How Quora Made Its Email Newsletters Irresistible To Read
If you're a Quora user, then you receive its weekly email newsletters. Quora is a Q&A site which highlights answers from credible people. It was created by Facebook's former CTO, Adam...
View ArticleWhy Disrupting The Cable Business Won't Really Help Consumers (INTC, GOOG, AAPL)
The dream of any long suffering cable subscriber is for a brilliant company to come along and deliver something that blows up the system, offering a better selection of shows for less money. In this...
View ArticleSexting App Snapchat Is A Threat To Facebook, And It Is 2013's Most Likely...
Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion last spring in a defensive measure.The main reason people use Facebook is to share photos, and Instagram was threatening this dominance on mobile, where...
View ArticleAdam D'Angelo: What I Learned Working For Facebook
Adam D'Angelo was an early Facebook employee and the company's first CTO. He's one of "6 people in the world with good ideas," according to Mark Zuckerberg.A few years ago, D'Angelo left Facebook and...
View ArticleThis Is The Future Of Search (GOOG)
Search has come a long way since the early days of Altavista and Yahoo.We've gone from relying solely on search engines with a bunch of blue links to using more advanced tools like Google's Knowledge...
View Article2013's Most Intriguing Internet Business Development So Far Just Went Down In...
Half a world away, the Internet as it currently operates just withstood a massive test.Last week, France's second biggest Internet service provider, Free, turned on ad-blocking software for its 5.2...
View ArticleThis Is The Only Number That Matters For Apple In Its Big App Store Press...
Apple put out a big press release on the state of the App Store.It's loaded with all sorts of big, interesting numbers:Apple has had 40 billion app downloads, and half of those happened last year.Apple...
View ArticleLIVE: LG's New Smartphones And TVs At CES
LG is going to be a much bigger player in mobile in 2013, and it all starts today. We're live at the company's press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show where it's expected to unveil a new...
View ArticleWe Don't Know What Facebook Is Unveiling Next Week, But It Could Be Its Big...
Facebook has announced a surprise media event on January 15 that has everyone guessing.The invitation said simply: "See what we're building."The word "building" made some gadget hounds speculate about...
View ArticleHere's A Video Demo Of The New BlackBerry Operating System That Launches In A...
RIM doesn't have an official presence at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, but the company is still in Las Vegas showing off its upcoming mobile operating system, BlackBerry 10.Here's one of...
View ArticleThis App Offers A Better Way To Use Facebook And Twitter (FB)
We're intrigued by an app called TapSocial.It consolidates your Facebook and Twitter feeds into a live-updating stock ticker of sorts.The idea is that it keeps your social media out of the way while...
View ArticleAn IBM Scientist Taught His Supercomputer To Swear Like A Sailor (IBM)
A funny thing happened on the way to creating an IBM supercomputer capable of understanding human language: A research scientist accidentally filled its vocabulary with foul language.And the computer,...
View ArticleNo One Is Quite Sure Why North Korea's Twitter Account Follows A Random...
North Korea's tentative steps into the online world are always a little mysterious — the strange choices in the videos uploaded to YouTube, for example, or the 2013 website redesign that made the...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Mobile Search Is Google's To Lose
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.Google,...
View ArticleThe Sacramento Kings Are Reportedly On The Verge Of Selling For $500 Million...
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! is reporting that the Maloof family is finalizing a deal to sell the Sacramento Kings to a group that will relocate them to Seattle starting next season.The new ownership...
View ArticleHEATMAP: What You Really See When You Look At Facebook
Everyone ignores the ads on Facebook, right?Wrong. This visual heatmap of where users actually look when they look at Facebook shows that "Page Post Ads" — which are the new ads that show up inside a...
View ArticleHere's A Look At How The Next BlackBerry Phone Will Work (RIMM)
We're just a few short weeks away from the big launch of BlackBerry 10, the new mobile operating system that will run on at least one new touchscreen BlackBerry phone.Today at meeting away from the...
View ArticleYou Can Dunk Sony's Latest Smartphone In Water And It Still Works (SNE)
Sony unveiled its latest smartphone, the Xperia Z, at CES 2013.We got to spend some time with the the 5-inch Android-powered phone and came away very impressed.The Xperia Z is packed with the latest...
View ArticleSome Of Facebook's Best Features Were Once Hackathon Projects (FB)
It seems that almost every major feature on Facebook started as a hackathon project.Hackathons are all-night coding sessions where engineers get amped up on caffeine, brainstorm ideas, and build...
View ArticleJudging By This Angry Email, Marissa Mayer Hasn't Yet Wowed ALL Yahoo...
Most of the noise out of Yahoo since it hired ex-Googler Marissa Mayer to be CEO itself has been positive.But not all of it.Last week, for example, we got an angry, anti-Mayer email from an anonymous...
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