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16/05/12

DLD goes Moscow

Invited by the renowned Russian Skolkovo Foundation, DLD will host a digital and business conference in Moscow from May 27-29, 2012. DLD Moscow will be an invitation-only conference jointly hosted by Skolkovo President Viktor Vekselberg,

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Beatrice Jeschek 15/05/12

Live: Audi Urban Future Award

The Audi Urban Future Award is an international architecture competition and one of the four components of the Audi Urban Future Initiative, which is concerned with the future of  urban mobility. "In a couple of years our kids won't understand the

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Beatrice Jeschek 15/05/12

The Unfinished Revolution - Voices For Women's Rights

DLDwomen lunch with Minky Worden The Director of Global Initiatives at Human Rights Watch (HRW), Minky Worden, joined the DLDwomen ecosystem for a lunch today ahead of the next DLDwomen conference titled 'New Rules - New Values' on July 11th till

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Beatrice Jeschek 14/05/12

Cutting Through the Noise of the Web

Innovator and DLD friend Hilary Mason makes sense of vast data sets. Bloomberg Businessweek gives a portrait of a young, inspiring woman who works to bring people and their habits into focus. Recently, Mason wrote a program to crawl the Web and

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LK 04/05/12

The Magic Ride With Pae White

In 2007, the Californian artist Pae White was asked to contribute to the DLD Arts Projects reflecting on social networks. In result, she proposed networks and larger sustainable digital communities as enclosures or intimacies inside of social

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Beatrice Jeschek 24/04/12

iLive2Lead at DLDwomen 12

The pipeline for the next generation of global women leaders is coming to Munich. In partnership with iLive2Lead, this year’s DLDwomen conference titled “New Rules – New Values” on July 11th till 12th will host another outstanding leadership

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LK 20/04/12

DLD12 Interview Series - Caroline Drucker

Caroline Drucker just got back from the road to join DLD12. As Partner Marketing Manager at SoundCloud, Caroline is responsible for developing and aligning marketing strategies with any content, integration and brand partners utilising SoundCloud

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LK 19/04/12

DLD12 Interview Series - Dimitar Sasselov

Dimitar Sasselov is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and founder of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative.  In this video-interview, the Bulgarian scientist presents his groundbreaking book `Life On Super-Earths' and sheds light on

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LK 16/04/12

DLD12 Interview Series - Slava Rubin (Indie Gogo)

IndieGoGo gets your project funded. As part of the Startup America program, Obama recommends it, too. Slava Rubin is CEO and co-founder of IndieGoGo. The crowdfunding platform provides the opportunity to fund creative, entrepreneurial, or cause

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Beatrice Jeschek 13/04/12

DLDwomen 12: More Chairwomen Power

Inspirational, sharp and creative input: Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and EU Justice Commissioner, as well as Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of the Paley Center for Media, take on the active roles of co-chairwomen next

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Lukas Kubina for DLD debate 10/06/11

Does Twitter make our brains go mushy?

Bill Keller is the Executive Editor at the NYT, the newspaper that was one of the first to create the position of "social media editor" to professionalize the interface between website and social networks. In fact, the Times is seen as a model of

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David Kirkpatrick for DLD debate 20/01/11

The Facebook Effect

I was an English major in college. I had no awareness as a student of the importance of technology in human progress. But I had the good fortune to find a job as a writer at Fortune Magazine beginning in 1983. In two and a half decades there I had a

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Miriam Meckel for DLD debate 13/01/11

Embedded Journalism

Much has been talked about the importance of "social media" in a digital age. Yet the term itself is a double tautology. Media is always social unless we conceive of it strictly as the technical transmission of information and signals between two

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David Sable 09/09/11

What are Friends For?

A few thoughts on "Friendship" by David Sable, Global CEO, Y&R.

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McKinsey 27/05/11

Internet matters: The Net's sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity

The McKinsey Global Institute presents a study on the critical impact of the Internet on the GDP. Embrace the digital reality: two billion people are connected to the Internet. Almost $8 trillion exchange hands each year through e-commerce. In some

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Bain&Company 18/05/11

Latinamerican Factpack

Supported by improved macroeconomic fundamentals, the Latin American media and entertainment market is well positioned for future growth. As communications infrastructure continues to expand and becomes more sophisticated in the region, media

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