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Art numérique : Curioos lance sa marketplace
Article rédigé par Antoine Msika. Curioos s’est ouvert au public il y a un peu moins d’un an avec un but : prouver que les images numériques sont un art à part entière. Pour cela, les deux co-fondateurs ont voulu dans un premier temps faire de Curioos un endroit qui permette aux artistes, aux collectionneurs et aux amateurs d’art de se retrouver. Jusqu’à maintenant, Curioos se résumait donc essentiellement à un réseau social permettant de découvrir et partager des œuvres numériques dans des galeries virtuelles.
Based on conventional wisdom, Quantenna shouldn’t exist as a startup maker of Wi-fi chips. It has huge competitors among chipmakers Broadcom, Marvell, and Qualcomm-Atheros. But Quantenna is announcing a gargantuan $79 million funding round today because it has figured out how to do Wi-Fi chips that are faster and have greater range than its rivals. Normally, the big semiconductor companies would use their engineering and financial resources to crush small chip startups. But Fremont, Calif.
Quantenna raises astounding $79M round so you can have wire-like wireless networks | VentureBeat
After secrets: Missing the point of WikiLeaks | The Economist
DAVID BROOKS'S recent column and Ross Douthat's reply to my defence of WikiLeaks have helped me to pin down and articulate the source of a nagging but previously inchoate sense that somehow we're all missing the bigger picture. Let me start by suggesting that the politicians and pundits calling for Julian Assange's head are playing into his hands. As all eyes track the international albino of mystery, the human and physical infrastructure of a much larger, more distributed movement continues to expand and consolidate far beyond the spotlight.
Some weeks, writing this column is easy. All it takes is for an influential person – a politician, a business person, perhaps even a fellow columnist – to say something dumb and I get to spend a thousand words or so explaining precisely why they’re wrong. The “why x is wrong about y” construction is the columnist’s best friend: it’s as old as the hills and even easier to build a house on. Some weeks though, it’s even easier than that. Someone will say something so breathtakingly wrong – so tracheotomy-cravingly moronic – that I don’t need to explain anything. Simply quoting their words back at them is sufficient to make the point.
NSFW: Jimmy Wales Wants Me Dead (The Neutrality Of This Article
Editor’s note: Should media sites become group buying sites as well? Guest author Dave Chase thinks so. He was a marketing executive and general manager at Microsoft in the 90’s including starting Microsoft’s healthcare business. After leaving Microsoft, he has been involved in Internet startups including a social commerce company in the health sector that is in stealth. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the Internet it is that if a middleman doesn’t add enough value, their days are numbered.
Why Media Companies Should Become More Like Merchants
Is Print Media Doomed Worldwide or Just In The US?
As I walked in the headquarters of the Jawa Pos —the flagship newspaper of one of South East Asia’s largest print media empires—I was wondering just how screwed my profession is; globally I mean. Is the death of print a world-wide certainty or merely an American reality? After all a lot of “old economy” businesses are thriving in emerging markets thanks to Greenfield advantages and rising middle class economics. Spoiler alert: I walked out a few hours later not hugely convinced print is the future but willing to believe that in some places the death-blow of digital might be limited to a mere-crippling. How’s that for bullish?