Starbucks Is Done With 'Coffee'
YOUNGER Americans will have to take our word for it: there was a time, way back when Ronald Reagan was president, when your countrymen ordered coffee by simply asking for “coffee”. Ordering a “venti...
View ArticleGE Is So Stoked About 3D Printing, They're Using It To Make Parts For Jet...
CONFIRMATION as to how seriously some companies are taking additive manufacturing, popularly known as 3D printing, came on November 20th when GE Aviation, part of the world’s biggest manufacturing...
View ArticleGoogle's Latest Smartphone Is Already Having Issues (GOOG)
Google's new Nexus 4 smartphone may be sold out but users are already complaining of a sound issue.While the phone is on or off, users are hearing a faint buzz or click coming from around the phone’s...
View ArticleIf These Two Brilliant Investors Are Right About Future Growth, The World Is...
WHAT distinguishes modern man from his ancestors is the expectation of steady economic and population growth. Since the start of the 19th century, both have taken off in a way that was not seen in...
View Article20 Quotes That Reveal How Bill Gates Became The World's Richest Man (MSFT)
Let's have a moment of thanksgiving for Bill Gates.Two reasons.More than any other entrepreneur, Bill Gates is the reason you're using a personal computing device to look at this story right now. For...
View ArticleTech's 8 Most Fearsome 'Patent Trolls'
Called patent trolls or non-practising entities (NPE), companies that make most of their money from licensing patents don't have the best reputation.Just this week, the Wall Street Journal reported...
View Article20 Super Useful Apps You Should Be Using
Since the launch of Apple's App Store in 2008 there has been a flood of smartphone apps all with the intention of making our lives easier.Because of these apps we can find out instantly what song is...
View ArticleShould Advertisers Be Angry When Facebook Sells Their Fans To The...
Larry Kim, CEO at search engine marketing company Wordstream, has a question for Facebook's ad sales people: Why do you sell advertisers' customer lists to rival brands?Kim noticed that ad buyers on...
View Article'Gangnam Style' Has Broken Justin Bieber's YouTube Record
The insanely catchy Korean Pop song "Gangnam Style" has become YouTube's highest watched video ever, snatching the title away from Justin Bieber's "Baby."At the time of writing "Gangnam Style" has...
View ArticleSamsung Has Stopped Supplying Apple With Batteries For iPads And Macbooks (AAPL)
Apple is reportedly switching battery suppliers for its iPads and MacBooks.Samsung previously supplied batteries for Apple but has stopped, reports TechCrunch. Apple now uses Chinese companies Amperex...
View ArticleThis Chart Is Why A Lot Of People Think HP Is Totally Screwed (HPQ)
This week, we ran a chart showing HP's crashing stock price since Mark Hurd was forced out of the company.After we published the chart, a friend emailed to say, "Hurd destroyed the company. Gutted...
View ArticleThe Truth About Black Friday: It's Irrelevant [CHART]
Every year, the media and Wall Street devote much horsepower to analyzing Black Friday sales and trying to divine what these mean for holiday sales in general.The answer is, not much.Neil Irwin at the...
View ArticleFacebook Has Posters In Its Hallways Begging Employees To Ditch iPhones For...
In August we reported Facebook was pushing its employees to use Android phones because its Android app was really bad.The idea is that if the employees are actually using the app, then they'll see all...
View ArticleMARK CUBAN: Why You Should Be Taking Advantage Of Black Friday Deals
Yes, Black Friday has come and gone, but there are still a lot of big holiday discounts going on. You should be taking advantage of these deals to maximize the value of your cash, according to Mark...
View ArticleRemember All Those "Pro-Democracy" Protests Last Year? Here's What They Were...
The widespread protests across the Middle East and northern Africa in last year's "Arab Spring" were often viewed as the awakening of a critical region to the virtues of democracy.And they may have had...
View ArticleI Spent A Week In Google's Mailroom (GOOG)
When you think of Google, you probably think of Gmail and search. These two products are almost absurdly pervasive—if you don't use the former, you surely use the latter. And if you use neither, you...
View ArticleThe iPad Had 88% Of All Online Tablet Shopping Traffic On Black Friday (AAPL,...
Here's more proof that tablet market share stats you see are either bogus or totally irrelevant.IBMreleased its Thanksgiving and Black Friday report on mobile shopping, and the iPad completely...
View ArticleFRED WILSON: Here's Why VCs Have Suddenly Gone Cold On Consumer Internet
Union Square Ventures founder Fred Wilson addresses the slowdown in VC investments in consumer Internet companies on his blog, A VC. His post is entitled "What Has Changed."As I read this post in the...
View ArticleAmazon's Got A Crazy Discount On The Kindle Fire Today (AMZN)
How are you celebrating Cyber Monday? Are you taking advantage of Amazon's discount on the already affordable Kindle Fire?Using the Amazon discount code "FIREDEAL" will let you snatch it up for $129...
View ArticleBII REPORT: Here Are The Major Players In Mobile Advertising
We are in the post-PC era, and soon billions of consumers will be carrying around Internet-connected mobile devices for up to 16 hours a day. Mobile audiences have exploded as a result.Mobile...
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