How To Design A Sex Video Site That Isn't A Porn Site
Building a modern porn site isn't as easy as throwing up some x-rated videos and hoping that people see them. MakeLoveNotPorn.tv is a new type of site that wants to change how our society views sex...
View ArticleIBM CEO Ginni Rometty Handed This Man A New $7 Billion Business Unit (IBM)
When you add up all the different kinds of cloud computing services, you're looking at a $131 billion market, Gartner figures.IBM says it plans to nab at least $7 billion of in the next 18 months.So...
View Article11 Galling Stats About Patent Trolls That Will Make You Wonder Why America...
Earlier today, the White House announced an executive order that will strike back against patent trolls. From the White House press release, here's a basic description of what a patent troll...
View ArticleThe Tracking Solutions That Could Lead An Explosion In Mobile Marketing
The effectiveness of any advertising campaign rests on a brand's ability to effectively deliver their message to a target audience. As advertisers look to follow consumers across screen, brands need to...
View ArticleYES! Amazon Will Start Delivering Your Groceries (AMZN)
Amazon plans to start delivering groceries in 40 U.S. markets, according to Reuters, in hopes of destroying/disrupting the $568 billion food marketplace.Amazon has been testing grocery delivery —...
View ArticleOculus Rift Pays Tribute To Its Brilliant Co-Founder
Oculus VR — the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset — paid tribute to its co-founder and lead engineer Andrew Reisse over the weekend.Last Thursday, Reisse was struck and killed by a...
View ArticleLarry Ellison Has Completely Screwed Up The America's Cup
When his Oracle Team USA won the America's Cup sailing race in 2010, entrepreneur and sailing aficionado Larry Ellison earned the right to choose the rules for this year's competition.Ellison has taken...
View ArticleINSIDE ZYNGA'S LAYOFFS: Employees Held A Boozy, Hoodie-Shredding Party After...
Yesterday afternoon, at about 2:00 PM, Zynga New York's 45 employees were called to an all-hands meeting.Many grabbed beer from the fridge as they headed toward the front of the room. Nothing good came...
View ArticleLook At The Fantastical Set Built For Sean Parker's $10 Million Wedding
New government documents show just how over-the-top Sean Parker's extravagant $10 million wedding in the Big Sur forest really was.The state of California actually fined the Facebook billionaire $2.5...
View ArticleTwo Charts That Show How Parasitic Patent Trolls Are Sucking More And More...
Earlier today the White House announced that they were taking a new, aggressive policy against patent trolls. Here's a White House summary of the modus operandi of patent trolls:Innovators continue to...
View ArticleThe 10 Fitness Apps That Could Make Gyms Obsolete
If you’ve been slow to start your New Year’s resolution to get fit in 2013, it may be because you’re having a hard time getting to the gym — or can’t afford a membership.The good news is if you have a...
View ArticleWhy Are So Many Google Execs Quitting To Work With This CEO's Startup? (GOOG)
Two years ago, Google announced a massive new initiative around a product called Google Wallet.The mission: replace credit cards with smartphones.It didn't happen.Why?And why are so many of the people...
View ArticleSomeone Just Gave Me An Alternative Hypothesis For Why The Ritz Carlton Kept...
Earlier, I described how the staff at a Ritz Carlton in the Arizona desert closed the drains in the sink in my room whenever they tidied up the place.I assumed that this was some...
View ArticleChina Adds More Mobile Subscriptions Than The Americas And Europe Combined
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.[PDF] China...
View ArticleHow Much Money The Average Apple Employee Is Paid (AAPL)
Apple plans to build a new "spaceship" headquarters in Cupertino, California.As part of the process to gain formal approval, the company commissioned a big economic impact study (.pdf). The study...
View ArticleThis Philly Startup Wants To Transform The Way Brands Use Pinterest And...
Sometimes a great business idea isn't the result of years of planning, a lifelong dream, or a sudden magical flash of insight. It's about seeing a trend and jumping on it. That's what happened with Apu...
View ArticleIBM And EMC Are Building Armies Of Hacked Roomba Robots To Patrol Their Data...
iRobot is best known as the maker of the Roomba and Scooba home vacuum cleaners.But if pilot projects at IBM and EMC pan out, iRobot could become a key part of enterprise data centers. IBM and EMC are...
View ArticleSamsung Wins Import Ban On Some Older Models Of iPhones And iPads (AAPL)
A handful of older Apple devices have been banned from being imported to the US for violating Samsung patents.According to the International Trade Commission (ITC), the import ban affects the AT&T...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: The Rise Of The Mobile Internet
Here's another excellent chart from Mary Meeker's big presentation on trends in consumer tech. Mobile Internet usage is now 15% of overall Internet traffic, and its on its way to being 30% by the end...
View ArticleThe U.S. Government Just Agreed To A Limited Ban On The iPhone (AAPL)
Samsung scored a win of sorts over Apple as the two duke it out in various courts over patents. The U.S. International Trade Commission has banned Apple from importing some AT&T-specific models of...
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