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Together with SFR, Fon boosts coverage in France and gets close to 12M hotspots worldwide 10 Jul 2013 | 09:23 pm
It was April 2006 when Fon signed its first international agreement with a fantastic telco, Neuf Cegetel. At the time, that relationship gave Fon a huge qualitative and quantitative jump forward: on t...
On How I Gave Up On Music Piracy 5 Jul 2013 | 11:47 pm
It has been quite a while since I stopped downloading music. It’s not that I was afraid of getting caught for illegal downloads– in Spain, internet piracy is not a criminal offense. Instead, I gave up...
Marco Boerries completes his $38m Series A funding for NumberFour 27 Jun 2013 | 07:03 pm
My friend Marco Boerries, one of the participants of Founders Forum Menorca TechTalk this weekend, has just shared with me the great news that he has recieved $38m in Series A financing for his projec...
Coworking spaces, prepare your start up in Menorca 24 Jun 2013 | 09:41 pm
I find inspiration every time I visit Menorca. So about a year ago, I began working on an idea I called “MenorcaTech” to create a workspace in a beautiful environment for entrepreneurs from all over t...
Another reason to teach your children well 23 Jun 2013 | 11:07 pm
Today we had great conversations with my 18 year-old son Tom who studies physics at Imperial. It was great to have him over at our home in Madrid for many reasons, but I will focus on one: yes, there ...
Europe? USA? I can’t decide! 16 Jun 2013 | 10:38 pm
After a childhood in Argentina I have spent most of my life alternating between USA and Europe. And for good reasons. Both are incredible places to live in. But I just can’t choose one over the other....
Daniela Hinrichs launches new project DEAR photography, an online photography platform 12 Jun 2013 | 05:32 pm
I am an amateur photographer. I like to post my photos on Flickr and enjoy sharing photo series here on the blog. So as someone who loves this art form, I’m happy to share a unique photography project...
Why I invested in SmartThings 27 May 2013 | 12:47 am
A few months ago I decided to invest in SmartThings, a company that allows users to control everything surrounding them in their life on their smartphone. Lights, air conditioning, even your house’s s...
Facebook: A Swiss Army Knife is good but a Tool Set is better 25 May 2013 | 12:02 pm
Facebook is not at war with Google as both companies would like to think. It is really suffering more from guerrilla attacks from a set of small players that hit Facebook one functionality at a time...
General Videla, the man responsible for my family’s exile, just died 17 May 2013 | 07:43 pm
General Videla, the man responsible for my family’s forced exile from Argentina when I was 16, and responsible for the death of my cousin David Horacio Varsavsky when he was only 17, died today in Arg...
