TNW's European Tech5 - Help your favourite European Tech5 company get on stage at TNW Europe. Singularité technologique. Board. Startup loving, life hacking, technology focused magazine of Karim Riachi Inside Best Buy Employee Saves Vintage Robot From Destruction mashable.com Photo: mashable.com Also Best Buy Employee Saves Vintage Robot From Destruction mashable.com Twitter Is Building A Gateway To The “Web” Of Mobile Apps techcrunch.com 11 million downloads on, Expedia 3.0 taps live data to create visual itineraries on iOS and Android thenextweb.com Private collector builds Apple Pop-Up Museum to “tell the story of Apple” arstechnica.com / by Jacqui Cheng - Mar 29, 2013 1:00 pm UTC Apple may not open its own museum anytime soon, but that's not stopping enthusiasts from putting their own Apple memorabilia on display.
Twitter Is Building A Gateway To The “Web” Of Mobile Apps techcrunch.com / Sarah Perez This a major step forward for a service which begin life as a way to post brief, 140-character text-based thoughts, inspired by SMS. just setting up my twttr— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006. Interview de Patrice Lamothe – Pearltrees. Welcome, Apple! | OpenStreetMap Foundation. Yesterday Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone… and we’re rather pleased to find they’re the latest to switch to OpenStreetMap. The desktop version of iPhoto, and indeed all of Apple’s iOS apps until now, use Google Maps. The new iPhoto for iOS, however, uses Apple’s own map tiles – made from OpenStreetMap data (outside the US). If you don’t have iPhoto, you can view the maps using this unofficial viewer from Dair Grant or a transparent comparison from Iván Sánchez. The OSM data that Apple is using is rather old (start of April 2010) so don’t expect to see your latest and greatest updates on there. 03 May 2012 Update: Apple appear to have added OpenStreetMap attribution in their iPhoto v 1.0.1 But we’re delighted to see another prominent map user make the switch to OpenStreetMap, and look forward to many more.
This post is also available in: Dutch, French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish. Chomp. A Conversation with Peter Thiel. Francis Fukuyama: I’d like to begin by asking you about a point you made about there being certain liberal and conservative blind spots about America. What did you mean by that? Peter Thiel: On the surface, one of the debates we have is that people on the Left, especially the Occupy Wall Street movement, focus on income and wealth inequality issues—the 99 percent versus the 1 percent.
It’s evident that both forms of inequality have escalated at a very high rate. Probably from 1973 to today, they have gone up faster than they did in the 19th century. The rapid rise in inequality has been an issue that the Right has not been willing to engage. It tends either to say it’s not true or that it doesn’t matter. That’s a very strange blind spot. In the history of the modern world, inequality has only been ended through communist revolution, war or deflationary economic collapse. Francis Fukuyama: And it will require countless environmental permits, litigation, and so on.
Peter Thiel: Yes. Facebook lifts Zynga, Groupon, LinkedIn - Market Extra. By Rex Crum, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The filing of Facebook’s IPO papers seems to have changed investors’ attitudes about social game maker Zynga Inc. Zynga Zynga shares jumped as much as 20% Thursday following Facebook’s IPO filing. Since going public on Dec. 16 at $10 a share, Zynga /quotes/zigman/7720406/delayed/quotes/nls/znga ZNGA -2.74% has been largely seen as a disappointment on the market, with its shares falling as low as $7.97 on Jan. 9, and not even getting back to its IPO level until late January.
And then came Facebook, with its $5 billion IPO filing late Wednesday, and its disclosure that Zynga was responsible for 12% of Facebook’s revenue of $3.7 billion in 2011. Other “Web 2.0” companies with ties to social media, and which have gone public over the past year, got a lift Thursday, as the Facebook filing gave the sector a boost . Online daily deal company Groupon Inc. /quotes/zigman/7720406/delayed/quotes/nls/znga ZNGA 3.90, -0.11, -2.74% US : U.S.: Nasdaq.
Data/ Networks. Silicon Valley. Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet - Big Tech. Signs of exuberance are everywhere: Tesla roadsters, soaring real estate, overpriced vinegar - and eye-popping valuations for pre-IPO companies like Facebook and Zynga. So why are so many Silicon Valley denizens reluctant to use the B-word? By David A. Kaplan, contributor FORTUNE -- Michael Dreyfus, 49, is a leading real estate broker in the heart of Silicon Valley. Welcome to the Bizarro World of Silicon Valley Summer 2011, where financial fervor is fueling yet another real estate boom. Consumer sites like LinkedIn (LNKD) and Pandora (P) have gone public recently, with multibillion-dollar valuations -- and without the profits to justify it (at least using traditional metrics).
Just last week, Zynga filed for a $1 billion IPO. Microsoft's acquisition of Skype has similarly furrowed brows. The swell in IPOs isn't limited to splashy social-networking companies. "The valuations are very high and discount too much risk. Boom and bust: The way of the Valley Who's correct? Boom begets boomlet.
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Download a template and make your own “Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates” comic! New King of Technology - Apple Overtakes Microsoft. The moment came Wednesday when , the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past , the computer software giant, to become the world’s most valuable technology company. This changing of the guard caps one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history for Apple, which had been given up for dead only a decade earlier, and its co-founder and visionary chief executive, .
The rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds an important cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology. Microsoft, with its Windows and Office software franchises, has dominated the relationship most people had with their computers for almost two decades, and that was reflected in its stock market capitalization. But the click-clack of the keyboard has ceded ground to the swipe of a finger across a smartphone’s touch screen.
And Apple is in the right place at the right time. Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Mr. Mr. WakeMate. Invite Share - Everyone is invited!