Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
The proposed acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft remains the story of the week. Knowledge@Wharton editor-in-chief Mukul Pandya and I interviewed Wharton management professors Larry Hrebiniak and David Hsu about the deal earlier this week. You can read the exchange, "Microsoft and Yahoo: Does It Make Sense (and Will It Work)?" at http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1895 or download an … Continue reading The Microsoft/Yahoo Conundrum
Adobe Systems today announced that Kevin Lynch has been promoted to chief technology officer (CTO), with responsibly for "experience design and core technology" across all of Adobe's business units. Knowledge@Wharton interviewed Lynch shortly after he joined Adobe as part of the company's acquisition of Macromedia and Lynch was named Adobe's chief software architect and senior … Continue reading Kevin Lynch, CTO
The blogosphere will be all abuzz today about Microsoft's offer to acquire Yahoo! this morning. It will be interesting to watch people tally the pros and cons on this one. Here are my initial thoughts. Yahoo would provide Microsoft with valuable online properties in a number of major categories: Flickr for photo sharing, Yahoo Finance, … Continue reading Microsoft and Yahoo! (and Adobe)
The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies has developed a prototype of VideoTrace, a tool for creating three-dimensional models from video footage. It will make more sense if you watch their video demo at http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/ Although it's a bit routine at the beginning, hang in there until the midpoint when the capabilities of this technology become … Continue reading 3D Modeling from Video
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