Here’s What Elon Musk Thinks About The Space Projects Of Jeff Bezos And Richard Branson
Click for sound. Please enable Javascript to watch this video Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, explains how he feels about competition with the founders of Amazon and The Virgin Group in the race to explore space. Produced by Kamelia Angelova, Alana Kakoyiannis and Justin Gmoser SEE ALSO: Meet Valkyrie: The Superhero She-Bot On Her Way To Mars Follow BI Video: On Twitter Join the conversation about this story » Tech
Silicon Alley Insider - Monday, December 16, 2013
Pebble today revealed a new project aimed at education in which it will donate over 4,000 smartwatches to higher ed schools including Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Virginia Tech and many more. The donation is worth over $ 600,000, according to Pebble’s own estimates, but it’s clearly designed to make sure Pebble and the Pebble SDK are in the hands of the next generation of top-tier developers before they ever even hit the job market. Now that Pebble has released its official app creation SDK, and unlocked many of the dormant features of the platform, it needs developers to get on ... 
Entitle, a Wilmington, North Carolina company with just five full-time employees, is taking on the e-book arm of a little company called Amazon. Founded by Bryan Batten with a $ 5.3 million angel investment, Entitle functions as something of a Netflix of e-books. Users can download two, three, or four e-books per month for $ 14.99, $ 21.99, or $ 27.99, respectively. Our favorite part of the service: you get to keep your books. They don’t disappear from your device because Entitle has worked it out with publishers such that you own the books you acquire through the service, reading them ... 
This stock picture never gets old. (Photo: Silicon Angle) Norway is recognizing what bitcoin isn’t: a real currency. The government announced Monday said it wasn’t going to treat the virtual cash as a legitimate form of payment because it doesn’t “fall under the usual definition” of being a form of money. Instead, Norway will treat it as an asset and subject it to capital gain taxes.
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today. Just over 75% of mobile devices activated at a small to medium-sized business (SMB) in 2013 through the month of October were either an iPhone or an iPad, according to a new study from SMB cloud services provider Intermedia. Of the nearly 250,000 aggregated device activations on Intermedia’s network, about 190,000 were made by Apple. The next largest device maker was Samsung, which saw only 29,000 device activations. This trend among SMBs is a stark contrast to ... 
Does this person look like a lifestyle blogger to you?!?! (Yes. The answer is yes.) (Photo: Getty) Blake Lively is a celebrity with such a bland persona, this interview from New York Magazine’s The Cut blog starts out, “Blake Lively walks into the room, chewing.” What could be less exciting? “Blake Lively lies still, breathing.” That’s it. That’s the only less exciting activity. Still, we are talking about her. This time, it’s because she’s starting a lifestyle website that isn’t a lifestyle website. She announced it in September by saying to Vogue, “The main element of it is that it’s about storytelling and ... 
Violin Memory, a flash storage company that IPOed two months ago, just fired its CEO,Don Basile, the company announced in a press release on Monday. We had heard rumblings that Besile might be fired last week when the company confirmed to us that CTO Jonathan Goldrick was out. Violin Memory offers products in a hot new area called enterprise flash storage systems. Flash storage is a hardware product installed in a corporate data center that uses flash memory to store documents and other data. Flash is the same technology used in thumb drives and smartphones and is faster, but more ... 
With the advent of Instagram Direct, a new feature from the photo-sharing platform that allows you to send photos to a select group of people, comes a lot of responsibility. Is there anything that strikes more fear in the heart than the idea that you may have sent a photo to an unintended recipient? Well, breathe easy; there’s a way to take back an Instagram Direct photo message you didn’t mean to send. But you have to think fast. Here’s how it works: I took a photo of the New York Rangers celebrating a 4-3 shootout victory against the Calgary ... 
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley today published an interview with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, one of its key executives and a candidate to be its next CEO. The discussion as written focuses on the legacy and style of the company’s outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer, with whom Nadella has worked closely. Given the CEO buzz about Nadella, his views, and criticisms of Ballmer matter. If you are at all interested in the internal dynamics of Microsoft, Foley’s piece is mandatory reading. I’ve selected a few short segments that are worth discussing here, but the full interview is worthy. After asking Ballmer to vet ... 