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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Beth Comstock is out.

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Enterprise Messaging Comes Of Age With sqoope

YoungUpstarts

Ability to attach and send multi-media files (image, audio, video, PDF, text files and more). I suppose this is necessary given the global and cross-cultural nature of work these days. Currently available on the Android and iOS platforms, future versions of sqoope for Blackberry and Windows are planned throughout 2015.

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7 Social Media Events In 2015 Most That You Can Still Make To

Brandanew

Are you a social media enthusiast longing to network with those from your field? Or someone who is setting foot in the marketing world because they found social media to be their calling? A biggie or newbie, here are 7 social media events in 2015 most that you can still make it to if your decisions are made at the speed of light.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. So we first turned to solve the question of how to better meet the needs of our growing customer base of large brands and media companies. And here’s the thing.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. Out of these 53m internet users, 15m are shopping online, creating a fast growing $11B ecommerce market in Russia alone (expected to reach $19B by 2015) The mobile penetration is among the highest in the world with 1.7 in GE, 1.3

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

Innovation is a driver of many businesses globally. Now more than 1 billion people use this social media platform every day. For this purpose, he used the cloud to leverage the solution. In 2015, Vitalik was declared one of Fortune's 40 Under 40, recognizing the world's most influential young people. 19- Kobe Bryant.

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5 Modern Technologies That Make Launching A Startup Easier

YoungUpstarts

According to the 2015/16 Global Report by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), 69 percent of entrepreneurs pursue opportunities as a basis of entrepreneurial motivations, rather than just starting out of necessity. Social Media.