The Apple Vision Pro wasn’t mean to be a mainstream device, but if it succeeds in showing the massive potential, it will launch a new era of spatial computing
SXSW can be a waste of time if your’e not careful. In this post, Levi Shapiro provides a few tips to get the ROI from the 21st anniversary of SXSW and how to meet the Israeli startups there!
Music is everyone’s favorite example of digital disruption done wrong. After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 billion. Now the focus is on digital music GROWTH. 2014 will be the year in which internet radio leads the music industry’s growth.
Nearly 100,000 new developers created applications this year for the App Store, which rakes in 4x more revenue than Google Play. With the number of App Store applications now topping 1 million, application discovery platform Appsfire has released a fascinating end of year infographic about the App Store.
Serendip is a new social music discovery and streaming service that allows the people you follow on Twitter to curate your personal internet radio station. If your Twitter crowd is busy posting links to YouTube music videos and you feel comfortable sharing your secret love for WHAM! publicly then Serendip is worth a try.
Smule, the people that invented the Sonic lighter application for the iPhone, step it up a notch with Ocarina, the first networked music instrument for the iPhone. For only $0.99 cents, you will be able to enjoy two major features with the Ocarina app: 1) Play music on your phone by clicking on a set …
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Amid turbulence of acquisition by Microsoft, News Corp, Private Equity funds and now a ‘help’ offer from Google, Yahoo! is not resting on its laurels. Following almost a month of rumors, PaidContent confirms that Yahoo! has bought Israel-based FoxyTunes, for an undisclosed amount. This is part of a larger move that Yahoo is making around …
In a classic MacWorld speaker move, Steve Jobs (aka “his jobness”) announced Apple’s latest invention this week in San Francisco.As you probably heard, the new beauty is called Macbook Air, the world’s thinnest laptop, weighing only 3 pounds and packed with cool features. The web showed its love with over 39,000 blog posts and 12,000 …
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