Post Tagged with: "Technology"

News Links: Ron Paul Only GOP Hopeful with Positive Twitter Following

News links for 10 December 2011 on US politics, fracking, venture capital and technology

Published by on 10 December 2011 11:30

Nonlinear Thinking: Drone Valet Parking Attendents

If this doesn’t convince you we’re on the elbow of the technology exponential curve, nothing will. Stay tuned, it’s going to be interesting next 20 years!

Published by on 9 December 2011 15:30

News Links: Ten days of secret planning to rescue markets

News links for 3 December

Published by on 3 December 2011 13:15

News Links: Draghi – If fiscal policy becomes hawkish, monetary policy will be dovish

News links from 2 December 2011 include links on the European sovereign debt crisis, the UK economy, the latest on mortgages and technology as well as other stories.

Published by on 2 December 2011 09:31

Video: Walt Mossberg Reviews iTunes Match

Apple has introduced a ‘music locker’ service which does away with the need to upload most of your music. I have tried it out in addition to Amazon and Google’s competing services and I like it, especially the part about not having to upload my collection. Google’s uploader is particularly annoying and CPU intensive, so

Published by on 1 December 2011 16:40

Steve Jobs circa 1985 at NeXT startup

Here’s Steve Jobs from the start-up phase at NeXT after he had been forced out of Apple in 1985. In this video, he is very much the passionate visionary we knew him to be in his second stint at apple, and with less bluster and more of a collaborative flair

Published by on 26 November 2011 14:39

News Links: BofA Clash With Fannie Mae Escalates Over Loan Buyback Stance

BofA Clash With Fannie Mae Escalates Over Loan Buyback Stance – Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. (BAC) told Fannie Mae it refuses to cooperate with the U.S. mortgage firm’s new stance on loan buybacks, setting the lender up for a potential surge in claims and penalties. EU’s Barnier: Tougher rules must precede euro bonds |

Published by on 21 November 2011 09:30

News Links: “Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded”

Sean Parker: "Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded" | TechCrunch It’s gotten so bad that, says Parker, "Now institutionally-backed venture funds are backing other venture funds in order to stay close to the dealflow." (Hmm, sounds familiar). "And it will end very badly," pipes in VC Jim Breyer, who is also onstage with Parker. Chinese TV

Published by on 16 November 2011 09:31

Walt Mossberg reviews the Kindle Fire

Walt Mossberg takes a look at Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet. How does it stack up against the iPad and the new Nook Color

Published by on 15 November 2011 21:15

Class Warfare and Revolution (Circa 1850)

By Rick Bookstaber In a recent post I discuss six policies that spurred the Industrial Revolution in England – opening up immigration, weakening the guilds, investing in infrastructure, privatizing agricultural land, forcing a move to new energy sources, and policies for bringing capital to the new, capital-intensive technologies – and suggest that these policies have

Published by on 10 November 2011 23:00

Nonlinear Thinking: Robot Run Warehouses

Here’s an interesting video clip that reinforces our view that almost all new innovation and technology is labor saving/destroying and that U.S. unemployment is much more structural than most perceive (click here to view video). Even the military, with the advent of drones and robots, is moving to a smaller “boots on the ground” force

Published by on 10 November 2011 15:30

Facebook Ads

Here’s a spoof video of how Facebook is monetising its site. Genius

Published by on 7 November 2011 22:23
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