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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

System 100
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Why have a Tech Team in Kathmandu?

ITONICS

That was the starting point for my first trip to Kathmandu in 2011. How did this happen and why is Nepal a great place not only for culture, food, nature and the highest mountains on earth but for software development as-well? Today, we have a team of nearly 60 individuals in the capital of Nepal, and we are constantly growing.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. billion stake.

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Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young

Harvard Business Review

Nickelodeon is part of the MTV Networks where even the unwritten code of dress and grooming and behavior has one non-negotiable axiom: no matter what kind of work you do, it is essential to come across as youthful, or at least not too square. And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011.

Culture 17
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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies. On June 2, 2011, the interns arrived in Lagos to participate in orientation exercises for the inaugural year of the program.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors.