Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Punks Up Her Hair With Blue Streaks
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute Gala is all about the fashion. Some even call The Met Gala the 'fashion Oscars'Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is usually considered one of the tech...
View Article10 Tips For Making Really Great Vine Videos
Vine, Twitter's new video-sharing app that launched this year, has quickly grown to be one of the most-downloaded apps on the iPhone. The app lets you take short video clips that play on a loop and...
View ArticleHow To Remove All The Junk Carriers Added To Your Samsung Galaxy S4 (T, S,...
I just got my hands on the AT&T version of Samsung's new flagship phone, the Galaxy S4.The good news is, unlike the Sprint version I tested for my review, I can finally access LTE data networks,...
View ArticleLiberal Groups Begin Facebook Ad Boycott Over Zuckerberg's Big Oil Lobbying (FB)
A bunch of liberal advocacy groups — including MoveOn.org, CREDO, Presente.org. Sierra Club, Democracy for America — have pulled their ads from Facebook in protest of the company's lobbying arm,...
View ArticleRUMOR: Google Is Planning Stores Just For Google Glass (GOOG)
Google is planning retail stores to sell its internet-connected glasses, Google Glass, we've heard second-hand from a source.Our source tells us he knows someone that is working at Google to develop...
View ArticleYahoo Hires Star Mobile Engineer Who Used To Work At Pinterest (YHOO)
Cynthia Maxwell, the software engineer responsible for Pinterest's great iPhone/iPad and Android apps, has just joined Yahoo's mobile group, Business Insider has learned.Maxwell was employee No. 10 at...
View ArticleI'm A Smoker And I Love E-Cigarettes
Sorry, big tobacco. "Smoking" e-cigarettes is infinitely better than smoking the real thing.I used to be a cigarette smoker.Now I'm what you might call an early adopter of e-cigarettes. I've been...
View ArticleMelinda Gates Will Save Thousands Of Lives With Birth Control
Melinda Gates has been married to billionaire Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, since 1994.But Melinda is no trophy wife.She's a brilliant, strong-minded businesswoman and philanthropist who's...
View ArticleHere's What Happens To You When You Criticize Google Glass (GOOG)
Google has managed to do something truly brilliant with Google Glass.It's created a kludgy product that's immune from criticism.It positioned Glass in such a way that it gets to deflect all critiques,...
View ArticleWatch A Sword-Wielding Mazda Play Real Life 'Fruit Ninja'
Why should cartoon characters and very large men have all the fun?Why isn't the car world represented amongst the legions of fruit-slicing katana-wielders?It is now.Enjoy.Swords are sharp, m'kay? Don't...
View ArticleMicrosoft VP Says Smaller Windows 8 Tablets Are Coming At The End Of June (MSFT)
Microsoft is thinking more about enabling Windows 8 to run on smaller and cheaper tablet computers, and we'll get a look at the first of such devices at the end of June.The news comes from comments...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Next Version Of Windows, Windows Blue, Is Coming In June
We keep hearing about Microsoft's next version of Windows, code-named Windows Blue, which is expected to fix all the things people really hate about Windows 8.We just learned from Microsoft's Julie...
View ArticleSquare Is Developing An Engine To Make Local Recommendations
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.Square...
View ArticleSo Far, Michael Arrington Is A Pretty Good Venture Capitalist
Michael Arrington's CrunchFund is performing quite well, Dan Primack at Fortune reports.He says the CrunchFund has a 20%-30% internal rate of return, which is about in line with what a venture capital...
View ArticleMobile Search: How Smartphones Are Disrupting The Internet's Biggest Business
Search — the very cornerstone of the Web — has begun to show signs of decline on desktops and laptops. Meanwhile, search is surging on smartphones and tablets. Mobile searches are quickly becoming the...
View ArticleOri Allon Has Hired 63 Ex-Googlers, Twitter Employees, And Harvard MBAs To...
One week after Google met Ori Allon in a tiny, server-crammed office in Sydney, the young developer had a first-class ticket to Mountain View.Allon, then 26, had created and patented a search algorithm...
View ArticleREPORTS: Internet Shut Off In Syria, Google Services Go Unavailable
The internet in Syria has apparently been shut off as of 3 p.m. EST, according to Umbrella, an internet security company that tracks data.Google Transparency Reports also verify the web outage.This...
View ArticleWhat Normal People Really Think Of Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding website that's popular amongst entrepreneurs and independent musicians, filmmakers, and artists.Basically, you can pitch a project or product on Kickstarter, and anyone...
View ArticleIt's Official: 4 Young Founders Just Bought A $40 Million Mountain To Party On
For the past year, it's been known that four entrepreneurs, Elliot Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal and Jeremy Schwartz, have been trying to buy a mountain in Eden, Utah. There, they want to host...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: The Unstoppable Rise Of Over-The-Top Mobile Messaging
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.Instant messaging apps are an...
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