Trending Now: Old News is Dead
Today’s journalists in Silicon Valley are also techies and entrepreneurs On a gloriously sunny and mild, February afternoon at Stanford University, leaders in journalism, app design, and investing gathered to usher in a dawning era of media, while somewhere else a bell was tolling for the end of the news business as we know it. The panelists at the Stanford GSB’s conference on the Future of Media were the faces of a fractured industry attempting to reinvent itself...
read moreThe Internet of Things
We are still here “We are still here.” That was the headline in the Chicago Tribune in 1910 after the Comet Halley crossed the cold Chicago skyline. The New York Times had previously reported on the vision of a renowned scientist who warned of the possibility that toxic gases from the tail of the comet could “probably extinguish all life on the Planet.” Well, after surviving at least four catastrophes that threatened to destroy our Planet...
read moreFailure Culture in Start-ups
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la In the technological entrepreneurial culture, it is well known that most start-ups fail. The number is very high: 3 in every 4. The reasons can vary from running out of funding or losing a founder, to determining there isn’t a big enough market for your product or service. Either way, failing in Silicon Valley is one of the least terrible things that can happen to you. When we start a company, fear of failing can be...
read moreUS senator vows to fight in-flight device use ban
Many of us are flying to visit loved ones this holiday season, with our arsenal of electronic devices—iPads, cell phones, laptops—in tow. As a standard part of the safety briefing before takeoff, our trusty flight attendants will inform us that some of those devices can’t be used while a jet is airborne. But that may soon change, at least if a US senator from Missouri has anything to say about it. Senator Claire McCaskill on Dec. 11 wrote Michael Huerta,...
read moreYet Another Mobile OS? What Now?
I have used a smartphone since 2009 when I bought an iPhone 3GS. Although I’ve since switched to an Android device, I honestly don’t know how I ever managed without one, regardless of platform. Up to now, there have been three main mobile platforms powering smartphone handsets: iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry could count as a fourth, but the platform is currently suffering from sparse adoption and declining market share that...
read moreYour New Home Awaits
Opinno’s Madrid office is expanding beyond the fifth floor of Gran Vía 16. Three stories up from one of Madrid’s most lively commercial boulevards, Opinno has opened a co-working space and an events hall, which hosts individual entrepreneurs as well as organizations like change.org and Multivent. The move signifies the company’s continued support for Madrid’s community of innovators and its efforts to facilitate the exchange of ideas among the members of the...
read moreGlobal Entrepreneurship Week strikes Mexico
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la As many of you know, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) was from the 12th to the 18th of November and every year it is celebrated around the world with activities aiming to foster the entrepreneurship culture. Mexico wasn’t the exception, and this year there were several activities happening around the country. Startup Weekend, in particular, has been very popular this year. With the opening of its regional offices,...
read moreMicrosoft’s new technologies
In a prior post I touched briefly on my experience thus far with Windows 8, Microsoft’s new operating system, released to the public on Oct. 26. Veteran Windows expert, technology writer, and blogger Paul Thurrott has called the OS a “mess,” a view with which I largely agree. Windows 8 is a weird combination of new technology (like a fresh new main interface inspired by the Windows Phone OS) grafted on top of old (like the classic desktop environment that’s...
read moreSpanish Start-ups visit Silicon Valley
Opinno -Open Innovation- organized the Cleantech Week 2012 from November 5 to 9, in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley, a business encounter for Spanish entrepreneurs in the clean technology sector, with the goal of bringing them closer to the American cleantech market and the entrepreneur and collaborative work environment that is experienced in Silicon Valley. Participants included the winning start-ups of Fundación Biodiversidad’s Emprendeverde contest:...
read moreEmtech 2012 Spain is here!!
You can watch Emtech Spain 2012 live on streaming at www.technologyreview.es The second edition of the world’s most important conference on emerging technologies, organized by Technology Review and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Emtech Spain 2012 is on today and tomorrow, in Málaga, Spain. Once again, MIT puts its trust in Spain, betting on Málaga as the meeting point for its conferences in Europe; and I wouldn’t be...
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