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The First Email, The First Tweet, And 13 Other Famous Internet Firsts
When was the first email sent, and who sent it?What was the first ad to ever run on a web page?How about the first picture uploaded to the Internet?Here are 15 famous Internet firsts that were...
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This Is What It's Like When Yahoo Buys Your Startup And Then Starves It To...
Yahoo is killing off event planning service Upcoming, a startup it acquired back in 2007. But Andy Baio, the founder of Upcoming, is not pleased by Yahoo's "typical [f***]-off-and-die style" when it...
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Will.i.am. Won An Honorary 2013 Clio Award [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Musician Will.i.am.won an honorary 2013 Clio award.Although Microsoft's latest commercial isn't as contentious as its "You Got Scroogled"...
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Two Women Raise $3.5 Million For A Controversial, Girls-Only App That...
In London, two long-time friends Alison Schwartz and Alexandra Chong have an app that helps women anonymously gossip about men. On Lulu, men aren't allowed in, and women can anonymously rate them...
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Apple Reportedly Rejected 5-8 Million iPhones From Foxconn (AAPL)
China Business says Apple has rejected 5-8 million iPhones from Foxconn because they weren't built well enough.The China Business story has been translated with Google translate, and we saw it on 9 to...
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Why Online Retailers Are Scrambling To Lure In Canadian Shoppers
Imagine a customer demographic that has more disposable income, spends more time online, is not as big on bargain-hunting and is more loyal than your core customer.Sounds like a retailer’s dream...
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VC: This Is My Favorite Entrepreneur Story In A Long Time
Venture capitalist Mark Suster loves a good story of an entrepreneur driven by the desire to provide a great product.Suster recently wrote a post describing his favorite entrepreneur story in a while....
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The Worst Part About Working At Google Is That You're Overqualified And The...
From where we sit, it's pretty obvious that, as far as big companies go Google is one of the best places to work on the planet.It makes a ton of money, pays its employees well, gives them incredible...
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Do You Hold The Keys To The Marketing Budget? Please Take Our Short Survey!
It's clear brands are still experimenting with emerging digital channels like social, mobile and "native" advertising. What's not clear is the consensus. What's working? What's a total waste of time?...
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APPLE PREVIEW: Expect Ugly Guidance (AAPL)
This is a guest post from Sammy The Walrus IV, a frequent commenter at Business Insider, and a sharp tweeter on all things Apple.It was originally published on his site, AAPL Orchard, and is...
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BRACING FOR DISASTER: How Bad Will Apple's Earnings Be?
Over the past six months, Wall Street has gone from thinking that Apple can do no wrong to thinking that there's no way Apple will ever again do anything right.As a result, the stock has collapsed from...
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People Are Actually Talking About The Possible Collapse Of Dell's $24 Billion...
Last December, Dell CEO Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake began planning to take PC-maker Dell private.Then, in February the deal reached seeming consummation, with Dell's board agreeing...
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HTML5 vs. Apps: Where The Debate Stands Now, And Why It Matters
An HTML5 app is housed on the Web and runs inside a mobile browser. Unlike apps built specifically for Apple devices or Google's Android operating system, it does not need to be built from scratch for...
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Full Cost of Online Ad Fraud May Be $400 Million A Year
Adweek's Mike Shield's has dropped another of his must-read stories on fraud in the online ad business.Today he alleges that there are up to 500 big "ghost sites" that offer ad inventory to real-time...
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Ex-Apple Employee: One Of Steve Jobs' Most Legendary Moments Was Actually A...
Steve Jobs was legendary for being a very difficult person to work with.He was demanding, exacting, and at times irrational. It was part of his charm, we suppose, because most people who worked for him...
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12 Basic Shortcuts That Will Make You An Excel Guru And Add Hours To Your Life
Microsoft Excel is a crucial tool for anyone operating in modern business. But there are risks.For one thing, it can be intimidating for beginners.Furthermore, Excel errors can have devastating...
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Our Pathetic Government Just Cut Air-Traffic Spending And Now There Are...
In case you needed a reminder of how unfathomably lame our government is, look no further than what is now happening with our air-traffic control system.Thanks to the unnecessary "sequester" spending...
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Sources Say 'Obstinate' Ray Lane Refused To Step Down From HP Chair (HP)
During Ray Lane's just-ended tenure as chairman of Hewlett-Packard, the company……saw its stock price decline by 50%…bought Autonomy for $11.1 billion and then wrote it off…hired and fired CEO Leo...
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Why The Man Who Already Changed The Internet Forever Is Trying To Do It Again
Gilad (Gil) Elbaz has already lived every entrepreneur's dream. In 1998 he started a company, initially called Oingo, which later became Applied Semantics.Applied Semantics built technology that...
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How Two First-Time Founders Went From $28,000 Salaries To Owning A $100...
Justin Stefano and Philippe von Borries had never started a company before. Neither had worked in fashion before either.But in 2005, they left their jobs in law and politics respectively to start...
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