We started our Future-C conference this week with a warmup discussion at the Ford Foundation in midtown Manhattan. Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, and journalist Jeff Howe, presented their book Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future. As the director of the MIT Media Lab and a director on the board of the… Continue reading “Reporting in America is strong right now”
Month: February 2017
Facebook Launches TV App
Facebook this week announced the launch of their new TV app which will let Facebook users watch videos from their friends and their “liked” pages on TV, as well as watching the top live videos. Facebook also said that it will recommend videos based on ones users have already watched. The app will be available on Apple TVs,… Continue reading Facebook Launches TV App
5 African Startups solving African Problems
I’m sitting in a bar next to the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda as I write this article. The hotel is a bland 4-star hotel no different from any other you could see anywhere in the world. However, if you have ever seen the film Hotel Rwanda, you will know the significance of… Continue reading 5 African Startups solving African Problems
The Future of Media
Recently, Jon Steinberg, founder and CEO of Cheddar (“the CNBC for millennials”), and Adam Singolda, founder and CEO of Taboola (a content discovery platform that will achieve $500M+ revenue in 2016), met to discuss the future of media. The conversation, held at Knotel in downtown Manhattan, was wide-ranging. The two men discussed content in an… Continue reading The Future of Media
Addis Ababa: A City Under Construction
Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) was the first stop on the trip. While the tech ecosystem here is not as advanced as others in Africa such as Nairobi or Kigali, there is a bright future ahead when you consider some of the macro factors.At present, almost everything is imported. Even things they don’t need to such as… Continue reading Addis Ababa: A City Under Construction