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Barcelona is an iconic city, known for its lively culture and creativity. However, in the last 20 years, the city has also become one of the world’s most attractive startup ecosystems. Barcelona is frequently ranked amongEurope’s top five startup hubsand successful companies such as Travelperk, Typeform, and Glovo were founded in the city. But what explainsBarcelona’s popularity among entrepreneursand what is it like to be a founder there? TNW traveled to Barcelona to interview a host of international and local founders to hear what they had to say about the ecosystem’s strengths and weaknesses....

What’s multi-cloud? And why should developers care? Data sharing has been tough It’s just been too difficult for developers to build and deploy across clouds. Data sharing has been almost impossible, which is why most developers haven’t jumped at the opportunity. If they have chosen to do it, it hasn’t been easy. It’s meant: The barriers between clouds have always been high. Devs have had to rewrite the majority of their application code for a second cloud, and even then they still had siloed data sets....

The latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system ishere at last. So, once you’ve upgraded, what’s new? Apple has lined up over 250 new features for its latest release. Although most of them are pretty minor, here we highlight the major changes and some of the best smaller ones you should be looking out for too. Headline new features Full-screen apps:Something newcomers to OS X sometimes take a while to adjust to has always been the lack of a full screen mode for apps....

At the beginning of the month I was asked to speak at a panel that discussed Social media, Social Networks and “What’s Coming Up Next”. In research for this discussion, I came up with a few insights on what I foresee coming up next in the world of social media. Here are my top 10 insights: The physical and digital worlds will be more highly connected than ever before – already today we are able to run in the park and track our progress online while sharing it with our friends or track our weight loss, or even our ovulation (well, some of us, that is) with iPhone apps that connect to our Facebook and twitter profiles and enable us to keep track of our progress as well as share the data with our friends....

As we focus on the future of web design (and design in general, for that matter) this week at TNW, it’s worth getting into the subject of how design is going to react when it comes to matters of form factors. We’re consuming more than ever on mobile devices and many sites around the Internet are catering to that fact with fast-loading, low-overhead designs. But is that enough? According to what I’ve found from a couple of designers during my research, not even close....