People of New York

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Feds Seize Assets From Mt. Gox’s Dwolla Acount, Accuse It Of Violating Money Transfer Regulations

Bitcoin exchange service Mt. Gox is experiencing some issues with U.S. authorities. The Department of Homeland Security issued a seizure warrant to Dwolla for the money in Mt. Gox’s Dwolla account. Mt. Gox users can’t use Dwolla as a funding option anymore even though it was one of the most popular options. The Japanese startup failed to register in the U.S. as a money transmitting company — president and CEO Mark Karpeles now faces up to five years in prison.

Dwolla had no choice but to proceed with the request. IDG News obtained a copy of the warrant through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the investigation team of the Department of Homeland Security.

In order to accept funds in dollars, Mt. Gox opened a Wells Fargo business account for Mutum Sigillum LLC (Mt. Gox’s American subsidiary). The company … Lire la suite

Shazam de plus en plus présent dans les pubs américaines

J’en parlais il y a quelques temps, Shazam prend de plus en plus de place au sein des publicités à la télévision américaine. Il semble que le secteur automobile américain soit fan de l’application puisque Fiat et Dodge l’utilisent depuis peu dans leur pub.
Le principe est simple: durant le passage de la publicité à la télévision, un logo Shazam s’affiche. Il suffit alors de lancer l’application sur votre téléphone et vous pourrez obtenir du contenu supplémentaire ou participer à des concours.

Ainsi Dodge dans son opération de promotion de la Dart avec le film Fast And Furious 6 lance une campagne de pub. Si vous lancez Shazam en passant la vidéo ci-dessous. vous pourrez participer à un concours pour gagner…une Dart.

Très rapidement vous obtenez ceci.

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Hollywood sait utiliser Facebook

This is the end, la nouvelle comédie américaine potache qui sortira début juin aux Etats-Unis veut faire parler d’elle sur les réseaux sociaux. Le film est présent sur Twitter, Instagram, YouTube ou Tumblr et sort une vidéo afin d’augmenter son nombre de Likes sur Facebook: le Facebook Unlock Program.

Parmi les acteurs du film Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Jay Baruchel et Rihanna dans un grand rôle.

Si vous Likez, ils sont prêts à tout comme vous pourrez le voir dans la vidéo ci-dessous.

A 500,000 likes, Danny McBride qu’on ne présente plus “I’m Fuc*in in, You’re Fuc*in Out” fera une épilation en vidéo du dos de Seth Rogen. A 800,000 likes vous pourrez découvrir un portrait nu de James Franco. Que se passera t-il si ils atteignent le million de Likes!

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Photo montage aérien exceptionnel de New York

Vendredi à New York, le “International Center of Photography” va ouvrir sa “Triennial 2013“. Une exposition qui réunira 28 artistes internationaux qui exposeront leurs travaux. L’un des plus spectaculaire est le photographe japonais Sohei Nishino, qui a réalisé une photo aérienne composée de milliers de photos de la ville.

Le photographe a ainsi pris des photos aériennes de la ville sous différents angles dans le but de se constituer “une mémoire de New York“.Toutes les photos ont ensuite été assemblées à la main afin de réaliser cet énorme canevas de Manhattan, mesurant 1.70m de hauteur.

Quelques photos des détails de cette carte sont visibles ci-dessous.

Sohei Nishino a aussi fait une vue aérienne de Paris pour info.

Photos via Curbed

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From Idea To Development, A Few Hours In At The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon

The hacking has begun. As I write this, participants of the Disrupt NY Hackathon have been working for about six hours on what they are going to show us onstage tomorrow. We talked with a few of them to see how motivated they are.

Full of energy, most of them are still enthusiastic about the long and (mostly) sleepless night ahead of them. It takes dedication to build something awesome in fewer than 24 hours, but our fearless hackers seem up to the task.

Teams are now working hard to turn their ideas into a working demo. Everybody knows what he or she has to do for his or her team. In other words, the technical and hard part now begins. They will develop, iterate, make compromises and deliver.

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Dots: le jeu addictif

Parfois, un simple jeu comme Dots peut vous rendre totalement accro! 1 million de téléchargements en 1 semaine pour ce jeu tout simple de connexion de points au design très fluide créé par Betaworks.

Le jeu est simple, pur, fluide et totalement addictif. Déjà numéro 1 des applications gratuites dans 8 pays. Betaworks travaille déjà sur la version iPad. Une histoire à la Draw Something?????

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From The Hackathon, HangoutLater Helps Find A Good Central Location To… Hang Out Later

After 24 hours of hard work at the Disrupt NY Hackathon, Michael Kolodny, Jingen Lin and Ricardo Falletti demoed us HangoutLater, a nifty hack built on top of the Foursquare API. When you check in and a friend is close to you, it will ask you if you want to hang out later. Then, it will automatically find you a central location to meet.

Kolodny and Lin already knew each other before the event. They met Falletti at the Manhattan Center. As they already knew what they wanted to work on, they started developing right away.

Over the past 24 hours, the team has not slept a single minute to deliver this hack built in Python using the Django framework. They certainly needed Red Bull and coffee to keep going during the wee hours of the night. Yet, The team … Lire la suite

Coors Light: la bière la plus fraiche

Vous êtes tranquille au bord de la piscine en Floride. Vous allez au bar pour vous rafraîchir et bien sur vous demandez une bière Coors Light! Que se passe t-il alors??

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Le métro de New York dans les années 70-80 vu dans les films

Le métro de New York dans les années 70-80 vu dans les films, ressemblait à cela.

Il a bien changé!

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La drague à New York c’est sophistiqué

La drague à New York c’est sophistiqué!

Encore une belle performance de CDZA à New York

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Bravo Monsieur Thierry Henry

Bravo Monsieur Thierry Henry!

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Benchmark’s Bill Gurley: “Uber Is Growing Faster Than eBay Did”

Today at Disrupt NY 2013, Benchmark partner Bill Gurley shared an interesting fact about Uber. “Uber is growing faster than eBay did,” Gurley said. In 1997, Benchmark invested $ 6.7 million in eBay. It was worth more than $ 5 billion less than two years later. Benchmark is also an investor in Uber.

“Uber is probably the fastest growing company that we’ve ever had,” Gurley said. He insisted a lot on the quality of the product. If a company builds a good product, it will grow organically.

Benchmark took part in Uber’s Series A and Series B rounds of respectively $ 11 million and $ 37 million. Gurley seemed very satisfied with this investment and only had good things to say about the car company.

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JR envahit New York

Si il y a un français dont New York parle actuellement, c’est bien l’artiste JR. Il est partout! Sa nouvelle expo débute à Chelsea cette semaine, il  passe du temps en prison à Rikers Island afin d’humaniser les murs de l’enceinte et  ouvre les portes de son studio de Brooklyn au site d’art Artsy. Mais surtout, il  affiche ses photos partout à Times Square.

J’en parlais déjà il y a quelques jours, mais sa prise de pouvoir sur Times Square est totale maintenant.

Les gens font vraiment la queue pour être pris en photo dans le camion et affiché sur les trottoirs du carrefour touristique de la ville.


Les personnes photographiées doivent aider au collage de leur photo. Mais comme tout art, le travail de JR est éphémère.

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YouTube lance son outil de suivi des tendances

YouTube annonce le lancement de son outil de suivi des tendances! Uniquement disponible pour les Etats-Unis pour le moment, l’outil permet de voir les tendances sur YouTube en fonction du sexe, de l’age ou de la répartition géographique des personnes qui regardent. Vous pouvez voir ce nouveau site sur l’url YouTube dédiée, mais en gros l’outil ressemble à ceci.

On peut ainsi découvrir que les jeunes hommes de 25-34 ans aux Etats-Unis regardent massivement cette vidéo actuellement.

Hum….pas sur de l’utiliser souvent!

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Floored Generates Customizable 3D Models For Real Estate Using Kinect-Like Sensors

Floored scans office spaces, apartments and houses using 3D camera technology and proprietary software to build customizable 3D models for real estate purposes. At Disrupt NY 2013, the company launched the platform to create an immersive, interactive and user-friendly experience. Instead of static photos and floor plans, you can move around in real-time, add furniture and easily realize if the space is a good fit.

“The marketing in the commercial real estate industry is absolutely abysmal,” co-founder and CEO Dave Eisenberg said in a phone interview before Disrupt. “The two-dimensional floor plan has not evolved in decades.”

At first, Eisenberg was interested in 3D capturing and wanted to explore potential real-world applications. That’s when he discovered Matterport, a 3D device to capture interior spaces, and partnered with it to take advantage of Matterport’s existing hardware solutions.

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Lost in Manhattan

Magnifique vidéo du français Gunther Gheeraert intitulée “Lost in Manhattan”.

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Nouvelle publicité pour le Samsung Galaxy s4

Il peut tout faire!

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Docurated Is An Enterprise Service To Search And Collect The Data You Need From Your Files

Docurated is a enterprise tool targeted towards enterprise users — it is publicly launching onstage at Disrupt NY. It aggregates all your documents in one place, turning them into a beautiful searchable and customizable database. Docurated will now provide Dropbox integration as well.

“We don’t need any more 20 file sharing solutions,” co-founder and chief product officer Irene Tserkovny said onstage. “We just need one place that are worthy of their idea,” she continued. After installing Docurated, the file and folder metaphor disappears. It’s all about searching for the documents you need and collecting them.

For example, if you want to prepare a presentation on one of your products, you first do a search query. Not only will it return relevant documents, it will search for text inside the documents and show those passages as well. Then, you can pick … Lire la suite

Lerer Ventures’ Ken Lerer: “We Are Going To Launch StopTheNRA.com”

Today at Disrupt NY, Ken Lerer and Ben Lerer took the stage to talk about Lerer Ventures and their respective entrepreneur stories. One thing that caught the attention of the audience is when Ken Lerer talked about gun control and a new StopTheNRA.com website.

“We are going to launch StopTheNRA.com,” Ken Lerer said. The site should be up in about two weeks. They already own the domain name and it’s now just a matter of time. It will be a partnership with Mayor Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Gabrielle Giffords’ Americans for Responsible Solutions initiatives.

The motivation behind this new site is to be more vocal about gun control. “We are doing something viral,” Ken Lerer said.

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Ashton Kutcher’s A-Grade Fund Raising At $100 Million Valuation

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Ashton Kutcher took the stage with Guy Oseary to talk about their A-Grade fund. Arrington started right away about a rumor that the fund is raising money at a $ 100 million valuation. The two partners confirm the rumors, saying that they are raising “enough money.”

It means that financial institutions and companies will invest a certain amount of money in exchange for equity in the A-Grade fund, valuing the existing investments and activities at $ 100 million. With three partners (Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary and Ron Burkle), the fund has been investing for about two and a half years. Until today, the three partners only invested personal money. It is still unclear how much money they put into the fund to date.

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Le distributeur de 7Up qui vous rafraîchit

Le distributeur de 7Up qui vous rafraîchit, car oui l’été arrive (même si vous ne le voyez pas encore en France).

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Toute une vie dans une recherche Google

Toute une vie vue dans une recherche Google!
Et oui on peut faire de belles videos avec 0$ de budget.

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Walmart’s Food Subscription Service Goodies.co Now Using Stripe To Process Payments

Today at Disrupt NY, Stripe co-founder John Collison participated on a panel with Hill Ferguson (PayPal) and Sahil Lavingia (Gumroad) about digital money. He shared that Walmart’s Goodies.co is now using Stripe to process payments. Convincing a big company like Walmart to switch to Stripe is a big achievement for the startup.

During the panel, Collison shared what made Stripe possible. When asked what his thoughts were on credit card companies, he first stated that “credit cards are this instrument that everyone has. Fundamentally, these companies bring a very valuable service.” But he then shared his thoughts about fees.

“It makes it very difficult for merchants to manage their businesses,” he said. “There is no cost to using Stripe. We have one clear transaction fee and that’s it,” he continued. Credit card companies provide payment processing on their own, but … Lire la suite

Yahoo’s Deal To Buy A $200M Stake In Dailymotion From Orange Scuppered By French Government

It looks like lightning has struck on the towers of Dailymotion. Yahoo’s bid to take a $ 200 million majority stake in the video site — known as the ‘YouTube of France’ — by buying a stake from carrier France Telecom/Orange has been killed by the French government, which decided that it didn’t want a U.S. company to take a controlling stake in a French operation, TechCrunch has confirmed with a source close to the situation.

Rumors of problems with the deal have been swirling around for weeks. At first it looked like the issues were because of internal disagreements at Yahoo, according to Business Insider. But a report in the French newspaper Le Monde last week noted that Orange had suspended the deal because of opposition from the French state, which owns 27% of the telecom company.

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Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley: All Our Numbers Are Up 10-30% Each Month

Today at Disrupt NY 2013, Foursquare founder and CEO Dennis Crowley denied rumors that growth was stagnant for Foursquare. “I think there’s a little bit of perception that we’re not growing,” Crowley said. ”This is false.” In reality, March 2013 was the best month to date.

When it comes to growth numbers, Crowley started by saying that “[they] don’t talk about growth numbers so much.” But Foursquare tracks the number of active users, monthly sign-ups, check-ins, web visitors, etc. “All of these numbers are up 10-30 percent,” Crowley said.

Yet, Crowley was very candid about the situation the company is in right now. “We’re not the shiny new thing anymore,” he said. The company is currently trying to become the main location tech company and turn into a recommendation app for restaurants, bars, etc.

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Laser Mountain Played Laser Tag Onstage With Nerf Guns, Android Phones And A Node.js Server

Carson Britt and Matthew Drake convinced everyone with their onstage demo of Laser Mountain at the Disrupt NY Hackathon. They attached Android phones to the Nerf guns (that TechCrunch gave away yesterday) to recreate a laser tag game with a real-time score server.

After receiving the Nerf guns, they started working right away on Laser Mountain. “We already had the domain name lasermoutain.com, so we didn’t have a choice,” Britt said. When asked why they bought this domain, Drake answered, “I pick up domains all the time.”

The Android phones track movements using the built-in gyroscopes and then transmit the information to a Node.js server. To register when someone is firing, they use the phone’s microphones and the Nerf gun’s loud firing noise.

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With Earnings Around The Corner, Apple’s Growth Prospects Are Gloomy

Conventional wisdom has it that Apple has reached its peak and can only disappoint from now on. Yet, many financial facts don’t make sense. The market is too harsh with Apple compared to its competitors. But when it comes to products, there is an unsettling detail: there was no product release during fiscal Q2 2013. While Apple is certainly not doomed, its future looks gloomy. That’s why today’s earnings will be important for the company.

Expectations

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced.” –Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights (1848)

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Apple’s Pile Of Cash Is Still Growing, Up 6% To $145 Billion

Apple now has $ 145 billion in cash on hand — a 5.8 percent increase over the past three months. The company last reported that they had $ 137.1 billion in cash back on December 30. To put this into perspective, with $ 140 million, you can produce the movie Spider-Man. Apple has enough money to produce a thousand blockbusters.

Apple could use its cash to acquire some companies. But with more than $ 145,000,000,000, you can acquire a lot of companies. For example, Facebook’s market capitalization is only $ 61.89 billion. If Apple would use all of its cash to acquire Facebook, it would still pay a nice premium.

With $ 9.5 billion in profit and little operating expenses, Apple’s cash will likely grow over the next three months.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook: “We Acknowledge That Our Growth Rate Has Slowed”

Apple CEO Tim Cook made a very candid introduction remark during the earnings call. “We acknowledge that our growth rate has slowed,” Cook said. He then said that Apple has experienced “tremendous successes” over the past few years and that may be the reason why growth is slowing.

“Decline in stock price has been very frustrating to all of us,” he said. Apple’s stock dipped below $ 400 a share just a few days ago. “The key to Apple’s strength is creating innovative products, and that is always in Apple’s control,” he continued.

Some numbers in Apple’s earnings release stood out. In the outlook section, Apple said that it expects flat revenue for Q3 2013 and a decrease in gross margins to 36-37 percent. It would mean that Apple could experience a profit decrease — a downturn was unimaginable just … Lire la suite

Apple Will Initiate Share Repurchases To Increase Dividends (And Boost Apple Shares)

Apple now has $ 145 billion in cash and it needs to do something about it. That’s why Apple CEO Tim Cook just announced during the earnings call that the company will initiate a stock buyback. It means that Apple will use part of its cash to repurchase existing shares, taking them out of the market, increasing existing stockholders’ shares. That investment will go directly to existing investors in the form of a dividend.

Tim Cook announced this program just after reiterating that Apple’s culture is what sets the company apart.

“We have a tremendous culture of innovation,” Cook said. “It’s the same culture that bought the iPhone and the iPad,” he continued.

Last year, Apple announced that it would spend $ 45 billion over multiple years to hand out as dividends. It is more than doubling this program to … Lire la suite

Le bureau secret de Google à New York

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On a tous vu des vidéos ou des photos des bureaux de Google à New York. L’immeuble à 1 milliard possède quelques magnifiques décors et une bibliothèque digitale pour ses milliers d’employés. Pour info, il faut plus de 9mn de marche pour faire le tour du building.

Mais saviez-vous que Google a aussi une salle de réunion secrète?

Tarah Feinberg de la société iCrossing, a ainsi eu l’occasion de découvrir cette salle secrète cachée derrière une bibliothèque. Il ‘est ensuite empressé de poster la photo sur son compte Google+. Pas sur que Google le réinvite.

Vous remarquerez peut être que dans la bibliothèque figure un livre de la série ”…For Dummies”… espérons que ce n’est pas le “Google+ for Dummies“.

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Le Pinterest des cocktails de Mad Men

La chaîne AMC qui diffuse la série Mad Men aux Etats-Unis continue à surfer sur le branding de son show culte, en publiant la liste de tous les cocktails qui sont bus dans la série sur une page Pinterest. Car oui Pinterest existe encore.

Cette page Pinterest est bien sur à consommer avec modération.

Si un des cocktails vous intéresse, vous pourrez découvrir la recette sur le site d’AMC en cliquant sur la photo.

Puisqu’on vous dit que Pinterest amène du trafic.

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Gabby Douglas se contorsionne pour Nike

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Vous vous souvenez de Gabby Douglas, la gymnaste américaine devenue la chouchou de l’Amérique après sa Médaille d’or des JO de Londres? Elle fait de la pub pour Nike (Japon) et montre à quel point elle n’a rien perdu de sa souplesse. Et vous, vous faites comment quand vous oubliez vos clés?

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Google Glass: l’outil de drague

Les Googles Glass commencent à fleurir un peu partout aux Etats-Unis. Il y a quelques semaines, je postais cette video, montrant avec humour ce que les hommes risquent de faire avec les Google Glass durant leur soirée romantique.

D’après vous, que fait ce jeune homme avec ces Google Glass lors d’une soirée au Webster Hall à New York avec la jeune fille blonde??

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La superbe application météo de Yahoo

La superbe application météo de Yahoo! Déjà sur mon téléphone.

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