These Surprising Numbers Suggest Yahoo's Board May Have Screwed Up Hiring...
The reason the Yahoo board hired Marissa Mayer as its CEO instead of sticking with interim CEO Ross Levinsohn was that Mayer, a "products person," planned to return Yahoo to its "tech company" roots,...
View ArticleYes, This Bravo 'Start-Ups' Star Actually Compared Herself To Oprah
For those of you who have been keeping up with Bravo's "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley," it might not come as a surprise to you that lifecaster Sarah Austin has a high opinion of herself.Her latest feat of...
View ArticleThese Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Are Completely...
If you're looking for answers as to what has gone wrong in the U.S. economy--why so many people are unemployed, why so many Americans barely make enough to live on, why "the 1%" just keeps getting...
View Article9 Tech Trends That Will Make Someone Billions Of Dollars Next Year
2013 will soon be upon us.Most of us can see that 2012's four big trends will get bigger next year: mobile, social, cloud, and big data.Market-research company IDC has gone one further, predicting how...
View ArticleKleiner's Mike Abbott: Venture Capital Must Change
Mike Abbott, the brilliant engineering leader who turned Twitter around, has been a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins for about a year now. And he's learned a lot.He's now determined to change the...
View ArticlePeople Who Expect A Big Microsoft Comeback Sound Increasingly Delusional...
Last week, BI editor Jay Jarow wrote about how Steve Ballmer's nightmare is coming true: Many huge market trends continue to move against Microsoft, and the company's responses to them have not yet...
View ArticleI've Always Hated The Idea Of Labor Unions, But It May Be Time To Reconsider
I've always hated the idea of labor unions.Why?Several reasons.They create an "us versus them" culture within companies, instead of putting everyone on the same teamThey create a culture of...
View ArticleReport: Tech Mogul John McAfee Has Been Captured
John McAfee appears to have been caught.McAfee is the wealthy creator of anti-virus software and has been on the run from the Belize government for weeks. "We have received an unconfirmed report that...
View ArticleHow To Annoy Your Twitter Followers
Twitter's simultaneous blessing and curse is that you can instantly blast a message to a huge follower base.While this instant transmitting and receiving of information can be very useful, it also has...
View ArticleTiny PengPod Thumbs Its Nose At Google With A $120 Tablet
Android/Linux lovers are whooping it up now that a startup called PengPod reached its crowdfunding goal.PengPod promised to ship affordable 7- and 10-inch tablets if it could raise $49,000 by...
View Article20 Years Of Texting: The Rise And Fall Of LOL
It has saved lives and ruined marriages, created a whole new dialect and made billions in profits for phone companies. But as the humble text message celebrates its 20th birthday, some wonder how much...
View ArticleNew Rumors Swirl That Nokia Is Working On An Android Phone (NOK, MSFT)
Nokia is looking to hire a Linux expert. Linux is at the heart of Android. That's set off a new round of speculation that Nokia is working on an Android phone.This is an interesting development given...
View Article20 Quotes That Reveal How Mark Cuban Became Everyone's Favorite Billionaire
Mark Cuban started his working life as a bartender in Dallas. Then he took a job as a computer salesman.Then he was fired.And only then did he start his first company,ย MicroSolutions. He did well,...
View ArticleWhy I Was Wrong About Hating E-Books (AMZN, BOOKS, AAPL, GOOG)
I railed against e-books about a month ago.My biggest issues were their cost and use of DRM.In the interest of doing my best to see the other side of things, I committed to reading only e-books for the...
View ArticleThere's Only One Relevant Question For The Republicans: 'Seriously? You're...
The Republicans are trying hard to make it look like they're the ones driving the Fiscal Cliff negotiations, but Wall Street isn't buying it.No matter how many times House Speaker John Boehner says the...
View ArticleAn 11-Year-Old Antiques Marketplace Has Raised $102 Million In The Past 12...
Online antiques marketplace 1stdibs just landed a $42 million investment from Index Ventures, Spark Capital, and Benchmark.It's the 11-year-old company's second round of outside financing, after a $60...
View ArticleHere's How To Tell If There's Going To Be A Tablet Under Your Tree For...
Christmas Eve is exactly three weeks away today.If you're doing some holiday shopping, here's a guide to help you figure out which tablets will arrive at your house in time to give them to friends and...
View ArticleHere's How Google Is Trying To Kill Yelp
Google tried to buy Yelp, but the local reviews site turned down the offer reportedly worth a measly $500 million.So, Google decided that if it couldn't buy Yelp, it would kill it instead.Yelp CEO...
View ArticleHow Obama's Hands Look When He's Tweeting
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View ArticleROSS LEVINSOHN: Here's How My Plan For Yahoo Was Different Than Marissa Mayer's
With the rapid growth of online and new media, many have been predicting the fall of traditional media.But the media giants of the past continue to be the media giants of today and in fact many are...
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