25 5 / 2013
McKinsey: The $33 Trillion Technology Payoff
From Bits Blog NYT:
A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the consulting firm, delivers a twist on the art form, and the difference is more than the timing. The 154-page report not only selects a dozen “disruptive” technologies from a candidate list of 100, but also measures their economic impact. By 2025, the 12 technologies — led by the mobile Internet, the automation of knowledge work, and the Internet of Things — have the potential to deliver economic value of up to $33 trillion a year worldwide, according to the McKinsey researchers. […]
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24 5 / 2013
Google Plans to Fund, Develop Wireless Networks in Emerging Markets
Google Inc. is working to connect a billion or more new people to the Internet.
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24 5 / 2013
Android’s Market Share Is Literally A Joke
This is the first of two articles looking at how we measure – and mis-measure – who is “winning” in the mobile sector. Article one focuses on market share and was inspired by an article written by Bill Shamblin, entitled: “Chasing Smartphone Market Share Is A Chump’s Game.
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24 5 / 2013
Listened to On Top of the World by Imagine Dragons from the album: Night Visions
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24 5 / 2013
Listened to Lover’s Game by Geographer from the album: Myth
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24 5 / 2013
Listened to Ghost by Sir Sly from the album: Ghost
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24 5 / 2013
Listened to Don’t Save Me by Haim from the album: Don’t Save Me
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24 5 / 2013
Listened to Cloud Body by Main Attrakionz from the album: Bossalinis & Fooliyones
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24 5 / 2013
Listened to Go With It by TOKiMONSTA from the album: Go With It
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24 5 / 2013
Listened to Get Lucky (Radio Edit) [feat. Pharrell Williams] by Daft Punk from the album: Get Lucky
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24 5 / 2013
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning. Here’s the overnight news:
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Google is considering outbidding Facebook for $1 billion social navigation app, Waze.
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Ride-sharing company Lyft has raised $60 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. It’s giving people 30,000 rides per week.
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Pandora’s first quarter earnings were reported yesterday. It beat Wall Street expectations and revenue grew to $128.5 million.
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Yahoo acquired another startup yesterday, cross-gaming platform PlayerScale. PlayerScale has 150 million users.
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Tremor Video has filed to go public. It generated more than $105 million in 2012.
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Here’s who really created the origins of Tumblr, Tumblelogs.
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Khosla Ventures hires Ben Ling, who personally invested in startups such as Square and Palantir. He was also COO of Badoo.
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23 5 / 2013
Listened to Happy by Robert DeLong from the album: Just Movement
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23 5 / 2013
Listened to The Socialites - Joe Goddard Remix by Dirty Projectors from the album: The Socialites (Joe Goddard Remix)
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McKinsey: The $33 Trillion Technology Payoff
From Bits Blog NYT:
A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the consulting firm, delivers a twist on the art form, and the difference is more than the timing. The 154-page report not only selects a dozen “disruptive” technologies from a candidate list of 100, but also measures their economic impact. By 2025, the 12 technologies — led by the mobile Internet, the automation of knowledge work, and the Internet of Things — have the potential to deliver economic value of up to $33 trillion a year worldwide, according to the McKinsey researchers. […]
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