My Job Interview With Salesforce's Marc Benioff Was The Weirdest 7 Minutes Of...
If you find yourself lucky enough to be up for a top job at Salesforce.com, you might be whipped into CEO Marc Benioff's presence for a job interview.Prepare yourself for an odd experience, says hot...
View ArticleYour Thumb Will Replace Your Mouse — And Other Changes Coming To Your Work Apps
Software delivered via the Internet is about to take another big leap forward, say some of the biggest players in the software-as-a-service world.Cloud vendors are even calling it SaaS 2.0. Executives...
View ArticleBuffett Explains Why He Paid $344 Million For 28 Newspapers, And Thinks The...
Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letter is out. In it, he has a huge section on newspapers.In the past 15 months, Berkshire Hathaway acquired 28 daily newspapers for $344 million.With what everyone...
View ArticleMicrosoft Thinks We'll All Have Wall-Sized Touchscreens In Our Homes (MSFT)
Microsoft opened up a new "Envisioning Lab" at its Redmond headquarters today.It shows off Microsoft's view of what the post-PC world looks like in 5 to 10 years.That vision involves a lot of giant,...
View Article8 Of Yahoo's 11 Leaders Are New
Since joining Yahoo as CEO in July, Marissa Mayer has remade the executive team, sometimes replacing people abruptly.Yahoo just filed its annual report with the SEC, and the introduction makes two...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: How To Make Your Twitter Followers Grow
A new study from researchers at Georgia Tech (PDF) that we found via Poynter shows what really matters in getting your Twitter followers to grow.The No. 1 factor is network overlap—when you see that...
View ArticleSquare CEO Jack Dorsey: Most Of The Best Programmers Are Self-Taught
Square CEO Jack Dorsey told venture capitalist Fred Wilson tonight at the NYU Entrepreneurs Festival that he believes the best programmers are self-taught.In the keynote interview, Dorsey said that...
View ArticleApple And Samsung Will Have To Run Through A Whole New Patent Trial (AAPL)
The long-running patent dispute between Apple and Samsung will keep on running.U.S. District Court judge Lucy Koh issued a ruling Friday ordering a retrial with respect to $450 million in damages,...
View ArticleTwitter's Jack Dorsey: 'I Learn A Lot From Justin Bieber'
At the NYU Entrepreneur Festival tonight, Jack Dorsey, the founder of payments company Square and information network Twitter, spoke about the importance of design and having products resonate with...
View ArticleIn One Of His Final Interviews, Andrew Mason Talked About Building A Business...
Just two weeks ago, then-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason did an interview with analyst Greg Sterling in which he showed no sign of concern about his job."My intuition has always been starting with the...
View ArticleYahoo: Maybe, Just Maybe, We'll Have To Pay $2.7 Billion In That Mexico Lawsuit
In its just-published annual report, Yahoo changed its tune about the giant lawsuit in Mexico it's in the process of appealing.Yahoo shocked investors in November when it revealed that a court had...
View ArticleApple Stock Just Crashed To A New Low
It was an up day for the market and most technology stocks, but not for Apple.Apple stock fell another 2.5% to close at $430--its lowest closing price since the stock's slide began last September.Apple...
View ArticleI'm Actually Flossing After Using This App That Will Reprogram Your Bad...
Lift is a simple app with a humble mission– to help its users cultivate good habits.Simply maintain a list of tasks that you want to turn into a habit and tell the app when you want to be reminded to...
View ArticleNow The Deaf Community Can Take Full Advantage Of Google+ Hangouts (GOOG)
Google+ Hangouts, the company's group video chat app, now has special support for sign language interpreters.When an interpreter is added to the Hangout, he remains in the top right of the app and...
View ArticleA Line In Buffett's New Letter Explains Why Amazon Is One Of The Most Amazing...
Warren Buffett is known as the world's most famous "value investors", but that term is not well understood.In his latest letter to shareholders (.pdf), Buffett includes a great paragraph explaining...
View ArticleAwesome Startup Perk: Plex Systems Has An Old Fashioned Pinball Arcade
Startup Plex Systems has a pinball arcade complete with its own pinball wizard, Michael McDonald.How cool is that?McDonald is one of the founding members of the Detroit Pinball League and co-organizer...
View ArticleHow Marissa Mayer Figured Out Work-At-Home Yahoos Were Slacking Off (YHOO, GOOG)
Last week, Yahoo banned employees from working from home.How did CEO Marissa Mayer decide to make such a controversial decision?According to a source, the only way Mayer is comfortable making any...
View ArticleYahoo's New Strategy: Kill Old Products (YHOO)
Yahoowill be shutting down a number of projects over the next few months so that it can channel more attention to its more important products.Beginning April 1st, users can say goodbye to Yahoo Message...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Schools In The World For App Developers [RANKED]
Majoring in Computer Science is a good way to jump start a career in the app developing business.Attending one of the top universities in the world will certainly help secure a great job with companies...
View ArticleThis Tiny Apple Accessory Contains A Full-Fledged Computer (AAPL)
An interesting discovery comes to us by way of the Panic Blog– Apple's Lightning Digital AV Adapter contains a full-blown computer.When they were having some problems with their adapter, curiosity got...
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