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iFive: Spotify Worth $1 Billion, Jobs Speaks on App Subscriptions, Huawei U.S. Deal Ends, Flash on Android Tabs, White iPhone 5

The week's off to a running start, so let us help you get up to speed too--here's today's early innovation news, handily summarized:READ»

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Do Your Employees Hate the IT Department?

 We all know the joking, and sometimes snide comments about the IT department that come out around the water-cooler. Fredric Paul on the Enterprise Efficiency blog relates an interesting story that highlights how easily ...READ»

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Amazon's Challenge to Business: Turn Off Your Datacenter

Whenever we interview startups (which will be often here on FastCompany.TV) we hear "we're an Amazon shop" quite frequently. What does that mean? Well, for photosharing service SmugMug it means saving a ton of money by having Amazon ...READ»

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Using Hidden Intelligence to Create New Sources of Revenue

In the past, we would gather data to sell more tools. But selling tools to gather more data is proving to be a much more valuable prospect. SaaS (Software as a Service) makes the aggregate, dynamic, social and behavioral data about ...READ»

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Mobile SaaS

An interesting and profitable market is growing at the intersection of SaaS and mobile computing.READ»

The Ultimate Showdown of Open Source Web CMS

At the recent SXSW (or South by Southwest Conference), they recently held “the ultimate open source CMS showdown.” The format of the event was patterned after “Project Runway” and “The Iron Chef” reality shows where three teams of all-star Web developers were asked to build a Web site in each of their chosen platforms using a single design concept (in this case provided by the award winning Mark Boulton Design studios) and project specification (a fictional nonprofit). Participants came from the camps of three of the best known and most widely used open source CMS projects out there: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress.READ»

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just checking the site out...

this is a drupal 5 site apparently. I am a drupal 6 developer... just thought I would check out what the drupal jocks have got goingREAD»

Making Money in Open Source

The folks over at Pingdom in their Royal Pingdom Blog have collected the financial information of some of the most popular open source software companies.READ»

Survive (and Thrive!) During these Tough Times with Open Source

Many business executives are looking for more ways to cut costs during these tough times and have a mandate to "do more with less." Open source software fits the bill perfectly as it has little or no upfront costs, licensing flexibility (often times you can install on as many PCs you want and for as much users as you need) , development flexibility (the source code and APIs can be customized, the platform and toolkits are readily available), and the fact that many open source projects actually have better and larger support communities than proprietary products.READ»

Open Source Gaining Ground in Southeast Asia

Read some posts, news items and press releases today about the growing adoption of open source in Southeast Asia:READ»

Exonovation: Leveraging the Innovation of Others

A few weeks back I was invited to attend an executive briefing on open, collaborative, community-based innovation. The speaker was Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat. He titled his talk "Exonovation," to avoid the connotation the word "innovation", he says, has with internal organizational efforts at innovation. In his talk-he showed how organizations today (including his own company) are able to leverage the innovation of others to create sustainable competitive advantage that benefits not only themselves, but their community and industry ecosystem as a whole as well.READ»

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Lessons the Software Industry can Learn from Manny Pacquiao

For those reading this blog who are not fans of boxing, Filipino boxer (and what many say is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the ring today) Manny Pacquiao, beat American-Mexican Oscar, the “Golden Boy” dela Hoya last December 6 in Las Vegas Nevada (December 7 in Manila, Philippines).READ»

Intro to the Business Technology Roundtable

Today, the application of technology is an integral part of most businesses – in some shape or form. However, while many decision makers are now primarily concerned with using technology to pursue new business opportunities, ...READ»

Market Moving Thought Leadership

The backbone of public relations, social media, marketing communications and advertising programs is content that engages, educates and entertains. Our methodology at Strategic Communications Group (Strategic) is to produce and/or ...READ»