Many wonder why Israel as a nation appears to be so aggressive, to invade Gaza and Lebanon when attacked, to bomb Syria, Iraq and possibly now Iran when threatened by the Iranian nuclear bomb program. In general many question the way Israel violently reacts to provocation. The answer may lie...

Recently there has been an increased focus on our barriers to multitasking. For example, imagine yourself driving as you receive a Twitter update or an SMS on your cellphone. Without a driverless car, your eyes must be focused on the road with your hands on the steering wheel, not on...

Viví de pequeño en Argentina, después en Estados Unidos durante 18 años, más tarde otros 17 en España y ahora acabo de regresar a Estados Unidos. Este artículo va a tocar un solo tema: El aguante a la crítica. A la crítica que es el primer...

Llevo una hora probando el Google Chromebook de Samsung.

Costando sólo 249 dólares no hay mucho de lo que quejarse. Es una pieza de hardware bastante decente por un precio súper barato. Si la competencia es, digamos, un MacBook Air de 1.000 dólares,...

Viví de pequeño en Argentina, después en Estados Unidos durante 18 años, más tarde otros 17 en España y ahora acabo de regresar a Estados Unidos. Este artículo va a tocar un solo tema: El aguante a la crítica. A la crítica que es el primer paso para el cambio,...

The USA is a great nation for entrepreneurship and innovation, it has the best science in the world, the most creativity in the arts, it is the number one economy in the world, it has an energy unrivaled by other nations and we have chosen to move to this great...

En medio del huracán Sandy, cuando más de un millón de hogares no tienen electricidad y con downtown NY apagado no se como pero me llegaron dos gadgets que había pedido, el iPad Mini y la Microsoft Surface. Ayer los estuve probando y...

I lived in NYC for 18 years, then in Madrid, Spain, for 17 years and as of three weeks ago I have been back in New York City. While I started my life as the middle class son of a university professor, I was lucky enough to become a serial...

Europe has been associated with economic decline for decades. Indeed, many have written off Europe as a continent incapable of innovation, watching it fall behind North America and Asia. However, in terms of GDP, the European Union is still the largest economy in the world. The real GDP...

Primero una anécdota. Cuando vine a vivir a España, desde Estados Unidos, y creé Jazztel en 1998, se me ocurrió ofrecerles a los empleados un seguro médico, algo muy norteamericano. Les pregunté si preferían que Jazztel les pagara un seguro médico privado, o les diera el...

Have you been reading about German chancellor Angela Merkel's rigidity in maintaining the single currency? Do you see how terrible the future looks not only for the periphery of Europe but for Germany as well? Is it clear that as we stand we are headed for the perfect...

We are in Sagaponack, NY. Nina, Leo and Mia went to see the Southampton 4th of July parade. I am sick in bed with a bad summer flu. I stayed in bed watching a Game of Thrones marathon. I am on Season 2, Episode 4. I...

España va camino a la bancarrota. Si no fuera por la UE que hace ya más de un año nos compra la deuda, no seríamos capaces de financiarnos. Si no fuera con ayudas como las de hoy para recapitalizar la banca estaríamos ya quebrados. La insolvencia de España...

10 years ago all of us on the Internet were licking our wounds. We had been taken for a crazy ride in which we went from a point in whatever we touch was champagne to whatever we did was shit.

As an entrepreneur that lived through 1998 to 2002 I...

One of the most frequent questions I get from journalists during interviews is "how do you have time to do everything you do? You run Fon, you are an active angel investor in so many companies, you teach at IE, speak at conferences, run your foundation,...

A couple of years ago, I decided to move to Spain. It was here that I started Jazztel, now one of the country's largest telcos, Ya.com and most recently Fon, the world's largest WiFi community.

My motivation for moving to Spain was that this is a great...

Friends outside of Spain have been asking me about the ongoing movement that has become known as #spanishrevolution. Here's the summary of what this movement is about:

People have become increasingly frustrated by the many problems in Spain: Over 20% unemployment rate and over 30% youth unemployment rate, incompetent...

Fon's WiFi network is the largest in Japan. We have over a million hotspots of which over half are on at the moment. The Fon network is free to those who share WiFi (known as Foneros) and other users pay. Given the current emergency in Japan, and the failure...

It is becoming common for people to say they don't like WikiLeaks because they can't stand Assange. This is misleading. Few sympathize with Assange as a character. Most of us, myself included, have never met with him. But the issue here is not Assange, his hair or whether he does,...

Egyptians fought bravely, ousted Mubarak and gave power to the military. But it turns out that USA effectively controls the Egyptian Army. It financed it, trained it and should it go into conflict with it, it can easily defeat it. So Egyptian people, whether they are aware of this or...