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Last wednesday evening we again attended the MissionFuture: Emergency Session 4 “What’s next? The crisis gives birth to tomorrow’s economy”. The speakers were

• Gabi Lück, thinknewgroup.com
• Dr. Andreas Pratz, Vice President, A.T. Kearney
• Daniel Ãœberall, Utopia.de
• Christoph Santner, thefuturekitchen.net

I really liked the presentations of Dr. Andreas Pratz and Daniel Ãœberall. Dr. Pratz talked about “Disaster Recovery: Chances in the financial market crisis”. He gave an interesting overview about how the financial market crisis developed and showed us chances in the crisis, e.g. alternative business financing. Social lending websites like smava.de have great potential in times of crisis. These web sites offer a market place for credits where consumer or entrepreneurs can invest or lend money to others without dealing with a bank. Here are some social lending web sites:

• lendingclub.com
• prosper.com
• kiva.org
• zopa.com

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1. Mobile Devices Market Share:

ABI Research released their quarterly report about the mobile devices market. There, I found this interesting chart about the market share of mobile device vendors in the 3Q 2008:

Source: Mobile Device Vendor Market Share, 3 Q 2008

Some interesting facts from this ABI Research report:

• 3Q 2008: 8.2% year-on-year growth
• 4Q 2008: will be a vital quarter for handset vendors and mobile operators, 7.5% growth
• Year-on-year annual growth: 10.5%-11%, 1.27 billion
• on the winner side: Samsung, Apple, RIM

Source: Mobile Device Vendor Market Share, 3 Q 2008

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