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Virgin Galactic Gets Official Clearance to Start Flying Paying Customers to Space

Gizmodo

An upgraded FAA operators license now allows Virgin Galactic to include paying customers on its space flights, in what is a major milestone for the company and also the nascent space tourism sector. Read more.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. Australian experiential tourism company Journey Beyond recently revamped its contact center as part of a customer experience transformation. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6%

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets.

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Economic structural change is NOT industry compositional change

Trends in the Living Networks

The mindset was to consider the changes in relative sizes of industries in the economy, such as manufacturing getting smaller and tourism becoming larger. Enterprise 2.0 We engaged in discussions on “economic structural change”, that were in fact only about changes in industry composition.

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66 countries and counting. Welcome Bahrain and The UAE to Spearline fixed line testing!

Spearline Testing

Over 12 million tourists visit the UAE per year; tourism now accounts for over 10% of the nation’s GDP. Our platform enables enterprises and telecommunications service providers to test connectivity and quality on global telecoms networks, testing automatically at volume. The falcon is the UAE’s national symbol.

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Announcement of Crowdsourcing Week: Singapore April 2013

Trends in the Living Networks

Curating content spanning the areas of Science/Tech, Enterprise, Government/NGO & Citizen Journalism, Crowdfunding, Advertising, Marketing, Design, Fashion, Film, Photography, Tourism and Open Source. Crowdsourcing Week Asia will bring together the best and brightest minds from. Best Practices.

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The World in 2030: Four scenarios for long-term planning and strategy

Trends in the Living Networks

Affluence drives tourism and travel. Social entrepreneurs invest $100 billion and seed a billion enterprises. SCENARIO: HUMANITY MATURING. Climate becomes extreme and volatile. Food and water shortages, famine and pandemics. Global coordinated action on climate. Trade liberalisation accelerates, EU extends.

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