MYSPACE Chronicle of a death announced
On June 29,2011 Myspace was sold to Specific Media for $35 million, a fraction of the $580 million paid by News Corp in 2005 and a drop in the Ocean of valuation of the $6.4 billion for LinkedIn . How...
View ArticleSecurity : Wonderland through the looking glass ?
The Atos Scientific Community envisages in its Journey 2014 white paper a world which will count 1.5 billion smartphone users, close to a billion of “friends and followers” in social networks having...
View ArticleThe Second Economy : time for increasing returns ?
In an article published this month, the economist Brian Arthur is presenting what he calls “The Second Economy” where digitization will bring the biggest chance since the Industrial Revolution....
View ArticleThe Grail Quest for Social Organization
Social organization, the other name for Enterprise 2.0, is now on every CEO and CIO’s agenda. Early November in Barcelona, Gartner decided that time has come to recommend putting communities at the...
View ArticleAchieving a zero email culture: is bureaucracy a showstopper ?
As pointed out in my recent blog ”The Grail Quest for Social Organization”, zero mail is not an objective in itself but the recognition that companies are suffering from email overload.While the use of...
View ArticleCan ‘multi-sided markets’ provide the basis for a new economy?
In its recent research, Ascent Journey 2016, the Atos Scientific Community considers the emergence of a Data Economy and the championing of Multi-sided market platforms as a powerful disruption of...
View Article12 years of amazing technology changes
Since 2002 Atos has had the honor to be the Worldwide Information Technology Partner of the International Olympic Committee. During this period IT has evolved at an incredible pace: smartphones,...
View ArticleSustainability and Digital Revolution: A Winning Combination
Sustainability has been a hot topic for a many years. It is increasingly evident that the supply of raw materials is limited and the way we use them can have significant knock on effect on the world...
View ArticleThe Century of Data
The 21st century will be the century of data, the new resource to boost the economy, as finance did in the 1900s. Gathering and using data is transforming our lives whether we are at home, travelling,...
View ArticleCould the Sharing Society be the key to economic recovery?
When you look at the interplay between Globalization and Economic Sustainability, it becomes quickly apparent that local economic and political crises are having an increasing global impact. Although...
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