Italian-Founded Startup Launches Children Play Spaces for Bay Area Super Bowl
Tumbuktu Labs is a novel Italian-founded startup based in Los Angeles that describes themselves as a "children's media innovation lab" and helps brands better understand youngsters and create products they love. On the occasion of Super Bowl 50, which is taking place in the Bay Area on February 7th, Timbuktu Labs is launching a project called "Timb...
Italy and California Both Embrace Wind for a Cleaner Future
by Mauro Battocchi Wind energy is increasingly being seen worldwide as a low cost, clean source for electricity and is also creating major new business opportunities for manufacturing and materials innovation. At the forefront of zeal for wind energy lies Italy and California, who both have significant installed capacity and ambitious deve...
Vespa looks to the future with 2015 Sprint
Vespa is the Harley-Davidson of scooters. Sixty-eight years old and counting, it is the oldest continuous-production scooter maker, the most iconic and the most likely to raid its brand heritage and push it forward with new models that recall vehicles of generations past. Take the new 2015 Vespa Sprint. The smallest and sportiest small-bod...
International Tax Compliance Seminar presented by the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West
The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West presents : International Tax Compliance in the US: past, present and future. A panel discussion The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, better known as FATCA, was passed in 2010 as part of the HIRE act. Starting July 1, 2014 Foreign Financial Institutions (FFI) are required by the US governme...
Italian Store Opening First U.S. Flagship in Beverly Hills
Benvenuto, Battistoni. The high-end Italian purveyor of luxury clothing for men and women is opening its first U.S. flagship in Beverly Hills when it opens its doors on March 16 at 9536 Wilshire Blvd. The Italian brand started in Rome as a men's shirt label in 1946 when Guglielmo Battistoni started out as a shirt maker in a secluded ateli...
Sexy molto prima di Apple. Tracce italiane nella Valley
SAN FRANCISCO - Prima di Apple, Dell, Google e Facebook, c'era Olivetti e c'era un nutrito drappello di ricercatori Italiani. Trasferendosi negli Stati Uniti finirono per giocare un ruolo fondamentale negli eventi che hanno fatto della Silicon Valley il centro planetario dell'innovazione tecnologica e sociale. La "love story" tra gli italiani e que...
Commission decides against moving on Strip news rack ban
By Conor Shine The Clark County Commission has put off a ban on news racks along the Strip and instead will work with owners of the racks to come up with a compromise that limits obstructions for pedestrians.The issue: Commissioners considered an ordinance that would have banned all news racks along Las Vegas Boulevard from Russell Road to Sahara...
Stare in Silicon Valley è un master continuo. La Nuova Italia che Avanza: Hyperfair
Oggi parliamo di Hyperfair, startup che realizza fiere virtuali online sfruttando la tecnologia 3D. La startup, fondata da Marco Campanari e Max Bonfanti, è in questi giorni sugli scudi per avere appena annunciato un round di finanziamento di 1,2 milioni di dollari. L'investimento (cui hanno partecipato anche Atlante Ventures, il fondo di...
Fancy A Fig? California's Growers Desperately Hope You Do
by Ezra David Romero For many Americans, their only association with figs comes in the form of a Fig Newton. And indeed, once upon a time, most of the figs grown in California ended up in fig pastes and cookies like those familiar chewy squares. But tastes change, and the fig industry has gone through tough times. Lack of demand a...
Masterpieces of Italian Design. The new "Quattroporte" on show at Maserati - Beverly Hills
The new "Quattroporte" was launched at the Maserati Beverly Hills showroom on March 28th during an exclusive cocktail reception with showbiz celebrities and Maserati aficionados. The "Quattroporte" was born in 1963, when Maserati put a racing engine in a Grand Touring automobile. Today, the sixth generation Quattroporte is simply...
Italian E-Motorcycle Maker Energica Challenges Harley Davidson
By Paul Glader In the U.S., motorcycles conjure images of loud, reverberating, menacing engines on stout, chrome-heavy frames adorned in black leather. We're talking Harley Davidson rallies in Sturgis and Daytona, the cinematic scenes of Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider, the disgruntled war veterans, immigrants and roughnecks ri...
Rosemary is credited with remarkable number of healthy old people in an Italian village
WHEN American cardiologist Alan Maisel went on holiday to the village of Acciaroli on Italy's Amalfi coast a few years ago he was amazed to find that many of its inhabitants lived to a great age despite a lifestyle that broke all the health police's rules. "I was at the beach and I saw all these leather-necked, tanned people in their 90s a...