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Reaping Big Benefits From Big Data

Submitted by William Boston on September 14, 2011

Anyone can get lucky. But a few years ago, when owners of a casino looked on as a player at a roulette table was cleaning up, they were fairly certain that Lady Luck had little to do with his good fortune. The problem, though, was that there was just too much happening in a short Las Vegas minute for human eyes to catch the scam. That’s where Jeff Jonas came in.Read more

Pioneering IT's Next Frontier

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on June 22, 2011

Early in her career Gabriele Zedlmayer, now HP’s vice president, office of social innovation, took a gutsy risk to get the world’s richest and most powerful people to start using personal digital assistants at the World Economic Forum’s 2000 annual meeting in Davos. Now, she is spearheading an effort to use similar devices to help curb deadly disease and put a crimp in the sale of counterfeit drugs in some of the poorest and least connected parts of the world.Read more

An Economic Argument For the Female Decade

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on June 17, 2010

I was a teenager in the 1970s, the heady days of the women's movement when bra burning and slogans such as "A Woman Without A Man Is Like a Fish Without A Bicycle"  were in vogue.  We were promised we could have it all.

There has most certainly been progress in the last 30 years. But there are still too few women leading venture-backed companies. Too few in top management of bigger companies in Europe and not enough women on the boards of companies of any size. If we women want to change that then we have to frame it in economic terms.Read more

Informilo Partners with EVCA and European Tech Tour Association To Launch New European Conference

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on September 16, 2009

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

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