Fortune interviewed Google’s Larry Page, who is one of those guys who really has a nice handle on the big picture.. Like his partner Sergey Brin, Page is one of a small but growing group of very smart, very wealthy, and very innovative business leaders who are shaping not only the way *they* do business but the way the rest of us live our lives.
Page offers some direct and simple advice - we need more people thinking and working on innovations and solutions. He’s right of course. My view More»

Labels: business, Larry Page

If statistician and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb is right in this Forbes article, we tend to underrate the power of random tinkering and events that are outside of our control with respect to business failure and success:
Random tinkering is the path to success. And fortunately, we are increasingly learning to practice it without knowing it–thanks to overconfident entrepreneurs, naive investors, greedy investment bankers, confused scientists and aggressive venture capitalists brought together by the free-market system.
[thanks to WebGuild commenter Atolley for the heads up on this author]
Randomness is a major component of biological evolution and I would suggest More»

Labels: business, companies, web 2.0

Yahoo initially spurned Microsoftś offer of $31 per share arguing that it was far too little and that a merger was not in the interest of Yahoo shareholders. Jerry Yang, in a letter to shareholders about a month ago, vaguely outlined his vision of a Yahoo that would improve in the coming years. The Yahoo improvement plan has now been articulated in much greater detail along with assumptions about new revenue coming from advertising and expansion of Yahoo properties. Lots of new revenue claims Yahoo. Leading tech market watcher Henry Blodget provides an More»

Labels: business, internet, Microsoft, stocks, Yahoo, YHOO

Here at Mashup Camp, Serena is talking about the business mashup space and promoting their tools to simplify the creation and deployment of mashups for large as well as small businesses. Their main focus seems to be the enterprise space with business mashups. Examples include everything from risk tracking to human resources management. www.Serena.com
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Labels: business, mashup camp, mashups, serena