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[Update] - Pascal called me in the evening and confirmed he would leave Apple by the end of the year. 
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SAP se renforce dans le "cloud" en rachetant Ariba pour 4,3 milliards de dollars. Via Philippe Gaillard
Philippe J DEWOST's comment,
May 24, 2012 2:09 AM
j'adore l'illustration, avec un ciel nuageux au dessus d'un bâtiment SAP ;-)
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"Say goodbye to your mouse and keyboard."
Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements. This isn’t a game system that roughly maps your hand movements. The Leap technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market — at any price point. Just about the size of a flash drive, the Leap can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter. This is like day one of the mouse. Except, no one needs an instruction manual for their hands.
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About $20 according to this analysis by Henry Blodget
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SAI chart of the day shows that Google's Chrome browser, which doesn't come pre-installed on any computer, has leapt past Internet Explorer, which is pre-installed in over 90% of all computers, to become the most popular web browser.
Firefox seems to be sliding too, while Safari, though still modest, is gaining share discreetly. The same chart limited to mobile browsing shall be interesting too !
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Follow an email on its journey to see what happens when you send a message. Along the way, discover our data centers with videos and photos.
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Ask Google to translate the text below from German to English, and listen to both results
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"Oh my God, we're in bed with the vampire squid!
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By its very nature, entrepreneurship involves a certain amount of throwing spaghetti against a wall.
Our “spaghetti” is called a minimal viable product, and we launch them because nobody really knows what’s going to stick. Eventually, with a little luck and learning, we’ll become better chefs, and our spaghetti will stay up more often than not. But while watching a recent demo day for one of the countless incubators that have sprung up in the last 18 months, I was struck by a horrifying revelation. The incubators weren’t “training chefs” at all. The entrepreneurs were the spaghetti.
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This is one of the most popular LinkedIn applications.
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Using a webcam and some scraps from the junk shelf at school, NYU graduate student Matt Richardson created a camera that spits out a written description of an image within a minute of you taking it.
For now this sci-fi concept relies on a rather mundane process, transmitting the image to a cheap worker on Amazon's Turk server, who puts the image to words. But some day Richardson imagines the device working without any human.
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How impressive was Apple's most recent quarter? These two charts should help.
Take a look at Apple's revenue growth compared to the four most important companies in the tech space. Its growth blows them all away. And Apple generates almost as much revenue as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook combined. Apple was at $39.2 billion, the other guys combined are at $40.4 billion. Below that we have Apple's profit growth. Apple's profits were up 94%. Google's were up 60%. Everyone else was down on a year on a year over year basis. And, Apple's profits of $11.6 billion are bigger than everyone else's profits combined, which came in at $8.33 billion.
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Over the last few years, European venture capitalists have seen their biggest sources of investment change dramatically -- and now governments provide more cash for the continent's startups than anyone else.
No, I’m not talking about which VCs have money to invest. I’m talking about where their money actually comes from. Because, remember, it’s rarely the case that a venture investor puts their own cash into the startup funding rounds you constantly hear about (even if it sometimes seems that way). No, it’s somebody else’s money — a “limited partner” who contributes to a fund with the promise from the venture capitalist that they’ll put it into companies that can provide a serious return. But here’s the thing. It’s not just somebody else’s money… It turns out that increasingly, it’s yours.
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La révolution numérique est derrière nous. Des milliards d’êtres humains sont aujourd’hui instruits et informés, équipés et connectés. Leur désir de créer, de communiquer et de partager n’a jamais rencontré autant de possibilités de passer à l’acte. Ces milliards d’individus composent une « multitude » puissante, mouvante et active, qui bouleverse l’ancien ordre économique et social et ouvre la voie au troisième âge du capitalisme.
La multitude est désormais la clef de la création de valeur dans l’économie. Qui sait susciter, capter et redistribuer la créativité de la multitude peut devenir un géant de l’économie numérique. Qui accepte et nourrit la multitude peut gouverner avec une efficacité jamais atteinte. A l’inverse, qui ne voit pas que l’essentiel de l’intelligence et de la puissance est en dehors de son organisation risque de se faire balayer par les champions de l’économie numérique : ceux qui, par des innovations radicales, font alliance avec la multitude. La multitude est devenue la clef du succès des organisations. Elle est la richesse des nations d’après la révolution numérique.
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UPDATE from SAI: "Note: This post has been edited from its original version, after we learned that the data we initially used was flawed. This chart has accurate data from comScore. Our initial chart showed time spent on Facebook had peaked. We can't determine that based on comScore's data because its previous data was unintentionally inflated due to existence of non-user requested URLs. Anyway, Facebook's engagement is definitely flat this year."
Time spent on Facebook on desktop computers in the U.S. has peaked and now it's falling according to data from comScore
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The EU-funded EARTH Project has received the 2012 "Future Internet Award" prize for developing unprecedented energy efficiency solutions for mobile broadband networks. Researchers from companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Telecom Italia and NTT DOCOMO, plus universities in Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and UK, have optimised the energy use of LTE base stations which account for the highest energy consumption in the mobile network. The initiative, which runs until June 2012, received EUR10 million of its nearly EUR15 million costs from the EU. Commercial products are expected from 2014.
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Silicon Valley isn't creating as many jobs as you might think. The Economist explains why.
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Avec l'entrée en Bourse de Facebook, et sa capitalisation supérieure à $100bn, une question est sur toutes les lèvres : « à quand un Facebook français ? ». La réponse est simple: ce n’est pas pour demain, voire même jamais si nous ne créons pas vite un écosystème favorable.
Belle analyse de Jean-David CHAMBOREDON, toujours aussi pertinent...
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Open-source staple VLC has reached over a billion downloads, the VideoLAN Organization announced Sunday.
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The VoiceLive Play is like a guitar stomp box, but for singers. It even supplies backup vocalists.
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It isn't the government's job to keep investors in business, writes Fred Destin, who says the European venture capital market may be set to contract even further.
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During the first quarter of 2012 HTC, RIM and Nokia all surprised investors with bad news. The effect is evident in the share price of these companies which, in the case of RIM and Nokia is around book value, and in the case of HTC, neared 12 month lows and a 70% drop from peak. The new market disruption is evidenced by the shift of fortunes to Apple and Samsung and away from every other device maker. Of the vendors tracked (public companies who report mobile phone divisional performance), Apple obtained 73% of operating profits, Samsung 26% and HTC 1%. Together, Apple and Samsung have locked up 99% of the profits.
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Apple serves as a window on how technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age and ill suited to today’s digital economy.
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Some context for Apple's performance...
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Comme le coucou qui sort de l’horloge toutes les heures, voici venir la nouvelle édition du Guide des Startups qui suit à peu près un rythme de publication de deux éditions par an. Seizième édition et six ans d’existence pour ce guide, mazette ! Quelle pérennité n’est-ce pas ?
Au départ, il faisait 32 pages. Consultez par curiosité l’édition de septembre 2006 avec ses 40 pages ! Cette nouvelle édition en gagne 30 par rapport à la 15ième pour en contenir 274. Une augmentation ininterrompue digne de celle de la dette de l’Etat. Mais ici, c’est pour aider les entrepreneurs à bien préparer et faire grandir leurs projets dans le numérique ! Vous bénéficiez là d’une accumulation régulière du savoir collectif autour de l’entrepreneuriat et du très beau développement de l’écosystème entrepreneurial en France. Heureusement, le Guide peut se lire aussi bien séquentiellement qu’en y piochant ce dont vous avez besoin au moment où vous en avez besoin. De plus, Margaux Pelen vous y propose un parcours simplifié en page 7 depuis la dernière édition. Et comme je le précise dans l’introduction, un entrepreneur n’a pas tout bon du premier coup : il tâtonne, il teste, il prend des risques. Il ne faut donc pas être affolé par la grande diversité des sujets à maitriser pour entreprendre. C’est plutôt une manière de découvrir la richesse de la mission de l’entrepreneur !
Larry's comment,
April 28, 2012 2:10 AM
http://www.oezratty.net/wordpress/2012/guide-startups-16/
et bravo à Olivier Ezratty ! |
