Nissan's iPad Ad For 'Self-Healing Paint' Will Take Tablet Owners By Surprise
Nissan created a unique self-healing paint that aims to make cars absolutely unscratchable.To convey how cool the technology is, the car company joined up with TBWA/G1 Paris, OMD Europe, and Dan Paris,...
View ArticleDoes Anyone Win In The Smartphone Patent Wars?
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.Is The...
View ArticleHere's John McCain's Cable-Destroying Legislation
John McCain is actually working on something people really want to see happen— blowing up the cable industry's expensive bundles of channels.He's introducing legislation that would make it easier for...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exec Says Google Doesn’t Understand Enterprise Web Apps (GOOG, MSFT)
Google’s annual I/O developer conference is next week, and it usually includes a few sessions on how enterprises are ditching Microsoft Office in favor of Google Apps For Business, its suite of...
View ArticleJudging From This Email, The City Of Chattanooga Is Pretty Upset About 'Iron...
I haven't seen "Iron Man 3."But apparently, there's a scene in the movie where Robert Downey Jr.'s character, Tony Stark, tries to use the Internet while in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and he finds it very...
View ArticleA Victoria's Secret Model Used Instagram To Deflect A Potential Drug Scandal
A few days ago, the paparazzi photographed Victoria's Secret model Cara Delevingne dropping a bag of "mysterious white powder" outside her apartment.Pictures showed the model trying to cover the bag...
View ArticleVIDEO REVIEW: LG's New Giant Android Phone
LG just released its first device in the phablet category. (That is, a phone that's so big it's blurs the distinction between phone and tablet.) It's called the LG Optimus G Pro.There's not a lot of...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: The Rise Of Netflix And The Fall Of AOL (NFLX, AOL)
Here's a chart from Dan Frommer that he calls "the entire Internet in one chart." It shows AOL's declining dial-up business compared to Netflix's rising streaming business, which Frommer uses a proxy...
View ArticleThe Fury Over Mark Zuckerberg's Political Committee Is Getting Louder By The...
Mark Zuckerberg wants to change our country's current immigration laws to ease entrance for qualified individuals to work.Zuckerberg's first step was forming a non-profit advocacy group called called...
View ArticleSAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott Clears The Air On The Ongoing Fight With Oracle
The biggest names in enterprise software and database solutions, SAP and Oracle, are constantlythrowingjabsat each other.SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott stopped by our office recently, and talked about the...
View ArticleBy Acquiring This Company You Never Heard Of, Aaron Levie Just Punched...
In his second-ever acquisition, Box CEO Aaron Leviesnatched up Crocodoc.You probably never heard of Crocodoc. It's a seven-person startup and class of 2007 Y-Combinator alum that raised a little over...
View ArticleBefore LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman Founded An Overeager Dating Site (LNKD)
The idea for LinkedIn didn't just spring fully formed into Reid Hoffman's head. He had been experimenting with the idea of social networks for years.His first try was a dating service in 1997 called...
View ArticleReid Hoffman: Founding A Startup Is Like 'Throwing Yourself Off A Cliff' (LNKD)
To hear successful entrepreneurs talk about it, founding a startup sounds like something no sane person should try.LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says that starting a company is like "throwing...
View ArticleSalesforce.com Acquires Clipboard And Plans To Shut It Down Next Month (CRM)
Salesforce.com has inked a definitive agreement to acquire Clipboard, a startup whose service lets users save chunks of text and rich content from Web pages and share them with other users online.Terms...
View ArticleHere's How Rich You'd Be If You'd Bought Apple Stock Instead Of Its Gadgets
Between April 1992 and April 2012, Apple's stock value increased by over 4000%.Did you buy an Apple product between those dates?Ever wonder how much money you would have now had you invested in AAPL...
View ArticleHow Instagram Co-Founder Kevin Systrom Spent His Year After The $1 Billion...
On April 9, 2012, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold their 13-person startup, Instagram, to Facebook.Facebook purchased the photo filter app 18 months after its launch for $1 billion: $300 million in...
View ArticleThanks To An Early Flaw, It's Possible To See Which Facebook Users 'Bang With...
Bang With Friends (BWF) is a website and app that does exactly what its name implies.It helps you turn Facebook friends into hookup buddies, and it has gained so much early traction, it is raising ~ $1...
View ArticleFacebook Home Is A Flop: Employees Know It And Users Don't Like It (FB, T)
In a clear sign that sales are pretty weak, AT&T and HTC dropped the price of the First, the only phone to ship with the new Facebook Home Android app right of the box, to $0.99 from $99 this...
View ArticleHow Tesla Went From Near-Failure To Stunning Profitability In Just A Few...
Tesla Motors announced its first-ever quarterly profit on Wednesday.Yesterday, Consumer Reports gave Tesla's Model S its highest score ever for a car in its 2013 review.And the stock has been up over...
View ArticleFemale Founder Launches 'Fit Or Not,' A Hot-Or-Not For Women's Chests
According to Israeli venture capitalist and startup founder Orit Hashay, 80% of women wear bras that don't fit.To help them, she launched Brayola, a shopping discovery platform that recommends new bras...
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