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Dopplr and Tripit: next-gen strategies ? Part 2

Fol­low up on my pre­vi­ous post about Dopplr/Tripit (here­after D/T ). [Small digres­sion: it’s very hard (at least to me) to find the right “voice” for blog­ging. My nat­ural ten­dency is to write in details. Unfor­tu­nately, I don’t the time to afford it in the blog, and it’s prob­a­ble read­ers can’t afford it either. So for …

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TripIt/Dopplr: case in point

Remem­ber one of the com­pet­i­tive advan­tages I pointed out for Dopplr ver­sus TripIt ? Very skilled at con­nect­ing with thought-leaders and the blo­gos­phere: Dopplr launched with an incred­i­ble buzz and this atten­tion is sus­tained. It receives way more cov­er­age than Tripit. This is due to the skills and con­nec­tion of the peo­ples onboard. Well, a …

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Futures exchanges rubbing elbows

While The Econ­o­mist reports on the being-negotiated CME-NYMEX deal, it also reports on the com­pet­i­tive land­scape among futures exchanges. Namely, a field with sig­nif­i­cant bar­ri­ers to entry, suc­cess­fully pre­served, ensur­ing iner­tia in the order flows, and rec­og­nized by investors: Some cus­tomers fear that the CME will start to raise trad­ing fees once it has swallowed …

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Ryanair/Easyjet: bad DNA/good DNA

From the FT today: Ryanair profit warn­ing sends shares tum­bling Ryanair, the lead­ing Euro­pean low cost air­line, warned on Mon­day there was a “sig­nif­i­cant chance” its prof­its would decline next year and could fall by as much as 50 per cent under the impact of ris­ing oil prices and falling fare lev­els. The Ryanair share price …

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