Voices en Español (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
Ha,ha. Check out this funny video “Ya fui Hussein, ahora quiero ser Vázquez” from Martin Varsavsky. He’s originally from Argentina but he has Spanish citizenship. In this video he rags on Iberia, Spain’s horrible international airline, for constantly misspelling his last name. I can totally relate to this complaint. It seems that in Spain if [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/15/2009
I live in Spain. I used to live in America, Manhattan to be precise. I moved to Spain because this country has an economy the...
ehomeupgrade (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
[VIDEO] The team at FON are getting dangerously close to releasing the La Fonera 2.0 Wi-Fi router to a community beyond developers. The La Fonera 2.0 is no average router taking on many tasks normally handled by your computer. In the YouTube video above Martin Varsavsky, The CEO of FON, gives us a demo of many [...] Visit eHomeUpgrade for more breaking news.
Joho the Blog (Free subscription) | 01/26/2009
Martin Varsavsky is interviewing René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom here at the DLD conference. [Live blogging, Missing stuff. Making mistakes.] [Disclosure: I am on the US board of advisers of Martin's Fon company, and theoretically have some options in it.] Obermann looks forward to gaining the spectrum required to ...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/19/2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife As Israel ends its Gaza invasion and I, as a Jew, question the morals and effectiveness of this...
El Fon Blog (Free subscription) | 12/16/2008
Note: I meant to post this over the weekend, but I had to wait for issues with my bloghost to clear up. After three years of intense demand, Fon CEO Martin Varsavsky is featuring a no-promises, not-in-production weatherized Fonera in his blog. This is perhaps out of envy for Meraki’s recent publicity for their tiny meshing [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/14/2008
Image via WikipediaAs the main supplier of capital to Bernard Madoff with $7bn raised for him and now evaporated it is a fair question to...
Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 12/13/2008
Tumblr has gotten 4.5 million from among others Union Square Ventures, whom I greatly respect for investing in stuff that I really like. Their recent investment into Boxee is another example. Martin Varsavsky, who was an early investor has a nice short post about it. The important part is this one. Next year the company will [...]
Guillaume Thevenot (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Ouriel from TechCrunch is moderating a panel with venture capitalists (Union Square Ventures, Softech, Wellington partners and Martin Varsavsky from FON).It is a great time to keep investing, says a first panelist.Another VC says that VCs didn't fear for their...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/04/2008
As we watch the Big Three CEOs and their staff parade through Washington asking for help why are not we considering saving two out of...
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Pietro Saccomani, my TA of last year at my entrepreneurship class has started a group in Facebook that is called I studied entrepreneurship with Martin Varsavsky. If you were ever a student of mine please feel free to join. Thank you XL for the recommendation to start this group. In theory there [...]
Your Gadget Guide (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
While this isn’t the first device we’ve seen of its kind, new images of a wireless-capable, ruggedized la Fonera router have surfaced on the FON head honcho’s personal blog. CEO Martin Varsavsky clearly states that “this is not a product announcement,” and that the pictured devices are part of an R&D project, so pricing and [...]
Engadget (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
While this isn't the first device we've seen of its kind , new images of a wireless-capable, ruggedized la Fonera router have surfaced on the FON head honcho's personal blog. CEO Martin Varsavsky clearly states that "this is not a product announcement," and that the pictured devices are part of an R&D project, so pricing and availability info are certainly out of the question. Still,...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
This morning, via twitter, I came across two contrasting blog posts, one from JP Rangaswami (@jobsworth), and one from Martin Varsavsky (@martinvars), that seemed to me to sum up the very essence of the problem I've been calling out in my "work on stuff that matters" talks. In Faster Horses in the Age of Co-Creation, JP argues that Henry Ford's...
Andrea Vascellari (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Episode: VMC #84 - Tim O’Reilly & Martin Varsavsky Web 2.0 Expo Berlin - Here’s a nice conversation between Tim O’Reilly and Martin Varsavsky (FON). I also managed to catch Simone’s question at the end. Enjoy it! Andrea Show notes & Credits: Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, Tim O’Reilly, FON, Martin Varsavsky, question by Simone Brunozzi
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