Inc.com writes that “Harvard Business School has created an executive education program for entrepreneurs seeking to launch a start-up, school officials said this week. Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners is an open-enrollment program taking place on Harvard’s Boston campus between Sept. 30 and Oct. 5. The program is designed to examine the challenges and risks associated with launching a start-up, offering students guidance into making sound investment and management decisions, organizational skills for growing a business, and leadership skills required to maintain a successful enterprise.”
The Register reports that “Flickr’s introduction of content filters in Germany last week has provoked protests in blogs and web forums globally. While in most countries the photo sharing site’s ‘SafeSearch’ function can be turned off by users interested in seeing all the photos available on Flickr, that option has been axed in Germany due to ‘stricter legislation and penalties in that country,’ parent company Yahoo! said in a statement. Yahoo! says it isn’t about censorship and that it is trying to improve the use of filters while still complying with German law.”
According to the Financial Times, “European privacy regulators are likely to increase pressure on Google to improve its data protection measures after indicating that the internet search company’s latest efforts were ‘not enough.’ ‘The main problems we have raised have not all been solved and there is still room for discussion on this,’ said the office of the German federal commissioner for data protection and freedom of information, which has headed the European Union’s examination of Google’s data policies.”
The Mercury News claims that “Silicon Valley companies, which first looked to China to manufacture PCs and iPods, now see potential profit in its environmental meltdown. They see opportunities to sell a vast range of clean-tech products and services. Those include water filtration systems; green building technologies that reduce energy use; processes to convert waste into biofuels; better wind turbines; solar power technology; ‘smart’ street lights; and even software for energy companies to help manage operations more efficiently.”
According to the International Herald Tribune, “eBay is making a series of upgrades intended to make the site more friendly to buyers.” The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Meg Whitman, said “that chief among the changes was a new home page design.