Pat Vaillancourt (Canada) is about to break a special nerdy world record: a 100.000 urls tatto on his skin. Of course, if you want your url there it’ll cost you $35. Yes, you’re right, that’s a $3,5 million final tatto! Not bad. But Pat is not the only url tatto lover. Before him was Mrs [...]
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Do European Entrepreneurs Really Fear Success?
An interesting meme started theses days saying Entrepreneurs from Europe don’t meet success because they fear it. That’s a quite interesting concept. Of course, you can imagine the authors of this meme are 100% Americans. This explains that. It’s like saying Europeans don’t want to succeed. Meaning under the hood that success an American DNA [...]
Black Friday: Shopping For Idiots?
In this video, you’ll see two guys making fun of poor employees asking them for nonsense products for black friday.
Are Chinese Companies Rich?
This is to remind you most of people need to change their mindset when it comes to consider chinese business. It’s far from being monkey business. Check this pics from Harbin Pharmaceuticals HQ. Inspired by Versailles. Nothing more, nothing less! :) Source
Will Apple Siri Kill Google Search?
Who pays for Siri? First of all, as you can understand it from the above picture showing Siri out of network capacity, running Siri is a cost to Apple. Means someone has to pay for the servers farms and R&D at the end of the day, and it’s not Apple, of course. That someone is [...]
is iTunes a Digital Vampire?
Pete Townshend from “The Who” band is rising from the dead to talk about Apple’s iTunes. Pete is basically upset by iTunes, the way it works today and keep artists on the dark side. He compares it to a digital vampire. Pete wants a more open thing with such following feats: – Employing talent scouts [...]
Is Netflix a Walking Dead?
Netflix lost 800.000 subscribers despite a record $822 million Q3. They also lost half of the share value since last July. And they will keep both DVD and Streaming businesses under the same hood. That was the controversy. Netflix is now going international, starting with UK & Ireland in early 2012. They want to price [...]
Want a Job at Google? Better Buy a Lottery Ticket!
US corporates are famous for their sinuous recruitment processes. Google is no exception. Up to nine interviews, several (if not many) selection stages and unexpected math based questions will make landing a job there something as unreal as winning the lottery. That said, Google is expected to bring in about 6.000 new people in 2011 [...]
Yahoo Goes To China?
We know it, Yahoo! is desperately seeking economic salvation and an overall purpose in life. The company is so lost that an existing partner, Chinese mammoth Alibaba, said he could be interested in buying the whole house. If there’s no financial barrier to such a venture, it could be hard to finalize on the political [...]