O Tribunal do Comércio de Paris condenou hoje a Google e a respetiva filial francesa por abuso de posição dominante. Depois de uma queixa apesentada pela Bottin Cartographes, a instituição considerou que o serviço Google Maps distorceu a concorrência com os serviços gratuitos disponibilizados às empresas.
The most controversial measures of concern to Internet users in the final version of the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) for most Internet users are 1) that signing governments pledge to allow copyright holders a way to request, under court warrant, personal information about a suspected infringer from that person’s ISP; 2) that means will be provided for a rights holder to legally pursue someone suspected of circumventing rights management technologies; 3) that goods crossing countries’ borders may be made subject to search and seizure if they’re suspected to contain infringing material, with exceptions provided for things like personal luggage.
The value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group.
O regulador continua focado na protecção dos consumidores de crédito, além do Plano Nacional de Formação Financeira, ao qual se junta também a APB.
Desaceleração económica, desemprego, austeridade. Este é o cenário por trás do Fórum Económico Mundial que arranca hoje em Davos, na Suíça, com o objetivo de abrir o debate sobre a reforma do capitalismo.
Quando o mundo está de olhos postos em Davos, onde líderes políticos e económicos tentam encontrar novos modelos para o capitalismo, olhamos para exemplos de quem decidiu virar as costas ao dinheiro.
Failure is a word that, understandably, carries a negative connotation. Nobody wants to fail, really. But failure, if you’re doing anything worthwhile, is inevitable. What’s important is to plan for failure, learn from it, try to avoid damage and do your best to recover gracefully. That was the topic of Selena Deckelmann’s keynote, “Mistakes Were Made,” Sunday morning at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE).
Today, ads are something we skip. They coat everything we watch, read and listen to like a sticky film, blinking and shouting and shocking us into paying attention. Their value is measured in “impressions,” how many people’s eyeballs scan past them, and on the Web, a click on an ad is the holy grail. That’s what passes for “engagement.”
A new report by Jeremiah Owyang out last week describes the growing proliferation of social media across corporations and shows exactly how out of control things have gotten. Owyang, an expert on the topic who is part of the Altimeter Group, has a lot to absorb here. He surveyed 144 corporations using social media along with 27 software vendors who have various management tools to help. One of the nice things about this report is he lists his sources explicitly, so you know the quality of the information. On average, a company has 178 different corporate accounts on various social networks. And that isn’t counting the personal accounts.
sports events unite fans across the world, whether it be football (or soccer), golf or tennis, and many are historic events that are fascinating and amazing to be a part of, even as a spectator;
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