How French Presidential Candidates Can Learn To Spell ‘Entrepreneur’ This is a guest post by serial entrepreneur Nathalie Gaveau. As we get closer to the first round of Presidential elections in France on April 22nd and everyone is focusing on the French economy, it seems like a perfect time to talk about supporting and promoting entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in France. Yes, we invented the w

Why Jim Gaffigan Is Banking on Social to Sell His $5 Comedy Special Even if you don't know Jim Gaffigan by name, you'd probably recognize him. The standup comic and writer has had a number of successful Comedy Central specials, and played character roles in TV series like Royal Pains, Bored to Death and My Boys. His observational humor has garnered him a loyal fan base, but he's only recently cash

[brightcove video="1555362178001" /] Instagram photos can be beautiful, whimsical, emotion-inducing pearls of intensely filtered visual goodness. But all too often they stay trapped inside smartphone screens, unable to escape their digital confines and be shared hand-to-hand the old fashioned way. The startup Snapstagram wants to change that. To do so, however, the service needs to meet its fundra

What innovative apparel would you like to see in the future? Let us know in the comments below. Gadget-Fueling Getups When you go for a run, you're not just burning energy, you're creating it, too. And the production of kinetic energy is exactly what fuels the mp3 player that's embedded into designer Rafael Rozenkranz's high-tech jogging suit (see below). "The project was conceived because I jog a

Uh-Oh: Nokia Lowers Its Q1 Forecast On Pressures In Emerging Markets, Margins On Smartphones Not great news for Nokia this morning in its ongoing attempt to reverse declines in its sales and market share in the world of mobile phones that it once easily dominated. The company has announced it is lowering its outlook for the first and second quarters of this year, citing lower-than-expected sales i

Today’s Top Stories: Earthquake in Indonesia, Spotify Play Button Indonesia Hit by 8.7 Magnitude Earthquake An earthquake of magnitude 8.7 has been detected off the west coast of northern Sumatra, prompting a tsunami watch warning for Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka, among other countries. The epicenter of the quake was some 267 miles from Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia’s Aceh province, at a

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After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

It's called the Spotify Play Button and it was designed to give users a way to legally share music online. Spotify has been hard at work on perfecting the button -- or widget, as it were -- making it easy to use and embed across the web. Users can listen to music from the buttons within websites, without being redirected to a different URL away from content. The Spotify Play Button does require a

Spotify’s New Embeddable Play Button Lets Any Site Turn You On To Legal Tunes Spotify wants to make it easier for anyone to legally soundtrack their websites, oh, and get links to its own download page plastered all over the Internet. So today it launches the embeddable Spotify Play Button for news sites that when clicked starts playing a designated song, album, or playlist in your Spotify desktop

Tsunami Warning Issued After Major Earthquake Hits Indonesia: Follow on Social Media The epicenter of the quake was some 430 kilometers (267 miles) from Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia's Aceh province, at a depth of 33 kilometers (20.5 miles). According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, a tsunami watch was issued for Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Myanmar, Thailand, Ma

Media & Entertainment Nokia Launches Its First Windows-Based NFC Phone, the 610, With Orange Nokia has been weathering a series of glitches around the launch of its Lumia range of Windows Phone devices — the most recent of which saw the company issue credits to users affected by data connection issues on the new Lumia 900. It is pressing on with new devices, though, and we have confirmed with sour

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

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[読了時間: 2分] 「プレイヤーとクリエイターの境界線を無くす」ーー自分を表現するウェブメディアが成熟する中でゲームの世界でもそうしたCGMサービスを生み出したいと考えるワイドテック社は4月11日、ユーザーが手軽にゲームを開発し、ゲーム本体のみならず各種素材も共有できるサービス「KEROCKETS(ケロケッツ)」を公開した。 ゲームのプレイから制作まで全てウェブ上で使用でき、料金は無料。プログラミング言語などの知識がなくても上の画面のような本格的なゲーム作りが可能。「サウンド制作の知識がない」場合もユーザーが公開する素材を使用するなどコラボレーションで作品作りをすることができる。 ユーザー=クリエイターとの関係が新たな価値を生む ワイドテックは、NTTグループの大規模ネットワーク管理システムの開発・運用やモバイル分野での開発実績のある会社で、今回初めて消費者向けサービスを提供することとな

Brian Honigman is the digital marketing manager at Marc Ecko Enterprises. He is a part of Ecko's marketing and ecommerce team, ensuring a polished brand experience across all channels. Follow him on Twitter @Brian_Honigman. Between the rise in location-based social networks, like Foursquare, and the mobile market’s meteoric growth, a new marketing avenue has opened up. Location-based marketing is

If death and taxes are inevitable, why are companies so prepared for taxes, but not for death? “I lost both of my parents in college, and it didn’t initially spark…

兼ねてから私は社員に夢を見せてやれない経営陣は即刻去るべきであるという考えを持っています。社員に夢を見せるにはどうすればいいのでしょうか。 戦略という名の机上の空論 戦略は机上の空論であると私は思います。いくらデータを集めて来て、今後世の中はこうなるから自社はこういうポジションでこういうやり方でやって行く必要がある、と論理で取り繕ったとしても、結局のところ未来のことは何も分からないのですから、立てた戦略と数値目標に向かって、あとはやる気と根性ということになってしまうわけです。 しかし、だからといって数ヶ月先も分からないような経営環境にあるからといって戦略そのものを否定し、どうせ戦略なんか立ててもそれ通りにならないんだから目の前の仕事をやりきれ！という経営者は根本的なことを理解していないのだと思います。 私がまだ若かった頃(今でも十分若いですが)、当時働いていたベンチャーの社長は、とんでもな

Hot on the heels of Elon Musk’s visit to China earlier this month, the country welcomed another American tech billionaire. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Meli

Wavii Launches In Public Beta, Aiming To Be Your Big Data News Aggregator Of Choice After years, yes years, in various states of stealth mode, Seattle-based personalized news aggregation startup Wavii is finally launching to wide scale public consumption. Backed with a list of angel investors that reads like a who’s who of today’s tech industry — Ron Conway, Aydin Senkut, Mitch Kapor, Dave Morin,

Startups Silicon Valley, London, NYC: Startup Genome Data Reveals How The World’s Top Tech Hubs Stack Up Last year, we covered an ambitious collaborative R&D project called “Startup Genome,” created by three young entrepreneurs, Bjoern Herrmann, Max Marmer, and Ertan Dogrultan. The goal of the ongoing project was (and is) to take a comprehensive, data-driven dive into what makes tech startups succ

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

Media & Entertainment Nokia To Offer Software Fix, $100 Credit In Wake Of Lumia 900 Data Woes Microsoft and Nokia have a lot riding on the success of their flagship Lumia 900 Windows Phone, but the usual new gadget honeymoon period has been cut short for more than a few unsatisfied customers. Shortly after devices started going home with their new owners, reports of dead data connections began app

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

Yahoo Entertainment Properties Hit Hard In Big Layoff-Reorganization? One would guess that the big Yahoo layoff–reorganization includes a culling of some the company’s weaker properties — and yes, we’re hearing today that this includes Music and possibly Movies, popular sites that don’t monetize well. Word has been leaking out since last week, when Digital Music News wrote a well-sourced article t

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

Media & Entertainment Study: Hispanic Smartphone Owners Want Mobile Shopping Apps To Be Social Using a smartphone while shopping to find better deals or to look up product reviews is now pretty mainstream. There are some interesting differences between how Hispanics use their phones while shopping compared to the average U.S. consumer, though. While observing 15 Hispanic smartphone owners in Los A

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Yellow, an asset financier for solar energy and digital devices in Africa has raised $14 million series B funding in a round led by Convergence Partners with participation from the Energy Entrepreneur Fisker, the electric carmaker founded by the Danish auto designer Henrik Fisker, is gearing up to enter the Chinese market where competition is increasingly cut-throat, following in the footsteps of

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In Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt,” two children play in their “nursery,” a sort of home holodeck where they can conjure up any scene in which to play. Bradbury always had a wonderfully clunky sort of technobabble; in this case, as the father tells the mother, “it’s all dimensional superreactionary, supersensitive color film and mental tape film behind glass screens. It’s all odorophonics a