Lithium To Acquire Social Influence Scoring Site Klout For $200M. Social customer service company Lithium Technologies will announce on Thursday morning that it has acquired Klout for almost $200 million in cash and private stock, says Fortune. Re/code first reported last month that Lithium and Klout, which scores influence on social networks, were nearing a deal. Lithium, which is expected to make its initial public offering later this year, announced in September 2013 that it had raised $50 million in “pre-IPO mezzanine financing” to develop its tech platform and expand its sales and marketing.
This brought its total raised to $142 million. Une employée d'Amazon raconte «la peur organisée» Amélie (1), 30 ans, a travaillé quelques semaines au sein de la plateforme d’Amazon à Montélimar (Drôme).
Alors que des grèves pour des hausses de salaires se poursuivent en Allemagne, nous avons décidé de publier son témoignage, saisissant, sur les conditions de travail au sein du numéro 1 mondial de la vente en ligne. «Les agences d’intérim de Montélimar recrutent en fin d’année des hordes de salariés sur les quatre postes de travail de la plateforme Amazon, implantée il y a trois ans. Vous pouvez y être admis comme "eacher", pour réceptionner les marchandises et les enregistrer informatiquement; "stower", pour les ranger dans les kilomètres d’étagères de l’entrepôt; "picker", pour arpenter les allées et rassembler les produits commandés; ou "packer", pour les emballer avant expédition.
«C’est en tant que pickeuse que j’ai découvert l’univers d’Amazon. L’univers du code-barres.
How much longer can HTC hold on? By Kevin Kelleher, contributor FORTUNE – First Palm.
Then Nokia (NOK). Then BlackBerry (BBRY). Is HTC the next smartphone maker to go from a strong contender in the smartphone market to a troubled company in need of rescue? It's starting to look like it. Purefizz Soda Maker hides bubbles in plain sight. Every kitchen has its list of regulars that consistently make appearances.
For one it may be butter, cheese, bacon, and eggs, while another kitchen may populate its shelves with margarine, cottage cheese, tofu, and egg whites. But there is a subset within the spectrum of food that requires extra attention: the beverages. Just as every kitchen has its preferred food items, every household quenches its thirst with a cast of regulars. But there is one thing that juice, lemonade, tea, and the like all have in common -- when bubbles are added, things change. The Mastrad Purefizz Soda Maker ($79.99) is a simple carbonating contrivance that expands the drink possibilities in the kitchen. 8 Best Apps for Team Collaboration. As more and more apps utilize the cloud's file-storing and -sharing capabilities, remote team collaboration becomes even easier.
There are hundred of apps that claim to "increase productivity" and "optimize company workflow," but how many apps actually do? We've selected a list of 8 apps that actually make your workday easier, and team collaboration more enjoyable in the process. MIT Creates New Energy Source. This is some pretty exciting news.
It seems that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the most prestigious science and engineering schools in the United States, has created a new energy source -- and it's clean and renewable. Pew: Online Political Engagement Can Lead to Offline Activism.
Quand devient-on vraiment conscient? La nouvelle science de la conscience devrait changer notre façon d’aborder certains problèmes d’éthique épineux comme la fin de vie, l'avortement ou les droits des animaux.
Le chercheur Daniel Bor explique ce que cette science apporte au débat, et pourquoi elle l'a fait devenir végétarien. Il est facile de voir la conscience comme une sorte de magie. Dans la religion, elle est représentée par l’âme mystérieuse et en science, le concept de conscience semble au départ assez énigmatique. Mais des études scientifiques rigoureuses ont mis à mal le caractère magique d’origine de nombreux domaines, tels que l’étude de ce qui distingue la vie de la non-vie. La conscience est en train de vivre une telle révolution. L’étude de notre propre conscience est un domaine scientifique en plein essor, où les expériences révèlent des faits étonnants sur le plus intime des sujets scientifiques.
Trends technos. The Future of Digital Diplomacy: An Interview With Alec Ross. Alec Ross, the State Department's first senior advisor for innovation, is leaving after nearly four years of spearheading the department's lunge into the twenty-first century.
After leaving the State Department, he'll take time to write a book and perhaps a screenplay, found a company to advise investors, corporations and government leaders on the "implication of macro-factors emerging at the intersection of geopolitics, markets and network technologies," mentor up-and-coming talent and work with fast-growing startups to help them understand foreign markets. Numérique: 5 tendances à South by South West 2013. Yves Behar on skeuomorphic design and Apple at 100% Design.
Developing hardware and software at the same time is design's "new frontier", according to industrial designer Yves Behar.
Speaking to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at 100% Design yesterday, the industrial designer said bringing 3D designers and interface designers together was "a whole new blue ocean" adding, "Apple is actually a little bit behind in that area. " (+ audio) "What I've been really interested in is, when these things get designed together, as one, really new interesting paradigms, really new interesting experiences are happening," said Behar. "And let me say just one thing; probably it's going to be a little bit provocative: nobody is really doing that today.
Even Apple is designing their product and their software separately. " So Long, Apps: How Hardware Took Over South By Southwest.
The Genius Of Google Fiber. As Google picks up its pace on rolling out fiber Internet service - announcing Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah in the past 10 days - one has to admire the sheer hubris of what it's doing.
Just as in mobile, Google is forcing the industry to provide low-cost access to the Internet, where it stands waiting to reap the bonanza of advertising-based services. Competitors race to keep up, expanding their broadband or mobile offerings, thereby furthering Google's monetization strategy even as they try to thwart the advertising giant. It's Google's world. We just get to live in it. And click on ads. Celluon Virtual Keyboard - A laser projected full-sized virtual QWERTY keyboard.
Twitter : 10 outils pour trouver des followers et gérer ses followings via. Dossiers Publié le 7 février 2013 | par Nadia Bellifa Après avoir fait une rétrospective sur le potentiel marketing de twitter, défini la structure idéale d’un tweet et mesurer le pouvoir hashtag pour cibler une communauté, voyons maintenant comment trouver des followers.
More Twitter Chatter Correlates to Higher TV Ratings, Study Reveals. A new study reveals that more Twitter chatter correlates to higher television ratings. By analyzing tweets about live TV, Nielsen and SocialGuide found that Twitter is one of three "statistically significant variables" to influence ratings. The 10 Commandments of Social Media for Brands. Scott Steinberg, a top-ranked international event speaker on the lecture circuit, is a bestselling expert on leadership and innovation, and the head of strategic consultancy TechSavvy Global.
Hands On With the Ultrapixeled HTC One. The HTC One might be the most consumer-conscious smartphone ever made. HTC says it built the One to address the way people actually use their phones today, as opposed to building high-tech features for their own sake (hello, Samsung Share Shot). And with a metal design that feels high-end, it's also a phone consumers will actually want to hold in their hands.
Products for Your Mobile Lifestyle. Logiciel. How to Make a Computer From a Living Cell. If biologists could put computational controls inside living cells, they could program them to sense and report on the presence of cancer, create drugs on site as they’re needed, or dynamically adjust their activities in fermentation tanks used to make drugs and other chemicals. Now researchers at Stanford University have developed a way to make genetic parts that can perform the logic calculations that might someday control such activities.
Design Your Digital Invites With 'Phoster' The days of snail mail invitations are far behind us, with every backyard barbecue, birthday celebration and concert broadcasted through Facebook event pages or text message. Though you can let hundreds of friends know about your next party with the click of a button, the convenience takes away from the fun of planning: the invites. Phoster, a free iOS app, brings professional design to your posters and invitations and lets you stretch your creativity without the cost or effort. Check out the video, above, for more. Inside the Biggest Cyberattack in History. A cyberattack originally targeting a single company is now being described by experts as one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in Internet history.
The assault, which recently began impacting elements of the Internet's physical infrastructure, has been dragging down Internet speeds in Europe — but what makes this type of attack different from all other attacks? First, some background: The attacks originally targeted a European anti-spam company called Spamhaus, which blacklists what it considers sources of email spam and sells those blacklists to Internet Service Providers. The attack began early last week as waves of large but typical DDoS assaults shortly after Spamhaus blacklisted Cyberbunker, a controversial web hosting company. Cyberbunker has not directly taken responsibility for the attacks against Spamhaus. Informer sur une tablette, la leçon de South by South West 2013.