The Highest-Paid Executive At Amazon.com Only Makes $175,000 A Year (AMZN)
Amazon.com is a huge online retailer which does almost $60 billion a year in sales.But it doesn't pay its executives high salaries, as Fortune's Adam Lashinsky notes in his recent cover story:For...
View ArticleDell Shifts Executives Around To Hurry Up And Fix Itself (DELL)
Dell is changing up the executives responsible for its push into the enterprise to hurry up its transformation into a big player in selling high-end equipment to big businesses.It's been hiring bigwigs...
View ArticleTour LearnVest, One Of New York's Fastest-Growing Startups
LearnVest is a New York startup that has grown up fast in a few short years.Starting as a site designed to teach women about financial planning, it's become a subscription-based financial planning...
View ArticleBravo 'Start-Ups' Star: Some Of The Cast Members 'May Be Insane'
Bravo's "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley" has received its fair share of reviews since premiering two weeks ago. People have criticized the reality-TV show for not depicting an accurate, authentic view of...
View ArticleOne Problem With Steven Sinofsky's Run At Microsoft That No One Seems To...
Microsoft's decision to push out Steven Sinofsky is a really big mistake, says Farhad Manjoo at Slate:With Sinofsky’s departure, Microsoft is rudderless at a time of intense competition. He was the...
View ArticleWho's Kidding Who, Elon Musk Is Businessperson Of The Year
Fortune Magazine named Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos its "Businessperson of the Year." While Bezos did some cool stuff this year, we think Fortune got it wrong. Watch below to find out why Elon Musk is our...
View ArticleApple Now Owns the Page Turn (AAPL)
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View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Why You Need A Mobile Marketing Strategy
Mobile Insights is a new 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.BYOD Is...
View Article10 Embarrassing Gadgets And Apps You Should Stop Using
You have a lot of choices with the tech you use. Some are better than others. Some are really, really bad. And some are just downright embarrassing and worth avoiding at all cost. BlackBerry phones are...
View Article13 New Ways To Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible (LNKD)
If you haven't touched your LinkedIn profile in months or years, it's time to take action.Think of it like a makeover for your professional image.The site has steadily transformed its profile pages...
View ArticleNETFLIX: Amazon Is Losing Up To $1 Billion A Year Trying To Keep Up With Us...
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says Amazon is losing between $500 million and $1 billion a year on its Prime streaming video service.He came up with that range based on deals that Netflix and Amazon...
View ArticleAnswers To 15 MORE Google Interview Questions That Made Geniuses Feel Dumb...
We've been publishing some of Google's old (now banned) interview questions this week.The first set: 15 Google Interview Questions That Made Geniuses Feel DumbThe second set: 15 MORE Google Interview...
View Article35 Of The Best Early Stage Investors Just Put $5 Million Into Office Lease...
42Floors has been quiet since it emerged from Y Combinator last summer and wrote a viral love letter/employment offer to college student, Dan Shipper.But make no mistake, the startup has been...
View ArticleSave 25% On VentureBeat's Flagship Cloud Event
VentureBeat's second annual CloudBeat takes place Nov 28-29 in Redwood City, and we're gathering the most disruptive people to deliver valuable lessons in cloud adoption.At CloudBeat 2012 the...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Apple's Astounding Retail Sales In Context (AAPL)
Apple's retail stores are incredibly lucrative as this chart based on RetailSails data shows. Apple's sales per square foot are more than double the next retailer on the list, Tiffany& Co. Follow...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Has A Plan To Cut The Bottom 20% At Yahoo (YHOO)
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is putting a plan in motion that will evaluate employees—and put one in five jobs at risk, reports Kara Swisher at AllThingsD.The bottom 20 percent could see their pay cut or...
View ArticleCNBC Anchor Asks Former Tech Mogul 'Are You Prepared To Die?' In Craziest...
Former tech mogul John McAfee, who is wanted for questioning in a murder case in Belize and is currently hiding inside his compound in that country, spoke to CNBC's Brian Sullivan via the telephone...
View ArticleWhy Angel Investor Joanne Wilson Doesn't Care About The Company Financials...
Not too long ago, Joanne Wilson was just a fan of upcoming startups, when her husband – prominent investor Fred Wilson– suggested that she start investing in projects she finds interesting.She gave...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Windows 8 Sales Are 'Well Below Expectations' Inside The Company...
Really bad news for MicrosoftSales of its brand new operating system, Windows 8, are "well below projections," inside the company says Paul Thurott at Windows SuperSite. Thurott is probably the most...
View Article40 Engineers Worked 14-Hour Days, 7 Days A Week To Get Obama Reelected—Here...
The Obama campaign's technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong.Josh Thayer, the lead engineer of Narwhal, had just been informed that they'd lost another one of...
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