What 14 Now-Popular Websites Used To Look Like
What did LinkedIn look like the first time you visited the site in 2003? How'd The New York Times' homepage look back in 1996?We found the earliest versions of some of the most visited websites today,...
View ArticleIt's Time For Apple To Take A Cue From How Other Companies Innovate
Apple CEO Tim Cook has a very tough job. Not only does he have to run the most valuable tech company on the planet, but he has to follow one of the greatest chief executives in history. Is he up to...
View ArticleApple's Next Big Product Will Not Be A Gadget (AAPL)
Apple's next big thing won't be a gadget like another iPad or iPhone. It will be new software. And we'll likely hear about it at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 10-14. At WWDC,...
View ArticleWhy Consumer-Facing E-Commerce Is BROKEN
I finally found panties on True&Co., an ecommerce lingerie company.It took them nearly one year to start selling panties. They allegedly sold them when I mentioned them in an article titled VCs...
View ArticleIt's Official: Google Has Acquired News Stream Startup Wavii
Google has bought news summarisation service Wavii for an estimated $30m (£18m).Wavii, which was launched last year, has shut down its service so the technology can be incorporated into Google...
View ArticleNetflix CEO Is $300 Million Richer Today Than He Was Last Year
Even though his paycheck was cut in half, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings upped his net worth by about $300 million in the past 12 months.Hastings was paid a $9.3 million cash and stock salary in 2011 and...
View ArticleChina's Going To Build Massive 4G Mobile Networks—Snubbing European Companies...
STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese telecom operators will start awarding contracts for super-fast mobile networks this year, kicking off the third wave of a global investment cycle that is reshaping...
View Article15 Ways Technology Is Reinventing Society (GOOG, AAPL, FB)
Technology has the potential to radically change the way we live, and even how we relate to each other as human beings. Technologies like 3D printing are changing manufacturing and democratizing...
View ArticleT-Mobile’s ‘No Contract’ Ads Under Fire
Bob Ferguson, Washington state’s attorney general, is calling out Deutsche Telekom‘s (PINK:DTEGY) U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile for misleading customers over its “un-carrier” plans.T-Mobile is touting...
View Article3D Printing Is Creating A New Breed Of Chinese Manufacturing Entrepreneurs
ALTHOUGH it is the weekend, a small factory in the Haidian district of Beijing is hard at work. Eight machines, the biggest the size of a delivery van, are busy making things.Yet the factory, owned by...
View ArticleA Majority Of Android Phones Still Can't Access Google Now, But The iPhone...
Googlelaunched its voice assistant Google Now on the iPhone today. It's an amazing product, and much better than Apple's own Siri.Now for some brutal irony.Google Now isn't available on most Android...
View ArticleSamsung Made A Crazy Gangnam Style Parody For The Galaxy S4 Launch In India
The hero of the Galaxy S4 launch in India wasn't the device itself, but rather this "Gangnam Style" parody performance.We first found the video over at The Verge.S for Samsung style, indeed.Please...
View ArticleWanted: Business Insider Seeks A Linux Systems Administrator
Business Insider is looking for an experienced Linux systems administrator to join the fast-paced and exciting world of being an engineer at a journalism startup.We're looking for a systems pro who has...
View ArticleBII REPORT: How Tablet Sales Have Exploded, And Where The Next Wave Of Growth...
Tablets are the fastest ramping computing device in history. Shipments have grown from a relatively paltry 17 million shipments in 2010, to 65 million shipments in 2011, and are on pace to hit 122...
View ArticleANALYST: Here Come The Cheap iPad Minis (AAPL)
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has taken a look at Apple's future and says it contains "a more affordable iPad Mini to compete with Android products," reports MacRumors.We've heard reports of the...
View ArticleFoursquare CEO Dennis Crowley Responds To All Of His Company's 'Haters'
For a long time, Foursquare could do no wrong. It got a lot of press attention and quickly gathered millions of users. But over the past few months, the public perception of Foursquare has...
View ArticleHere's A Look At Google Now For iPhone, Your New Siri Replacement (AAPL, GOOG)
Google released its long-awaited Google Now service on the iPhone and iPad today. The app is a voice-controlled assistant that's similar to Siri on the iPhone, but it's way better. Google Now taps into...
View ArticleBang With Friends Is Raising ~ $1 Million To Help People Find Hook Up Buddies
Bang with Friends (BWF) is a Facebook app that does exactly what you're thinking it does. It helps people on Facebook find friends to hook up with rather than date.So it may come as a shock that BWF is...
View ArticleApple's Biggest Show Of The Year Is Broken, Say Apple's Biggest Fans
Apple's annual developers conference in San Francisco, WWDC, is the company's biggest show of the year. WWDC has been the site of a lot of major Apple product announcements. This year, Apple is...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Hilarious New Nokia Ad Slams iPhone And Samsung Fanboys
With the help of ad agency 72andSunny, Samsung made Apple-bashing cool.Now Microsoft is getting in on the action by slamming both iPhone and Samsung in its new ad for the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows...
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