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Is The Sun Beginning To Set On The Telecom Sector's Empires?

Submitted by David Pringle on February 18, 2010

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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Electronic Arts Accelerates Move Into Social Gaming With Playfish Acquisition

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on November 9, 2009

In an anticipated deal Electronic Arts announced November 9 that it will buy Playfish, a London-based company that produces games for friends to play together over social and mobile platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Google, iPhone and Android. Playfish, a two-year-old company backed by Accel Partners and Index Ventures, is disrupting the traditional video game marketplace by offering game experiences that allow people to play with their real life friends via social networks.Read more

Extracting Value From Friendships: Dopplr Extends Social Atlas

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on May 25, 2009

 Dopplr, a social networking site that allows travelers to share trips in advance with friends, has proved popular with some of the world's most frequent travelers.  In late May the company started allowing its users to add in their favorite haunts as part of an extention of the site's new social atlas feature. CEO Marko Ahtisaari reckons users will eventually be willing to pay to subscribe to info on the best places to stay, eat and explore. Click "read more" to see the video.

 


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World Economic Forum Releases Beta Version of WELCOM, an exclusive "Facebook for CEOs"

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on February 5, 2009

 Participants at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 will continue their discussions about the key issues on the global agenda in a new virtual network. WELCOM, the World Economic Leaders Community, is a social network exclusively reserved for the partners and members of the World Economic Forum.Read more

Esther Dyson: To Infinity and Beyond

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on January 25, 2009

Internet doyenne Esther Dyson was awarded the Aenne Burda Creative Leadership award at the Digital, Live, Design or DLD conference in Munich on January 25.  Dyson,  who is currently training to be a cosmonaut, talked to Informilo about why this is a great time to start a business, her investments in Russia, personalized medicine and space technology.Read more

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