Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Leaves For A New Job At Apple (AAPL)
Kevin Lynch, Adobe's CTO, has left the company for a job at Apple. An Apple spokesperson confirmed the hire to AllThingsD. Lynch will be Apple's vice president of technology and report to Bob...
View ArticleHere's What Furious Sellers Are Saying About Amazon's New Fees (AMZN)
Amazon, the most publicly respected corporation in the U.S., is generating some hate mail.The e-commerce giant has been hiking fees for its third-party sellers over the past year-and-a-half, according...
View ArticleOracle's Acquisition Of Startup Nimbula Last Week Is Strangely Hush Hush (ORCL)
Oracle reports its earnings tomorrow and one thing everyone will be listening for is progress with Oracle's cloud.The cloud has been the subject of a lot of Ellison's smack talk in recent months and...
View ArticleHere's How The Adman Who Charges $1,000 A Tweet Justifies His Fee
On Tuesday we told you about the World's Fastest Agency (WFA) — a new ad shop that asks clients to wire it $999, direct message it's branding problem on Twitter, and then wait 24 hours for a...
View ArticleBII REPORT: How Mobile Is Waging Battle For The Multi-Screen Living Room
For over a decade, big tech companies, including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, have been promising to take over the living room.But home entertainment has proved a hard business to crack, and consumers...
View ArticleEven When Password-Protected, Anyone Can Access Your Samsung Galaxy Phone
In a video he posted to YouTube, security researcher Terence Eden reveals a way to bypass the lockscreen on Samsung phones and run applications.This is completely reminiscent of an iOS bug from last...
View ArticleElon Musk Explains Why A Big Argument Against Electric Cars Is Totally Wrong
A common argument against the development of electric cars is that the electricity they use is generated from non-renewable sources like coal, so they are not nearly as environmentally friendly as they...
View ArticleHow To Charge Your iPhone By Turning A Crank (AAPL)
The Reactor iPhone case lets you charge your iPhone 5 by turning a crank to keep your phone juiced up until you find an outlet.It's only a concept at this point. The guys behind it are seeking...
View ArticleHow Facebook Gets You To Buy Products Even If You Never Click On Ads (FB)
A lot of people don't click on Facebook ads.So Slate's Farhad Manjoo recently posed and answered the following question: How does Facebook expect to become a big business if some people avoid ads like...
View ArticleAmazon On The $99 Kindle Fire HD Tablet: 'It's Not Happening' (AMZN)
So much for all that!Amazon is not doing a $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet, a company spokesperson tells us: "It's not happening--we are already at the lowest price points possible for that...
View ArticleHow The NYSE Became The Biggest Stage For Financial News
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street may date back to the Buttonwood Agreement signed in Manhattan in 1792, but there is nothing dated about its state of the art broadcast operation.Home...
View Article7 Cities Using Smart Technology In Unusual Ways
New technologies like big data, sensors, mobile, smart grids are changing the way cities operate.Cities want to help you find parking spaces, avoid traffic jams, get instant help when emergencies...
View ArticleAutonomy's Mike Lynch: I Warned Meg Whitman About Autonomy's Problems In...
Today is HP's annual shareholder meeting and chances are investors will be asking the board lots of questions about the HP's botched $11 billion acquisition of Autonomy.Autonomy founder, Mike Lynch,...
View Article'Human Weakness' Helped Chinese Hackers Steal Secrets From US Companies
Most of the espionage coming from these "sophisticated" Chinese hackers was actually victim activated.A cyber security company released a report last month detailing the exploits of a state-sanctioned...
View ArticleMobile Overtakes TV In The Bedroom
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Mobile...
View ArticlePepsi's Most Successful Viral Video Ever Is Completely Fake
Last week Pepsi released what is already the 14th most-shared branded video of all time.The spot shows NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon putting on everyman makeup and facial hair, going to a used car...
View ArticleSamsung Makes Its Smart TVs Official With The Help Of Kate Upton, Eli...
Samsung officially launched the final versions of its new line of premium Smart TVs today that we first saw at CES in January. At a star-studded launch event featuring Kate Upton, Eli Manning, and...
View ArticleHere's How Much Uber, One Of Silicon Valley's Hottest Startups, Pays Its...
Jumping from a corporate job to a startup can be a risky move.But if you're passionate about the company's mission, like 25-year-old Deepa Talwar was, it can be well worth it.Talwar gave up a job at...
View ArticleHere's What You Get In A TV That Costs $40,000
Samsungannounced today that it's going to charge $40,000 for its top of the line 85-inch UN85S9 television.It is also planning a 95-inch model, and a 110-inch model, but has not announced the pricing...
View ArticleHow To Convince Fortune 500 Companies To Use Your Tiny, Insignificant Startup
Corey Capasson has launched five startups. For two of them, Nomi and Salesforce-owned Spinback, his job was to reel in big clients.When no one has ever heard of your company though, that's a daunting...
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