2.5 Million Steve Jobs tweets sent out in just 12 hours following the tragic news

At 8:30 PM EST, 249,000 tweets were sent out mentioning Apple Founder, Steve Jobs following thenews of his passing. By 8:30 AM this morning, that number had jumped to an astounding 2.5 million. The results were recorded by Marketwire company,Sysomosthroughout the night, detailing just how much the revolutionary tech leader affected the social networking world at large. Just an hour in and by 9:30PM last night, almost every social medium online was abuzz with the terrible news, with 1,905 blog posts, 3,836 online news articles, 1,483 forum posts, and over 570,414 tweets....

2 min · 381 words · Jose Lewis

20 hot European startups pitch at Seedcamp London

Today in London, incubator programmeSeedcampheld one of its day-long events that fuse a pitching competition with startup mentoring from experts. We were there to catch the morning’s twenty pitches. There were some real gems throughout the morning. Here are details of all the European startups, followed by our thoughts on who excited us the most. Ad AvengersLondon, UK Ad Avengers is a startup that believes that online advertising stands at only 13% of the overall ad market because it’s currently too complicated, inefficient and fragmented....

11 min · 2251 words · Laura Reynolds

20 Slick YouTube tips and tricks you need to know

With over 3 billion YouTube videos watched every single day and 48 hours of footage uploaded every single minute to the world’s most popular video sharing website we wanted to produce a useful guide for getting the most out of the service. You’ll struggle to find somebody who uses the web and doesn’t watch YouTube videos on a daily basis but there is so much more to YouTube than just little funny videos of cats....

7 min · 1470 words · Bobby Mckenzie

20 years after the first Apple Store, get ready for the Google Store

It was just yesterday, May 19 of 2021, that Apple celebrated the 20th anniversary of the very first Apple Store. In what is surely a complete coincidence, Google todayannouncedit will open its very first Google Store this summer — and where else than New York City. 20 years ago today, we opened our first Apple retail stores. Each time I visit one of our stores around the world, I feel the special energy of our teams, the creativity of our customers and how our products empower them to change the world....

3 min · 539 words · Joshua Campbell

20 years ago today, the first GSM phone call was made

Twenty years ago today, Finnish Prime Minister,Harri Holkeri, made the world’s firstGSMcall. The landmark moment, on the 1st of July 1991, heralded the start of the modern mobile communications era, and the second generation (2G) networks helped kickstart the mobile phone revolution, before 3G gained momentum at the turn of the century. In the first GSM phonecall, placed using Nokia equipment, Holkeri talks to Kaarina Suonio, the vice mayor of Tampere, a city in Finland....

2 min · 227 words · Anne Ortiz MD
simple hit counter