- Ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has 4% stake in Twitter (FastCompany)
- French Studio created a mobile game only in binaural sound without graphics (FastCompany) (Ulule)
- Stanford University’s endowment fund and Willett Advisors LLC, the fund managing Michael Bloomberg’s investments, now invest a combined $100,000 in every startup to go through YC (WSJ)
- Alibaba bets big on video with $4.2B proposed acquisition of Youku (Tech in Asia)
- System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms human teams (Phys)
When and where people pay the most attention to video ads varies: http://t.co/EsIZEOL58Q pic.twitter.com/0KpCtEzXMw
— Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) October 15, 2015
Norwegian startup @zwipe banks $5M to get its biometric payment cards to market in early 2016 http://t.co/Br2i2gB9eb pic.twitter.com/wcRZOTZQnc
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 15, 2015
DARPA wants to build cargo delivery vehicles that self destruct when the job’s done http://t.co/mHmKozbwV3 via @DigitalTrends
— Ozan Saglam (@ozantechnews) October 14, 2015
Playing well with others, like in preschool, is what will keep you in a job going forward.
http://t.co/ZYjhmZWeuN pic.twitter.com/cgbgc4B6h5
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) October 16, 2015
“Driving a petrol car is like time travel back to the 1980s.” On Norway & electric cars.
http://t.co/lKnWKDH613 pic.twitter.com/diZOhb7Bs3
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) October 16, 2015