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March 21, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Adobe CTO to Apple–Far More Than What It Appears?

By Ben Kepes

The big news from a few days ago was the fairly momentous bombshell that Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch was resigning from his executive role at Adobe and jumping ship to Apple where he will be filling the role of vice president of technology and reporting directly to Bob Mansfield. Lynch

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December 16, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Fairfax Selling Remaining TradeMe Shares–My Two Cents

By Ben Kepes

Big news in Australasia this weekend was the planned sale of the remaining 51% that Fairfax still holds in TradeMe. Lance Wiggs has been doing the rounds of the media outlets with the view that the move is “absolutely bonkers”. At first look it’s hard to argue with that, until

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August 20, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Keeping Safe In The Cloud

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

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June 5, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FileTrek Fulfills Need for Workgroup Transparency

By Ben Kepes

As more and more applications are enabled on mobile platforms, there is an ever increasing need to ensure that corporate IT and managers of workgroups have visibility over who accesses and makes changes to files. Historically there has been an emphasis on enabling mobile access, but a relative absence of

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April 26, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

More on Banking 2.0–Who Ya Gonna Trust?

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been writing now for a few years about Banking 2.0 – a general term that I use to describe what financial services will look like when it discovers open, social, API enablement, mobile and all the other business and technology trends that are converging today. I wrote a post

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April 12, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Social Media Doesn’t Constitute Banking 2.0–Apple and Google Get That

By Ben Kepes

While I was at SXSW last month I attended a panel (yes I know attending panels at SXSW is rare!)entitles Financial Services & Technology Rockstar Women. The panel promised to allow attendees to “Hear from global financial services and technology leaders, who happen to be women, how they use social

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February 17, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Open, Closed, 1984 and the Evil Empire

By Ben Kepes

On my recent Gillmor gang slot I spent time talking with Steve Gillmor and John Taschek about open data, the risks of a few all-powerful social networks and how open data can drive potential benefits for all. In what was I suspect an effort to create a provocateur outside of

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April 4, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Guy Kawasaki Enchants at SXSW

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written a few posts already (both here and elsewhere) about this years SXSW conference. In an ongoing occasional series I’m going to jot down some notes about standout sessions or panels – sometimes they stood out for the right reasons, and sometimes not so much. One panel that really

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July 2, 2010 Posted in Just for fun 5 Comments

T Shirt Friday #49 – Google IO

By Ben Kepes

Despite a couple of thousand post blogging history, 13000 or so tweets and more trips between Silicon Valley and New Zealand than I’d care to admit – this was the first Google t shirt I received. So excited was I in fact that, despite not generally wearing black tees, I’ve kept this one in my very special favorite t shirt drawer.

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September 25, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

Choice is a Damn Fine Thing!

By Ben Kepes

I posted a few days ago about a guy who created an iPhone app that competed with a native iPhone offering. Apple subsequently decided to withhold acceptance of his application – citing concerns about the competing nature of his offering. My post was under the guise of asking how Apple

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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