10 Things You Need To Know This Weekend (FB, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG)
It's the weekend! Hooray.Time to cozy up and read all the biggest tech stories you may have missed this week. Here are 10 stories in tech worth re-reading, or catching up on:Facebook's decision to...
View ArticleInstagram: No, We Didn't Just Lose 25% Of Our Users (FB)
Instagram has responded to yesterday's odd report that it lost 25% of its active users."This data is inaccurate," an Instagram spokesperson told Sam Biddle at Gizmodo. "We continue to see strong and...
View ArticleBlake Krikorian Leaves Amazon's Board Because He Just Sold His Startup To One...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Blake Krikorian has quit the board of Amazon.com Inc about a year and a half after joining to take up an unspecified role at the buyer...
View Article17 New Ideas That Are Actually Worth Millions
Kickstarter is a place where entrepreneurs and artists can post ideas and raise money from other users.Before 2012, no project had ever raised $1 million on the platform. In the last 12 months, 17...
View ArticleApple Will Drop One Of Its Lawsuits Against Samsung (AAPL)
Apple has agreed to drop its patent claims against Samsung's Galaxy S III Mini after the South Korean rival said it would not sell the gadget in the United States, a court filing showed.The...
View ArticleThe FAA Doesn't Make You Sit Down Before Your Plane Leaves — Just Your Stupid...
AMERICAN airlines are showing up on time more often."During the first 10 months of 2012," the Boston Globereports, "on-time arrival rates at US airports were the highest they have been since 2003." The...
View ArticleThe Amazon Reviews For This Banana Slicer Are The Best Thing On The Internet...
Amazon sells a banana-shaped banana slicer called the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer.For some reason that's better left undiscovered, the user-contributed reviews for the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer on...
View ArticleWhy Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy Than Washington?
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View ArticleNetflix CEO Reed Hastings' Salary Will Double In 2013 (NFLX)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' pay will double to $4 million next year, after he took a pay cut due to management missteps this year.Hastings' annual salary will rise to $2 million in...
View ArticleAPPLE'S Q1 PREVIEW: Near-Term Volatility Continuing (AAPL)
This is a guest post from Sammy The Walrus IV, a frequent commenter at Business Insider, and a sharp tweeter on all things Apple.It was originally published on his site, AAPL Orchard, and is...
View ArticleProof That Facebook Copied One Of The Hottest Apps On The Planet And It Still...
Facebook released a new iPhone app last week called Poke. Poke lets you send self-destructing photos, videos, and text messages to your Facebook friends.It's remarkably similar to another app called...
View ArticleOur Favorite Instagram Photos Of 2012
2012 was the easily the year of Instagram.Soon after Facebook bought the 13-person company for $1 billion, the number of Instagram users skyrocketed past the 100 million mark.With 100 million-plus...
View ArticleHow Facebook Is Hunting Down And Deleting Fake Accounts (FB)
Earlier this year, in its Q2 2012 earnings report, Facebook disclosed that 4.8 percent of its accounts were either "duplicate" accounts (meaning that one person was operating more than one profile) or...
View ArticleThe Idea That Apple's Best Days Are Behind It Is Absurd (AAPL)
Now that Apple's stock has been in a serious swoon since September, it's turning into silly season with people suggesting it's the next RIM.There seem to be three viable explanations for what's...
View ArticleAlan Patricof Explained Why He Ditched His $40 Billion Fund For A $75 Million...
In 1969, Alan Patricof founded Patricof and Co., an early venture capital firm. Over the next 40 years, he turned that into Apax, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. And then he left...
View ArticleHTML5 vs. Apps: Here's Why The Debate Matters, And Who Will Win
HTML5 is a new technology that allows developers to build rich web-based apps that run on any device via a standard web browser.Many think it will save the web, rendering native platform-dependent apps...
View ArticleBII REPORT: How Tablet Sales Have Exploded, And Where The Next Wave Of Growth...
Tablets are the fastest ramping computing device in history. Shipments have grown from a relatively paltry 17 million shipments in 2010, to 65 million shipments in 2011, and are on pace to hit 122...
View ArticleWe Need More Female Investors
Women are gaining financial independence to an unprecedented degree — they now make up the majority of college graduates, are nearly half of the labor force and are becoming the primary earners in many...
View ArticleFoursquare User Data Is About To Get Way More Public
Foursquare has notified its users that privacy policy changes will swing into effect next month, making more user data more public.Foursquare checkins used to show a user's first name and last initial,...
View ArticleNew York City Commuters Now Have The Holy Grail Of Apps (AAPL)
The MTA has released an iOS app that tells you how far away your train is from your subway stop.It's called MTA Subway Time, and it's sure to make you feel much less stranded as you wait for a train...
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