After Selling For $30 Million, Ad Company Felix Got An Office With A Huge...
Last year, IAC bought New York-based pay-per-call advertising business Felix.As part of the reportedly $30 million acquisition, IAC rented Felix a new office in Times Square. Felix CEO Brent Metz...
View ArticleHow Consumers Are Using Their Phones, And What It Means
Mobile is no longer a communications utility, but a media distribution hub. According to eMarketer, mobile now accounts for 12 percent of Americans' media consumption time, triple its share in...
View ArticleElectric Car Company Folds After Taking $850 Million From GE And Others
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's trailblazing electric car company Better Place announced Sunday that it is shutting down, less than six years after unveiling an ambitious plan that promised to revolutionize...
View ArticleJack Dorsey Says This Beautiful 'Square Stand' Will Replace Ugly Checkout Tills
On nearly every shop counter around the world, there’s a till that’s hardly changed in two or three decades. Usually grey, always ugly, these machines clutter the single point that every customer is...
View ArticleWhy People Hate The Google Bus
Every morning and every evening the fleet glides through the city, hundreds of white buses with tinted windows navigating San Francisco's rush hour. From the pavement you can see your reflection in the...
View ArticleApple Has Been Dodging Taxes In Ireland For More Than 32 Years
SAN FRANCISCO/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple has operated almost tax-free in Ireland since 1980, welcomed by a government keen to bring jobs to what was then one of Europe's poorest countries, former company...
View ArticleHere's An Excellent Presentation About The Rise Of Mobile And The Massive...
Revered Apple analyst Benedict Evans of Enders Analysis is giving a presentation May 29 at the BookExpo America convention in New York.It's on the rise of mobile and what it means for the industry.It's...
View ArticleThese Screengrabs Show David Karp Did NOT Invent The 'Tumblelog' That Gave...
Tumblr CEO David Karp did not invent the "tumblelog" system of blog design that led to Tumblr, according to The Daily Dot.Rather, he was inspired by two predecessor blog designs created by other...
View ArticleIn Britain, Police Arrest Twitter And Facebook Users If They Make Anti-Muslim...
British police are arresting people in the middle of the night if they have made racist or anti-Muslim comments on Twitter following the murder of a soldier by two Muslims in Woolwich, London.Three men...
View ArticleIs This Apple's First Official Image Of The New iWatch? (AAPL)
Apple may have inadvertently (or deliberately, or not at all) given the world a clue to what the long-awaited iWatch might look like, according to 9to5Mac.At the 30-second mark in a new commercial for...
View ArticleSEX-AT-WORK SURVEY: The Results Are In!
Last week, BusinessWeek columnist Liz Ryan stirred things up by publishing a column titled "The Truth About Sex At Work."Sex at work, Ryan suggested, is a lot more common than most people think.So...
View ArticleAmazon Is Working On A Plan To Deliver Your Groceries (AMZN)
If you live in Seattle, you're probably familiar with Amazon Fresh, the e-commerce company's same-day grocery delivery business.Although Amazon Fresh has been around since 2007, it has never expanded...
View ArticleThere's A Battle Raging On Your Smartphone
If like most people you use Facebook on your mobile device, you’ve probably noticed more ads amongst your friends’ updates. But what you may not realize is that a battle is raging among the savviest of...
View ArticleWhat Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Really Thought About Each Other (AAPL, MSFT)
Earlier this month, Bill Gates got emotional talking about Steve Jobs."He and I, in a sense, grew up together," Gates said. "We were within a year of the same age, and we were kind of naively...
View ArticleThis New York Company Could Become The Etsy Of 3D Printing
Shapeways uses 3D printing to allow anyone to create custom-designed products.The New York company's creations cover the range of art, jewelry, iPhone cases, trinkets, toys, cuff links, mugs, and...
View Article10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Google (GOOG)
A Quora user recently posed a straightforward question: What are some mind-blowing facts about Google?Given the size and scope of such a company, the Quora community had no problem providing a number...
View ArticleAnyone Into Bitcoin Has To Be Really Happy This Month
Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin's viability as a currency that people actually use, it should be clear that one pre-requisite is price stability.Plunging exchange rates means nobody will...
View ArticleWhy Extravagant New HQs Planned At Apple, Google, Amazon And Facebook Are...
SEATTLE/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - While much of corporate America is retrenching on the real estate front, the four most influential technology companies in America are each planning headquarters that...
View ArticleYahoo Is Bidding $600-$800 Million For Hulu (YHOO, DIS, NWS, ABC, CMCSA)
We no know how much Yahoo is offering for video site Hulu.Kara Swisher of All Things D reports Yahoo bid $600-$800 million, with the price variance the result of what Yahoo gets in terms of content...
View ArticleHow Drones With Facial Recognition Technology Will End Anonymity, Everywhere
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Tsarnaev brothers, like anyone in a crowd of strangers, might have expected to be anonymous.But when the FBI released blurry, off-angle images of the two suspects in the Boston...
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