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Lukas Kubina 23/05/12

DLD12 Interview Series - Kevin Slavin

After several attempts, I caught Kevin Slavin in a rush at DLD12. Already floating away into the crowd again, he promised to return. Underscoring his level of seriousness, he threw an oath handshake at me. A man of his word (and obviously of manual

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22/05/12

Getting Ready For DLD Moscow

  Only one more week to go until the first „DLD meets Skolkovo“ in Moscow. From May 27-29, Russian entrepreneurs and creative minds will get together with the international DLD community to discuss technology, culture, education, politics,

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Lukas Kubina 18/05/12

The Network Value - Facebook's Historic IPO

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his Harvard college dorm room eight years ago. 900 million users have joined since, 13 million are subscribed to him, we even have a few mutual friends. The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a place

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16/05/12

DLD goes Moscow

Invited by the renowned Russian Skolkovo Foundation, DLD will host a digital and business conference in Moscow from May 27-29, 2012. DLD Moscow will be an invitation-only conference jointly hosted by Skolkovo President Viktor Vekselberg,

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Beatrice Jeschek 15/05/12

Live: Audi Urban Future Award

The Audi Urban Future Award is an international architecture competition and one of the four components of the Audi Urban Future Initiative, which is concerned with the future of  urban mobility. "In a couple of years our kids won't understand the

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Lukas Kubina for DLD debate 10/06/11

Does Twitter make our brains go mushy?

Bill Keller is the Executive Editor at the NYT, the newspaper that was one of the first to create the position of "social media editor" to professionalize the interface between website and social networks. In fact, the Times is seen as a model of

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David Kirkpatrick for DLD debate 20/01/11

The Facebook Effect

I was an English major in college. I had no awareness as a student of the importance of technology in human progress. But I had the good fortune to find a job as a writer at Fortune Magazine beginning in 1983. In two and a half decades there I had a

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Miriam Meckel for DLD debate 13/01/11

Embedded Journalism

Much has been talked about the importance of "social media" in a digital age. Yet the term itself is a double tautology. Media is always social unless we conceive of it strictly as the technical transmission of information and signals between two

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Evgeny Morozov for DLD debate 06/01/11

The Fragile Democracy

To assess the impact of the digital revolution on politics, one needs to remember two basic truths about the Internet. First, the Web allows like-minded people to find each other and pursue common goals. Second, it increases the velocity and

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Nicholas Carr for DLD debate 16/12/10

The Shallows

Although the World Wide Web has been around for just 20 years, it has become so deeply entwined in our intellectual, social, and work lives that it is hard to imagine living without it. Thanks to the technology, we now have instant access to vast

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Ernst & Young 21/05/12

Mixed Leadership - A Study on Gender-Mixed Management Boards

Based on the data of Europe’s 300 biggest listed companies (in terms of market capitalization), the study 'Mixed Leadership' by Ernst & Young investigated the questions of a) how has the proportion of female management board members in top European

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David Sable 09/09/11

What are Friends For?

A few thoughts on "Friendship" by David Sable, Global CEO, Y&R.

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McKinsey 27/05/11

Internet matters: The Net's sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity

The McKinsey Global Institute presents a study on the critical impact of the Internet on the GDP. Embrace the digital reality: two billion people are connected to the Internet. Almost $8 trillion exchange hands each year through e-commerce. In some

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Bain&Company 18/05/11

Latinamerican Factpack

Supported by improved macroeconomic fundamentals, the Latin American media and entertainment market is well positioned for future growth. As communications infrastructure continues to expand and becomes more sophisticated in the region, media

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fnbox 26/04/11

2011 Latin America - Internet Market Research & Outlook

fnbox,  a Latin American technology company which focuses on creating global and scalable Internet businesses presents an internet market research & outlok on the Latin American Market.   The study covers following topics: Latin America: Rising

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    The upcoming DLD12 Conference is held January 22-24, 2012 in Munich, followed by a DLD Nightcap at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 25. Chairmen of DLD12 are Hubert Burda, owner of Hubert Burda Media and Yossi Vardi

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