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So, now Apple is a bank (finally?)

So, now Apple is a bank (finally?)

In 2013, Apple launched Apple Pay as both a digital wallet and a mobile payment service, and now Apple is a bank. Apple Pay wasn't a fantastic success even with iPhone NFC capabilities, biometric authentication, and the robust Apple ecosystem. An extra feature in Apple's ecosystem,

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Keynote (Pas de risques, pas de startup !)

I haven’t done a public keynote in a while, so just a quick heads up: I will be in Toulouse (France) and have a one hour talk on startup valuation, managing risk and uncertainties, and what it means for investors (including corporations and their innovation programs). It’s in

Innovation is not about being smart and fast

Innovation is not about being smart and fast

There is this ongoing fallacy about innovation. Innovation should be about being smart and being fast. Or at least smarter and faster than competitors. Seeing the next big thing, catching the next wave, seizing the white space, finding the blue ocean… These narratives are all about a promised Eden, hidden

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The stone age…

> The stone age did not end because the world ran out of stones, and the oil age will not end because we run out of oil. It ended because bronze tools became cheaper. The origin of that quote attributed to Ahmed Zaki Yamani who was the Minister of Oil

Is Privacy the new iPhone?

Is Privacy the new iPhone?

Apple is in a dangerous place this year. You might think that it’s because China doesn’t buy as much iPhones as in the previous years, or because their Mac Pro is still not updated, or whatever other reason… But no, the real reason as that Apple has been

Our New 1-Day Corporate Trainings for Execs

Our New 1-Day Corporate Trainings for Execs

Since 2007, we’ve designed and delivered many corporate trainings for execs and management teams on innovation, strategy, culture change, etc. They were rarely stand-alone programs, but were always designed to support a consulting mission we had with a company. Following that, their goal has always been to allow the

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How to Feed Digital Monkeys (a discusssion on Status as a Service)

Eugene WEI [http://www.eugenewei.com/info] has been writing on tech since 2001. I’m not going to sell you his CV that goes from Facebook to Hulu and Flipboard. Let it just be said that he knows what he’s talking about. And his latest article he’s