Author: Michael Sitver

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Amazon’s New Fire Phone: What You Need To Know

Today, Amazon released their new phone, the Fire Phone. Here’s a quick rundown of exactly what you need to know. Note: If you’re interested in the strategy behind this, read this month’s book club book, “The Everything Store“, and check back next week, for our interview with author, and Amazon expert Brad Stone! Is it good-looking? The Fire Phone is gorgeous. With circular polarity,...

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Meet The Google Lab That Is Changing Mobile

Right now, we live in two worlds. We have our digital world, with photos, messages, and news, and our physical world, with things like food, cars, and exercise equipment, and washing machines. The past decade has been about expanding our digital world, and making it more capable. The next decade will be about combining our digital and physical worlds. We’ve seen this shift in...

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Uber, And 5 Other Overvalued Companies

At Recode’s Code Conference a few weeks ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick hinted at a new funding round that would be “record-breaking”. Raising  $1.2 billion at an $18 billion valuation, Uber delivered on that promise with its latest funding round. As of December though, Uber was only pulling in around $20 million per week, of which it kept 20%. Their investors are counting on high growth,...

2014 KPCB Internet Trends Report

WATCH: How Technology Will Change in 2014/2015

Every year, KPCB’s Mary Meeker puts on a presentation on the year’s internet trends. These reports are incredibly detailed, and show general trends like usage, as well as specific trends (like disappearing photos ala Snapchat).  The 2014 report was just recently released, and Meeker presented it at the 2014 code conference. Enjoy the video, and if you’d like, thumb through the presentation slides, which...

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OSX Yosemite: First Look and Impressions

Yesterday Apple unveiled OSX Yosemite, and it made some goods, some bad, and some ugly changes you should know about. It won’t be available to the general public until the fall, and it’s in beta, so changes will be made, but you probably still want to hear my first impressions after day one. Design choices OSX 10.10 got a design overhaul by Jony Ive, Apple’s...