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The dramatic drop in the cost of creating a company over the last decade ($2 million in the late '90s to maybe $5,000 today) has had an obvious effect on the venture capital world. Serious venture ... Via Alain Rodermann
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Nice chart and interesting point on company formation costs plummeting over last decade. 
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Scientists have developed a technique to sabotage the cryptographic capabilities included in Intel's Ivy Bridge line of microprocessors. The technique works without being detected by built-in tests or physical inspection of the chip. The proof of concept comes eight years after the US Department of Defense voiced concern that integrated circuits used in crucial military systems might be altered in ways that covertly undermined their security or reliability. The report was the starting point for research into techniques for detecting so-called hardware trojans. But until now, there has been little study into just how feasible it would be to alter the design or manufacturing process of widely used chips to equip them with secret backdoors.
In a recently published research paper, scientists devised two such backdoors they said adversaries could feasibly build into processors to surreptitiously bypass cryptographic protections provided by the computer running the chips. The paper is attracting interest following recent revelations the National Security Agency is exploiting weaknesses deliberately built-in to widely used cryptographic technologies so analysts can decode vast swaths of Internet traffic that otherwise would be unreadable.
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Zim, the first dual head WiFi 3D printer fully plug & play: - Dual extruders - Ethernet & WiFi - onboard camera - smartphone & tablet control - exclusive refillable cartridges
and an affordable price!
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Makerbot, meet Nespresso... by Philippe Guglielmetti
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We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO,” the company said in a tweet on Thursday. “This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.
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IPO in just 140 characters
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According to a source close to the matter, BlackBerry today laid off more than half of its salesforce. The source, based in Waterloo, says consumers sales is basically "gone" and "enterprise is gutted".
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This is spiraling...
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No matter how you slice it, this is impressive. Google announced that 1 billion Android devices have been activated. Here's a look at the rise of Android.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Breakdown by geography would be very interesting...
Larry's comment,
September 5, 2013 10:20 AM
Somebody should know how many are still active ? vs the cumulative number of all android devices activated once since the launch in oct 2008 (first phone) ? Wikipedia say that, In July 2013, there were 11,868 different models of Android device, scores of screen sizes and eight OS versions simultaneously in use.[24]
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Crowdsourced premium video site gets bought for global expansion by the Amazon of Japan.
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"Le clou qui dépasse appelle le marteau" — proverbe japonais
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Today is the 10-year anniversary of the launch of Skype, the voice and video calling service that is now owned by Microsoft and used for about a third of all international calls.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Interesting chart showing that VoIP is still a quite vivid market, with new players such as @WeeMo that are still under the radar.
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A decade ago, billionaire entrepreneurs Peter Thiel and Elon Musk decided to take booming start-up PayPal public from a small coffee shop along Palo Alto's University Avenue. The street, the epicenter of Silicon Valley high tech, also helped incubate such now-established giants as Facebook and Google. But today, Thiel has seemingly left the Valley behind. The venture capital funds he runs are based 30 miles north, in a San Francisco building with views of the Golden Gate Bridge. A number of highly publicized start-ups like Twitter, Square, and Pinterest are also located in the heart of urban San Francisco. As Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted last February from his new headquarters in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood, "I love the idea of an urban corporate campus with all the energy and variety that provides." A new analysis reveals that venture capital investment is indeed flowing into cities at a startling clip.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
A perfect echo to Inc.'s feature in May about founder density, and a call for us French to implement http://cdcQNRapport ...
Larry's comment,
August 25, 2013 3:28 AM
Yes, innovation is like fire, you have to concentrate embers to get it.
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Steve Jobs was a Buddhist and a tyrant, a genius and a jerk. What is your interpretation of his thorny life story?
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Are You an Acolyte or a Rejector? Steve Jobs had a brash personality that lends itself to very different interpretations, depending on who you are. Based on these anecdotes from Walter Isaacson’s biography, which camp do you fall into? —B.A.
Larry's comment,
August 21, 2013 5:20 AM
Long but remarkable post. Must be read. I am a rejector. Warren Buffet has invested in IBM, not Apple, after observing how collaborators and customers work together to find better solutions. In the long run, Apple will fail.
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The evolution of the non-smart phone market. Who will be around in 3 years to still make them?
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It took Nokia only 5 years to lose its software sovereignty and become irrelevant in thsmartphone market. What about the dumbphone one?
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Newly declassified documents, obtained by George Washington University's National Security Archive, appear to for the first time acknowledge the existence of Area 51. Hundreds of pages describe the genesis of the Nevada site that was home to the government's spy plane program for decades. The documents do not, however, mention aliens.
The project started humbly. In the pre-drone era about a decade after the end of World War II, President Eisenhower signed off on a project aimed at building a high-altitude, long-range, manned aircraft that could photograph remote targets. Working together, the Air Force and Lockheed developed a craft that could hold the high-resolution cameras required for the images, a craft that became the U-2. Why "U-2"?
They decided that they could not call the project aircraft a bomber, fighter, or transport plane, and they did not want anyone to know that the new plane was for reconnaissance, so [Air Force officers] Geary and Culbertson decided that it should come under the utility aircraft category. At the time, there were only two utility aircraft on the books, a U-1 and a U-3. told Culbertson that the Lockheed CL-282 was going to be known officially as the U-2. The next step was to find a place from which the top-secret aircraft could be flown.
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Remember the Little Ale'Inn Motel pics we posted a year ago ? It is now officially the closest RV Park + Motel to Aera 51 :-)
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1000startups is a brand new crazy project from Free CEO Xavier Niel. With the help of the Caisse des Dépôts, Niel wants to create the world’s biggest incubator in the heart of Paris. As the name suggests, its 320,000 square feet should be enough to help 1,000 startups. Located in the 13th arrondissement at the halle Freyssinet, 1000startups will open in 2016. The team had to buy the building from the City of Paris for $94 million (€70 million) and will invest $108 million (€80 million) over the next few years.
To find out more about what Caisse des Dépots is doing for tech ecosystems, see -- http://j.mp/cdcDDAbstract
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La Caisse des Dépôts citée dans un article de TechCrunch, je ne boude pas mon plaisir. L'article cela étant n'est pas totalement bien ficelé...
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September 17, 2013 6:14 PM
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Here's a cool, if a bit overwhelming, chart from Horace Dediu at Asymco. It tracks which platforms have hit a billion users. Windows was first, then Facebook, then Android, and iOS should hit 1 billion in the next year or so, says Dediu. Android hit the milestone faster than any other platform, reaching 1 billion users in just five years
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Remember that it took TV 13 years to reach 50 M households?
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September 13, 2013 5:11 PM
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This chart from BI Intelligence shows that Android now has 60% of all computing platforms. Microsoft's Windows, on the other hand, is at 24%. Apple is at 14%.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Computing Platform War : Microsoft shrinks from 70% to 24% in just 4 years while Android inflates from 0 to 60%
Two comments : 1/ other have just vanished 2/ how does Android fragmentation weigh in ?
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September 11, 2013 2:36 AM
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An impressive explosion in speed: In the six years since the original iPhone was released, the speed of the iPhone has increased by 40X. The iPhone 5S alone is a doubling in speed over the iPhone 5.
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40x in just 6 years !
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September 6, 2013 1:13 AM
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Here's a pretty neat chart from comScore, via...
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Mobile now accounts for 20% of web traffic
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September 3, 2013 1:24 AM
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In essence, after the transaction is closed, Nokia will be transformed into a technology and IP licensing company and shed its manufacturer role. Microsoft will take over the baton and become the OEM for its own Windows Phone devices.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
What strikes me in the value shift : Nokia paid almost 1 Bn more in 2007 to acquire Navteq (A few years later Waze would create 1 Bn$ value with no need to purchase any map)
Larry's comment,
September 3, 2013 4:37 AM
I was dreaming to get Nokia hardware quality with Android... Microsoft crashed it.
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September 2, 2013 4:54 AM
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Le Site du zéro, une PME parisienne spécialiste de l’e-éduction est venue présenter à l’Université d’été du Medef sa dernière nouveauté : le mooc. Ces cours interactifs gratuits sont entièrement accessibles sur Internet.
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Si vous ne connaissez pas le Site du Zero, demandez-donc à vos ados...
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August 28, 2013 8:26 AM
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Perhaps the greatest potential for popular smartphone or tablet software and services is not in household appliances like TVs and refrigerators, or in wearable devices like wrist watches, but in cars.
To state the obvious: Cars are inherently mobile. Additionally, many of the activities people do in their cars — listen to music, look up directions — mesh nicely with popular app-mediated activities on mobile gadgets. Americans spend an average of 1.2 hours a day traveling between locationsand American commuters spend an average of 38 hours a year stuck in traffic. If mobile apps and Internet-based services can shoehorn their way into the in-car environment, that means a great opportunity to expand their ability to engage consumers, absorb their attention, and gather data.
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Is it a threat or a promise ?
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August 22, 2013 4:18 PM
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A developer firm known as S4BB has single handedly created over 47,000 apps for the BlackBerry World app market. That amounts to almost one-third of BlackBerry World's total app count. The app store race is not even close, but this revelation illustrates another stumbling block in BlackBerry's attempt at platform and app store relevancy - the huge discrepancy between quantity and quality of apps in BlackBerry World
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BerryReview points an interesting datapoint about the BB App Store... Nearly one third of all apps come from one developer !
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August 20, 2013 9:47 AM
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Samsung plans to announce a new smartwatch on September 4. Our sources confirm the launch date (in Berlin and New York) and offer up a closer look at the hardware and software in the new gizmo.
The rectangular screen is 1.1 inches measured diagonally. It has a dual-core processor and should get "decent" battery life.There's a camera integrated into the watch strap.There are speakers built into the watch's clasp. The built in accelerometer should make it so the phone wakes up as you lift your wrist to look at it. There will be touch gestures like swiping up and down, but it probably won't support text. There will be sensors to do some fitness tracking. Samsung is likely to push developers making apps for it to only release their apps through Samsung's Android app store, not Google's Google Play store.It will have Bluetooth 4.0 and connect with a Samsung phone through a watch app.It's going to be announced at the start of September.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Enough for you to want one?
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August 18, 2013 1:54 PM
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Last Wednesday, 20 excited teens gathered on the 28th floor of the Bloomberg Tower in Manhattan. They were graduating from a six-week summer program that turned them into programmers.
It was demo night, where they would show off an impressive collection of early stage projects, from action games to online cookbooks.
These were the graduates of the first-ever New York summer internship CodeNow program, where underprivileged students learn multiple programming languages with help from influential tech leaders in their communities.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Smart kids, smart program. Remember that code wins argument...
Will arrive in SF with AF84. Any (business) friends willing to meet late afternoon for a #BYOB ?