silicon valley
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Marketing & Innovation
Kwarter founders talking about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley isn’t as easy as it may seem. On day 4 of our Blogger Bus Tour, we met with Carlos Diaz, the CEO and founder of Kwarter and Guillaume de Cugis, CEO and co-founder of Scoop’it, two French entrepreneurs who left their country in order to take their…
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Marketing & Innovation
Is gamification yet another buzzword or a real business driver?
Is gamification yet another buzzword or a real business opportunity? The MIT Stanford lab was founded 22 years ago. Visionary Marketing attended a meeting on Sept 19 on the Stanford campus on the subject of gamification. Vlab had gathered a unique bunch of top international experts from Silicon Valley in…
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Digital technology
Plugandplaytechcenter ’s Wu: “We want to give birth to the next dropbox”
On day two of our Blogger Bus Tour in Silicon Valley, we went to Sunnyvale, California in order to pay a visit to the Plugandplaytechcenter. This wasn’t my first time at this location for I had already visited the start-up accelerator more than two years ago (read that interview with…
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Content Marketing
What I’m expecting of the September 2012 Silicon Valley Blogger Bus tour
For those who don’t know yet, I (as Director, Web & Social Media at Orange), I will be part of the Silicon Valley Blogger Bus Tour 2012, which will take place in September (17-22) as a blogger … and the organiser of that tour. Here is my take on why…
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Content Marketing
The Silicon Valley 2012 blogger bus tour (Sept 17-22)
This is neither my first blogger tour nor my first visit to Silicon Valley, but this is probably the most interesting tour I have ever put together. This is why I can’t help but share and relay Glenn’s excitement about the tour as posted on the Orange Live Blog which…
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Digital technology
Engine Yard’s Dillon: A private cloud is an oxymoron
As cloud computing technology is booming there is talk of the so-called private cloud. As I was in San Francisco today, I managed to squeeze into a meeting with some of my former partners of the IT press tour. Today we visited Engine Yard, a new player at the forefront…
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Marketing & Innovation
Sujal Patel: EMC shares a joint ambition with Isilon on storage
EMC has just taken over Isilon and both businesses share a common understanding of where the storage business is going. On November 17, as part of our November US press tour, we went outside of Silicon Valley. We took an early morning flight to Seattle to meet with the representatives…
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Digital technology
Joyent enables service providers to deploy a new Cloud in a few weeks
To deploy a new cloud can be time-consuming. With Joyent, things may change greatly for service providers. The last visit of our November press tour in Silicon Valley took place in downtown San Francisco, with Joyent, an innovative company dedicated to Cloud deployments. Joyent is now planning to deploy in…
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Digital technology
Blade Network Technologies and IBM: plans for the future
Back in June 2010, we visited Blade Network Technologies, a Nortel spin-off which was doing exceptionally well in the data centre business by providing networking infrastructure and services within the data centre. Blade Network Technologies and IBM: plans for the future A concept Vikram Mehta had described as being the…
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Marketing & Innovation
Terry Cunningham of i365 reinvents the VAR business
Our 4th visit of innovative companies in Silicon Valley was devoted to i365, a Seagate company. The presentation was delivered by Terry Cunningham, President and GM of i365, George Hoenig, head of products and services and Valerie Fawzi, head of Marketing. The topic was the reinvention of the VAR business.…
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