11 Advanced Excel Tricks That Will Help You Get An Instant Raise At Work
Microsoft Excel just might be the greatest piece of software ever developed.Massive swathes of the economy rely on the program, and becoming skilled at Excel has become a license to print money in...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg Just Hired One Of The People Fired From Tumblr's Editorial...
Tumblr recently laid off its editorial staff, but former employee Jessica Bennett has a new gig with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.She will be joining Sandberg's Lean In team to help "connect women all...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble Opens Nook Tablet Ecosystem To Google Apps
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.Barnes &...
View ArticleBII REPORT: How Banking Is Going Mobile
Over the years, retail banks have innovated to make personal banking more convenient and consumer-friendly.They've built sprawling branch networks, introduced credit cards, and developed automatic...
View ArticleMuggers Increasingly Stealing Samsung Phones Instead Of iPhones (AAPL)
Here's a funny detail from James Temple at the San Francisco Chronicle.As Samsung has grown in popularity with consumers around the world, it's also growing in popularity with muggers.Temple talked to...
View ArticleApple's Stock Has Very Quietly Been On A Nice Run After Its Earnings Report...
Apple's back! Maybe? A week and a half after the company's earnings report, the stock is up 11%. It's up 15% from its low point, which came a few days before earnings.You don't want to get too excited...
View ArticleThe World’s Cheapest Tablet Is About To Become The World’s Cheapest Phablet
DataWind, the company behind the $40 tablet, this week finished shipping 100,000 devices to the Indian Institute of Technology. It’s been quite a journey. But DataWind’s founders are already working on...
View ArticleHow To Create Filters In Gmail (GOOG)
Is your inbox out of control?One of the tools in the Gmail toolbox is the "filter," a means to automatically delete, redirect, and label incoming messages without any intervention on your own.Here's...
View ArticleSource: Oracle Gave Some Of Their Hardware People The Pink Slip On Friday (ORCL)
Sources are telling us that some Oracle employees got pink slips on Friday. All of them are from Sun Microsystems' hardware groups.Friday's layoffs hit employees in the "legacy hardware" units from...
View ArticleThe Great Social Media Implosion Of 2013 [CHART]
The big story in media today involved the world of big media Social Media Editors (people whose job it is to help their respective media organizations be active and noticed on social networks like...
View ArticleTwitter Co-Founder Says This Video Of A Plane Landing Over A Beach Is One Of...
We're mesmerized by this Vine just tweeted out by Twitter co-founder and current Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey.One of the most amazing vines I've seen. American landing. By...
View ArticleThis Little White Box Can Run Your Home Entirely By Remote Control From Your...
One of the biggest trends we saw at the Consumer Electronics Show this year was every day devices that could connect to the Internet. There was a fork that alerted when you were eating to much. A...
View ArticleWhat Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From Y Combinator Without Actually Going
Back in 2010, my startup FlightCaster had hit some serious obstacles and we needed to pivot. We had set a deadline for ourselves for some metrics and we failed to meet them. It was a bruising time....
View ArticleHere's Samsung's Latest Ad Making Fun Of The iPhone And Showing Off Samsung's...
Samsung has a new ad for the Galaxy S4, its latest smartphone.It takes place at a graduation party where all the recent grads have Samsungs, and their parents have iPhones. (Not so subtle message:...
View ArticlePOLL: How Many Google Glasses Will Google Sell In 3 Years? (GOOG)
Now that Google Glass is out there in the wild, we have a better idea of what it can and cannot do.Some of the early buzz on the product is fading as people realize that it's a first generation product...
View Article8 Cool Things You Never Knew Your iPhone's Headphones Could Do (AAPL)
Apple's standard white in-ear headphones (some call them earbuds) come with three buttons.They look simple enough, but they allow for a wide variety of control over your iPhone or iPad.Over at the...
View ArticleApple's iPhone Software Has Flaws, And Just Changing The Design Won't Be...
The biggest story for Apple right now is that it is said to be on the cusp of redesigning the look of iOS, which is the software that powers iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.If Apple doesn't do more...
View ArticleBefore And After Pics From Pixtr, The Photo App That Erases Your Flaws
Pixtr is a new iPhone app that makes people look more beautiful in photos.It uses facial recognition software to scan the photo and make minor adjustments like slimming a nose or a jawline, trimming...
View ArticleThis Tiny Startup Is Trying To Reinvent How We Learn And Read Music
How we learn and read music hasn't changed in hundreds of years. Until now. Hummingbird co-founder and music teacher Blake West was inspired to create an entirely new music notation when he saw a lot...
View ArticleApple's Cheap iPhone Might Not Be So Cheap After All (AAPL)
Apple is widely reported to be developing a lower cost iPhone to expand sales and market share around the world.But how low-cost is low-cost? Probably not as low-cost as you think.J.P. Morgan analysts...
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