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Giulio Ranucci
Stories of Digital projects & companies from Netscape to Whatsapp.
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The side story of the difference between VHS and Betamax tapes and how VHS became the household tape. A company war between JVC and Sony.
Tinder is an online dating and geosocial networking application launched in 2012. On Tinder, users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles, which include their photos, a short bio, and some of their interests.
History of OpenAI an American artificial intelligence (AI) that researches artificial intelligence with the declared intention of developing "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence, which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work".
OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk serving as the initial board members. Microsoft provided OpenAI Global LLC with a $1 billion investment in 2019 and a $10 billion investment in 2023.
The International Business Machines Corporation (doing business as IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York and is present in over 175 countries.
The Tamagotchi (Japanese: たまごっち, "Egg Watch") is a handheld digital pet that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996, in Japan and in the United States on May 1, 1997, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and the early 2000s. As of March 2021, over 83 million units have been sold worldwide.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham.
History of Hotmail service was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, and was one of the first webmail services on the Internet.
History of the American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user.
MP3 is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Originally defined as the third audio format of the MPEG-1 standard.
The history of the app store platform, developed and maintained by Apple Inc., for mobile apps on its iOS and iPadOS operating systems.
The story behind the iPhone a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. these devices use Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. Since then, Apple has annually released new iPhone models and iOS updates. As of November 1, 2018, more than 2.2 billion iPhones had been sold.
Unique history of Swiss manufacturer of computer peripherals and software born in 1981 and still innovating!
The fascinating history of the American multinational entertainment and media conglomerate.
Activision is one of the largest world wide video game publishers in the world and was the top United States founded by ex Atari developers.
History of the originally known as Research In Motion (RIM), that developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets in recent times it transitioned to a cybersecurity enterprise software and services company
History of the American electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Palo Alto, California, United States. Tesla designs and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services.
Story of Google Chrome, a cross-platform web browser developed by Google witch was first released in 2008 and became the market leader.
Unique history of mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices started as a small startup and became the domain OS for the mobile world. A deep dive on the different versions along the years and the future ahead.
Story of the unique social media platform used to make a variety of short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education, that have a duration from fifteen seconds to three minutes.
The unique story of TripAdvisor, an American online travel company that operates a website and mobile app with user-generated content and a comparison shopping website.
Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in 17 different countries around the world. It is one of the world’s largest music streaming service providers, with over 356 million monthly active users, including 158 million paying subscribers, as of March 2021.
PayPal Inc. is an American company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.
Twitch is an American video live streaming service operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon. Introduced as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv, the site primarily focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to music broadcasts, creative content, and more recently, "in real life" streams. Content on the site can be viewed either live or via video on demand.
History of YouTube the American online video-sharing platform. The service, created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim was bought by Google in November 2006.
(2009 - 2015) The story of Facebook from Zuckerberg's first coding adventures to his time at Harvard to the spread of fake news and trips to Congress.
(2004-2009) The story of Facebook from Zuckerberg's first coding adventures to his time at Harvard to the spread of fake news and trips to Congress.
History of Google: How It began and what's Happening Beyond 2021
Google has come a long way from its dorm room startup status - here's just how far Google has come in more then 20 years.
(pt.2 from Xbox 360 to Xbox serie X) History of Xbox a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. As today the brand consists of five video game consoles, as well as applications (games), streaming services, an online service by the name of Xbox Live, and the development arm by the name of Xbox Game Studios. The brand was first introduced in the United States in November 2001, with the launch of the original Xbox console.
(pt.1 from Xbox to XboxOne) History of Xbox a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. As today the brand consists of five video game consoles, as well as applications (games), streaming services, an online service by the name of Xbox Live, and the development arm by the name of Xbox Game Studios. The brand was first introduced in the United States in November 2001, with the launch of the original Xbox console.
History of the main american microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Launched on March 21st, 2006 by Jack Dorsey and in 2019 reached 330 million registered members all over the world.
History of the main digital platform for professional networking. Launched on May 5th, 2003 and in 2020 reached 706 million registered members from 150 countries.
History of most famous family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft.
Story of Super Mario unique platform game series and media franchise created by Nintendo.