business & innovation

Geeks on a Plane: Investment with a Twist

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Dave McClure exports the experts.

His brainchild, Geeks On A Plane arranges to ship VCs and experienced entrepreneurs and journalists to far flung places in order to research and invest in foreign startups. 

This month, they came south to New Zealand and I met the team at a speed pitching competition hosted by the Icehouse Incubator.

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20 December 2012 by Chinwag Team

Chinwag Psych

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Big Data in Finance

Big Data Innovations in the Finance space, Cass Business School January 14th

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Date: 14 January 2013
Location: Cass Business School, UK

Social Media Results Conference

Best-Practice Strategies For Creating Fresh & Responsive Content To Engage Your Customers & Build Loyalty

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Date: 15 May 2013
Location: Thistle Marble Arch, UK

In The Brain of Uncle Bob , Let's Learn a Little Clojure

We warmly welcome Uncle Bob Martin back to Skills Matter this January! Following on from his 2012 talks, this is not one to be missed!

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Date: 24 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

London Ajax User Group : Why a JavaScript Query Language?

Why a JavaScript Query Language?

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Date: 8 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Shop on the Hop: Mobile Commerce To Boom in 2013

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Consumer confidence in mobile shopping is at an all-time high, with the majority of shoppers planning to buy Christmas gifts on their phones - 73% of whom have not done so before. Is this global phenomenon here to stay and what are the opportunities for forward-thinking advertisers?

As well as consumer trust in mobile shopping growing, around one in three customers are planning on spending over half of their festive budget via mobile, avoiding the traditional Christmas crush in favour of shopping on their own terms.

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13 December 2012 by Dr KF Lai

2013 Global Information and Management Symposium

Dear colleagues: The deadline for both "Abstract" and "Full Paper" is same. You can choose submitting either "Abstract" or "Full Paper" before the deadline, or “Poster” via registration system.All submitted papers/abstracts should be saved in the form of Microsoft Word files (*.doc).

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Date: 15 April 2013
Location: the Landmark Bangkok Hotel, TH

MongoDB Berlin

MongoDB Berlin is an annual one-day conference in Berlin, Germany, dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. This year’s conference includes sessions by 10gen engineers and MongoDB users from companies across Germany and Europe.

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Date: 26 February 2013
Location: Berliner Congress Center, DE

One Flew the Cuckoo's Nest: Instagram Ends Integration with Twitter

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In the latest social media battle, Instagram has switched off their integration with 'Twitter Cards', the app used to display multimedia within tweets - meaning we're no longer treated to twitterfeeds enhanced by beautiful photography (albeit mostly of cats and food).

So why the move back to 140 characters, a link and strangely cropped images? Speaking at Le Web '12 last week, Kevin Systrom, Instagram's founder and CEO, said the decision was "an evolution of where we want links to our content to go."

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10 December 2012 by Lauren Cotton

F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group : An Informal Deep Dive With Don Syme: The Freebase Type Provider

An Informal Deep Dive With Don Syme: The Freebase Type Provider

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Date: 12 December 2012
Location: The Skills Matter exchange, UK

In The Brain of David Laribee, The New Old School Agile Developer

In this session, David makes his case for a return to solid design and development principles. He’ll detail what's been done at VersionOne over the last four years to sustain delivery on our long lived codebase, manage technical debt and involve developers in not only coding but product design.

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Date: 4 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter exchange, UK

Gamification: Is it a trend or a buzzword

Gamification is radically changing how companies do business online....

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Date: 24 January 2013
Location: Campus London, 4-5 BONHILL STREET LONDON EC2A 4BX, London, UK

The future of mobile commerce?

As financial products and services on tablets and mobiles grow, how can we design the best versions for the future? Join us to hear more about the new £1.5million TSB mobile-commerce competition, listen to leading thinkers and doers in mobile security, inclusivity and innovation, and get the chance to ask questions and network.

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Date: 5 December 2012
Location: Hexagon Room, The Lowry Theatre, UK

The future of mobile commerce?

As financial products and services on tablets and mobiles grow, how can we design the best versions for the future? Join us to hear more about the new £1.5million TSB mobile-commerce competition, listen to leading thinkers and doers in mobile security, inclusivity and innovation, and get the chance to ask questions and network.

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Date: 4 December 2012
Location: Rich Mix, UK