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Bangalore blooming into innovation hothouse
Comment Companies like Cisco and Nokia are not just shifting R&D to India, they are also shifting R&D management to India and that is the game-changer, says Navi Radjou, executive director of the Centre for India & Global Business at the... [27 Nov 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile Summing up Zuckerberg's influence, one Agenda Setters judge said Facebook is "becoming the de facto interface for human digital engagement" which could potentially include business use in the near future. [08 Oct 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile The wiki is a pervasive and visionary milestone for web 2.0," as one Agenda Setters judge explains. Or as another judge puts it, Wales has "provided the world evidence of the potential for collaborative... [08 Oct 2009]
Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile One Agenda Setters judge described Carter as "the figurehead for the call for ubiquitous broadband across Britain". But perhaps Carter's biggest achievement has simply been getting things moving - "ending the stalemate"... [08 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile In the words of one judge he's "a one-man innovation powerhouse". As one Agenda Setters judge notes: "The green agenda is giving a greater importance to telepresence - Skype video is at last bringing the... [08 Oct 2009]
John Chambers
AS Profile As one Agenda Setters judge put it, the Cisco chief has achieved "the classic impossibility of 're-routing the oil tanker' while rebuilding it in the process". Cisco CEO John Chambers is no stranger to the Agenda Setters... [08 Oct 2009]
How to grow tech businesses during a recession
Comment Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den judge James Caan explains how to shape up your business through the downturn. Recessions don't need to be a time of doom and gloom. IT is more fundamental to businesses today than in any... [06 Oct 2009]
Stephen Fry
AS Profile Fry gets his place on the Agenda Setters list for his role as the acceptable face of technology, or, as one Agenda Setters judge rather pithily put it, for being "the geek's geek. While Martha Lane Fox may be the... [30 Sep 2009]
Warren East
AS Profile Growth in the smartphone and netbook markets have merely cemented ARM's influence, as one Agenda Setters judge noted: "Not everything has Intel Inside. Fab-less-ness and design, in the UK, are more important than... [29 Sep 2009]
Marten Mickos
AS Profile Of Mickos, another judge said: "Proof that an open source project started by one guy can grow into both a successful community and a successful company. Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded... [29 Sep 2009]
Chris Anderson
AS Profile In the words of one Agenda Setters judge, his achievement is about "going beyond the role of influencer and provoking changes to business models and market strategies". 'The Long Tail' is the name of a 2004 article in... [29 Sep 2009]
Padmasree Warrior
AS Profile As one Agenda Setters judge noted, while Chambers sets Cisco's "direction and tone", Warrior "executes". Cisco's Unified Computing strategy is highly disruptive to existing datacentre players like IBM and HP, while its... [29 Sep 2009]
Craig Venter
AS Profile Current projects to bio-engineer a sustainable energy solution were flagged for particular praise by one Agenda Setters judge. As a third judge put it, he is: "A serial applied tech entrepreneur who... [29 Sep 2009]
Erik Huggers
AS Profile Another judge added: "[Huggers] deserves his place based on future potential to irritate the Murdochs. Since becoming director of the BBC's Future Media and Technology division in July 2008 following the departure of... [29 Sep 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile Another judge speculated that Spotify is "likely to kill iTunes through the Trojan horse of the iPhone". Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand music streaming service in 2006 with Martin Lorentzon but it has been... [29 Sep 2009]
