So what’s your level on Pokémon Go? It’s safe to say that, by now, everyone has played if not heard of Pokémon Go, the augmented reality game from Niantic Labs (in which Nintendo and Google are investors). The game has users finding and catching Pokémon using real-world locations. Launched on July 6th, the game already boasts more than 26 million daily users, although I suspect that by the time you’re done reading this article, that number will be significantly higher.

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It remains to be seen whether new features aimed at hooking new users, such as new live streaming deals and curation tools, will be able to spark user growth.

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Everything online is changing rapidly. Is your business keeping up?

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Open source, in the form of both software and hardware is big business—really big business. This past week, Wal-Mart Stores, one of the largest retailers in the world proved it once again when they announced that they would make their application lifecycle management tool OneOps available as an open source project. Why give away something that you created yourself that gives your company an advantage? Because companies like Wal-Mart and General Electric (with their Open Innovation initiative) are finding that proprietary is being beat by collaboration and openness. Turning a company’s proprietary work into something shared in the market can reap benefits as others also help innovate and return new features and functionality to your work.

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Fast-rising Chinese smartphone marker Oppo topped China’s smartphone market share for the first time last month, according to a recent report by research firm Counterpoint Technology Market Research. Oppo surpasses Huawei, Apple and Xiaomi with a record 22.9% market share as its shares volume jumped 337% annually for the month.

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The way we approach business is changing. As we continually pivot to keep pace with rapidly evolving technology, individual departments within an organization are becoming as agile as the larger companies themselves. IT departments are experiencing tremendous changes as their roles expand to impact customer service, sales, and even business strategies. As a result, organizations are increasingly turning IT into a driving force in all aspects of business.

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Last year, John Hanke was head of a Google-owned startup that was ready to be absorbed back into the larger company. This is the story of how he spun off Niantic Labs, cut a deal with Nintendo and created the most successful mobile game of all time.

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If you want to understand the next phase of the development of the Internet, a paper written 14 years ago outlines the business and technology logic driving much of what is happening today. In 2002, while working on research for his book about the future of the Internet, Out of the Box, John Hagel wrote a research paper that predicted the rise of companies called service aggregators, who would play the role of orchestrators, integrators, and guarantors of quality for the explosion of Internet services, the service grid that he and his research partner, John Seely Brown, predicted would arise.

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