Why Hotel Industry Lobbyists Want A Global Crackdown On Airbnb
Authorities in Quebec, Canada, are conducting undercover stings against people who rent out their homes to short-stay travelers on Airbnb, according to the Globe and Mail.The move comes days after a...
View Article27 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
We get tons of books here at War Room, on management, leadership, career advice, and entrepreneurship. So we've pulled together the essential reading list for entrepreneurs — from our own reading, and...
View ArticleWhy Market Share Matters For Apple's iPhone (AAPL, GOOG)
Over the past few days, there has been a lot of noise in the tech media about the supremacy of "profit share" over "market share", specifically related to Apple's performance in the smartphone market...
View ArticleThe Only Reason Bang With Friends Exists Is Due To This Flaw On Other Dating...
Bang With Friends CEO Colin Hodge says that regular online dating sites have a flaw that actually makes it difficult for women to find sex partners.(Of course, to believe Hodge's rationale here you...
View ArticleHere's Eric Schmidt's Justification For Google Paying Only £10 Million In Tax...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt says it is Britain's own fault that his company has paid just £10 million in U.K. corporate taxes between 2006 and 2011, even though it had revenues of £11.9 billion in the...
View Article13 Secret Features Hidden In Your iPhone (AAPL)
If you want to become an iPhone power user, it's best to know about some of the hidden features Apple put in its operating system.Here are a few of our favorites.You can teach your iPhone to turn...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Inside The Mobile Real-Time Bidding Ad Ecosystem
Real-time bidding, or RTB, is a style of programmatic buying in which digital advertising opportunities are auctioned off in real-time. The auctions take place in milliseconds as advertisers bid on the...
View ArticleSamsung Has Another Announcement Coming Up
Samsung sent out invitations to the press today for a London-based event announcing new products in its Galaxy and ATIV line of products. It takes place on June 20.Samsung uses the Galaxy branding for...
View ArticleWho Remembers This Blistering Dissection Of What It's Like To Be Bought By...
Back in 2011, Matt Linderman wrote a harsh critique of Yahoo's history of acquisitions. He found the company had spent $13.3 billion on more than 30 companies over the years, many of which vanished...
View ArticleSamsung Gave Away A Galaxy S4 To Anyone Who Could Stare At It For 60 Minutes
Samsung and wireless provider Swisscom created this charming "stare down" contest in the railroad station at Zurich.To promote the Galaxy S4's eye-tracking feature — you can scroll on the phone without...
View ArticleWhy Social Media Advertising Is Set To Explode
It's not difficult to understand the lure of social media advertising.Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are daily destinations for millions of consumers. Increasingly, their ad products offer...
View ArticleEx-Apple Employees Reveal How The Company Is So Good At Keeping Secrets (AAPL)
A small number of former Apple employees — or at least people claiming to be such — have written a Quora thread answering the question, "How does Apple keep secrets so well?"Apple, of course, is...
View Article23 Thought-Provoking Enterprise Tech Execs That Smart People Are Following On...
There are lots of enterprise tech execs on Twitter. Not all of them are interesting to follow, though.Some tech execs are clearly working at companies with strict social media policies. They're not...
View ArticleA Redditor Says His Samsung Smartphone Just Exploded While He Was Sleeping –...
Reddit user Vizionx1208 posted pictures of a destroyed Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone, claiming that it exploded while he was sleeping.He writes that he had plugged the phone in to charge and gone to bed...
View ArticleDigital Currency Site Founder Arrested On Money-Laundering Charges
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — The founder of the Liberty Reserve digital currency business has been arrested in Spain on money-laundering charges, Costa Rican authorities said.Officials in the Central...
View ArticleFoxconn Now Teaming Up With Mozilla To Launch Firefox-Based Tablet
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd will team up with Mozilla and launch a mobile device that runs on the U.S. company's Firefox operating system, a Mozilla spokeswoman said,...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning! All rested-up after the long weekend? Good. Let's get at some news!Yahoo, which bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion and just bid as much as $800 million for Hulu, may also have a few more $150...
View ArticleFund Manager: Tech Is Where Investment Money Goes To Die
The "bulbous" cash piles held by Apple and other large tech companies makes them a poor investment, Bill Smead, CEO and chief investment officer of Smead Capital Management, told CNBC on Tuesday.Smead...
View ArticleTESLA $100
Electric car company Tesla is surging again pre-market.And it's broken $100 for the first time.As you can see in the table, via Yahoo Finance, the stock has almost quadrupled in the year, from a low...
View ArticleAn $800 Million Bid For Hulu Is Safe, Boring, And Exactly The Right Move For...
Yahoo’s recent acquisition of youth-centric site Tumblr grabbed all the headlines. But for anyone who wants to understand Yahoo’s strategy—and “Web 3.0″ in general—it’s the company’s recent bid for...
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