by Minter Dial | Sep 18, 2015 | New Tech
BlaBlaCar , which is a service that connects drivers and people prepared to pay to share the ride, has just received a $200 million VC injection which puts them at a $1.6B valuation (via VentureBeat). As such, it has become the top French start-up success story and is...
by Minter Dial | Sep 8, 2015 | New Tech
My friend, Adrian Swinscoe, wrote a fine post, “The Warmth of Analogue,” about how and why vinyl records are making a return. The Guardian article, Vinyl’s Difficult Comeback, describes the 40-50% growth rates in vinyl sales in the US (9.2 million...
by Minter Dial | Jul 30, 2015 | New Tech
As much as one might wish or hope that buying a set of anti-spam and anti-virus packages will protect your identity online, any serious attempt to secure your online privacy and safety needs a lot more effort and resources. I used to believe, for example, that Apple...
by Minter Dial | Jul 23, 2015 | Cyber Security, New Tech
Ever wondered how to secure your privacy online? You are not alone. However, it’s clear that the vast majority of people are using digital tools and devices without really knowing the real consequences. It’s a very confusing world and consumers are...
by Minter Dial | Jul 14, 2015 | New Tech
In a speech delivered on the occasion of Yahoo’s 20th anniversary, Frédéric Martel, journalist (NPR, France Culture) and author (Smart, Survey of the internets Stock editions, April 2014), said a sentence that piqued my interest: Every time I return from my...
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