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Why does Microsoft keep chasing Google’s taillights with Bing?

By 18 October 2013 0

Four years ago, Microsoft released a new search engine: Bing. It was aimed to be an improved version of former Microsoft’s search engines: Live Search and MSN Search. While it has been struggling these past years to gain market share, Google has remained the leader far ahead of its competitors. In July, Bing had 17.9% […]

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MyMicroInvest, a Belgian crowdfunding platform for European entrepreneurs

By 7 October 2013 0

This is the third post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post (originally written by Stephanie Goergen, Claire Goudeseune, Sophie Simonis et Xavier Vanwelde) has been honed and complemented by Olivier Simons. You probably already heard of MyMajorCompany, Akamusic, Babyloan, Angel.me, or MyMicroInvest. The common denominator of all these web-platforms can […]