The New 'Yelp For Men' App Has Everyone Going Nuts
Lulu is an app headquartered in London that's getting men riled up.On it, women are rating the men they know and giving them scores. There's nothing the men can do to keep from getting rated (although...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Mobile Payments Are About To Explode
This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here.With renewed rumblings that Apple...
View ArticleThese Are Supposedly The Words That Make The NSA Think You're A Terrorist
This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the NSA to flag you as a potential terrorist if you over-use them in an email.We found this on Reddit, where James Bamford, a veteran...
View ArticleIBM Labor Union Says More Than 1,600 Job Cuts So Far (IBM)
IBM has cut 1,631 jobs so far and that figure is expected to rise, the Alliance@IBM labor union said Thursday on its website. The Binghamton, NY-based organization plans to update the total number of...
View ArticleSteve Jobs Didn't Originally Want The eBook Store That Apple Is Being Sued...
The U.S. government is suing Apple over its ebook store, accusing the tech giant of colluding with book publishers to make book prices artificially high.In Tim Cook's own words, the charges are...
View ArticleMicrosoft Is So Sure You'll Like Windows 8 If You Try It That It's Invading A...
If you're sure you wouldn't like Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 that simply means you haven't tried them, Microsoft believes. So, starting in late June, Microsoft will be carving out space inside 600...
View ArticleGuys: Here's How You Can See How Women Are Secretly Rating You On Facebook
There's a new app called Lulu that lets women secretly rate men they're Facebook friends with.When women download the app, it pulls in their male Facebook friends and lets them see how they were rated...
View Article11 iPhone Games You Should Play Next Time Your Bored (AAPL)
If you're looking to kill some time, you need to have some good games on your phone. For example, there's Dots, the new addictive puzzle game that challenges you to connect the same colors.The games in...
View ArticleIt Looks Like Apple Is Already Changing The App Icons In iOS 7 (AAPL)
Apple unveiled its new mobile operating system, iOS 7, just a few days ago. But now it seems like Apple is already making some changes to it. Redesigned iOS 7 icons popped up on Apple's mobile...
View ArticleAmericans Are Glued To Their Smartphones In The Evenings
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. App...
View ArticleHere's The Latest Threat To Oracle's Database Empire (ORCL)
The biggest companies in the world keep their most valuable data in Oracle databases.But there's a new kind of database, known as noSQL, that has slowly become a threat. noSQL began life as a...
View ArticleHas Amazon Really Figured Out How To Screw Small Businesses Out Of Their...
Amazon has found a way to lower the Google search rankings of small businesses who use its Pro Merchant program, according to The Daily Dot.The news site describes the process as "black hat" search...
View ArticleWatch This Garbage-Picking Robotic Waste System Sort Through Junk At A Rate...
Finnish startup ZenRobotics is on a mission to make the world a greener place by attempting to solve the global waste problem. The European Union alone generates 900 million tons of waste from...
View ArticleBeyond Pinterest: The Best Of Other Social Commerce Business Models
Facebook and Pinterest may be the biggest players in social media - but they don't own the social commerce space. Social commerce is still a young category, with room for new formats and innovations...
View Article12 New Companies That Will Make Going To College Unnecessary
College has gotten something of a bad reputation over the last few years.People have started to realize that putting in four years and racking up tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt only...
View ArticleUS Government Will Allow Tech Firms To Release Information On Surveillance...
Several tech companies have reached an agreement with the government over the release of information on surveillance requests, Reuters reports.From Reuters:Facebook became the first to release...
View ArticleBusiness Insider Is Hiring An Account Manager
Business Insider is looking for an awesome new Account Manager.The Account Manager will join a team responsible for executing digital ad campaigns for a growing list of major advertisers and agencies....
View ArticleEach iTunes User Generates About $300 A Year For Apple, Analysis Shows (AAPL)
This week, Apple revealed that iTunes has reached 575 million accounts.Armed with the account info and historical revenue numbers, Apple blogger Horace Dediu looked at what each each iTunes account...
View ArticleWall Streeters Are Falling In Love With Snapchat
Wall Street has long been plagued by a very special type of communication problem: All too often over the last couple of decades, the words and images Wall Streeters have transmitted electronically...
View ArticleGoogle Secretive X Lab Launches Internet-Beaming Balloons
Google unveils Internet beaming balloons launched into stratosphereCHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this...
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