attack called disruption, which began in the auto industry in the 1960s. When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is […]

Going Green: Why Germany Has the Inside Track to Lead a New Industrial Revolution

Already a leading player in so-called clean technology — the mix of environmentally benign power generation and environmentally friendly technologies — Germany may become the epicenter of the world’s next industrial revolution: the triumph of clean, cheap, sustainable electricity.