Rackspace's CEO Lanham Napier Is Running Around Bloomberg's Conference...
Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier is certainly not the first fan of Google Glass.That honor probably goes to tech blogger Robert Scoble. (At least Scoble claimed the "Glasshole" title for himself during...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Samsung's Insane Marketing Budget
Today Samsung announced a $5 million partnership with Jay-Z, which will bring the rapper's new album to 1 million Galaxy S4 owners for free when it launches July 4.It's just the latest big marketing...
View ArticleAtomic Clocks Are Getting Even More Accurate
The ultimate accessory in exact timekeeping — the atomic clock — is set to become even more precise, after ultrashort laser pulses were successfully transmitted across open air to help synchronize the...
View ArticleA Floating Pool In New York's East River Is Getting Closer To Reality
Two summers ago, Family and PlayLab launched the Kickstarter project +Pool, which promised New Yorkers a clean space to swim in the East River with a "floating pool."The pool would work like a giant...
View ArticleHUBSPOT CEO: 99% Of Corporate Cultures Are Stuck In The Past
Marketing software company HubSpot has gotten attention from media and even academics for its radical transparency.The Cambridge, Mass. company reveals everything from cash burn rate to valuations on...
View ArticleThe U.S. Dominates The Cannes Mobile Advertising Awards Shortlist
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.United...
View ArticleEDWARD SNOWDEN: How To Make Sure The NSA Can't Read Your Email
Article 12 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home, or correspondence."It's that last one...
View ArticleYou Can Take Stanford's Course On Startup Engineering Online
Interested in joining or founding a startup but have no idea where to begin? Or perhaps you're interested in walking a mile in the shoes of a developer at a startup to see what it's like?There's a...
View ArticleA Fake Beef Jerky Kickstarter Campaign Almost Got Away With Taking $120,000
Popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter just shut down a fake campaign for beefy jerky.Over $120,000 was raised before Kickstarter froze the funds.The "company responsible" — Magnus Fun Inc. — has since...
View ArticleThe New Rules For Thinking In A Digital World
Is technology making us stupid — or smarter than we’ve ever been? Author Nicholas Carr memorably made the case for the former in his 2010 book The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our...
View ArticleApple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Is Really Freaked Out By The NSA Spying...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is really, really concerned about about the NSA spying scandal. Last week, Spanish tech news site FayerWayer did an impromptu interview with Wozniak in the waiting lounge...
View ArticleA Convicted Child Molester Who Was A Yammer Contractor Has Been Arrested,...
A few years ago, a fast-growing startup, adding staff at a breakneck pace, hired a facilities manager as a contractor without asking too many questions.That startup was Yammer, now part of Microsoft....
View ArticleHow Location-Based Services Are Transforming The Mobile Industry
The possibilities for location-based services on mobile go beyond consumer-facing apps like FourSquare and Shopkick.With over 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones, location data has begun to permeate...
View ArticleHate Your Friends? Use This App To Avoid Them Forever
The world's getting smaller.With apps like Foursquare and Find My Friends making it easy to keep tabs on your friends' whereabouts, it's never been easier to "serendipitously" bump into people you...
View ArticleAdobe May Be Rethinking Cloud Apps Pricing Options After Customer Backlash...
Adobe recently switched to selling its software only over the Internet, but that's not going over well with some customers. So, Adobe may be adding more pricing options after a "massive customer...
View ArticleSomeone Claiming To Be A Microsoft Engineer Posted A Long Rant About Xbox One...
Both Sony and Microsoft are coming out with new versions of their videogame consoles this holiday season.Microsoft announced its new console, the Xbox One.Gamers hated two things about it…It has to be...
View ArticleReality TV Star Kim Taylor Has A New Startup, And It Got Her Into A Top-Notch...
Kim Taylor first popped up on our radar with the premiere of Randi Zuckerberg's "Start-ups: Silicon Valley" reality TV show. Taylor shocked the show's producers when she decided to quit her job...
View ArticleThe Rise Of Social Video: How Social Media Is Creating New Winners And Losers...
Television is no longer the only game in town for distributing and watching video. The Internet and the social web have provided content creators and advertisers with a cost-effective way to distribute...
View ArticleCHART: How Tablets Are Driving A Huge Explosion In Mobile Video
Mobile video has begun to accumulate scale, and has also turned out to be one of the few types of mobile content — along with games — that monetizes reliably and drives premium ad rates. That's...
View ArticleThe Immigration Debate In 5 Charts
Congress is debating immigration reform, and an accelerated timeline means that the issue will likely be front and center during Congress' July 4 recess. In that time, you'll likely hear quite a bit...
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