Archive for March 6, 2013
I was at a technology conference earlier this week, and the most popular topic of casual conversation was Bitcoin, the electronic currency invented and unleashed a few years ago. Interestingly, the conversation started before Bitcoin prices went banana... Read the rest of this entry »
Some good news for the embattled daily-deals sector. LivingSocial, an Amazon-backed online marketing company known for its discounts for local businesses, just booked $8.6 million in revenues on Tuesday CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy told employees in an email&... Read the rest of this entry »
Last year, physicists worked out the plausibility of a fully functional (if not fictional) Death Star being able to destroy planets, and found that the Galactic Empire's technological terror could indeed destroy Earth-like rocky ... Read the rest of this entry »
Last year, physicists worked out the plausibility of a fully functional (if not fictional) Death Star being able to destroy planets, and found that the Galactic Empire's technological terror could indeed destroy Earth-like rocky ... Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook just named Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco, to its board of directors. She's the ninth board member. Here's why that's a great move: Desmond-Hellmann is an academic. That brings someon... Read the rest of this entry »
HTC was the first company to ride the Android wave to smashing success. It is also the first company to crash on the Android wave. Here's a look at its revenue growth over the last 16 quarters. What happened to HTC? Samsung. It released its phones on m... Read the rest of this entry »
It's cheaper than ever to launch a startup. And a theory of running companies inexpensively, known as the Lean Startup movement, has gotten popular. Yammer CEO David Sacks, who raised $142 million from investors before selling his business-collaboratio... Read the rest of this entry »
On March 14, all eyes will be on Samsung as it unveils its hotly anticipated Galaxy S IV smartphone.
Does Samsung have the one phone that finally surpasses the iPhone?
Find out everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S IV and how it could affect the future of both Samsung and Apple:
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We recently noticed that Amazon was hiring an unusually large number of salespeople for Amazon Web Services, its enterprise arm that rents computing power over the Internet to other businesses. Now Amazon has confirmed its ambitious hiring plans to us.... Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo's HR boss, Jackie Reses, takes the company's work-in-the-office policy very seriously. According to the New York Times, she is commuting from Westchester New York to the company's Sunnyvale, California headquarters. This is despite the fact that ... Read the rest of this entry »