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Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub

Harvard Business Review

To put this in perspective, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion in 2016 (7.2x Financial value is the stuff of business school and stock markets. Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub is a perfect illustration of how value is ascribed differently in Silicon Valley than in the rest of the world.

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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” That suggests that they may be trying to persuade firms to buy the device and develop applications for it. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

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Why the Rest of the World Can’t Free Ride on Europe’s GDPR Rules

Harvard Business Review

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S., The idea of protecting U.S.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. The other one is mental: I always believe “everyone is a leader and a leader grows another leader” I develop others by sharing a lot of ideas.

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Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Only Your Brand Will Save You

Harvard Business Review

News hit this past summer that Boston's Kiss 108 (a youth-driven radio station partial to Katy Perry and Lady Gaga) re-upped its contract with longtime morning host Matt Siegel through 2016. Developing a passionate, loyal following of people who value your perspective. Becoming widely known and discussed.

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