How To Be Huge On Reddit
Reddit is the Internet's "hivemind" in its purest form.It lets users decide what links from around the Web are most important, interesting, funny, or weird by making a simple decision: do you want to...
View ArticleHashtags Are Coming To Your Facebook News Feed (FB)
Facebook has launched a new hashtag feature. Now, when you click a hashtag in Facebook, you will see a feed of what other people and Pages are saying about that event or topic. Other social networks...
View ArticleMeet The Valley's Two Newest Multimillionaire Cofounders, Thanks To Gigamon's...
The latest in a long string of hot enterprise initial public offerings happened Wednesday morning: Gigamon.It offered 6.75 million shares, with an initial price of $19 but investors pushed that up to...
View ArticleIn Just A Few Hours, A Bunch Of People Plan To 'Troll The NSA' Online
In light of all this "NSA reading your emails" buzz, someone has taken up the mantle to fight back.It's called Operation Troll The NSA. By sending innocuous emails loaded with potentially subversive...
View ArticleThe HTML5 Vs. Native Apps Battle Broken Down
An HTML5 app is housed on the Web and runs inside a mobile browser. Unlike apps built specifically for Apple devices or Google's Android operating system, it does not need to be built from scratch for...
View ArticleOnly One Big Telecom CEO Refused To Cave To The NSA ... And He's Been In Jail...
Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio is currently serving a six-year sentence after being convicted of insider trading in April 2007 for selling $52 million of stock in the spring of 2001 as the...
View ArticleThe Facebook Advertising Ecosystem Explained
Facebook is a daily destinations for millions and millions of consumers. Increasingly, their ad products offer targeting according to specific demographics, social connections, interests, and habits....
View ArticleIf Amazon Beats IBM For CIA Cloud Deal, It Could Shake Up A Whole New Market...
As Amazon and IBM duke it out over a $600 million, 10-year cloud computing contract with the CIA, Amazon is aggressively courting other government customers. Neither Amazon, IBM nor the CIA have...
View ArticleMobile Commerce Had A Huge First Quarter
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.U.S. Mobile...
View ArticleHow To Send An Email That The Feds Can't Read
Maybe you want to fight Prism and keep your communications very private. Maybe you just like secret codes.There's an awesome free tool called Infoencrypt that will garble up your messages and make them...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: How We Use Our TVs
How do we use our TVs?While using a DVR to record shows and watch them later is a growing trend, most of the time spent on TV is watching shows live as they air.In its regular cross-platform TV report,...
View ArticlePatch Has Cost AOL At Least $200 Million So Far, And Its Traffic Is Small And...
Way back in 2011, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said he would spend $160 million that year building out massive networks of local news sites. Called "Patch" it would fill one of the last "white spaces" on the...
View ArticleHow Big Data Is Transforming The Mobile Industry
The world is awash in data.CIBC, a Canadian bank, predicts that information-generation growth will increase 50 times over the next decade. IDC, a market research firm, similarly forecasts a 44-fold...
View ArticleREVEALED: Edward Snowden's Dorky Teenage Years
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Long before he became known worldwide as the NSA contractor who exposed top-secret U.S. government surveillance programs, Edward Snowden worked for a Japanese...
View ArticleStrange Photos That Appear To Show A Young Edward Snowden Have Been Found Online
Following a Reuters article that looked over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's online past, internet sleuths have begun digging — and they appear to be finding a trail that Snowden may have hoped to...
View ArticleA Big Hint That Apple Is Taking Video Games Seriously Now (AAPL)
Here's one bit of news Apple didn't have time to cover this week: it's new iPhone and iPad operating system iOS 7 will support third-party video game controllers.That means developers can design their...
View ArticleHow The iPhone's Home Screen Has Evolved Over Time (AAPL)
Earlier this week Apple announced a drastic change for the iPhone's software.iOS 7 brings a new look that is nothing like what we've seen before. Reddit user iKurac created this graphic which shows the...
View ArticleThe True Origin Of The 'Tin Foil Hat' And Why It's The Stupidest Thing To...
The recent revelations that the NSA has been collecting the detailed phone records of Americans since 2001 has a lot of citizens saying that claims the NSA operates a vast domestic dragnet have been...
View ArticleLook At Facebook's Gorgeous Newest Data Center Built With Its Game-Changing...
Facebook's newest data center, built at the edge of the arctic circle in Luleå, Sweden, came online today.Look at the picture. Notice what's missing? Not a single logo from a single...
View ArticleOld Internet Comments Appear To Show Edward Snowden Was Angry About The NSA...
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who has been at the center of a surveillance scandal, was revealed to have been using the online pseudonym "The True HOOHA" when he worked for an anime company...
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