The Italy of Video Games arrives in San Francisco
It's a massive market which still has considerable room for growth in Italy. The global video games industry represents a market of 80 billion euros and in Italy, where it has already overtaken cinema and music, it is worth almost one billion euros. Thus, the Italian industry is not about to miss the largest world event dedicated to video...
BAIA Geeks Meetup: exploring new ways of networking
BAIA was started in 2006 by a very small group of Italians, my friends Michele Ursino, Matteo Daste and Giorgio Ghersi. I joined the association only a few weeks after it was founded. The founders' long term goal was to build a business community of Italians in San Francisco and in the Silicon Valley who didn't identify themselves with the historic...
Italian fashion brand Luisa Spagnoli opens first US store in Palo Alto
Great news for Bay Area women with a passion for Italian fashion. The iconic brand Luisa Spagnoli is now in at the Stanford shopping mall with a boutique of its own. I was delighted to congratulate Nicoletta Spagnoli, the CEO of the Italian company and the great-granddaughter of Luisa Spagnoli who created the business in 1928 in Perugia (b...
A Voyage Into Italy of the Future
A traveling exhibition promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and created by the CNR (Italian National Research Council) in collaboration with IIT (Italian Institute of Technology), the INFN (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics,) and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies 'Italy of the Future' is an exploration of Italy's most rece...
Italian Internet of Things Company Has One Leg in Silicon Valley and the Other in Italy
by Mauro Battocchi As the Internet of Things (IoT) movement grows, we are seeing more machines talking to each other, known as M2M communication. This type of technology is especially interesting to big businesses like shipping and manufacturing. By making their machines smarter, these enterprises can gain greater efficiencies and avoid co...
Le 4 vite di Federico Faggin, l’inventore del microcroprocessore celebrato da Obama
di Maria Teresa Cometto Il primo microprocessore al mondo porta la firma di un italiano, Federico Faggin. La porta davvero, in senso letterale: "F.F.", le sue iniziali, sono incise in un angolino di ogni chip Intel 4004, da quando Faggin l'ha inventato nel 1971. "Quando l'ho finito, mi piaceva la sua vista d'insieme: mi sembrava q...
Amadeo Peter Giannini, il banchiere di Hollywood
di Giuseppe Barcellona Amadeo Giannini era figlio di immigrati genovesi, per anni lavorò a San Francisco nel magazzino di generi alimentari del padre poi nel 1904 fondò a San Francisco la Bank of Italy per aiutare i piccoli imprenditori e le famiglie italiane. Nel 1906 un terremoto ed un incendio rasero al suolo la città californiana,...
A Silicon Valley con Italiani di Frontiera. Il programma aggiornato del Tour a fine agosto
Un Tour a fine agosto, altri due in cantiere in autunno. Un work in progress, l'Italiani di Frontiera Silicon Valley Tour 2012, presentato nei giorni scorsi a Milano. Un'avventura per chi sa guardare al domani con fiducia e spirito d'impresa (in alto, il video in anteprima che racconta il Tour 2011). Viste le richieste, abbiamo pensato di effettua...
Fn Spy: Alberto Moretti's $5K heel
According to Footwear News, Alberto Moretti's 24-carat, gold-adorned stilettos will soon be available for the taking — at a hefty price. The heels, priced at €4,000 ($5,206 at current exchange) will hit Barneys New York, Fred Segal Los Angeles, and other countries in September. Moretti stated that he worked with the velvet, which was cover...
Italian Trade Commission si trasferisce nell’edificio del Consolato Generale
A partire da lunedi' 9 settembre, gli uffici della Italian Trade Commission - Los Angeles (sezione commerciale del Consolato Generale) si trasferiranno nel palazzo che ospita la sede consolare - 1900 Avenue of the Stars - alla suite 350. Se siete una societa' americana interessata ad attivita' commerciali ed investimenti con/ in Italia o s...
Il Console generale Perrone alla I edizione di "Sotto le stelle" di Beverly Hills
Sabato scorso, 7 settembre, si è svolta ai giardini di Beverly Canon la prima edizione di "Sotto le Stelle", serata dedicata all'Italia nel cuore di Beverly Hills, organizzata dal Consolato Generale d'Italia a Los Angeles in collaborazione con StudioMusica USA e la Città di Beverly Hills, nel quadro del 2013 Anno della Cultura Italiana negli USA....
Italian-American Artist Keeps Fabric Traditions Alive
Being an artist is as much a part of Angelina DeAntonis' genetic coding as her Italian ancestry and the great-grandfather she was named for. In speaking about her youth, the fact that Angelina is a designer—including dying the fabric for her own multi-purpose pieces—is no surprise given her hands-on, grass-roots upbringing. Read m...