Catching Up On Readings: What Role Does Technology Play In Corporate And Government Censorship?

At this week’s G8 summit in Paris, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it “extremely arrogant for any specific tech company to claim ay meaningful role” in the uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa. This week’s EJ interviewee, AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, claimed that his company “played a key role” in the movements. What

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Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: Having that video capability built into Angelsoft has been nice. I had one entrepreneur, for instance, who put his application in a few weeks ago. He just walked around the room on a Friday night saying, “We’re about to ship our Beta version. We’re going to

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mandy Edwards, CIO Of Sitel (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: OK. Would you talk more about integration? I would love to know more about what is happening in the area of knowledge base. Where is the knowledge base? Do customers maintain it, or does Sitel? What is the process that goes on in augmenting the

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Connecting The Censored Internet: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, Mountain View, CA (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: All word-of-mouth advertising is seeded somewhere. How did you seed your word-of-mouth campaign? David Gorodyansky: I think it just kind of took off. I would love to identify a specific news article or event that made it happen, but I am not sure what that is. I know that it started taking off

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Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Would you please go over the core benefits of your program one more time? John: We give access to our deep channel of partners and customers. We have more than 250,000 customers that range from enterprises all the way down to small, medium sized businesses; access

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Four Steps To Building Real Entrepreneurship In Latin America: A Sobering Assessment From Vivek Wadhwa

By guest author Kirk Laughlin of Nearshore Americas Vivek Wadhwa, currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, gives Latin America poor grades. The problem with Latin America’s startup culture is it is afraid of risk, says Wadhwa, one of the nation’s experts on tech entrepreneurship and someone who has nearly perfected the art of business-appropriate bluntness.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mandy Edwards, CIO Of Sitel (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: This is a great example that you are moving e-mail to the cloud. What is the strategy from a vendor point of view? I have been doing a lot of these interviews, talking to a lot of CIOs, and one category that is coming up

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Connecting The Censored Internet: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky, Mountain View, CA (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In 2005, did you plan to do what your business is doing today? David Gorodyansky: This is what we planned to do, but it has evolved a bit. There is another very major functionality of the product that we did not even realized when we launched. We filed a bunch of patents after

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