Why I Think LinkedIn Endorsements Will Be Dead By The End Of The Year
Today, I received LinkedIn endorsements of my skills from five people I’ve never met.There’s no way these people have any context for my ability to deliver the skills and expertise they endorsed.Don’t...
View ArticleOracle Shares Dive After Earnings (ORCL)
Oracle just released quarterly earnings results, and the stock is down around 6 percent in after-hours trading.Earnings per share missed estimates by a penny, coming in at $0.65.Revenues, however, came...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Mobile App Engagement Continues To Dominate The Mobile Web
This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here.Apps are the Internet portal of...
View ArticleWhat The Heck Is This 4K TV Thing People Keep Drooling Over?
The big theme of the Consumer Electronics Show this year was 4K TVs, sometimes called Ultra HD. Everyone from LG to Toshiba to Sharp is working on a 4K UHD set, and Samsung is one of the first...
View ArticleApollo-Era Rocket Engines Pulled From The Bottom Of The Atlantic Ocean [PHOTOS]
Scientists used underwater vehicles to recover, from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, the most powerful engines ever fired to boost rockets from the Apollo program into space. The engines were...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Its Evernote Killer, Google Keep (GOOG)
Googlehas released Google Keep, a note-taking app that is most comparable to Evernote.It's free and currently available for any device running Android 4.0 or better.The idea is simply that it's a...
View ArticleMeg Whitman: 'Moonshot' Servers Will Make You Rethink HP's Products (HPQ)
At HP's annual shareholder meeting Wednesday, CEO Meg Whitman tried to recast the company as a leader in creating new products."Despite what you might have heard, innovation is alive and well at...
View ArticleEric Schmidt Drops A Hint That Google's Siri Competitor Is Coming To iPhone...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt hinted today that Google Now, the company's Siri-like assistant for Android devices, has been submitted to Apple and is pending approval for publication in the App Store....
View ArticleThe 14 Best Tweets In History
In seven short years, Twitter has evolved from a place where people simply share random thoughts to the first place people go for breaking news and events.In honor of Twitter's seventh birthday, we...
View ArticleWhy People Aren't Going To Use Google's Latest Product, 'Keep' (GOOG)
Last night Google launched "Keep," a service that lets users take notes and gather links. It's Google's attempt at an Evernote-like service.The reaction to Keep was not positive in the tech world. Om...
View ArticleThe Future Of Mobile [SLIDE DECK]
We hosted our IGNITION: Mobile conference on March 21 in San Francisco.To kick off the conference, our BI Intelligence team—Marcelo Ballvé, Alex Cocotas, and I—put together a deck on the current trends...
View ArticleMore People Now Watch TV And Movies On Tablets In Bedrooms Than On TVs!
In case you wanted more evidence that tablets and smartphones are disrupting the traditional TV viewing experience, here are some startling new survey stats from Motorola about how people consume TV...
View ArticleLinkedIn Exec: Mobile 'Gives You A Chance To Reinvent Yourself' (LNKD)
LinkedIn has seen enormous growth on mobile traffic in two years—from 8 percent to 27 percent.But merely growing traffic is a limiting way to think of the effect mobile can have on your business, Joff...
View ArticleHacker Accessed A Silicon Valley Billionaire's AOL Account And Sent Some...
A hacker who goes by the name of Guccifer has taken another victim. He's already hacked into the email accounts of politicians including Colin Powell, former White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, and...
View ArticleHow Stripe Plans To Make Mobile Pay (EBAY)
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, whose company offers an easily installed payments service for applications, believes there's a big problem in mobile—and that's how to make money."One of the trends in...
View ArticleCIA Chief Tech Officer: Big Data Is The Future And We Own It
On Wednesday, the CIA's chief technology officer detailed the Agency's vision for collecting and analyzing all of the information people put on the Internet.The wide-ranging presentation at GigaOM's...
View ArticleEllison: Oracle's Hardware Business Won't Grow This Fiscal Year After All (ORCL)
For months, Oracle CEO Larry Ellisonhas been saying that the company's hardware business was going to stop shrinking by February and start growing by May.Now Ellison is saying something else: The...
View ArticleWatch Out, CNBC—Here Comes LinkedIn TV
LinkedIn product chief Deep Nishar unveiled a surprising long-term vision for where the professional network is going.One word: television.At the Ignition Mobile conference in San Francisco Thursday,...
View ArticleFacebook Boasts That A 'Crazy Hack' Made Its New Android App Possible
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.Facebook...
View ArticleAPPLE: We Don't Know What Eric Schmidt Is Talking About, Google Didn't Submit...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt seems to have trolled a lot of people.Earlier Thursday, at a conference in India, he was asked if Google Now, Google's predictive search product, would be coming to the...
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