Vali Petcu blog

Tomorrow will be leaving for Dubai, with some friends, invited by a company, to listen and learn how to build a city and a society if the minerals are exploited correctly.

The smartphone update cycle is at a stop. Innovation has stopped and people do not hurry to buy the new phone, as the changes from year to year are not spectacular enough. So other than all eyes on China and other emerging markets, other ideas are nowhere to be found. NFC is sort-of dead, mobile […]

I feel sorry for Microsoft sometimes. Ok, not really. They used to be this big big bully that scared everyone and now is this big bully that plays alone on a playground, while all the other people moved to another one. I like how their closed ecosystem they loved so much 10 years ago is […]

Steve Ballmer announced his retirement. People cheered. Stocks grew by 8%. Microsoft’s business model was simple so far: computer processors are getting speedier, let’s make Windows use more resources so people would buy new computers, new Windows and Office licenses. Pretty good plan. The love chain broke in 2008, because of Vista and the economic […]

The CEO of Central Media Enterprises, Adrian Sârbu, a Romanian, has quit today. He will stay on board until the end of 2013 and then make his next move. He made waves a few years ago when he was named CEO, being the highest position a Romanian entrepreneur has ever occupied The smart money is […]

Companies from Romania are paying great attention to Social Media, that translates into money from content and counseling. Which is great. There have been more money spent in Social Media in 2013 than in 2011 and 2012 combined, or so I feel.

I got no problem paying 5$ a month for Feedly, if they decided to adopt a paid subscription model. But I am not paying 5$ for what they are offering extra.

ArsT Technica has a long article about how YouTube stumbles at peak hour and it’s all the cable companies’ fault. Somehow true, the video consumption has grown in the past years and cable companies have a hard time providing the pipe necessary for that. This happens also with telecom companies and smartphone usage. But the […]

Apple’s philosophy has always been to be consumer-centric. It wants to make easy-to-use, broadly-accessible products. But on some level, it’s failing consumers when only 18% of the global smartphone population has an iPhone. (source) BMW makes the best cars in the world. Does not have the same market share as Ford or Toyota. Is BMW […]

I got a lot of questions about this: what happened last year, how do you see things. where do we go from here? There are a few things that happened in the last 12 months worth mentioning: Some bloggers realized I am not a fool who wishes death on them (as the song goes), but […]