pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. If you hear groveling at any point today, it’s likely remnants of Pandora execs speaking in front of Congress yesterday, where the company begged for legislation to lower music licensing fees for Internet radio. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 21, 2014

He’s decided that the North Korea hack on Sony Pictures was not an act of war but is now trying to decide if it’s terrorism so he can put North Korea on the terrorism sponsors list to join Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria. Let’s start with the cable industry’s darkest fears if the Internet becomes a utility.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

There’s a lot of discussion these days about what the next breakout computing platform will be: wearables, the Internet of Things, Bitcoin, VR/AR, or something else that we haven’t heard about yet? I think VR/AR is a strong candidate, since it feels like a logical extension of our current computing platforms.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 29, 2015

The story of the Dr. “Lion Slayer” Palmer is all over the internet and people are outraged, for good reason. Well done Internet… you have already surpassed the attention span of a #hashtag with this one. The Internet is a marvelous creation that engages and connects people throughout the world.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As the Internet of Things and wearable tech take us closer to a perpetually connected world, visual storytelling will be all around us. Audiences who grew up with the Internet don’t only crave interactive experiences–rather than passive spectatorship–they also want to connect with other people, whether real or fictitious.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Someone would put a radio next to it in Bloomington and we were like, "This internet thing has got to have a better way." I mean you hope you don't have to deal with it, but I mean if you live in Syria. So we started out what turned out to be one of the first, if not the first, audio streaming companies called AudioNet.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 28, 2011

” The real news—the information I needed, cared about, and found relevant—as it turned out, was on the internet. The internet was pretty much the only way to find out whether you had to be evacuated. I kept thinking, “Where is the actual news?” Is that journalism?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

But something more nuanced is at hand that is worth debating – is the future of the Internet & global communications more open or more closed? Brands who build pages there are not building equity in the open Internet, they’re building it in today’s walled garden. As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran.

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