TNW recently met with three companies from Microsoft’s Azure-focused accelerator in Israel in San Francisco. For an inside look at the program, we went there last year and took pictures. Innovation is not partial to Silicon Valley, and Israel is a rising star in the technology world. Before we get to the companies themselves, a few …
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YouTube reveals users now upload more than 100 hours of video per minute, as the site turns eight
These days there are few things bigger than Facebook on the Internet, but Google-owned YouTube is one of them, and today the world’s top online video service marked its eight year anniversary by revealing that it is now seeing more than 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. That’s right, every minute. That’s quite astonishing. It …
What the future looks like inside the lab that brought us Siri, the mouse, and the Internet itself
Editor’s note: Robert Scoble, Startup Liaison Officer at Rackspace, is working on a book with Shel Israel about the how sensors, wearable computers, and other technologies will change our future, titled “Age of Context.” That got them invited to visit SRI International, Silicon Valley’s most important lab. This is where tons of companies and technologies …
Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK — Google is under fire in the UK for its tax practices in the country, and a new key witness (who spoke to The Sunday Times) might put them in deeper hot water when he hands over a …
Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected (Kara Swisher/AllThingsD)
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected — The Yahoo board has approved a massive $1.1 billion deal to buy Tumblr. — Sources close to the board said the deal was a foregone conclusion and was an unanimous vote by the Silicon Valley Internet giant.
On Yahoo & Tumblr: "We have vision, delusion and hallucination and I want to know which one this is." (John Saroff/Saroff’s Place)
John Saroff / Saroff’s Place: On Yahoo & Tumblr: “We have vision, delusion and hallucination and I want to know which one this is.” — “We have vision, delusion and hallucination and I want to know which one this is.” – quote anonymously attributed to Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro while an exec at Google.
Breaking: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr. http://wsj.com (Wall Street/@wsj)
Wall Street / @wsj: Breaking: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr. http://wsj.com
YouTube Turns Eight As Platform Surpasses More Than 100 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: YouTube Turns Eight As Platform Surpasses More Than 100 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute — YouTube turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are. Remember, the company launched back in 2005, the same year that Michael Jackson was …
Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem — If you write about Tumblr as a business, you are required to note that Tumblr has a lot of porn. — How much porn? You’ll have to make something up, because the only people who know how much porn the blogging …
Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 (David Pierce/The Verge)
David Pierce / The Verge: Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 — Android is coming to our TVs, but has Google already lost the battle for the living room? — It’s easy to miss the Google TV booth here at I/O 2013, hidden in the corner of the third floor. That may …