Un Niptech où l’on parle d’énergie et d’altitude, avec des hauts et des bas: pas dans l’émission bien sûr mais pour ces startups que nous suivons ensemble et pour qui la vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille.

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Podcast: Téléchargement

Liens

Energy

• Tesla Energy
• uBeam’s Ultrasound Wireless Charging Is Real, And About To Be Really Funded

• Solar Impulse RTW

Startups

• Secret is shutting down
• Grooveshark, the Free Music Service That Used to Scare the Big Labels, Gives Up
• Exclusive: Gaming startup OUYA needs to find a buyer quickly
• Lyft document reveals $130M rev in ’14; 2.2M active passengers in Dec ’14; predicts $796M rev in ’15
• Uber launches UberEATS curated restaurant meal delivery service in Chicago & NYC; promises <10-min delivery
• Tinder Sees Huge Jump In App Revenue Rankings, Courtesy Of Tinder Plus  

Big Cos

• Microsoft’s Project Oxford Gives Developers Access To Facial, Image And Speech-Recognition APIs
• Investing To Innovate With Pen
• We tried Microsoft HoloLens: This is going to be much bigger than Google Glass
• Sony Expects Profits to Surge This Fiscal Year
• Yahoo’s Other Challenge: Retaining Acquired Talent
• LinkedIn shares down 19% after weak outlook
• TAG Heuer will start selling a ‘$1,400 smartwatch’ in November. Link
• Twitter Q1 misses: $436M rev, up 74% YoY; ad rev $388M, up 72% YoY; mobile represented 89% of ad rev

Trends

• Apple Watch 38mm hardware costs 24% of MSRP; best margin of any Apple product analyzed by firm to date
• Star Wars BB8 robot was built by Sphero and you can get one this Christmas http://ibt.uk/A006Hf0

Inspiration

• #MEDITATION : RELAX with 3 minutes #meditation  http://marc.ucla.edu/mpeg/Body-Scan-Meditation.mp3
• #LIVRE :: Changer d’altitude (French) Paperback – 2014 by Bertrand Piccard  http://www.amazon.com/Changer-daltitude-Bertrand-Piccard/dp/2234077257

#QUOTES :: « Vouloir que le présent soit autre chose que ce qu’il est constitue l’une des grandes causes de frustration de notre existence. » #citation