The Evil Empire

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Advertising is hardly ever the right answer to building a sustainable, profitable startup. Yet so many do it. Instead, startup founders and CEOs need to focus on what they could charge for that people would actually pay for. The Board of Innovation &md... Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Brothers spent 10 years in Leavesden, U.K., filming eight "Harry Potter" films. The studios are massive and reveal how the movies were made using the most incredible special effects in the film industry. Over the course of filming, five warehous... Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has formed a new "deep tech" team of executives whose duties will include recruiting non-Microsoft developers to build apps using its products. The idea is to get Microsoft closer to next-generation developers who are making tons of money bui... Read the rest of this entry »

Marketo had a good, good day. Its stock launched on Nasdaq, rising nearly 78% from the opening price of $13 to over $23. Bruce Cleveland and Doug Pepper from venture capital firm InterWest Partners did particularly well. InterWest  had a 33.3... Read the rest of this entry »

When CNet editor and  reviewer Brian Bennett lost his "lovely HTC One test unit" while traveling, he was forced to use the other test phone he brought with him, a BlackBerry Z10. He expected to be miserable missing out on Google Drive, G... Read the rest of this entry »

AROUND the world some 27 million people, including women and girls, are the victims of trafficking, US Secretary of State John Kerry says. Read the rest of this entry »

AROUND the world some 27 million people, including women and girls, are the victims of trafficking, US Secretary of State John Kerry says. Read the rest of this entry »

It's been one year since Facebook went public. We assume a lot of IPO investors aren't happy with how things turned out. But, from Facebook's perspective, it all worked out. It got a good price on its IPO, and now it has plenty of time to develop its b... Read the rest of this entry »

Silicon Valley is pushing America into a "share culture," which will completely change how we live and work. It's an emerging trend, especially in the transportation sector, with companies like Zipcar and bike share programs becoming popular, but it's moving beyond that space.

Y Combinator Partner Paul Graham, who invests in some of the most valuable and successful startups, recently asked, "Will ownership turn out to be largely a hack people resorted to before they had the infrastructure to manage sharing properly?"

We recently sat down with Jan Chipchase, whose job is to travel the world and discover tech trends as executive creative director of Global Insights at frog. He shared with us what this shared culture of the future might look like. Watch our conversation below:

 

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