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In Peru, a company has had an idea to take wind energy directly to your home: turbines as a lay way

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Lego pieces have accompanied generations as a way to create without limits: blocks that are stacked on each other to form houses, cities, rockets, whatever the imagination allows. Over time, the designs became more sophisticated, with complex structures and realistic themes. But in essence, everything is still based on a simple idea: build, piece by piece. Now this idea must be extrapolated to another context as important as the generation of energy. In a world where taking advantage of every centimeter of space is vital – especially in cities – thinking of installing a wind turbine at home may seem crazy, but it is not so far from reality. A new design. A Peruvian startup, Eolic wall, has developed A new way of understanding wind energy, moving away from the traditional model of huge blades anchored in the landscape. Instead, they have created a system of modular, compact and stackable wind cells, with a square shape. Innovation. This technology has an aerodynamic design that allows speeding of the wind that crosses them, which allows to generate more electricity even with moderate breezes. Unlike traditional turbines, Eolic Wall rotor It is sustained by a peripheral ring that improves wind capture and allows a more compact design. Also, thanks to its modular design It can be stacked vertical or horizontally as construction pieces, adapting to the environment and energy demand. You can add more units over time. Willn’t there be such stuck problems from another? A common question is: “Willn’t several be saved from each other?” In traditional wind farms, turbulence between turbines reduce their performance if they are too together. However, Eolic Wall has solved this problem with an internal aerodynamic chamber, which protects the flow of the wind inside each cell. Thus interference is avoided and can be installed in places where it was unthinkable to put a turbine, such as buildings or urban courtyards. A unique peculiarity. The use of permanent strategically located magnets reduces almost zero the friction of the system. This not only improves performance, but also reduces wear and extends the life of the cells. In addition, by eliminating almost all friction thanks to its magnetic system, common maintenance and mechanical wear problems affect conventional wind turbines are faced. When will they be available? Although there is not yet an official mass launch date, Eolic Wall already It has been recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the best startups in Peru in 2024. It is currently developing pilots and Looking for alliances Strategic to climb your technology. Other systems. Eolic Wall is not alone in this tendency towards miniaturization and urbanization of wind energy. There are other interesting proposals, such as LTO TURBINA ARCHIMEDES (LIAM F1)which is committed to a helical design inspired by the Archimedes spiral to capture the wind from any direction. For its part, The turbines flowerknown for its aesthetic design in the form of a flower and its ability to function in proximity without losing efficiency. Self -consumption is no longer just solar. The future of energy self -consumption no longer depends solely on Fill the roofs of solar panels. Wind energy is gaining land in the urban environment, and proposals such as Eolic Wall are marking the way. Because maybe shortly, you can see Small stacked turbines as if they were Lego pieces. And we will not say it figuratively. Image | EOLIC WALL and Mathijs Dubbeldam Attribution-Nancommercial 2.0 Xataka | The University of Oxford has found reservations of an energy source for 170,000 years. And he has the recipe to exploit them

Japan cannot afford your most valuable company in the chips industry. And is mired in debts

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JSR Corporation is a company extraordinarily valuable for Japanalthough not in a strictly economic sense. And this company constitutes with Tokyo Electron, RapidusCanon and Nikon The spearhead of the Japanese chips industry. Japan needs them. It necessarily needs these companies to be competitive if you want to recover the relevance that it had decades ago in the already flourishing semiconductor industry. At the end of the 80s Japan dominated the integrated circuit industry With an overwhelming forcefulness. Nec, Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Matsushita and other Japanese companies monopolized in 1988 no less than 50% of the chip industry. However, today none of these companies is positioned among the leaders of a sector dominated with iron fist by Taiwanese, American, Dutch, South Korean and German companies. Despite its world leadership JSR Corporation is spending trouble This company has something that the other companies that I have mentioned in the first paragraph of this article lack: it holds the monopoly of a crucial sector of the chips industry. This is actually what makes it so valuable to Japan beyond its economic results. And it is that JSR specializes in the production of photorers. Photolithography teams that Design and produce ASML They are responsible, very broadly, to transfer the geometric pattern described by the mask with a lot of precision to the surface of the silicon wafer. In this area we can observe the pattern as the “drawing” that delimits the distribution of transistors, connections and other elements that make up an integrated circuit. However, before reaching this important step it is necessary A process known as deposition. Equipment manufactured by Tokyo Electron either Apply materials. Its purpose is to prepare silicon wafers for the transfer of the geometric pattern by depositing a fine material of material on them. During the last two decades all companies specialized in the production of photorestoning materials have been Japanese Depending on the type of chip that is being manufactured it will be necessary to use one material or another. One of the most used deposition techniques is known as oxidation, and consists of taking advantage of the silicon’s ability to form a fine oxide layer when reacting with water. Its purpose is to protect transistors and other components of external pollution chips. However, before carrying out the transfer of the geometric pattern to the wafer using a lithography equipment it is necessary to pour a liquid capable of absorbing the light and preserving the pattern. This is the function of the photorersista fluid. During the last two decades all companies specialized in the production of photorers have been Japanese. In fact, Japan since then has the monopoly of this market, which It is currently led by JSR Corporation. This company supplies its photorestoning liquids to most semiconductor manufacturers with which we are familiar, such as TSMC, Intel, Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Technology or Texas Instruments, among many others. The surprising thing is that despite the domain it exerts on the market of photorers, JSR is not going well. In 2024 the investment company Japan Investment Corp. bought it for 6,000 million dollars with the purpose of consolidating its growth, but has closed the last fiscal year in March 2025 with losses of 1,450 million dollars. This bad result has had consequences. The company’s board of directors has been completely replaced as the most responsible for an economic result that is not at all in line with the position that this company holds in the market. However, analysts say that the problem does not reside in the photorriving business; JSR’s bad economic results have been triggered by their subsidiary specialized in The development and manufacture of biopharmaceutical and medical diagnosis products. The new directive dome plans to sell a part of this division to the Japanese company Tokuyama Corp. for approximately 570 million dollars with the purpose of cleaning up its accounts. We will see what happens, but what does not admit discussion is that JSR has a leading role in Japan ambitions linked to the semiconductor industry. More information | Reuters In Xataka | Japan has taken the carrier to dominate the chips industry. Prepare a 325,000 million dollar plan

In 1997 a construction company had the delirious idea of ​​building the house of the Simpsons and getting it for sale. It ended up regular

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Building a house identical to that of the protagonist family of ‘The Simpsons’ looked like a teacher promotional play. And give it to a fan to live in it, the cherry icing. However, neither Fox nor the unsuspecting spectators of the series who went through this house seemed to be clear a patent obviousness: The Simpsons are cartoon charactersand do not work in the real world. Firefighter ideas. The initial idea was from the Kaufman & Broad Construction Company, from the 3D designs that were being created for the 1997 video game ‘Virtual Springfield‘. The intention was to create a house identical to the originalfor which they were analyzed A hundred episodes of the series. The problems started from the first moment: the house of the series lacks something as essential as load walls. However, the builders ended up giving a safe design and fitting with what was seen on television. Mutant house Leaving aside the fact that the house has changed multiple times with the passage of time in the series (for example, the shape, size and distance from each other of the windows), the designers focused on two well -known rooms: that of television and Bart’s room. And they left from there, in a kind of version Cartoon of “Build the house from the roof.” The result: four bedrooms, two floors and, outside, a house in the tree and a backyard. Total: 200 square meters painted of squeaky yellow and with orange rooms, phosphorescent green and pink. The idea of ​​designers It was that the house was 90% normal, 10% cartoon. The devil, in the details. The final touches were given by Rick Floyd, Hollywood production designer who included thousands of details for the most terminal fans. Higher doors than normal to pass Marge’s hair, identical dresses and costumes in the closets of each character, holes near the ground for mice, dozens of Duff beer cans in the fridge, a saxo in Lisse’s room and a painted of the barto that Matt Groening himself did. And also an absolutely useless chimney in Henderson’s desert, Nevada, where the house is located. Pepsi gives it to you. The home found owner through a Pepsi and Fox contest that was launched in 1997: 15 million people sent tests for the purchase of brand products to participate, and the winner would take the house or $ 75,000 in cash (although the value of the house was estimated at double). The winner also promised to paint the facade in accordance with the rules imposed by the neighborhood. The winner was a 63 -year -old Kentucky retiree who decided to accept the money because she had no intention of moving from her home. The house became Attraction for curious. Pillage. An attraction that, by the way, had to be monitored 24 hours a day, by the looting of the unique objects inside. However, over time, surveillance relaxed and the house ended up becoming a curiosity without interest. In 2001, already converted into a reasonably normal housewas sold to another particular, a neighbor who had been secretary of the construction company. He had to make reforms, because the interior was uninhabitable with all the bright colors of the cartoons. Today, its facade remains A magnet for traveler fans And the project, one more sample that we cannot have beautiful things. All promo. The authentic business of the Simpsons is in merchandising: during its first year it generated 2,000 million dollarsand to date, it has 4.7 billion dollars. It is a phenomenon to which we add licenses and collaborations amounts to a value of 13,000 million. But no merchandising artifact is as special as Simpson objects in the real world: Lard Lady Donuts donuts, Duff Beer cans, Apu stores and Krusty Burger restaurants. None, however, as delusional and special as the family home. Header | Fox In Xataka | The Simpsons is a black family: the last theory that gives a radical turn to what we thought about knowing about the series

12 million people delivered their DNA to 23Andme. The company broke and its data are about to change hands

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For years, spitting in a tube was the first step of an irresistible promise: discovering your roots, knowing your genetic predispositions, even finding family members lost by the world. Everything without moving home. The company behind that phenomenon was called 23ndmeand achieved something unusual: to turn genetics into a mass consumption product. That story has just turned. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has reached an agreement to acquire the main assets of 23Andme for 256 million dollars, According to the official statement published by the pharmacist. It is a transaction that must still be approved by the Banking Court and by US regulators. At stake is a platform that has managed the DNA of millions of people worldwide. An announced end. The 23Andme fall has not been sudden. In recent years, the company went from being valued at more than 6,000 million dollars to fight for its own survival. His commitment to a more ambitious model – based on developing medicines, offering medical consultations by subscription and expanding digital health services – did not set. As details The Wall Street Journalthe company burned more than one billion dollars and ended up offering part of its assets in limit conditions. The sales agreement does not cover the entire business. Regeneron would keep the essential: the direct genomics service to the consumer, its biobanco of genetic samples and the research and total health divisions. The telemedicine subsidiary Lemonaid Health is left out, acquired in its day for 400 million dollars, whose closure will be made in an orderly manner outside this operation. Privacy: The real battlefield. The operation has re -placed privacy in the center of the debate. Regeneron has promised to respect current data use policies and has committed to undergoing independent scrutiny, as established by the judicial framework of the process. Even so, doubts persist on how one of the world’s largest genetic databases will be managed. The suspicion is not new. In 2023, 23Andme was a victim of a massive data filtration which affected 6.9 million people. As TechCrunch revealedthe attackers accessed the profiles of those who had activated the function of “genetic family”, obtaining names, locations and percentages of shared DNA between relatives. The company attributed the incident to the reuse of passwords by users, but the damage was already done. Anne Wojcicki, the face of an era. The 23Andme story cannot be told without mentioning Anne Wojcicki. Co -founder, visible face, visionary of personalized health and, at the same time, responsible for business decisions that led to collapse. His plan was to convert the company to an integral provider of medical services, but this did not prosper. He tried to recover control, but his power vanished with the beginning of the judicial process. According to WSJtheir actions with preferential vote were annulled and their offers rejected by the Board of Directors. Wojcicki opted everything to DNA as strategic assets. And for a while it seemed right. The company that helped to found transformed the way millions of people related to their health. It also showed to what extent a genetic database can become a mined field of legal, ethical and technological risks. A new stage, the same questions. Regeneron aspires to keep a powerful platform, a still recognized brand and an immense volume of genetic information. In its official statement, he affirms that his intention is to maintain service for current users and continue to develop new ways for personalized medicine. Images | 23ndme In Xataka | We have visited the place where the demographic hopes of Spain are literally deposited: the Semen Bank of Granada

Some Tesla employees requested Elon Musk’s dismissal in a public letter. The company responded with fulminating dismissals

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In recent months the situation of Tesla It has been complicated for a series of catastrophic misfortunes. Some of them were predictable, such as the punctual fall in sales before The renewal of its supervent model, the Model and. Others, on the other hand, have been entirely unexpected. As the reputational crisis that has collapsed the sales of the brand’s cars worldwide by the Elon Musk’s political implication and his role Doge front. The Tesla crisis not only manifested outside doors. The Sales fall And the growing discontent among employees have triggered an internal crisis between the template unprecedentedputting Elon Musk in the center of the hurricane. Employees They claimed Elon Musk’s departure of the company’s management. That petition has resulted in dismissals, but not that of his CEO. An unsustainable situation even for the template The internal tension reached its peak when a group of Employees from Tesla, both current and old, decided to publicly express their discontent with the management of the company. They did it through an open letter Published on the Web “Tesla Employees Against Elon”. In the publication, employees and small shareholders who had been part of the Tesla staff directly requested the departure of Elon Musk as the company’s CEO. “We are at a crossroads: continue with Elon as CEO of Tesla and face a greater decline as customers leave the brand, or advance without it and allow our products and mission to succeed or fail for themselves,” he explained in the workers’ statement. The signatories They pointed out that the damage Musk’s personal brand is “irreversible” and that his figure as the maximum representative of Tesla has become In a load for the entire template. Employees reproach their main manager His intention to “rename” In the Tesla direction, and they consider it “insulting” for being an explicit recognition that Tesla’s problems are the result of its neglect of functions at the head of the company. “Let’s be clear: we are not the problem. Our products are not the problem. Our engineering, service and delivery teams are not the problem. The problem is demand. The problem is Elon,” said the statement. More electric, but less Tesla While the electric vehicle market grows at a good pace, Tesla’s sale figures do not give signs of recovery. In Spain, the brand already registers falls of more than 16% and none of Tesla’s models appears among the 10 best -selling electric cars In Spain. According to data April of the Spanish Association of Automobile and Truck Manufacturers (ANFAC) The electrified tourism market grew 79% last month, which represents a 6.5% sales increase with respect to the same period last year. The phenomenon is not limited to Spain. Reuters echoed the latest data from the global electric vehicle market, which in April had grown by 29% year -on -year, despite uncertainty for tariffs imposed by the US. The US electric car market also records upward values. The data of Cox Automotive indicate a Growth of 18.5% In the volume of new electric car sales month by month, while the Tesla market share fell five points to 42%. The data announced in its presentation of Results of the first 2025 quartercorroborated this downward trend. The manufacturer delivered 336,681 vehicles, which represented a 13% drop with respect to the same period of the previous year, when almost 387,000 units had been delivered. As the employees pointed out in their open letter, “this is not due to the fact that our cars have worsened. It is not due to affordability problems. But to the fact that people no longer want to associate with Elon. Production marches better than ever. Quality is high. Processes are solid. Demand is what fails. It is not a product problem. It is a Leadership problem“ Tesla’s response: layoffs Tesla’s address to the publication of the letter was immediate and forceful. According to published Business Insiderseveral critical employees with Musk They were fulminating. This manufacturer’s reaction has generated even more Fear and self -censorship Within the company, reviving accusations of repression and contradiction with speech “Absolutist of Freedom of Expression“That Musk itself defends publicly. One of the most prominent cases is that of Matthew Labrot, former responsibility of Sales and Delivery Training of Tesla, and one of the main drivers of the protest. Labrot declared in Business Insider Being a passionate defender of Tesla, but was fired in less than 24 hours after the open letter on the website and participating in the protest under the motto “Pro Tesla, Not Elon!”, whose Account in x It has been suspended. Despite having lost his job in Tesla, Labrot says that “I still believe firmly in the company and in the objective we pursue”, but maintains its critical position with the Musk’s negative influence in the company and in its public image. In Xataka | If the question is which car will not leave you lying on the road, the German experts are clear: the electric Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore, Geoff Livingston)

A company has created an alternative to facial recognition. Does not scan faces and its use already begins to generate controversy

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When cities like San Francisco They decided to prohibit use From the facial recognition by the police, many celebrated it as a victory for privacy. However, a new tool begins to make its way as an alternative. It does not scan faces, but allows people with remarkable precision to follow. Identify without analyzing the face. The tool is called Track and has been developed by Veritonea company specialized in artificial intelligence solutions applied to video analysis. Unlike classic systems, Track tracks individuals based on attributes such as physical complexion, hair color and style, clothing, accessories or the type of footwear. The algorithm also distinguishes the skin tone, although, according to the company, it does not allow to search explicitly by that criterion. With all this information, the system generates chronologies that allow following a person along different scenarios and video sources. It is not a development concept or a future promise. According to data provided by VERITONE itself, more than 400 customers are already using this technology in the United States, including state and local police forces, universities and private companies. Among them are federal prosecutors of the Department of Justice, who began using the tool in August 2024. Track is available through cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and is part of the company’s digital forensic analysis solution ecosystem. An evolving system. Currently, Track works exclusively with recorded videos, such as those captured by body cameras, drones, public recordings on YouTube or content provided by Citizens. Veritone claims to be less than a year after enabling the analysis in live broadcasts, which would open the door to a real -time surveillance system capable of following people even when their faces are not visible. Covering your face no longer guarantees anonymity. Until now, avoid facial recognition systems It was possible with hairstylelarge glasses, disruptive makeup or garments designed to confuse algorithms. But Track works differently. It does not depend on the face, but on general visual patterns. You can follow a figure through multiple videos analyzing complexion, clothes or way of moving. Of course, he needs a starting point: someone should mark the person before starting tracking. Even so, its logic doubts many of the classic strategies to avoid being identified. And privacy? Although this technology does not use biometric data in the strict sense, such as faces or footprints, it is based on physical and aesthetic attributes that can be repeated frequently. As Mit Technology Review collectsACLU, an American civil rights defense organization, warns that tools such as track could significantly expand surveillance capabilities. On the other hand, some digital rights specialists underline that continuous tracking through different video sources could be functionally equivalent to facial recognition. An alternative that can avoid the current legal framework. As Track is not based on traditional biometric characteristics, many of the laws that regulate facial recognition in different parts of the world would not be applied directly. This does not mean that the surveillance is less, but that it operates from another technical angle, less regulated for now. The tool is thus positioned in a gray terrain. It offers advanced monitoring without formally invading the biometric space, but its practical effects are dangerously approaching those who have already generated concern with automated facial identification. Images | Xataka with XAI | Alex Knight In Xataka | The intentions of the United Kingdom with Apple are a nightmare for privacy. That of the British and that of the whole world In Xataka | Alibaba wants to be the new Deepseek: he claims to have a training method for his AI 88% cheaper

OpenAi plans a future IPO. It is the definitive step to become a profit company

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Openai and Microsoft are renegotiating The terms of your non-dilio. The artificial intelligence startup recently announced an important change in its restructuring plans, and one of the objectives is that of a potential outlet. To the rhythm they are spending moneybetter that they complete that transition. Profit of profit. Last week OpenAi left his original restructuring plans. Its complex structure makes the “commercial” organization, which we know as OpenAI, is controlled by the non-profit organization (Non-Profit), OpenAi, Inc. Altman’s intention was to completely separate himself from the latter and become a company with profit (“for-profit”) traditional. Money and social good. However, They will become a public benefit corporation controlled by the non -profit organization. This type of entity not only seeks to obtain benefit, but also seeks social good. It is the same model that rivals such as Anthropic or XAI have adopted, and will allow OpenAi to offer their investors a business participation in exchange for their investments. And open the doors to an IPO.. Another of the key elements of the restructuring is that it will allow OpenAI as a public benefit corporation to opt for a public offer of actions to go over. That opens the definitive possibility to obtain funds: sell company participations such as any other company quoted in indexes such as Nasdaq. Microsoft Renegocia. Those renewed Openai intentions have caused them to now maintain a renegotiation of the terms of the alliance with Microsoft. The company of Satya Nadella has invested about 13,000 million dollars in Openai – part of them, in the form of resources to train their models – and OpenAi’s plans offer an opportunity to reach new agreements. More access to chatgpt. According to Financial TimesMicrosoft is willing to give part of its participation in that new corporation with OpenAi for profit in exchange for accessing its models and technology beyond 2030. The current agreement ends at that time and covers the access that Microsoft has to Openai’s intellectual property, in addition to a commission for the income that the company obtains for its commercial products, such as Chatgpt Plus. OpenAi is already giant. In FT they reveal that Openai is valued right now at 260,000 million dollars. However, the recent Softbank investment of 40,000 million dollars in Openai has caused that according to their own responsible Its valuation is 300,000 million dollarsas well as Coca-Cola. The IPO can further shoot its assessment, which is already colossal, thanks to its projection and popularity. But this moment is delicate. Analysts agree that Openai needs to complete that transformation to an entity with profit. If not, I would see future financing rounds committed, especially since companies that bet on OpenAi do it logically with the hope of recovering their investment with juicy benefits. They keep burning money. Meanwhile, in Openai they continue to burn money as if there were no tomorrow to train their generative models. The recent investment round led by SoftBank allows you to continue having a maneuvering room, but in the company they make it clear that they do not expect to have benefits until 2029. New member of the Big Techa group sight. By then, yes, its agricultural models and new products promise to make income of up to $ 125 billion, According to The Information. The step to a “For-Profit” structure is intended to endure until then and continue to have access to new funds in the future. It is a risky commitment, but one that can do well can make it a new full rule Big Tech. Image | Microsoft In Xataka | Silicon Valley has an obsession with “Todismo”: they begin by dominating a sector and then wanting to dominate them all

The best paid CEO in the US is not in Apple or Tesla. It is a complete stranger of a company that you had not heard

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When we think of the CEOs Better paid on the planet Surely we repeat a small group of people at the controls of some of the great technological corporations that dominate the present. We would not be unchanged in figures such as Tim Cook, Satya Nadella or Mark Zuckerberg, but none of them approaches the emoluments received by the Jafazo best paid in the United States. The curious thing about this story is that you have not heard in your life or the CEO, nor the company it directs. A complete stranger at the top. In an environment, that of the great corporations, dominated by omnipresent names such as Tim Cook, Elon Musk or Jensen Huang, the title of the best paid CEO of 2024 did not fell in any of them, but in an executive practically unknown to the general public: James Anderson. As? Yes, the man is in charge of COHERENTa technological company based in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the manufacture of network and laser systems. Anderson received a total remuneration of 101.5 million dollarssurpassing by a wide margin to figures such as Brian Niccol de Starbucks or Satya Nadella de Microsoft. Its impressive salary package positions it as the only CEO of the Ranking of Equila (which analyzed the 100 companies with income greater than one billion dollars) to exceed the barrier of the nine digits in compensation, in a year in which the average salary of an CEO reached a record of 25.6 million dollars. The stock market effect and a distortion. Although Anderson has a base salary of little more than one millionits incorporation to Coherent in June 2024 made its remuneration in cash be limited to only $ 81,538, along with a signature bonus of half a million. The rest, 99.4% of its emoluments, came from a Actions package whose value was shot unexpectedly. The reason: the enthusiasm of the market after the announcement of its appointment catapulted the price of coherent shares, thus generating an inflationary effect on the value of its shareholding concessions. The company, in Your proxy reporteven recognized this paradox: the actions were valued using a 30 -day mobile average that did not reflect the posterior stock market explosion, which artificially amplified the amount of the package. In addition, the payment included compensation for the loss of deferred actions accumulated during its previous stage in Semiconductor Laticewhere it was considered key in the exponential growth of the stock market value. The Top 10 of 2024 Domino effect. The impact of his Latetice departure and his arrival in Coherent was immediate. On the same day of the ad, the market value of Latice fell 15.5%which represented a loss of 1.6 billion dollars, while Coherent shares rose 22.9%, adding about 2,000 million in stock market capitalization. Since then, Coherent has maintained sustained growth, while Latice has retreated 34%. To all this, we must add that Anderson, Electrical Engineer With titles of MIT, Purdue and the University of Minnesota, it has a proven history: During their management in Lattice, the actions rose more than 875%, exceeding by broad margin to the S&P 500. In other words: its reputation as a silent transformer seems to have become an asset as valuable as any product line. The era of actions as salary. In the background, Anderson’s case illustrates a Dominant trend In contemporary executive compensation: retribution in shares represents near the 73% of the average total salary of the ceos, According to equilationwith a 41% increase compared to the previous year. This form of remuneration, linked to stock market performance rather than immediate results, has allowed to justify very high compensations, even in companies where the benefits do not always accompany. For example, Summit Singh, Chewy CEO, He received 35.1 million in 2024 Although the actions of the company 60% fellthe worst performance of the entire list. In contrast, Jensen Huang, from Nvidia (the firm with Best stock yield of the year, with an increase of 215%) received 34.1 million, although Your personal fortune It is estimated at 92,000 million thanks to its shareholding of 3.5%. Map of “tech” salaries a year earlier Benefits, security and inequality. There is much more, of course. In fact, in addition to wages and actions, many CEOs enjoy luxurious additional benefits. They counted in Barrons That Tim Cook, for example, received more than $ 780,000 in personal security services and another 655,000 on private flights. Starbucks, meanwhile, provides its CEO flights exclusively in private jets. Plus: This type of expenses has become more common due to growing concerns for security, especially after UNITEDHEALTH GROUP CEO Murder in a street in New York. In fact, a parallel study of equilation shows that almost a third of the S&P 500 companies already offer some type of executive protection, in this case a 28% increase Regarding 2023. The enigma Elon Musk. Yes, you may have realized that The richest man The planet has not appeared much until now. Elon Musk, although absent from the ranking because Tesla He has not presented Even your proxy report is still a key figure. Its previous ten -year compensation plan, approved in 2018 and currently valued in about 70,000 millionwas canceled twice By a delaware judge and now awaits a resolution in the state Supreme Court. This episode, together with the growing disconnection between real performance and executive remuneration, has fed criticism about the lack of effective controls in corporate wages. As Dean Baker summed upco -founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, “there is no real control over what is paid to the CEOS”, adding that many are not extraordinary, although they are paid as if they were. Citing these days, Warren Buffett, I remembered: “I try to invest in companies so good that even an idiot can direct them, because sooner or later, someone will do it.” Reflection of an era. In summary, at a time where salary inequality and wealth concentration generate increasingly intense debates, Anderson’s story It represents both … Read more

Every month that passes, Tesla’s breakdown is greater. And that begins to be a real problem for the company

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We begin to have sales data in European countries. The acea data will arrive in the last week of May but, little by little, we are knowing sales in the main European markets. And, once again, the data for Tesla are dramatic. It was expected. It was almost waiting. With each new quarter that begins, Tesla lowers its sales. The company has long followed a registration strategy that leads to enroll a greater number of vehicles in March, June, September and December. Consequently, January, April, July and October, when the quarter begins, pays the consequences with a good hangover. Spain. The data in our country confirms it. In January the brand already gave evident symptoms that something did not march well. Neither the Tesla Model 3 nor the Tesla Moda and sneaked into the 10 best -selling electric cars of our country which gave an idea that the company had cars stored in stock After a final push in 2024 to make up the photo of the year. Now, three months later, Tesla Model 3 loses the first position again. In March he had recovered ground (and is still the best selling car in what we have been) but the Renault 5 and Kia Ev3 They have overcome them again. Right now, Tesla is leaving in our country more than 16% fall. The damage in the case of Tesla Model 3 is lower. It is 9% compared to the accumulated of January-April of 2024 and it is not a bad figure if we take into account that the Tesla Model and is falling 25.46%. The electric SUV was its best selling car and right now it has placed almost half of the units that a model 3 in setback. Still worse. The data They are still worse Out of Spain. Our country does not cease to have a relatively small electric market, so the oscillations are more evident and represented by larger numbers. However, the fall of Tesla in the main markets are striking. In April 2025, the following falls are counted with data from Bloomberg: Sweden: -80.7% Netherlands: -73.8% Portugal: -33% France: -59.4% Germany: -46% United Kingdom: -62% In April, the company only grew in Norway and Italy. In the accumulated of the year, Tesla has fallen 60% in Germany, more than 50% in the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark and the only reason why it barely falls in the United Kingdom is because They could have diverted cars from other markets with a right -hand flyer to the islands. In a very bad time. So far we have been talking about the Tesla Model and Juniper hangover. The electric SUV update has undoubtedly slowed the sales of the new car. Because the production has reduced, there is a stock of the outgoing model to which it has had to leave and because there will be clients who have waited for aesthetic update to buy the most affordable models (it arrived exclusively wearing the most expensive option). The problem is that after a year in which the electric car noticed the first symptoms of wear, Europe has put the direct With this technology. We still have no official data from the entire continent but it is palpable that the number of electric cars in what we have been over is higher than 2024. The electric car market share has gone from 12% to 15.1% in the continent and have registered 412,997 units for 333,428 last year in the first quarter. We are at a growth of 23.9%. The competition squeezes. That means that competition begins to eat ground to Elon Musk’s company. Every day that passes is market share inside the electric car that is being left in Europe. With data from the first quarter of 2024, in Europe Tesla has gone from 2.4% market share of 1.3%. A 45%drop has been left. Volkswagen It has become the Super Survents of electric cars. After many problems with a Volkswagen id His secret has been the sale of the Great Electric Berlina. But, in addition, to these sales we must add those of Skoda, Cupra and Audiwhich improves the general photography of the group. At the same time, Kia Ev3 has entered the market very force And the Renault 5 is being a sales success in these first measures of the year, especially in France. A bump? As we say, it remains to know if what we have in front of Tesla is a bump, if it is going through a bad time that will remain as mere anecdote or if it really begins to have problems to place their cars. The arrival of Tesla Model and Juniper should end these sensations but the doubts begin to emerge. Because although in our test we count that the Electric SUV of Tesla remains a product that is above Of the competition, the truth is that there are more and more alternatives that move in about 30,000 euros and there Tesla is missing. It seems urgent for the company that can put a more affordable electric car on the market. Begins to be urgent. Seen what last numbers presentedfor the company it is urgent to lift the flight. The company has opted in recent months that it would begin to generate money with its autonomous driving systems, either with Robotaxis or with Sales to third parties. A commitment to which they have not taken revenues yet. At the same time, sales figures are not being expected. For the first time, in 2024 Tesla did not sell more cars than the previous year. Start worrying about 2025, just when competition You need to sell more cars electric And we have no 25,000 euros car Not one cheaper version of the current Model 3 or Model Y. The perspectives, of course, are not the best. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | Tesla begins to discover what happens when you lose your competitive advantage: its benefits have collapsed 71%

A Norwegian company is building an empire buying Spanish software startups for SMEs. With patience and without mergers

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Norway houses one of the biggest Spanish software startup buyers, although not well known beyond the niche niche. With five acquisitions since 2021 and more than 250 million euros invested in Spain, Visma has become a fundamental actor in the national technology and entrepreneuraccording to a long analysis of EcoTechers. Operational independence as a management model The Nordic giant broke into the Spanish market in 2021 with The acquisition of HoldedBarcelona business management software, which disbursed more than 190 million euros. Since then, has incorporated to declaring, woffu, quaderno and, The most recent, Tugesto, A Valencian startup that was participated by Angels, Juan Roig’s investment society, president of Mercadona. “I would expect something more this year for own ambition and project ambition. 2025 and 2026 are going to be years of many outings of Private Equity who entered the year 2021 and 2022. We are already beginning to see movements, “says Miguel García-Paredes, responsible for mergers and acquisitions for Spain and Portugal of Visma, according to EcoTechers. The most striking of its strategy is that, unlike other corporate buyers, Visma maintains companies acquired as independent entities, retaining their brands and management teams. “The idea of ​​visma is to set up an ecosystem rather than also from entrepreneurs and conserve the entrepreneur,” said García-Paredes. This philosophy was evident after the recent purchase of Tugesto. As reports The economist“It will continue to operate as an independent company under the same name and address.” Manuel Fandos, CEO of Tugesto, said That this union represents “a unique opportunity to revolutionize business management together, especially in a market such as payroll software, where much remains to be achieved and innovate in Spain.” Who is visma: the discreet multinational Founded in 1996 by merger It was privatized by the HG capital fund. Currently, its shareholding is distributed mainly between HG Capital (70%) and the Sustain Fund of Singapore GIC (14%). The company has closed the year 2024 with 2.8 billion euros of income, a growth of 17%, and 893 million EBITDA (+26.6%)according to data provided to EcoTechers. In Spain, where it has more than 400 employees, it hopes to reach 60 million billing this year. “Spain is one of the highest growth for visma,” said Merete Hverven, CEO of the group, to The economist In 2023. “From our landing in 2021, we grow at a rate of 70%.” Visma has perfected its acquisition strategy after More than 373 completed operations worldwide. Only between 2023 and 2024 closed more than 70 purchases. In Spain, its focus is on SME -centered software startupsan easy pattern to detect seeing your history. According to García-Paredes, they look for companies that meet or approach the “40 rule” for software, that is, the sum of the percentage of income in income and the Ebitda margin is equal to or greater than 40. The company, which has a presence in 27 countries in Europe and Latin America, sees in Spain a strategic market for its size – almost 50 million inhabitants – and for the “growing advance of digitalization”, factors that predict that there will be more acquisitions in the future. Outstanding image | VISMA In Xataka | The technological basis of quantum computers developed in Europe: what happened so that in the long term we lost the race

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