Opinion

Recently, I attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the gathering of 2,500 CEOs, heads of state, and visionaries from the arts. At Davos, I saw Chinese vice premier Li Keqiang, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, met Miss Universe, and participated with the "titans of social media" - as the founders of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn squared off. Heady stuff. But mid week, I went to a session that eclipsed them all. It was innocuously entitled The Power of the Purse.Read more

Are we witnessing the last days of the telecoms raj? At this year's Mobile World Congress, the mobile phone industry's biggest annual get together, there was a palpable sense that power is slowly, but surely, passing from the longstanding big guns of the mobile telecoms services industry, such as Vodafone, France Telecom and AT&T, to Google, Facebook, Skype and other web upstarts.
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David Din, a Luxembourg-based technology entrepreneur, took his company global over breakfast at the World Economic Forum  January 28.

Din, one of 26 companies named by the Forum as 2010 Technology Pioneers, is behind Epuramat, a company that promises to revolutionize waste water treatment, helping the United Nations meet its goal to give 2 billion people access to clean water and sanitary facilities in the coming years.Read more

During a crowded late night party at the World Economic Forum hosted by German media company Burda, Internet stars such as Twitter's Evan Williams and Google's Marissa Mayer, grabbed the limelight. But in the cold light of dawn January 27, as heavy snow fell on Davos , the spotlight was on something potentially more lucrative and transformative than the Web.Read more

The digerati, many who will be heading to the World Economic Forum in Davos later this week,  began gathering in Munich Sunday Jan. 24 to talk about what's next in technology and design at Burda Media's annual three day DLD conference. This year's theme is "mapping the future."Read more

Both as the CEO of Result and as the President of the European Tech Tour Association's Web & Mobility Summit, I spend a substantial amount of time looking at new businesses, from ideas to the financing and rollout of successful concepts. Also, I raised capital for a company I founded in 2002, at a time when it was extremely tough to do that.Read more

Alongside our partners in this venture, the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association and the European Tech Tour Association,  Informilo is proud to present Innovation Exchange, an event which will connect major tech corporates and venture firms with some of Europe's best entrepreneurs.Read more

 During a speech before a packed audience of over 1,000 business leaders in Dalian Sept. 10 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stressed the importance of intellectual property rights as one of four key areas needing concerted efforts, along with bringing the world out of a global recession, climate change and removing trade barriers.Read more

Since January this year I have listened to pitches from over 120 startups all over Europe, as part of our mini-Seedcamp tour. For those of you who don’t know  we run a series of events aimed at encouraging, supporting and funding start-ups all over Europe. The pitches I see are the ‘best-of-the-best’ in their region. I’ve seen people pitch in TelAviv and Warsaw, Slovenia and London.  You might be surprised to learn that there are a lot of common themes which have emerged along the way.Read more

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