Archive for February 2013
Consider this: Instagram has 100 million active users. And the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service has, at last count, 109 million photos tagged, simply, "#me." By the numbers, if you're on Instagram and you haven't taken a picture of yourself, you're... Read the rest of this entry »
One reason why Andrew Mason held onto his job as Groupon CEO for long, we were told, was that he had the support of employees—and ousting him would crush morale. That no longer seems to be the case, according to Glassdoor, the jobs and careers si... Read the rest of this entry »
Now that Groupon has fired its CEO, Andrew Mason, the e-commerce company is largely in the hands of its current management team. And more than half of its management team previously worked at the largest e-commerce company in the world, Amazon.com. (Th... Read the rest of this entry »
Just when you thought spam was under control, a new breed of spammers is taking up new methods to infiltrate our inboxes, search results and social media feeds. Data science could make them very effective. Read the rest of this entry »
Marissa Mayer's new rule that Yahoo employees can no longer work from home has been the talk of tech blogs, mommy blogs, and everyone else who works for a living. Taking advantage of the hype, video conference company Blue Jeans Network put up a billbo... Read the rest of this entry »
Andrew Mason is out as CEO of Groupon. With the company's stock price in long decline, it's hardly a surprise. But we'd like to take a look at Mason's weirder, more lighthearted side. Groupon established itself early on as a quirky, humorous company, a... Read the rest of this entry »
Engineer Jim Kor wants to make a car that is efficient, affordable, simple, and safe, and that can be easily produced in small or large numbers. And he's doing it with 3D printing. The car he's developed is the Urbee 2, a two-seat, three-wheel hybrid. ... Read the rest of this entry »
Groupon fired Andrew Mason today. How did such a quirky person end up the CEO of a global company in the first place? We tell that story in here, in an excerpt from Business Insider's 2011 e-Book: "Inside Groupon." The full st... Read the rest of this entry »
Andrew Mason is out as CEO of Groupon. In his charming farewell letter to employees, he mentions Battletoads, a video game for the NES back in the day. "If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes wit... Read the rest of this entry »
Groupon's founder and executive chairman, Eric Lefkofsky, just took on the role of temporary co-CEO as the company searches for a replacement for Andrew Mason in the top job. Lefkofsky shares the role with Ted Leonsis, a Groupon board member who is a v... Read the rest of this entry »