Daily Archives: January 1, 2013

Intel Is Reportedly Going To Destroy The Cable Model By Offering People The Ability To Subscribe To Individual Channels (INTC)

January 1, 2013
Intel Is Reportedly Going To Destroy The Cable Model By Offering People The Ability To Subscribe To Individual Channels (INTC)

Dan Frommer, Business Insider Intel has been looking at TV for a while. See Also Now Intel Is Trying To Beat Apple To A TV Intel Is Apparently The Latest Tech Company To Think It Can Replace Cable TV The History Of iTV Failures Leading Up To Steve Jobs’ Final ‘One More Thing…’ Intel...

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Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Just Did The Hardest And Smartest Thing Any Investor Can Do

January 1, 2013
Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Just Did The Hardest And Smartest Thing Any Investor Can Do

Seedcamp Photos See Also FRED WILSON: 2012 Was A ‘Sh***y Year For Me’ Fred Wilson Is Not Happy With Underperforming Startups In His Portfolio Fred Wilson Hasn’t Led A Single Startup Investment All Year Venture capitalist Fred Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, has helped his firm post some of the best returns in the...

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Apple Is Already Testing The iPhone 6 (AAPL)

January 1, 2013
Apple Is Already Testing The iPhone 6 (AAPL)

Apple See Also JEFFERIES: The iPhone 5S Is Coming Next June In 6-8 Colors THE TRUTH ABOUT APPLE: The iPhone Was A Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity POP QUIZ: Did Apple’s Stock Do Better In 2012 Or 2011? Apple is already testing the next iPhone, according to developer logs shown to Matt Brian of The Next Web....

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Windows gains market share after six months of decline: Windows 8 grabs 1.64%, Windows 7 passes 45%

January 1, 2013
Windows gains market share after six months of decline: Windows 8 grabs 1.64%, Windows 7 passes 45%

Last month, we reported how Windows XP had finally fallen below 40 percent market share. At the time, Windows 8 managed to grab 1 percent of the pie, and in December Microsoft’s newest OS progressed but did not double up. Nevertheless, Windows ended 2012 with a notable change: after six months of losing market...

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Sina Weibo users ring in the New Year with record 729,571 messages per minute

January 1, 2013

Sina Weibo is off to a strong start in 2013 after users of the microblogging service rang in the New Year with a new record of 729,571 messages per minute, surpassing the previous record set during the 2012 Chinese New Year by 52 percent. The company fittingly noted the record from one of its...

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Japan and Korea lead New Year celebrations on Twitter with 33,388 tweets per second

January 1, 2013
Japan and Korea lead New Year celebrations on Twitter with 33,388 tweets per second

There’s more evidence of Twitter’s popularity in Asia after Japan and Korea notched the highest volume of New Year’s Eve tweets, according to the US company. Tweets per second topped 33,388 when midnight struck in Tokyo and Seoul, that was higher than any other time during the celebrations. The second highest peak came when...

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Keen On… 2013: Why Old Platforms Will Persist This Year [TCTV]

January 1, 2013
Keen On… 2013: Why Old Platforms Will Persist This Year [TCTV]

One of technology’s most persistently prescient crystal ball gazers is Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, a guy who – from Summize to Tweetdeck to bitly to Digg to his latest baby tapestry - always thinks ahead of the crowd. So, as a follow-up to Borthwick’s review of 2012, I sat down with the Betaworks CEO in his New York City office...

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Obama Promised Public Policy Negotiations. Secrecy Has Failed. So, Why Not Try YouTube

January 1, 2013

One universal silver lining to any abject failure is that it presents the opportunity to test out radically different ideas. President Obama has largely ignored his campaign promise to hold policy negotiations in public. But after yesterday’s epic budget compromise fail, it seems like a reasonable time to revisit that campaign promise and livestream...

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New Year, New Tech, Same Old Problems

January 1, 2013

There’s been a ton of innovation happening over the last several years. Yet, there are several places that haven’t been touched much by technology, or at least places where technology hasn’t gone far enough. Here are a few markets where I’d personally like to see innovators continue to push the limits. Getting Around The...

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How Indian entrepreneurs can succeed by looking East before West

January 1, 2013
How Indian entrepreneurs can succeed by looking East before West

In 2007, I’d just wrapped up a stint at Harvard Business School, and I was restless to do something on my own. After a few months with a Silicon Valley-based VC firm, I decided to start my own company in the mobile technology market. After testing the waters, my co-founders and I pivoted around...

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