Turn Logic into Magic (1)

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author Do brand and design matter? What is a brand, after all? Why has brand become so important these days? Why is it so difficult to build? How does brand relate to design? Ryan Air was launched in Europe 6-7 years ago to reinvent the airline travel experience.

Web 3.0 & Yahoo! Travel

I have just published an overview of the Online Travel segment. You may want to read that, before reading this review. In this section we will analyze the Yahoo! Travel site based on the Web 3.0 framework. The site provides information on travel destinations, best bargains on hotel and travel fares. It has an attractive

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Travel & Web 3.0: Overview

Online Travel is one of the top segments that draws over 2% of the Internet traffic and approximately 24% of online advertising dollars, and in this series, we will evaluate the category against the Web 3.0 framework. According to a report published by Hitwise, Online Travel sites accounted for an average of 2.02% of all

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It’s IPO’clock, European Time

By Jörg Überla, Guest Author The successful IPO of social networking platform XING on Frankfurt stock exchange last December was like a big bang. Why? First and foremost, it was the first real Web 2.0 IPO in Germany (and among the first worldwide), which proved that the market is open towards new ideas. Secondly, backed

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European VCs: Time To Catch Up

By Jörg Überla, Guest Author More than 65O IPOs and the highest number of venture-backed IPOs since 2000. These are not the latest figures for the U.S. market, but the 2006 figures for Europe. What’s more: During the same period, the U.S. have seen just 224 IPOs with a volume of €35 billion, half the

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