= $$$ ? The use of Micro-Bogging tools (particularly Twitter) has taken off over the past year. Twitter is now hosting over 7 million unique users every month, which is a more than 1000 percent increase from a year ago. This high level of user growth has been accompanied by a skyrocketing company valuation, which […]
What’s up in the air? It’s not planes! – How data predictions are impacting our lives
You have most probably been following quite closely the recent travel chaos in Europe. I certainly did, since I was one of those that went from “up in the air” to “up on a train”, experiencing a new notion of distance. It’s when traveling from Germany to Spain takes two days, rather than 2 hours. […]
Google and China, A Bad Fit?
In a previous post on this blog, Josep wrote about how China seems to be loosening its tight control over the accessibility of internet content in that country. However, with recent developments with Google in China, the direction of these changes may be in question. After a tough year, where Google internet services were down […]
The iPad, or how to unlock your Internet data from the mobile operator
If you were to design the best device possible to have the Internet in your hands, how would it look like? Now, we know how. Or at least, now we know how Apple has interpreted this challenge after more than a decade working on it. If you were to design the best business model to […]
