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publicité En 1931, le ministère de l’Air britannique passe commande d’un nouvel intercepteur. Ce document est remarquable à deux titres.
Le Spitfire, l’avion qui a sauvé le monde | Slate
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Meet the Newest (and Cutest) Mozillians :: The Mozilla Blog
On June 14, 2010, two female firefox (a.k.a red panda) cubs were born at the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee, and as of today, they’ve officially joined the Mozilla community. To meet our newest (and cutest) Mozillians, visit www.firefoxlive.org . For the next few months you’ll be able to watch these baby firefoxes play, live and grow via a 24 hour live video stream. Red Pandas are endangered animals, and these particular cubs are the most vital captive firefoxes to the bloodline of their species.
VALUE NEGOTIATION: HOW TO FINALLY GET THE WIN-WIN RIGHT examines the complicated world of negotiation and provides a simple and practical approach in helping negotiators learn how to consistently deliver the most possible value at the lowest possible risk in the widest range of situations. And in Negotiate!, uncover how you can connect with negotiating parties, work towards gaining mutual value, and finally, make the best possible decision. In each part, a wide variety of dialogues, scenarios, discussion questions and exercises have been specially designed to prepare you for commonly experienced situations and settings in negotiation.
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At 5pm today the unruly message board 4chan plans to take down the blogging platform Tumblr. 4chan has successfully cowed everyone from Gene Simmons to the Tea Party , but they may have finally met their match. Tumblr users are freaking out about today's attack, the culmination of a campaign, "Operation Overlord," launched by 4chan to pay back Tumblr for encroaching on their turf. That turf being making dumb jokes and harassing strangers on the Internet. If you see 13-year-old girls running from their homes weeping at 5pm today, Operation Overlord is why. We're all familiar with the anonymous hivemind that festers on 4chan's /b/ message board, occasionally lashing out at women who throw cats in trash cans.
4chan Wages War on Tumblr: Whoever Wins, We All Lose
A VC: How To Calculate A Return On Investment
The Gotham Gal and I make a fair number of non-tech angel investments. Things like media, food products, restaurants, music, local real estate, local businesses. In these investments we are usually backing an entrepreneur we've gotten to know who delivers products to the market that we use and love. The Gotham Gal runs this part of our investment portfolio with some involvement by me. As I look over the business plans and projections that these entrepreneurs share with us, one thing I constantly see is a lack of sophistication in calculating the investor's return.
Why Twitter Is Massively Undervalued Compared To Facebook
Editor’s note: In this guest post, Naval Ravikant and Adam Rifkin argue why Twitter is undervalued. Naval was an early investor in Twitter and owns Twitter shares; Adam does not. They have not discussed the content of this article with anyone inside Twitter. The views expressed are their own. They can be found on Twitter @naval and @ifindkarma. Twitter was valued at one billion dollars in its last round of financing, but we believe it may in fact be severely undervalued relative to Facebook because Twitter’s value proposition is less obvious.Chicago-based Groupon is certainly one heck of a startup. Like Zynga it sort of came out of nowhere in 2009. Even last December I was sort of only vaguely aware of how fast it was growing. But it was clear by early 2010 to the whole world that Groupon was on a tear.
Why Groupon Is No Ebay
An update to this column : According to the Wall Street Journal, any of Facebook’s most popular applications have been transmitting identifying information — in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names — to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies. See here (paywall). This year, Facebook will make about $1.5bn in advertising revenue.
The Facebook Money Machine | Monday Note
And changing that is one of the company’s biggest business challenges these days. Google depends on having its finger on the pulse of the entire Internet, and maintaining its status as the primary entree to the Web.
Google Struggles to Build Social Features - NYTimes.com
Inventor Of Twitter Might Own Less Than 5%-15% Of The Company
Twitter's creator Jack Dorsey may own just a tiny piece of the company, according to an account on Quora from the first employee of Odeo, the company that led to Twitter . Odeo was a failed startup that was working on syndicating podcasts. At Odeo, Jack Dorsey came up with the idea for Twitter . Twitter seemed more promising than Odeo, so Odeo was shut down, and all focus went to Twitter. When Odeo was shut down, Ev Williams bought out all Odeo investors. (The company had raised a series A.)Xavier Niel: Free Mobile, la loi Hadopi, la TVA à 19,6 et ses investissements | FrenchWeb.fr
Dans une interview donnée à nos confrères des Echos, Xavier Niel revient sur le déploiement du réseau Free Mobile, la loi Hadopi, l’augmentation de la TVAet sur ses investissements dans le Monde et différentes start-up, en voici les éléments clés: Déploiement du réseau Free Mobile : Le planning prévu pour la couverture de 27% de la population en janvier 2012 est maintenu, 500 emplacements sont déjà confirmés et un accord signé avec TDF en prévoit un millier supplémentaires. Mais ça bloque pour la 3G, Xavier Niel revient sur le refus des trois opérateurs de lui accorder un accord d’itinérance pour la 3G (stratégique pour les offres « quadrupe play » ). Si les choses ne s’arrangent pas d’ici la fin de l’année 2010, il annonce sa décision d’aller au contentieux. Sans donner de détails, Free Mobile promet une véritable révolution avec une « offre simple » et un prix agressif.A VC: Employee Equity: Options
A stock option is a security which gives the holder the right to purchase stock (usually common stock) at a set price (called the strike price) for a fixed period of time. Stock options are the most common form of employee equity and are used as part of employee compensation packages in most technology startups. If you are a founder, you are most likely going to use stock options to attract and retain your employees. If you are joining a startup, you are most likely going to receive stock options as part of your compensation. This post is an attempt to explain how options work and make them a bit easier to understand. Stock has a value.How and when to give a media 'exclusive' - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog
Last week I participated in a panel discussion about how startups should handle social media, sponsored by the New England Venture Network (NEVN). Lots of good back-and-forth, including a fairly contentious discussion of whether or not companies should give "exclusives" to certain media outlets. Leading the anti-exclusive charge was social media guru Paul Gillin, who summarized his argument in a subsequent blog post : "Exclusives make one friend at the expense of making a lot of enemies. I can't believe they are a good thing for your business in the long term."2010 Global Cleantech 100 List Dominated By American And Energy Efficiency Businesses
The Cleantech Group LLC in conjunction with the UK’s Guardian News and Media , released their second annual Global Cleantech 100 list on Wednesday. The rankings recognize private, for-profit, independent cleantech companies that are most likely to make a significant, global market impact over the next five to ten years. The top ranked, North American cleantech business on the list was Amyris Biotechnologies, which makes chemicals and biofuels from renewable sources. Amyris was initially backed by Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers , Khosla Ventures and TPG Biotech . The company went public in late September; its stock is now trading on NASDAQ under the symbol AMRS for around $18.00 . This year, 3,138 qualifying companies were nominated for the Cleantech Group’s list.Five Greentech Startups Thinking Outside The Box
The busy green tech industry is teeming with companies focused on alternative energy. Some of the biggest new sources of energy they are trying to tap into include solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass and fuel cells. Most companies harnessing each power source are pursuing somewhat similar technologies – such as photovoltaic cells in solar, turbines in wind and hydroelectric – and then innovate from there. There are also many companies, however, that also focus on green technology and alternative energy but in different ways. Here are five you may not have heard of that are worth keeping an eye on. They are developing new ways to capture and store energy, light up our world, and power our vehicles.Skype sale
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