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Central Mass. Innovation Schools Proposed
Worcester Business Journal - Livia Gershon - Feb 24, 2011
Three local school districts have approved proposals for eight new "innovation schools" in Central Massachusetts. Five of the new schools are being proposed in Worcester, along with one in Framingham, one in the North Middlesex ...
http://www.wbjournal.com/news48476.html
Google's Mayer talks innovation at Cal Poly
Pacific Coast Business Times - Stephen Nellis - Feb 25, 2011
Those innovations and others are under way at Google, according to Marissa Mayer, one of the company's top executives, who spoke at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Feb. 24. Mayer, Google employee No. 19 and the company's first female engineer, ...
http://pacbiztimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2200&Itemid=1
Crain's photo gallery: 2011 NorTech Innovation Awards reception
Crain's Cleveland Business - Feb 25, 2011
In delivering the evening's keynote address, Dr. Fujita said, “together, we can make a built on technology and innovation is the future of Northeast Ohio.” Ivan Henderson, commissioner of event sponsor Cleveland Public Power, addresses the crowd. ...
http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20110225/FREE/302259998/1107&Profile=1107
Boulder Innovation Center gets $5000 grant
Boulder County Business Report - Feb 21, 2011
BOULDER — The Boulder Innovation Center said Wells Fargo Bank will continue its support for the business incubator. Wells Fargo gave the nonprofit center a $5000 grant. The Boulder Innovation Center receives support from corporate and public ...
http://www.bcbr.com/article.asp?id=56217
Real Innovation@Xerox: Xerox Drives Innovation with Virtual Lab Open to All
Business Wire (press release) - Feb 24, 2011
Open Xerox is an online technology portal, providing instant access to the latest Xerox innovations and allowing anyone to test pilot technology and provide feedback directly to lab scientists and engineers. "At Xerox we encourage change, ...
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110224005200/en/Real-InnovationXerox-Xerox-Drives-Innovation-Virtual-Lab
Ivy Tech, Innovation Center Announce Business Contest
Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Feb 23, 2011
Ivy Tech Community College−Northeast and the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center are launching a new business contest. Launch: New Venture Competition will allow one Ivy Tech student to win up to $50000 to start a business. Organizers say the contest ...
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=46310
USC Stevens Institute for Innovation Funds Seven Breakthrough USC Innovations
Business Wire (press release) - Feb 23, 2011
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of Southern California's Stevens Institute for Innovation, a university-wide resource that helps USC innovators make maximum impact beyond traditional academic means, today announced it will award $439000 in ...
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110223006725/en/USC-Stevens-Institute-Innovation-Funds-Breakthrough-USC
ChinaBio® Partnering Forum 2011 Highlights China Innovation
Business Wire (press release) - Feb 23, 2011
This year an Innovation Showcase has been added to the event to highlight novel technology development in China. The Innovation Showcase will feature over 30 top professors and researchers from China's leading universities and institutes presenting ...
BIO Invites Nominations for the 2011 George Washington Carver Award for ...
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110223005747/en/ChinaBio%C2%AE-Partnering-Forum-2011-Highlights-China-Innovation
Business Wire (press release) - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The fourth annual George Washington Carver Award will recognize an individual who has demonstrated significant and innovative accomplishments that have employed industrial biotechnology to facilitate the advancement of a ...
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110228006263/en/BIO-Invites-Nominations-2011-George-Washington-Carver
Aptina Named 2010 EDN Innovation Award Finalist
Business Wire (press release) - Feb 22, 2011
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aptina, a leading innovator of CMOS imaging technology, today announced that its high-performance, feature-rich APS-C format 16 megapixel (MP) MT9H004 image sensor has been chosen as a finalist in the 2010 EDN Innovation Award ...
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110222005763/en/Aptina-Named-2010-EDN-Innovation-Award-Finalist
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Netflix Blasts Off
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is unstoppable! It's gaining millions of new subscribers each month (I am one of the 20 million subscribers) who are attracted to the wildly popular $7.99 a month subscription for unlimited streaming of over 20,000 TV shows and Movies. There is no other game in town which can beat this! Amazon.com is poised to offer a similar streaming service (strong rumors), for a flat $79 a year fee that includes Amazon Prime membership. This could sway subscribers to Amazon, or better yet create a healthy choice for consumers which can only expand the market further. Apple is selling movies and TV shows by the drink on iTunes. Would Apple change it's business model and offer a monthly service? This is not feasible, since it will decrease the iTunes sales in the short term, and Apple will need to explain this to the share holders. However, in the long term, Apple would love to have all these subscribers. May be, just may be, Apple will buy out Netflix, or Hulu, an upcoming, worthy challenger. "Hulu Plus, the video subscription plan that charges $8 a month to watch a range of TV shows online, will have 1 million paying customers this year and post annual revenue of more than $200 million, according to Hulu's chief executive Jason Kilar, in a blog post." Hulu still has ways to go; however, it has huge help from Disney, Comcast, NBC, News Corp and Viacom (latest partner).
Take a look at what Whitney Tilson says in his article on Seeking Alpha:
"Of course, any company can goose its margins and profits in the short term by slashing marketing spending, but this usually triggers a fall-off in sales and customers. Yet this didn’t happen to Netflix: in Q4, the number of paid subscribers jumped by 2.4 million to 18.3 million, up 53.5% year over year and 15.2% sequentially, both the highest levels going back more than four years. Subscriber growth isn’t merely high, but it’s accelerating. Such a large gain in subscribers fueled at 34.1% year over year jump in revenues, the highest percentage gain since Q1 07.
This surge in subscribers and revenues is creating a virtuous cycle for Netflix, both in terms of word-of-mouth buzz (which is, of course, the best – and cheapest – form of marketing) and financially."
Customer Survey Comments:
"The most commonly cited explanation by the Netflix customers in our survey for their increasing usage and overall satisfaction is that they appreciate the easy-to-use, widely available service and perceive good value. For a low monthly price – typically $7.99 or $9.99, less than the cost of a single movie ticket and a tiny fraction of their cable bill – they can have unlimited access to nearly 20,000 movies and TV shows. "
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I believe we get what we pay for.
Not enough selection and not enough updates. Still great convenience & video quality.
I can watch what I want, when I want, for a price I can afford.
Great value, simple, problem free, no advertising.
Easy to use, good selection, and getting better all the time. It’s the best deal out there, even with the recent price increase.
Streaming itself is great. The library of streamable choices is lacking, especially for movies. Once you get hooked on a TV show Netflix carries, though, the streaming is awesome!
I’m not married to Netflix. I would easily switch to a carrier with the fastest and widest selection of titles. The flip side is I haven’t tried other services because Netflix is easy. I’m not a tech expert and don’t even know what Hulu does.
Good product at good price. Online quality is much better than I expected. Lots of kids content to stream (don’t need the latest). Netflix finds TV shows that I may like but did not know existed and/or would not rent as DVDs. Have gotten rid of the expensive cable bill as a result"
Bottomline:
Netflix is a WOW! product, a great example of business model and product innovation. It's on a hyper growth drive, one which can easily catapult the subscriber base to over 40 million paid subscribers within the next two years! Netflix stock price and today's market valuation is quite conservative. If Netflix were to continue its explosive growth, while keeping the margins intact (or even improving them), Netflix at $400 within the next two years is entirely plausible! Only question : How soon can Netflix offer the top 200 movies of all time in the base subscription? Enjoy the ride...
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Monday, February 07, 2011
President Obama and White House on American Innovation
Remarks by the President to the Chamber of Commerce
Posted on February 07, 2011 at 02:16 PM EST
Type: Press Article, Speeches and Remarks
for America to win the future. We need to out-innovate, we need to out-educate, we need to out-build our competitors. We need an economy that’s based not on what we consume and borrow from other nations, but what we make and what we sell around the world. We need to make America the best place on Earth to do business. And this is a job for all of us. As a government, we will help lay the foundation for you to grow and innovate and succeed. We will upgrade our transportation ... . That’s what I want to talk about today –- the responsibilities we all have -- the mutual responsibilities we have -- to secure the future that we all share. Now, as a country, we have a responsibility to encourage American innovation. More...
Smarter Regulation
Posted on February 07, 2011 at 11:29 AM EST
Type: Blog post
-five significant reforms to its process for reviewing new medical devices, creating a smarter program that will promote innovation, keep jobs here at home, and bring safe, effective, and important technologies to patients more quickly. Responding to public ... developments have shown, we can advance plans to out innovate, out-educate and out build the world by eliminating unjustified regulatory burdens, even as we insist on common sense safeguards. But much more work needs to be done, and we’ll need your ideas ... More...
Raw Video: President Obama Drops-By a Meeting with Young Leaders at Penn State
Posted on February 07, 2011 at 09:54 AM EST
Type: Office of Public Engagement, Blog Post
President Obama made a surprise drop-by at a roundtable conversation with young Americans at Penn State University during his visit last week . The roundtable was one of four held by the White House Office of Public Engagement surrounding the President’s visit to Central Pennsylvania. The roundtables provided an opportunity for a diverse group of young leaders to sit down for a candid conversation with the White House on key issues the President has been working on, including jobs and the economy, the cost of education, civic engagement, energy, innovation, housing, Sudan, and equal rights. Check out some of what the President said during his visit: Play/pause Mute/unmute Rewind and stop ... More ...
Charles Bolden's Story: "From the Segregated South to Low Earth Orbit"
Posted on February 06, 2011 at 12:07 PM EST
Type: Blog Post
development and innovation that would be required, many African Americans have given their heart and soul to the space program. The list is long at NASA. Astronauts like Guion S. Bluford, Dr. Mae Jemison, Frederick D. Gregory, and Dr. Ronald McNair and Michael ... 's lives around the world through new technologies and discoveries and showing that with innovation, creativity and passion, you can knock down any barrier of race, ethnicity, creed, or gender. Learn more about NASA at NASA.gov . ... More...
Council on Women and Girls Weekly Highlights
Posted on February 05, 2011 at 02:57 PM EST
Type: Council on Women and Girls, Blog Post
Welcome to this edition of the Council on Women and Girls weekly highlights. This week, President Obama emphasized the administration’s goal to win the future by visiting with innovators in business and the media. In keeping with his message of moving forward, the President also spoke on the situation in Egypt, stressing the importance of peaceful, democratic action as a force for change. Read below for more information on our activities. If you have friends or family who would like to join our ... ’s vision Watch the Weekly Address: Out-Innovating, Out-Educating & Out-Building Our Competitors Monique Dorsainvil is a Staff Assistant in the Office of Public Engagement focusing on the Council for Women and Girls and LGBT ...More...
Weekly Address: If Business and Government Fulfill Their Responsibilities, America Will Win the Future
Posted on February 05, 2011 at 06:00 AM EST
Type: Press Article, Statements and Releases
WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Obama said America can prosper and win the future by supporting innovation, education, and infrastructure. This past week, the President highlighted how students and researchers at Penn State University are poised lead the way on innovation and job creation through their work on energy efficiency. In the coming week, he will visit Marquette, Michigan, where high-speed broadband infrastructure is connecting a small town to the larger world ... , America needs to out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build the rest of the world. On Thursday, I went to Penn State University, whose students and researchers are poised to lead the way on innovation and job creation. They’re taking up ... More...
Weekly Address: Winning the Future through American Innovation
Posted on February 05, 2011 at 05:30 AM EST
Type: Blog Post, Includes Video
The President discusses the labs at Penn State as an example of how American innovation, particularly in infrastructure and energy, can create jobs and win the future for America. ... More...
Weekly Wrap Up: "Innovation Is What This Country Is All About"
Posted on February 04, 2011 at 06:41 PM EST
Type: Blog Post
";To support American innovation, what my administration is trying to do is not just hand out money. What we’re doing is we’re issuing a challenge. Because right now, some of the most promising innovation is happening ... generations."; --President Obama, speaking at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, about the future of American innovation. Watch the speech here . President Barack Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu tour ... , the Department of Transportation shares the story of Alex Brown in this moving video . American Innovation Abroad: U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk meets with members of the President's Technology CEO Council to discuss how the Administration ... More...
Keep up with the latest talk, thoughts and ideas on American Innovation by President Obama and White House Staff here...
Posted on February 07, 2011 at 02:16 PM EST
Type: Press Article, Speeches and Remarks
for America to win the future. We need to out-innovate, we need to out-educate, we need to out-build our competitors. We need an economy that’s based not on what we consume and borrow from other nations, but what we make and what we sell around the world. We need to make America the best place on Earth to do business. And this is a job for all of us. As a government, we will help lay the foundation for you to grow and innovate and succeed. We will upgrade our transportation ... . That’s what I want to talk about today –- the responsibilities we all have -- the mutual responsibilities we have -- to secure the future that we all share. Now, as a country, we have a responsibility to encourage American innovation. More...
Smarter Regulation
Posted on February 07, 2011 at 11:29 AM EST
Type: Blog post
-five significant reforms to its process for reviewing new medical devices, creating a smarter program that will promote innovation, keep jobs here at home, and bring safe, effective, and important technologies to patients more quickly. Responding to public ... developments have shown, we can advance plans to out innovate, out-educate and out build the world by eliminating unjustified regulatory burdens, even as we insist on common sense safeguards. But much more work needs to be done, and we’ll need your ideas ... More...
Raw Video: President Obama Drops-By a Meeting with Young Leaders at Penn State
Posted on February 07, 2011 at 09:54 AM EST
Type: Office of Public Engagement, Blog Post
President Obama made a surprise drop-by at a roundtable conversation with young Americans at Penn State University during his visit last week . The roundtable was one of four held by the White House Office of Public Engagement surrounding the President’s visit to Central Pennsylvania. The roundtables provided an opportunity for a diverse group of young leaders to sit down for a candid conversation with the White House on key issues the President has been working on, including jobs and the economy, the cost of education, civic engagement, energy, innovation, housing, Sudan, and equal rights. Check out some of what the President said during his visit: Play/pause Mute/unmute Rewind and stop ... More ...
Charles Bolden's Story: "From the Segregated South to Low Earth Orbit"
Posted on February 06, 2011 at 12:07 PM EST
Type: Blog Post
development and innovation that would be required, many African Americans have given their heart and soul to the space program. The list is long at NASA. Astronauts like Guion S. Bluford, Dr. Mae Jemison, Frederick D. Gregory, and Dr. Ronald McNair and Michael ... 's lives around the world through new technologies and discoveries and showing that with innovation, creativity and passion, you can knock down any barrier of race, ethnicity, creed, or gender. Learn more about NASA at NASA.gov . ... More...
Council on Women and Girls Weekly Highlights
Posted on February 05, 2011 at 02:57 PM EST
Type: Council on Women and Girls, Blog Post
Welcome to this edition of the Council on Women and Girls weekly highlights. This week, President Obama emphasized the administration’s goal to win the future by visiting with innovators in business and the media. In keeping with his message of moving forward, the President also spoke on the situation in Egypt, stressing the importance of peaceful, democratic action as a force for change. Read below for more information on our activities. If you have friends or family who would like to join our ... ’s vision Watch the Weekly Address: Out-Innovating, Out-Educating & Out-Building Our Competitors Monique Dorsainvil is a Staff Assistant in the Office of Public Engagement focusing on the Council for Women and Girls and LGBT ...More...
Weekly Address: If Business and Government Fulfill Their Responsibilities, America Will Win the Future
Posted on February 05, 2011 at 06:00 AM EST
Type: Press Article, Statements and Releases
WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Obama said America can prosper and win the future by supporting innovation, education, and infrastructure. This past week, the President highlighted how students and researchers at Penn State University are poised lead the way on innovation and job creation through their work on energy efficiency. In the coming week, he will visit Marquette, Michigan, where high-speed broadband infrastructure is connecting a small town to the larger world ... , America needs to out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build the rest of the world. On Thursday, I went to Penn State University, whose students and researchers are poised to lead the way on innovation and job creation. They’re taking up ... More...
Weekly Address: Winning the Future through American Innovation
Posted on February 05, 2011 at 05:30 AM EST
Type: Blog Post, Includes Video
The President discusses the labs at Penn State as an example of how American innovation, particularly in infrastructure and energy, can create jobs and win the future for America. ... More...
Weekly Wrap Up: "Innovation Is What This Country Is All About"
Posted on February 04, 2011 at 06:41 PM EST
Type: Blog Post
";To support American innovation, what my administration is trying to do is not just hand out money. What we’re doing is we’re issuing a challenge. Because right now, some of the most promising innovation is happening ... generations."; --President Obama, speaking at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, about the future of American innovation. Watch the speech here . President Barack Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu tour ... , the Department of Transportation shares the story of Alex Brown in this moving video . American Innovation Abroad: U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk meets with members of the President's Technology CEO Council to discuss how the Administration ... More...
Keep up with the latest talk, thoughts and ideas on American Innovation by President Obama and White House Staff here...
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