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Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Aug 24th 2007

M&A and VC activity Increased traffic and stickiness of online health sites have led to a number of deals in the current year. In July 2007, NBC Universal and GE Commercial have jointly invested $25 million in Healthline, a fast growing health vertical. In June 2007, Meredith, a leading media and marketing companies acquired Seattle-based

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Aug 24th 2007

Here we delve into a discussion of the differences between multiprocessor and multicore architectures. Multicore is when you put multiple processors on a single chip. But you still need to overcome bus bottlenecks. SM: So multicore does not use the traditional packaging? AA: Not really. In multiprocessors, for example, at Alewife we built a machine

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Aug 24th 2007

Here Eric details several significant happenings. Not only does he discuss the development of Bridge and the IPO, but also the birth of networking as a recognized market, as well as the merger with 3Com. SM: Where you running Bridge during the IPO? EB: I was not the CEO, but I was one of the

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Serving the Underserved: Is On-Demand BI the Answer?

Posted on Friday, Aug 24th 2007

By David Hatch, Guest Author In my last post, I discussed how On-Demand BI may not be just for SMBs, based on some recent research findings, and that corporate plans for On-Demand delivery of BI applications (SaaS, Hosting, BI-Appliances) may be gaining ground within organizations of all sizes more rapidly than has been generally reported.

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Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 23rd 2007

Web 3.0 formula discussion (4C, P, VS) Context Online health portals are targeted at meeting specific user needs. HealthGrades for example provides ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, thereby, aiding the consumer to select the best physician and treatment. In most health sites, the context is split-up between men, women

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 23rd 2007

SM: Did you get started because of pressure from the VC’s or did you feel the market was turning? AA: I thought the timing was right in 2004, so we formed the company in October of that year. What is interesting is when I go back and look at the time of our VCs presentations,

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 23rd 2007

SM: You were at Zilog, but their focus was not on networking. EB: Right. We attempted to build a business out of the networking developments. When I say we, I say a few friends who all ended up being significant contributors to the networking industry. They are people like Judy Estrin, Joe Kennedy, Bill Carico,

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Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 22nd 2007

Business Model Online health sites earn majority of their revenues from advertising and sponsorship programs. They also earn revenues by licensing and retailing products through their site. WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD), the leading portal for online health, for example, saw its advertisement and sponsorship revenues grow by 45% to $52.4 million and licensing revenues increase by

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