European parliamentary elections are now a mere 5 days away, but a lot of EU citizens seem to be completely uninterested in voting. According to an FT.com article, “[t]urnout in France, as elsewhere, looks likely to continue its steady decline after dropping to 43 per cent in 2004.” The FT [...]
Over at the Kauffman Foundation’s entrepreneurship blog, Jonathan Ortmans has a post about “unlocking entrepreneurship through health care reform” wherein he writes about how the employer-provided healthcare system constrains entrepreneurialism, as it’s too expensive to provide for employees and generally too expensive for employees of small firms to buy on [...]
How can we make sure we have the right information technology to avoid, in the future, the delayed reaction by firms to problems with their balance sheets that was partly responsible for the current financial crisis? That’s the question a ZDNet interview with three execs from Sybase (who recently co-authored [...]
Yesterday, the Association for Competitive Technology submitted its official response to the European Commission’s Statement of Objections regarding Microsoft’s integration of Internet Explorer into the Windows operating system. While the Statement of Objections itself and much of the process around it is confidential, we wanted to share the basic reasons [...]
Last week, I presented at the inaugural Ignite DC. The event, which took place in the Artomatic building in Washington DC’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood, featured 17 speakers who each had to get through 20 Power Point slides in just 5 minutes. With the slides advancing every 15 seconds, you either [...]
