- OpenMind BBVA :Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age [PDF]
- Business Model Examples
- Commodore lives on as a C64 game-playing smartphone (Mashable)
- Google and other companies will offer free or low-cost Internet service to more than 275,000 low-income households through a program called ConnectHome (Bloomberg)
- Uber’s Manhattan Invasion Is Killing the Loan Market for Taxis Taxi companies typically borrow against the value of medallions — licenses to carry passengers — and then refinance the loans before they come due. Citigroup Inc. is trying to foreclose on 89 medallions, New York Community Bancorp Inc. put its taxi-loan portfolio up for sale, and credit unions with a combined $2.5 billion in medallion loans are suing the city for failing to stop Uber from stealing customers. Amid the turmoil, the value of a medallion has sunk to $770,000 from $1.1 million in 2013, according to data from the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission. (Bloomberg)
- Immerz’s $150 Kor-FX 4DFX gaming vest promises to provide tactile feedback, like the ability to feel onscreen gunfire and explosions, on your chest by transforming audio into vibrations. (Mashable)
- Google, Mozilla Disable Flash Over Security Concerns Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome browsers blocked old versions Adobe ‘s animation software — often used to play online videos — following news reports that hackers were using a security bug to take over peoples’ computers. (WSJ)
- New Horizons : Pluto Flyby After nine-and-a-half years, New Horizons probe made Pluto flyby with more than 45.000 km/h speed in Jun 14,within 12,500km of the body’s surface. (WSJ Graphic )
First high resolution image of Pluto causes concern: pic.twitter.com/ZVIT0BEFX6
— R Paul Wilson (@rpaulwilson) July 14, 2015
- Fantasy Sports Create Billion-Dollar Startups As appetites for daily fantasy sports grow among fans, FanDuel Inc., has raised $275 million in a round of venture funding with a post-money valuation of $1.275 billion, according to people familiar with the deal. (WSJ)
- Mario Creator Tops List of Contenders to Lead Nintendo (WSJ)
- According to a study (pdf) conducted at the school, computers loaded with Adblock Plus downloaded on average 25% less data than those without. Looking at video traffic alone, computers with Adblock Plus loaded as much as 40% less traffic. (QZ),
- Google wants to make your cell phone’s screen disappear, In a patent awarded to the company July 14, Google outlined a new process for creating smartphone displays that match the color of the phone itself. Every cellphone on the market today has a screen that looks black when the display is off, but Google’s new idea could match the display color to the body of the phone using an electronically-controlled “color changing layer” that sits between the glass on the phone and the phone’s display. (QZ)
10 percent of #Fortune500 companies are using @fitbit for corporate wellness programs http://t.co/1rkZZlifam #FortuneTech — Fortune Tech (@brainstormtech) July 14, 2015
China Mobile sold 110 million mobile devices in 1H15 + add 190 million 4G connections in just 18 months $CHL $AAPL pic.twitter.com/Y0HiHcdrHA — Craig Bujnowski (@craigbuj) July 15, 2015
interesting Apple Watch usage data $AAPL http://t.co/IXeClMtX4n pic.twitter.com/WglqfMYP8n — Craig Bujnowski (@craigbuj) July 14, 2015
iPhone 3Q15 estimates $AAPL http://t.co/qOVUZkuoyf pic.twitter.com/QKxFp4tuf5 — Craig Bujnowski (@craigbuj) July 14, 2015
Asia accounts for half of world’s unique #mobile connections and will grow faster than world over next 5 yrs http://t.co/RfGhHAdzBt #MWCS15 — Mobile World Live (@mobileworldlive) July 13, 2015
My email response to a journalist query on Apple Watch sales. pic.twitter.com/sKsrnRiqdR — Horace Dediu (@asymco) July 13, 2015
Combining age of adoption and duration of expansion. pic.twitter.com/lfBZDl4d8K — Horace Dediu (@asymco) July 8, 2015