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  • November 4, 2013

    BlackBerry CEO steps down as company secures $1 billion funding from investors Chen, BlackBerry’s new interim leader, comes with strong credentials. He most recently played an instrumental role in turning around the fortunes of Sybase, a company that was once in a similarly distressed state to BlackBerry’s current plight. His experience in the mobile enterprise business…

  • November 11, 2013

    Mobile is Eating the World This is one of the best overviews on the “station of mobile computing” by Benedict Evans. The data and presentation slides are brilliant. Teenagers say goodbye to Facebook and hello to messenger apps The final, big reason why young people are gravitating towards messaging apps is that many of these…

  • August 28, 2013

    MBAs say values matter more than money Eighty-five percent of respondents said learning about social and environmental business is a priority for them in their graduate school program, and 91 percent said that social and environmental issues are essential or very important to a business’s long-term success. I am glad to see that so many…

  • December 14, 2013

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