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parislemon:

John Cassidy for The New Yorker:

During the past year alone, as Cook pointed out today, its revenues have risen by forty-eight billion dollars—more than those of Google, Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Nokia combined.

You might think that would be enough to satisfy the velociraptors on Wall Street, but you would be wrong.

The entire piece is worth the read.

Tim Cook and Apple Versus Wall Street

parislemon:

Frank Cifaldi for Gamasutra:

We’re told by someone with access to the NPD’s data that sales for January were “well under” 100,000 units. By our estimates, sales were somewhere between 45,000 and 59,000 units for the month, which is lower than any of the three previous-generation home consoles sold in their worst months, with the possible exception of a recent performance by the original Wii.

Ouch. And that’s with an extra “leap” week in January to bolster sales. This is continuing to look like a total disaster for Nintendo.

Nintendo seems to be in deep trouble.

January sales show continued rough tides for the Wii U

sweetsoles:

Fans and fannettes, I present to you a new page on my awesome blog:

Shops! – A handy overview of online sneaker shops.

Now questions like “Where can I buy brand X in country Y?” no longer need to be asked. Of course, if you’re looking for a very specific model, you can still ask me and I’ll…

For all of you who lover Sneakers check out this online store overview. Biz opportunity for Middle East, a Sneaker online shop? I would definitely be among the first shoppers. 

Sweetsoles: Sneaker shopping for dummies

How awesome is this. I should have studied electrical engineering to understand more of the fundamentals. Definitely interesting to see that the Hackerspace / Open Source Community is approaching the mobile infrastructure domain and making it possible for amateurs and hobbyists to built your own litte radio network.

Kickstarter campaign for a Software defined radio

Awesome producer & DJ from Down Uunder

Jaytechmusic on SoundCloud

emigal:

If you look at the fastest growing companies in the world, especially in the technology sector, you can notice one common theme: they’re all riding a trend. Zuck realised that people will want to stay connected with their friends by spending the least amount of time possible, Andrew Mason spotted…

Sequoia Capital’s founder: We don’t choose people, we choose markets

Lean back and enjoy some great Ted Talks.

The Best Ted Talks of All Time

If you need some meeting rules, have a look into that one.

Urban Airship Meeting Rules – Feld Thoughts