President's Blog

The latest at this point has been a claim from a designer who says they compensated him with more than an 80% share in the company for breach of contract, an accusation launched against the founder of Facebook.  Mark Zuckerberg who, doing honor to his name (in German it means sugar mountain) seems to attract [...]

Internet entrepreneurs visit us increasingly more frequently to offer their companies up for us to participate in. They no longer want investment -that also- in the majority of cases they want us to explain to them how to create a great global company, complete their team, or modify their business model for growth.
Little by little, [...]

Google is starting to see a red light for social searches.  What would happen if the paradigm changed and searches went through a filter of friends. What would happen to Google in a market where Facebook dominates access to your friends?  A personalized search system by Tuenti?  Social networks are worth more than they seem.
It [...]

With a 68% rise in profits last quarter, 299 million dollars, Amazon doesn’t seem to be anxious over the success of the iPad and the news that Apple has already sold 1.5 million books.  The market for eReaders has warmed up with the launch of the iPad and its unprecedented success.  Amazon at the moment, [...]

In 2000, from Netjuice I invented a business model I called digital profiles.  Curiously, for the first time that I know of, several aspects of the model were very similar to the current concepts of social networks.  We started the patent process, but then, when the bubble burst, we could not continue any longer since [...]

What does it mean to be global from the beginning?  Having a global business vision you want to launch.  What are the most obvious premises?  The approach must have a minimum destination of three countries in the first two years of the company.  The software should be multilingual and the employees should - if possible, [...]

According to what I read in this Baquía article, Apple wants to have their users geolocalized at all times with their iPhones and iPads.  Steve Jobs doesn’t stop.  Now he wants to become the “natural partner” in any sector that wants to geoposition their clients and, logically, earn money with it.
The success of both devices [...]

From the point of view of their expectations, Second Life is a failure, and yet I think it could still be a success if it changed some of the problems that have plagued its development.  From the fact that it wants to generate its own currency even for the aspect of its usability (or lack [...]

Rakuten.  Japanese e-Commerce Leader Buys Priceminister
Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce leader buys Priceminister.  Apparently, according to Techcrunch, it shot like a bullet into the European electronic commerce market buying Priceminister for 200 million Euros.
The market changes and their entrance will cause new movements in the sector.  The Japanese and Chinese, until now not very active outside [...]

It seems, in the last week, Twitter has been assaulted by a binge of new features that has even made it slur - sending dozens of repeated tweets - or even losing files, anything is possible.  It has been a bit of a disaster for all of “twitterworld” that, despite not paying, is demanding, which [...]