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Posted by David Tebbutt on 21st July 2008.
Do people in your company need to collaborate fairly intimately with others who are geographically distant in order to get their work done more quickly? By ‘intimately’ I mean a mix of voice and screen sharing among a smallish group of people.
And would you like to do this at a low fixed cost and with [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th July 2008.
Toby Moores is a businessman whose stock in trade is ideas. His company generates them by the thousand, filters out those most likely to succeed and then has a stab at commercialising them. The business, called SleepyDog, has had a few major ‘hits’, most notably in the field of mobile telephony security and later with [...]
Posted by Simon Lawrence on 8th July 2008.
I’m sure we’ve all been subject to a torrent of cringe-worthy office clichés at some point in our working lives. I mean how often have you sat in a meeting and heard someone utter one of these unforgivable words or phrases
‘Moving Forward’
‘Leverage’
‘Facilitate’
‘Touch Base’
‘Close of Play / End of Play’
‘Blue sky thinking’
‘No idea is a bad [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 25th June 2008.
At a recent London dinner for geeks there was a sharp intake of breath and a flurry of questioning hands raised when Richard Moross, ceo of web 2.0 darlings MOO.com, revealed his company made a 70% margin on its mini-cards.
But as Moross was rightly keen to point out, MOO has had a fully functioning business [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 23rd June 2008.
I have no idea why Aladdin Knowledge Systems decided to attack LinkedIn, the business networking giant. A company which was valued last week at just over a billion dollars. Perhaps Aladdin thought it would ride the giant’s coat tails.
Unfortunately, the method it chose was to accuse LinkedIn of making industrial espionage easier. “Ah,” thought I, [...]
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