Spanish cuisine is in craze. Nowadays, we can enjoy lots of different cuisines but if you want to feel the true passion on your palata, you have to make your reservation on:
- Bocadillos: As a place to eat, meet friends, or chat with the owner, tapas bars in Spain traditionally provided great communal opportunities for locals and tourists alike, and have a long history of doing so.
- Gitane: Named after the freewheeling gypsy, Gitane is a modern, funky, and artistically bold restaurant located in downtown San Francisco. Chef Bridget Batson creates thoughtful dishes inspired from the Iberian Peninsula. Batson’s cuisine incorporates regional flavor profiles from Spain, Portugal, Southern France and neighboring Morocco.
- Piperade: It is a restaurant defined by the same robust flavor and deep-rooted cultural heritage. Serving what Chef Hirigoyan has coined as “West Coast Basque Cuisine”, the menu is an original blend of authentic Basque food refined by San Francisco’s sense of freshness and simplicity.
- Zarzuela: With its stucco walls, tile floors and wood beam ceiling, the interior of this tapas restaurant feels like something you might find in Spain, but the clang of cable cars outside plants you firmly in San Francisco. It’s a perfect combination. Chef Lucas Gasco has been creating some of the best tortilla Española and flaky empanadas for the past 17 years.
Altran, European leader in innovation and strategic consulting, will offer the Open4Content four screen platform in its portfolio.
mgMEDIA has come to an agreement with Altran, European leader in innovation and strategic consulting, for the distribution of mgMEDIA’s Open4Content multi-device platform in various European countries. Over 30.86% of Altran’s activity is dedicated to telecommunications. Altran works with top companies such as Spanish Telefónica and UK’s Vodafone, and has agreements with other companies like Nortel, Microsoft or Opencloud.
The strength of this agreement is founded in the power of mgMEDIA’s over-the-top technology and Altran’s experience in the IT sector. Open4Content, mgMEDIA‘s four screen digital distribution platform (Smart TVs, tablets, Smartphones and computers), is already the technology used in digital distribution strategies of leader entertainment companies such as Samsung Movies in Spain or Fastweb (Swisscom) in Italy. Thanks to Open4Content, users can enjoy contents purchased in any of their internet-connected devices, which are also synchronized, so the content purchased in one device is available in all the others, and users may resume that content in the exact point they paused it in another device, among many other benefits.
Altran‘s European delegations will offer Open4Content as a product in its portfolio, which will allow the innovative technology of mgMEDIA become well known among big companies of this sector in this decisive moment when Smart TVs are becoming more popular. The 20 million existing Smart TVs will increase to 800 million units in the next five years.
“We are convinced that our agreement with Altran will make our digital distribution technology reach the most important European telecommunication companies, which have always been in our strategic spotlight. This way, millions of clients will be able to enjoy the four screen experience and watch movies and any kind of digital content while they’re on the bus or simply on the living room couch, for example, but also very accessible prices and high definition or 3D”, declared Jerónimo Macanás, CEO of mgMEDIA.
“The inclusion of mgMEDIA’s technology in our European solutions portfolio is of key importance in Altran’s strategy, since connected solutions are one of the most important elements in our worldwide activity. Relying on such a powerful Spanish company is a vital motivation boost in the multinational development of these solutions”, said Luis Manuel Díaz de Terán, Business development director of the telecommunications and media division of Altran.
About mgMEDIA
mgMEDIA is a company devoted to technology for digital content multi-device distribution. The Open4Content four screen platform is the company’s focal product, offered in a SaaS (Software as a Service) model as house brand customizable for the digital distribution of premium content. It also provides TV APP development services and strategic consultancy in the field of digital content distribution for Internet-connected devices. mgMEDIA has offices in Madrid (Spain) and San Francisco (California, USA).
Further information
mgMEDIA
Isabel Garzo –Communication Manager
Isabel.garzo@microgenesismedia.com
Telf. +34 91 432 35 26
Small plates have earned Jose Andres one of the food world’s biggest honors.
The man credited with popularizing tapas — the Spanish custom of dining on small, shared plates — was named the nation’s most outstanding chef Monday during the James Beard Foundation’s annual awards ceremony, the so-called Oscars of the culinary crowd.
Andres has been praised for a string of successful restaurants around the country — most notably Jaleo and minibar by Jose Andres in Washington, D.C. — which challenged the conventional thinking that anything but heaping portions would leave American diners unsatisfied.
Recently, Andres — who grew up outside Barcelona and moved to the U.S. 21 years ago after training with famed Spanish chef Ferran Adria — has become known almost as much for his politics as for what he puts on the plate. He has spoken often — and even lobbied friends in Congress — on issues including school lunch standards, childhood obesity, hunger, subsidies for agribusiness and food marketing.
“Food is the most powerful thing we have in our hands. Not only chefs, but everyone in the food community. The right use of food can end hunger,” Andres said Monday after accepting his award. “We have the responsibility to make sure that not only our great nation, but the world will always be better using food in the right way.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/09/food-oscars-nod-jose-andres-danny-meyer/#ixzz1M4Rn88TA
April 14th took place a important event where spanish wine cellar and others food companies introduced their products. All participating companies were seeking distribution and looking forward to sharing their products.
This opportunity was wonderful to compare the differents kind of spanish wine with Californian wine. The wine and food products from Spain has a good quality and flavors from our land.
It was great day and we felt like at home, we want to thank to Foods from Spain and Wine from Spain to do possible this special event.
“Caramelos Solidarios” (“Candy for Togetherness”).
This organization provides candy, fun, smiles and love to children affected buy disasters: economic, natural (earthquakes, floods), warm (refugees) and epidemics, many of whom have never tried candy.
We have worked in many Latin American and African countries.
Today 4,000 children will die in the world after drinking undrinkable water.
This year 2011 ourproject is in Kinshasa, DR of Congo.
“Providing drinking water & smilesfor the children at Kimbondo Orphanage”
The 650 Kimbondo orphanage children drink undrinkable water every day. A $10 donation for each child will give them drinking water for life.
Give water. Give live.
Innovalley Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based innovation company. Inspired by the creative energy of our cities, Barcelona and San Francisco. Our goal is to make technology meet other fields such as apparel and fashion, to increase the usefulness of our everyday items, creating user friendly experiences and great designs that everyone would like to wear.
Today we want to present you our new solar bags. Youshine is the ultimate bag specially designed to fit your laptop and your urban & green lifestyle: an ecofriendly bag with flexible solar panels that can charge your small electronic devices (Smartphone, iPad, GPS, mp3 player, camera…) under direct sun exposure. These bags have been smartly designed with organizational pockets and nooks to fit your personal items. It includes a case that holds up to a 15” laptop.
Now you can find them at: www.innovalley.us/store. If you are a member of the Chamber of Commerce you will have an extra 10% discount for these bags using the code Chamber10Youshine
This night was an excellent opportunity to expand the international network while trying some of the best food and drinks from different parts of the world.
The participating chambers were : The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, South African Association of Business communities, Australian-American Chamber of Commerce, Irish Network Bay Area, New Zealand-American Association and the California Spain Chamber of Commerce. It was a great night and we want to thank everybody to make it possible.
More than 30 startup entrepreneurs visiting from Spain plus other investors,
media rock stars, designers, developers who are involved in the Spain and European Web and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem took part in BizTech Spain Night.
The Speakers were: Jeff Clavier (Managing Partner, SoftTech VC), Bernardo Hernández (Global Head of Marketing for Emerging Profucts at Google) and Loic Le Meur (Founder of Seesmic).
It was an amazing night full of enterpreneurs exchanging and learning about the ways and opportunities in the Bay Area, around web 2.0.
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