15 Apps Everyone Is Talking About Right Now
A lot of apps and the people that make them have been in the news lately with new updates, product launches, acquisitions, and fundraising rounds.Take for example, Uber, the on demand car service is in...
View ArticleThe Social Media Advertising Ecosystem Explained
The media constellation has become increasingly fractured. The Web produced the initial fissure, but mobile created new cracks in the landscape. Today, no single medium earns more than 45% of our media...
View ArticleWindows 8 Store Hits The 100,000 App Milestone (MSFT)
There are now 100,000 apps in the Windows store, Microsoft tweeted today. Microsoft should be proud that its Windows 8 app selection is growing at a faster rate than its competitors did.It hit 100,000...
View ArticleNeed Hiring Help? Here's A How-To-Hire Deck From One Of The Valley's Hottest...
Greylock Partners is a pretty impressive venture capital firm. The partners there bet on massively successful tech firms Facebook, LinkedIn, DropBox, and Airbnb back when they were tiny, risky...
View ArticleWhat Social Media Platforms Are Right 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 ArticlePresident Of Ecuador: We Helped Snowden Leave Hong Kong By Mistake
Ecuador is not considering Edward Snowden's asylum request and never intended to facilitate his flight from Hong Kong, president Rafael Correa said as the whistleblower made a personal plea to Quito...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning! Here's the overnight news.Car-makers want to build software into their products, so Detroit is becoming a hot spot for developers looking for jobs.Apple is bundling iPhones, Macs, and...
View ArticleThe Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Is An 'IQ Test' To See Who Will Be Separated From...
Yesterday, the world got a hearty laugh on news that the Winklevoss twins plan to launch a Bitcoin ETF.The Winklevoss twins are famous for their claim to have been co-founders of Facebook, resulting in...
View ArticleWhat Times Of Day Are Best For Targeting Users On Each Social Network?
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View ArticleCarl Icahn Just Ruined Michael Dell's Week, Flashing $5.2 Billion At Dell...
(Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn asked for a meeting with Dell Inc's special board committee after lining up $5.2 billion in loan commitments to back up his bid for a leveraged...
View ArticleOusted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Released A New Album Today –– Here Are The...
Ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason just released his first full-length album, "Hardly Workin'."The seven-track album is available on for purchase on iTunes and is streaming on Spotify. "This album pulls...
View ArticleThis Failed Craft Brewery Kickstarter Was Only $243 Short of Its $25,600 Goal
Kickstarter has been many a startup's savior.But in the case of craft beer incubator, Crooked Bottle, the all-or-nothing nature of Kickstarter was sadly realized.Crooked Bottle wanted to fund a local...
View ArticleDon Mattrick Needs To Improve Zynga If He Wants To Get Paid – 95% Of His...
Yesterday Don Mattrick was named CEO of Zynga in place of its founder, Mark Pincus. If he wants to get paid, he'll have to do a good job boosting the public's opinion of the struggling gaming...
View ArticleAn Italian Doctor Thinks He's Figured Out How To Cut Off Your Head And Put It...
Italian neuroscientist Sergio Canavero believes he's found a way to medically swap heads and bodies, reports The Verge.Yes, just like Nicolas Cage and John Travolta in Face/Off. But Canavero's process...
View ArticleLinkedIn Is Increasing Its Advertising [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:LinkedIn is starting to increase its focus on advertising. The company's $74.8 million ad revenue last quarter only accounted for 23% of its...
View ArticleThe Sketchy, Founder-Feuding History Of Snapchat Summed Up In An Infographic
Snapchat founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy are in the middle of a legal spat with a fellow Stanford student, Reggie Brown, who says he is the photo sharing app's third co-founder.The lawsuit...
View ArticleA Silicon Valley VC Says These Are The Future Technologies We Should Focus On
A venture capitalist who's been working in Silicon Valley since the early 1960s thinks the future technologies that we should be paying attention to are biogenetics and transportation.In an interview...
View ArticleHow To Use Big Data To Make A Fortune In The Retail Industry
Major retail brands are harnessing big data as a means of generating more revenue.With every consumer purchase, stores from Target to Walgreens collect a bunch of information – products commonly bought...
View ArticleDating App Tinder Works For The Gay Community, But It Wants To Be Even Better
Online dating is increasingly becoming a viable method for people to start serious relationships, especially among same-sex couples. There's a handful of dating apps out there that specifically cater...
View ArticleLife After Instagram: Opportunities In The Mobile Photo-Sharing Ecosystem
The digital camera feature has been a major driver of mobile phone sales for a decade. But Instagram's sale to Facebook last year was a watershed moment for the mobile photo-sharing industry.Among...
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