Tweet Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, saw its latest creation, the Model S – and himself – criticized by traditional media. Now, Tesla just scored its first profitable quarter and Consumer Reports put the Model S at the top of its rankings, making it possible for Musk’s company to become more than a niche player. Palo [...]
Tweet Getting rid of Samsung as a processor supplier and, at the same time, capturing the crown jewel of the American semiconductor industry. How could Apple resist the temptation to solve its cash problem and make history again? Halfway through the second quarter of the 2013 fiscal year, most of Apple’s top execs meet at [...]
Tweet Apple does the right thing when striving to keep its App Store free from promotional trickery – but fails to shed light on the process and, as a result, damages its reputation. Earlier this month, the Apple App Store removed the popular AppGratis application from its shelves. Then, last week, the App Store censors [...]
Tweet The small Baltic republic of Estonia is run like a corporation. But its president believes government must to play a crucial role in areas of digital policy such as secure ID. Toomas Hendrik Ilves must feel one-of-a-kind when he attends international summits. His personal trajectory has nothing in common with the backgrounds of other [...]
March 24, 2013 – 10:38 pm
Tweet Critics spew well-meaning generalities when criticizing Marissa Mayer’s first moves at Yahoo! They fail to see the urgency of the company’s turnaround situation, the need to refocus the workforce and spruce up the management. Last July, Yahoo! elected a new CEO, their seventh or eight, I’ve lost count. Marissa Mayer is an ex-Google exec [...]
Tweet Autonomous vehicles — fully or partially — will rely on a large variety of data types. And guess who is best positioned to take advantage of this enormous new business? Yep, Google is. The Google driveless car is an extraordinary technical achievement. To grasp the its scope, watch this video featuring a near-blind man [...]
January 6, 2013 – 11:46 pm
Tweet Irish newspapers created quite a stir when they demanded a fee for incoming links to their content. Actually, this is a mere prelude to a much more crucial debate on copyrights, robotic scraping and subsequent synthetic content re-creation from scraps. The controversy erupted on December 30th, when an attorney from the Irish law firm [...]
December 9, 2012 – 10:13 pm
Tweet If we factor Google geospatial applications + its unique data processing infrastructure + Android tracking, etc., we’re seeing the potential for absolute power over the economy. Large utility companies worry about Google. Why? Unlike those who mock Google for being a “one-trick pony”, with 99% of its revenue coming from Adwords, they connect the [...]
December 2, 2012 – 8:33 pm
Tweet The Nordic media giant wants to be the #1 worldwide of online classifieds by replicating its high-margin business one market after another, with great discipline. It all starts in 2005 with a Power Point presentation in Paris. At the time, Schibsted ASA, the Norwegian media group, is busy deploying its free newspapers in Switzerland, [...]
November 11, 2012 – 6:46 pm
Tweet Legacy media suffer from a deadly DNA mutation: they’ve lost their appetite for competition; they no longer have the will to fight the hordes of new, hungry mutants emerging from the digital world. For this week’s column, my initial idea was to write about Obama’s high tech campaign. As in 2008, his digital team [...]
