Why Every Corporation Should Employ A Futurist
Most people and corporations are terrible at planning for the future, according to prominent futurist Dr. Peter Bishop of the University of Houston."The way the public — and particularly the way policy...
View ArticleBII REPORT: The Mobile Advertising Ecosystem Explained
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...
View ArticleGRUBER: Apple Should Buy Dropbox (AAPL)
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View ArticleThe Most Popular Futurist On The Planet Will Help Google Develop The Next Big...
Ray Kurzweil has confirmed that he's joining Google as Director of Engineering today.Kurzweil has an illustrious career as an inventor, author, and futurist. He's perhaps best known for his ideas about...
View ArticleSteve Case: Startups That Go Public Create Jobs, Those That Get Sold Don't
When Steve Case took AOL public in 1992, his company had raised only $10 million and had a market cap of $70 million -- a far cry from the Zyngas and Facebooks of today.Case explained at our IGNITION...
View ArticleThe Wealth And Destruction Of The Tech Industry (GOOG, AAPL, GS, MS, JPM)
Last week, DealBook hosted a fabulous conference where the heads of the most important investment banks in the world spoke, along with some big names in the tech and economics.One thing that stood out...
View ArticleYouSendIt CEO Brad Garlinghouse Just Gave Every Employee An iPad Mini (AAPL)
File sharing site YouSendIt is having an awesome year and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse just gave each employee an iPad Mini to show them his thanks.If they already owned a Mini, or didn't want one, they...
View ArticleAOL Is Giving All Of Its Employees $1,000 Bonuses This Year (AOL)
AOL made an extra billion dollars this year when it sold a bunch of patents to Microsoft.That helped propel the stock to new highs.To celebrate, it's going to give every employee a $1,056 bonus, says...
View ArticleHow Far Can Technology Advance Before It Takes Over The World?
With technology advancing as much as it has in recent decades, it's fair to wonder whether all this technological innovation will backfire on planet earth and mankind.In the most recent episode of his...
View ArticleAfter Selling $300,000 In Underwear He Didn't Have On Kickstarter, Jake...
When Jake Bronstein posted his first Kickstarter campaign, he wasn't expecting much.He set up a $30,000 goal on the crowdfunding site. He just wanted to test the waters and see if his idea for a...
View ArticleNow Apple Is Turning To Foursquare For Help Fixing Its Maps (AAPL)
Last week, Apple senior vice president Eddy Cuebroadcast his location via Foursquare and Twitter, twice. He might as well have been broadcasting Apple's plans for fixing its troubled mapping...
View ArticleJill Abramson Explains The Digital Strategy Of The New York Times
Business Insider editor-in-chief Henry Blodget sat down with Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times, at IGNITION to discuss the changing trends in journalism and digital media. As legacy...
View ArticleTiffani Amber Thiessen Is Quitting Instagram, Everybody (FB)
Photo-sharing app Instagram updated its terms of service last night to say that it may, someday, allow advertisers to repurpose user-taken images.Lots of people are upset.One of these people is Tiffani...
View ArticleTango's Latest App Will Become Your New Favorite Way To Chat On Your Smarphone
When Apple introduced a front-facing camera on its iPhone 4 in 2010, it was supposed to usher in a new form of mobile communication.It did. Sort of.Unfortunately, FaceTime didn't work over cellular...
View ArticleMeet The Guy Behind Tango, The Chatting App With More Than 80 Million Users
Tango, the multimedia messaging service available for more than 2,000 Android devices, iOS, Windows Phone, and PCs first began as an alternative to Apple's FaceTime video-chat service. The company has...
View ArticleApple Just Released An Important iPhone Software Update That Fixes Problems...
Apple released an update to its operating system for iPhones and iPads today that fixes some issues connecting to Wi-Fi.The new version is called iOS 6.0.2.Want to get the update? Here's what you...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Does Instagram Risk Losing Mobile Marketers In Shift To...
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.Does...
View ArticleFacebook Will Put Video Ads In Your News Feed Whether You Like It Or Not (FB)
Facebook is planning to launch video ads in users' news feeds that will be on "autoplay," meaning the video will run whether the user wants to see it not, according to Ad Age.The move was expected, as...
View ArticleTHE TRUTH ABOUT APPLE: The iPhone Was A Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity (AAPL)
Apple's stock is in a funny place right now.After a big moonshot, it's fallen back to earth. And now it's locked in this mid to low $500-range.Analysts who had been universally bullish are...
View ArticlePeople Are Flooding NASA With Emails About The World Ending, Like It's Santa...
If you haven't already heard, the world is supposed to end this Friday.The Mayan Calendar, the most robust calendar ever made, suggests the world was created on August 11, 3114 BC. Then, the Mayan...
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