econsultancy — The future may be mobile, but capitalizing on the mobile opportunity hasn't exactly been easy for many publishers and advertisers. As companies like Facebook and Twitter are learning the hard way, delivering effective ads to consumers through mobile devices can be tough. Despite the fact that mobile devices are always on and...
venturebeat — Rogue Amoeba, creator of the Airfoil Speakers Touch, an app that lets you send and receive audio from an iPhone to many devices, was removed from Apple’s app store today. The reason? Apple didn’t say. Airfoil Speakers Touch acted similarly to Apple’s own Airplay feature in iOS 5. The feature lets...
venturebeat — Facebook has launched a stand-alone camera application for the iPhone to help people share photos faster and easier on the massive social network, the company announced today. Although Facebook paid $1 billion to acquire photo-sharing service Instagram, the Facebook Camera app seems focused on bulk uploading your photos from your iPhone...
xconomy — Brad Loncar The recent Facebook IPO has brought to the front pages an issue that many ordinary investors have been asking themselves for a long time: “Is the system fair?” In Facebook’s case, legitimate questions have arisen about why Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan, Facebook’s lead underwriters, all reduced...
entrepreneur — Openness, transparency and employee empowerment have become key to business success, a survey of global CEOs say. Social media can help you unlock it.
venturebeat — Unlike Yahoo, AOL’s activist shareholders won’t be able to boot out the company’s CEO due to falsifying education information on a resume. Instead, Starboard Value LP, which owns 5.3 percent of AOL, decided to create a 96-page presentation outlining all of the missteps the company is currently making in regards to...
xconomy — Curt Woodward Amazon.com’s remarkable growth is remaking the face of downtown Seattle, on a scale far different than any company before it in this city. Today, the e-commerce and cloud-computing pioneer felt some of the growing pains. Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting devolved into a bizarre standoff with liberal political activists, who hijacked...
pehub — Dick Fuld Get’s off. SEC staff ends the Lehman probe without taking any enforcement action. Wah Wah Wah. Facebook doesn’t like how its IPO went and now it wants to switch to the Big Board Mark Zuckerberg’s new, unpleasant life as head of public company. The Yankees could go up for sale with a $3...
fourhourworkweek — Photo: 401K. The following article is a guest post by Chris Guillibeau, who’s traveled to 150+ countries and studied more micro-businesses than anyone I know. I hope you love this piece as much as I did. Enjoy! Enter Chris Over the past several years, I’ve been on a quest to study...
entrepreneur — A Government Accountability Office report says the effort to help small businesses pay for health care is too complex to be useful.
venturebeat — Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang told analysts today just how important cloud graphics will be to the world. The company announced last week that its recently announced Kepler-based graphics chips are capable of cloud graphics. That means they can process graphics for multiple users in a data center and then...
timberry.bplans — What would you say to this question? I think it’s too deep for me to answer by myself. Please join me in the comments, with your answer. Here’s the question: I have an idea that I am hopelessly passionate about, but I question the wisdom of trying to execute at this point...
venturebeat — Trying to prove that its not dead yet, Yahoo owned-Flickr is releasing yet another batch of updates, but this time with the emphasis on improving its Groups. Thursday, Groups on Flickr, the site’s community-shared photo pools, have been gifted with the acclaimed “Justified View” (pictured above) for a richer, more impactful...
venturebeat — Finnish phone maker Nokia has shrunk the size of its usually huge Nokia World event into several small events and moved up the date of the first event by a few weeks, the company announced today in a blog post. This is a major make-or-break year for Nokia, with its Windows...
venturebeat — Google has updated its Google+ app for Android with beautiful new flourishes and the ability to start a video chat Hangout on the go, the company announced today. The app update makes a lot of sense in light of Google+’s new photo-centric iPhone app and the service’s focus on wanting to...
venturebeat — Every few months a new innovation in physical interaction with virtual objects comes along and the Minority Report comparisons begin. But (T)ether, a new project by a group of students at the MIT Media lab, is one of the first that actually made me believe it. After watching their demo video...
venturebeat — Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) hijacked the senate floor today to address critics of his recently proposed Ex-PATRIOT act legislation, which would impose new taxes on people who give up their U.S. citizenship to avoid taxes and bar them from re-entering the country. Schumer, along with Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), introduced the...
37signals — Getting Real, our book about a smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application, is now available as a free PDF (it used to cost $19). We’ve use the Getting Real methods to develop all of our products. Here’s what other people have said about Getting Real. Head over to...
econsultancy — Yahoo has made a lot of big mistakes over the years, and today it finds itself in the fight of its life to stay relevant on the modern web. The big questions: what can Yahoo do to recapture some of its past glory, if anything at all? One possible answer is so...
venturebeat — Many restaurants have no clue who their customers are, and they often don’t get repeat clientele. Starbates is out to change that. The Fullerton, Calif.-based company is creating a customizable loyalty program that restaurants can use to track and reward customers. Users can access a mobile app that allows them to...
venturebeat — There’s still plenty of buzz surrounding a potential Apple TV set, and now Forrester analyst James McQuivey is offering his own speculation: Apple should avoid taking on the big-screen HDTVs already in our living rooms, and instead offer a complimentary smaller screen “Apple should sell the world’s first non-TV TV,” McQuivey...
venturebeat — Tim Cook has yet to launch a revolutionary new product since he took command of Apple last August, but, little by little, he’s been shaping the company in his own way — moving it beyond the idol worship of Steve Jobs, and towards more transparency and efficiency. In a new magazine...
econsultancy — With the deadline for compliance with the EU e-Privacy Directive just two days away, we've rounded up some of the key stats in an infographic. This embeddable infographic looks at marketers' and consumers' views of the EU cookie law, and our five-step plan for compliance. This is a topic we've covered in...
entrepreneur — Gabe Zichermann explains how offering customers and employees what they want through gamification can create long-term engagement.
