beGLOBAL is startups and tech with a Korean flavor!!!!

On Friday September 13th, 2013 at the Four Seasons, Palo Alto the beGLOBAL summit was held. Produced by the organizers of beLAUNCH, the top Startup/Tech Conference in Korea and held every year in Gangnam, beGLOBAL aims to bring together the best of Tech from the East and West. They feature the top giants from Silicon Valley to discuss the latest tech trends, with a global perspective.

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Hardware startup Senic is big on the tech scene!!!!

New hardware startup and Y Combinator Summer 2013 cohort member Senic is launching pre-orders for its first product today, a laser rangefinder like the ones sold in hardware stores around the world and used every day by contractors and DIY enthusiasts. The difference is that Senic’s device uses Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate with iOS and Android devices, recording measurements instantly and syncing them to the cloud.

The use of a cloud-based platform for collecting and storing measurement data, as well as Senic’s plans to expand their hardware catalog to include a number of different hardware devices, including micrometers, gauges, and other tools that builders and engineers use regularly in their work. Senic co-founder Toby Eichenwald explained that he got the idea working for his father’s company in Korea, and learned from its customers that the measurement industry was essentially “stuck in the 80s.”

Truth About Millennials!!!!!!!!!!!

On Monday, June 24th, 2013 at 6:00pm Telefónica partnered with Mobile Monday Silicon Valley for Truth About Millennials. This  event was held at the 2013 Mobile Commerce World conference. This event was held so that Telefónica could show their research on Millennials.

Here is some background information about Telefónica's study on Millennials:

Telefónica in partnership with the Financial Times, commissioned 12,171 online quantitative interviews among Millennials, aged 18-30, across 27 countries in six regions including North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Middle East & Africa. Penn Schoen Berland conducted the 190 question survey from 11 January – 4 February 2013.

Millennials from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela were surveyed. Country sample sizes represented in the global number are weighted by the percent of the population in each country with access to the Internet. The global margin of error is +/-.9 percent.

Here are videos of the event: