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DLD News: December 2008

Particle physics, the aria

The Boston Globe recently published an interesting Q&A with Harvard theoretical physicist and DLD speaker Lisa Randall who is collaborating with composer Hèctor Parra and artist Matthew Ritchie on a chamber opera project entitled "Hypermusic Prologue: A projective opera in // more

Bernd Hölzner· 22/12/08 · 04:32 PM· 0 comment

Socialmedian purchased by XING

Today XING founder and DLD-friend Lars Hinrichs announced the purchase of NY-based socialmedian Inc., a leading innovator in the online news industry. Socialmedian gathers information from about 19,000 sources, including social media services such as Digg, Delicious, Twitter, Flickr or // more

Bernd Hölzner· 19/12/08 · 03:47 PM· 0 comment

The new high-tech smithy

German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" recently wrote an extensive piece about Israeli innovation and start-up culture. Israel has become the "miracle country" for technology founders and developed to the second-largest high-tech smithy in the world after Silicon Valley. Ideas and // more

· 15/12/08 · 06:12 PM· 0 comment

Technology enables Success

Without any doubt, technology is an important component for the economical success of a business. The technology to utilize depends on many factors like implementation speed, costs, process optimization, customer access etc. What technological solution can support the success of // more

Bernd Hölzner· 15/12/08 · 02:13 PM· 0 comment

Le Web '08

Yesterday European internet conference LeWeb started in Le104, Paris for two days full of panels, discussions and networking. Organized by our dear friends Loïc and Geraldine Le Meur, more than 1,800 guests signed up for this 5th edition to hear // more

· 10/12/08 · 05:30 PM· 0 comment

WEF Technology Pioneers 2009

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced 34 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2009 for their ability as innovators and whose technologies will have a deep influence on business and society. Among the nominees is DLD Speaker Robert Kalin, // more

· 08/12/08 · 02:29 PM· 1 comment

Ai Weiwei at Art Basel Miami Beach

Chinese artist and DLD Speaker Ai Weiwei installed a site-specific work of one hundred blue ceramic bubbles at Art Basel Miami Beach which opened yesterday. The Bubbles are spread over an area of 600 square meters on Watson Island. The // more

· 05/12/08 · 01:18 PM· 0 comment

Human Rights Watch wins UN Prize

Human Rights Watch has won the 2008 United Nations Prize for Human Rights. The award will be bestowed in New York on 10 December 2008 -- the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- in recognition of // more

Bernd Hölzner· 04/12/08 · 11:20 AM· 0 comment

Huffington Post raises $25 million

Political news site "The Huffington Post" announced that it has raised $25 million from Oak Investment Partners, a California-based company. The HuffPo, as it is commonly called, also declared the appointment of Fred Harman, chief executive of Oak, to its // more

· 03/12/08 · 04:38 PM· 0 comment

Rothenberg about Internet Display Advertising

Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and good DLD friend recently wrote on his blog about the future of online display advertising. The reason for his statement is the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report for the second // more

· 01/12/08 · 06:20 PM· 0 comment

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