The Economist cover story The Real Digital Divide cited research that suggests the mobile phone is the technology with the greatest impact on development. In contrast with the UN’s top-down approach to build ICT centers in the hope to close the “digital divide,” the wide spreaded mobile phones in developing countries enable people to close [...]
These days, everything moves fast. Here we go: eBay launched the online classifieds websites in Canada, China, Germany, Japan, France, and Italy.
The company, named Kijiji, is a start-up within eBay by a small team of entrepreneurial employees. It builds local communities online and offers services from chatting about the best restaurants in the cities, trading, [...]
At GSB monthly speaker serial, the Silicon Valley legend John Doerr of KPCB gave a talk about View from the Top. People asked “from the top of what?” He joked: obviously from the top of Sand Hill Road. I have heard John Doerr talk before, it’s always interesting to hear him again. John started by [...]
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