High-Tech Screens For Pilots Are Making Your Flights Shorter And Safer
Flying commercial jets is getting easier, safer, and more efficient, thanks to the increased use of a technology that the military has used for more than 50 years.More and more airline pilots now have...
View ArticleThe Rise of Social TV: How Social Media Is Amplifying TV Advertising
Research has shown that TV-watching and social media usage isn't mutually exclusive. Consumers appear to love using social media while they watch TV. Many discuss what they're watching, and these...
View ArticleHere's Why Las Vegas Tourism Officials Are Sending Letters To Facebook And...
As tech companies went into crisis mode over the NSA scandal, Las Vegas tourism officials are seeing it as a marketing opportunity.The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority launched a cheeky...
View ArticleThere's Now A Way To Anonymously Search The Web On Your Phone
DuckDuckGo just released its first mobile app for browsing the Web anonymously. The app launch for iOS and Android comes in light of the NSA's PRISM program. DuckDuckGo doesn't track your clicks across...
View ArticleA 15 Year-Old Girl From Canada Has Built A Flashlight Powered By The Heat Of...
There's almost no real reason to own a flashlight now that all smartphones have bright flashes that work as flashlights.However!If, for some reason, you do want a dedicated flashlight in your life, a...
View ArticleMarc Benioff Loves Wrist Computers So Much He's Wearing Two Right Now (CRM)
Yesterday, during a joint press conference, two of the tech industry's biggest visionaries, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison, gave their predictions for the future: a...
View ArticleMeet New York's First Internet Tech Startup Billionaire (SSTK)
New York's Silicon Alley startup scene just got its first billionaire. Shutterstock founder Jonathan Oringer officially became a billionaire today when the company's shares hit a record high this...
View ArticleCHART: These Major Retailers Are Most Threatened By Mobile
The practice of “showrooming,” or viewing an item in a retail store and then buying it online, has brought the e-commerce threat directly to bricks-and-mortar retailers. Mobile raises the showrooming...
View ArticleHow To Choose The Right Social Media Platform For Your Brand
Brands need to be present wherever audiences invest their time and attention. Increasingly, that means social media. U.S. audiences spend a half-hour to three hours daily on social media. Social media...
View Article21 Reasons It's Good To Be One Of The Baby Foxes Living At Facebook's World...
There are a bunch of baby foxes – kits! – living at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.Facebook employee Jeffrey Ferland took some great photos of them.When one colleague of mine saw the...
View ArticleHP Wins The US Navy's Love And A Contract (Sort Of) Worth $3.5 Billion (HPQ,...
HP CEO Meg Whitman must have heaved a giant sigh of relief on Thursday. That's when word came that her biggest, most troubled business unit would not be losing its biggest federal customer.The U.S....
View ArticleAnalyst: Here's How Much Salesforce Will Pay Oracle For That Huge Nine-Year...
Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison have repaired their friendship, but they've yet to mention one little detail: Just how much is Salesforce really spending with Oracle?Benioff, Salesforce's CEO, said...
View ArticleMOBILE INSIGHTS: 4G Phones Account for 30 Percent Of North American Mobile...
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. 4G Delivers...
View ArticleCiti Bike Is My New iPhone
New York’s new bike-sharing system, now a month old, is still working out the kinks. It’s sometimes impossible to find a bike, and sometimes impossible to return one. Kiosks, after an embarrassingly...
View ArticleHow Facebook Is Trying To Save Itself (And Advertisers) From Sexual, Violent,...
Last month, Facebook found itself in the throes of a PR crisis.Advocacy groups were sick and tired of groups and pages dedicated to celebrating violence against women, and they found a way to get...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Vine Sharing Plummets After Instagram Launches Video (FB)
Instagram's decision to add video may have snuffed out Vine. At least, temporarily. According to data from Topsy, which tracks Twitter sharing, Vine video sharing has collapsed on Twitter. As Matt...
View ArticleMicrosoft And Apple Actually Don't Loathe Each Other, And Here Are Examples...
Microsoft and Apple have an interesting history that goes back to the early days of personal computing. At times, Microsoft and Apple have fought like parents at a Little League game, squabbling over...
View ArticleStartup Bark & Co. Hosted The Most Adorable Puppy Adoption Event [PHOTOS]
Startup Bark & Co. hosted a puppy adoption event last weekend in the hip New York neighborhood of SoHo. It rounded up 40 pups from shelters mostly throughout Alabama, where over 100,000 animals are...
View ArticleAmazon's $600 Million CIA Deal Really Is For A Game-Changing 'Private' Cloud...
Amazon's $600 million contract to build a cloud for the CIA might not happen. But if it does, it will be something Amazon has never done before: a so-called 'private' cloud built in a customer's data...
View ArticleApple Wants To Destroy A Popular Fountain In San Francisco To Build A New...
SF wants fountain, historic style for proposed Union Square Apple storeSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco planners want to keep a beloved city fountain in Union Square after plans submitted last month...
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