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Gabriel Giordano
PhD in Management Information Systems, The Florida State University. Gabriel Giordano is an assistant professor in the Information Systems Department. His current research looks at virtual work teams, computer-based communication and deception, and differences between traditional and computer-mediated work settings. Gabriel has presented research on these topics at international conferences, and his work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of the AIS, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Communications of the AIS. Before coming to IESE, Gabriel worked at Research International, where he was responsible for automating marketing research reporting processes, and at Westinghouse, where he worked in the Emergency Management Department at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Areas of interest: * Virtual Teams * Computer-based communication and deception * IS strategy
Posts by Gabriel Giordano
Regulatory obstacles for the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
September 13, 2009 - 2:14 pm
Tags: Microsoft, Yahoo
Posted in Current Affairs | 1 comment
After all the excitement and press releases about the search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, the serious market analysis is now beginning. US regulators have decided to scrutinize the deal, to understand if the reduction of the number of major search providers, from three to two, will hurt competition in the search market.
Regulators will likely [...]
Finally, Microsoft + Yahoo…
July 30, 2009 - 12:10 am
Tags: Microsoft, Yahoo
Posted in Current Affairs | No comments
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After months and months of merger and acquisition talks with Microsoft and Google, Yahoo has finally reached a deal to merge their search and search advertising functions with someone – Microsoft! The deal will last 10 years, and “Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales [...]
Google AdSense in the Mobile World
July 7, 2009 - 4:22 pm
Tags: AdSense, Google
Posted in Current Affairs | No comments
Mobile applications have been receiving increasing business interest recently, as their functionality and capabilities have quickly increased. The early platform leader in mobile applications has been Apple. This is partially due to the fact that they were the first mover and created the first highly usable online application store. The success of this store became [...]
Wolfram Alpha
June 2, 2009 - 6:05 pm
Tags: Wolfram
Posted in Web/Tech | No comments
Right before Microsoft’s Bing was announced, another new search-related website was getting the spotlight, WolframAlpha.com. Wolfram Alpha was created by Stephen Wolfram, who is also the creator of the highly respected
research focused application, Mathematica.
While this new website has received quite a bit of attention recently, many people still seem to be somewhat confused about how [...]
Business Opportunities in the “Virtual” World
May 6, 2009 - 11:48 am
Posted in Web/Tech | 7 comments
Not long ago, stories about virtual world systems such as Second Life were abundant. However, recently, not much has been said about these systems. New user growth has slowed, and the number of regular users (around a half a million) of the largest system, Second Life, has turned out to be only a fraction of [...]
