Facebook is buying Instagram for US$ 1 billion. The curiosity about this case is that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is partnering again with a Brazilian to manage a social network. This time around apparently the Brazilian counterpart seems to be more lucky than Eduardo Saverin, who became a character of The Social Network film. Mike Krieger, one of the founders of Instagram, was born 25 years ago in the city of São Paulo...
Who will win the commercial space race? The sort of people who start tech companies tend to be an idealistic, not to say ideological, bunch. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have given umpteen speeches about how the industry can change the world over years, but for some such ambition is petty - the real goal is space.