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“Guess My Age, Instagram Edition”

Posted on 14. July 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Adrienne LaFrance at The Atlantic: There are plenty of adults who use the social photo-sharing platform, but deleting photos that aren’t well-liked enough is a distinct behavior among teens who use the site, according to researchers at Penn State … [Continue reading]

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“Too many people have peed in the pool”

Posted on 14. July 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Stephen Fry: But Stephen, these foul people are a minority! Indeed they are. But I would contend that just one turd in a reservoir is enough to persuade one not to drink from it. 99.9% of the water may be excrement free, but that doesn’t help. … [Continue reading]

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“Apple’s Plan to Own the Entire Music Industry”

Posted on 13. July 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Neil Cybart at Above Avalon: If Apple is successful in terms of gaining control of the music industry for the second time in 15 years, there are quite a few significant implications. Apple would be able to pivot from legacy technology (paid music … [Continue reading]

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“Chairman Elon’s Great Leap Forward”

Posted on 4. July 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Jean-Louis Gassée at Monday Note: Tesla enjoys a reputation out of proportion with its .15% share of the US market. And Chairman Musk now says production will jump from 50,000 units in 2015 to 500,000 in 2018. This projected 10x jump invites … [Continue reading]

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“We Finally Know Exactly How Popular ‘Minecraft’ Is”

Posted on 2. June 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Motherboard: To be precise, Microsoft, which acquired Minecraft’s developer Mojang in 2014 for $2.5 billion, today revealed that since launch in 2009 Minecraft has sold 106,859,714 copies. (...) Here’s an impressive number: Over 40 million … [Continue reading]

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“Designing the worst place to be poor”

Posted on 31. May 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Alex Steffen: Poor people being stranded in the places cheap gas built is the next great social crisis. (...) And one of the worst consequences of urban NIMBYism which limits/blocks new housing development is that it’s driving the urban poor … [Continue reading]

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Nuzzel is Creating “A New Kind Of Newsletter”

Posted on 27. May 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Nuzzel Blog - A New Kind Of Newsletter: One reason that email marketing is so powerful is that 95% of a celebrity’s Facebook fans and Twitter followers won’t see what they post on Facebook or Twitter. McKinsey reported in 2014 that email is … [Continue reading]

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Peter Thiel & Gawker

Posted on 26. May 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Ben Thompson in "Peter Thiel, Comic Book Hero": The most obvious second-order effect is that, as Felix Salmon writes, Thiel is providing a blueprint for the suppression of the press by the wealthy. But what concerns me — and what ought to concern … [Continue reading]

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“Apple, Microsoft and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash”

Posted on 24. May 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

GeekWire: Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. companies across all sectors of business, not including banks and other financial institutions — holding a combined $391 billion in cash as of the end of 2015, or more than 23 … [Continue reading]

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“No signs of a slowdown: European and Israeli tech startups raised a combined €2.6 billion in first two months of 2016”

Posted on 18. May 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Tech.eu: Location-wise, France continues to lead the continent in terms of investments, with 97 deals in just two months and a +593% increase compared to the same period a year ago. The UK (86), Germany (69), Sweden (60) and Israel (46) rounded … [Continue reading]

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Author: Marcel Weiss is a writer, consultant and fighter for pareto-optima. He is thinking and linking from Berlin, Germany.

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