This iPhone Case Doubles As A Stun Gun, And Its Shock Is Seriously Painful
The first thing you need to know about Yellow Jacket is that their iPhone case doubles as a stun gun capable of delivering a searing 650,000 volts into the flesh of a would-be attacker. The second...
View ArticleIdentifying Pain is the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How
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View ArticleOn Corporate VCs
Every once in a while I display some emotion publicly that I regret. That happened last Thursday night on the subject of coporate venture capital. I have written here before on the subject of corporate...
View ArticleSHERYL SANDBERG: Ignore The Stock Price, Facebook Is Doing Better Than Ever (FB)
(For other news from Reuters Global Technology Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/Tech13)SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 (Reuters) - A year after Facebook Inc's fumbled IPO, Wall Street remains slow...
View ArticleFrance To Google: Change Your Privacy Policy Or Start Paying Fines
PARIS (Reuters) - France's data protection watchdog ordered Google on Thursday to change its privacy policy or face fines, leading a Europe-wide push to get the Internet giant to clarify its intentions...
View ArticleThese Maps Prove That Rich People Love iPhones
Our stuff often says a lot about us, whether we own a hybrid car or a station wagon, a MacBook Pro or an ancient desktop. And this is no less true of our smart phones, sold on a sharply divided market...
View ArticleTo Sell Anything You Need to Know What Makes You Unique
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View ArticleNYU: Blind Chinese Dissident Was Given Electronics Bugged With Spyware When...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States in May last year he was given a fellowship at New York University, use of a Greenwich Village apartment, and a...
View ArticleApple Warns Of 'Chilling Effect' As Antitrust Trial Ends
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc, on trial for allegedly colluding to raise the price of e-books, said on Thursday an adverse ruling would have a "chilling effect" on how businesses investigate new...
View ArticleSamsung Made A Tablet-Laptop Hybrid That Runs Android AND Windows
Samsung has unveiled the a hybrid device for those bewildered by the ever increasing array of computer shapes and operating systems – a tablet which doubles as a laptop and runs Windows 8 and Android...
View ArticleFun Friday: Best Entertainment This Year So Far
The idea for today's fun friday comes from Tyrone who wrote this in an email to me this week:fun friday idea: best entertainment this year across the board, albums, films, series, sites, youtube...
View ArticleInstagram Founder: Facebook May Have Bought Us For $1 Billion, But No One...
Speaking after the launch of video for the service that made its name as a photo-sharing application, Mr Systrom claimed “no one at Facebook is telling us what to do” despite the $1 billion...
View ArticleOracle CEO Larry Ellison Wants To Buy His Second Airline (ORCL)
HONOLULU (Reuters) - Billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison may be interested in acquiring a second Hawaii airline after he bought most of the tropical island of Lanai last year.Island Air, a...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: My talk with Sarah Lacy
We've already been discussing some of the things that I said in this talk, but here's the whole thing. It's long, ~90mins, but we covered a lot of ground and if you have some time this weekend, it...
View ArticleThis Tiny $99 Android Game Console Is Meant To Destroy PS4 And Xbox One...
SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) - Ouya's $99 Android videogame console goes on sale on Tuesday, the latest attempt by a growing crop of niche hardware makers to chip away at a market dominated by Sony Corp,...
View ArticleA Private Search Engine?
That's often the refrain when I advocate for our portfolio company DuckDuckGo. Most people think Google does a fine job (they do) and don't feel the need for a private search engine.But in the past few...
View ArticleThe Biggest Reason Most Sales Campaigns Don’t Close
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View ArticleWeb Inventor Berners-Lee Warns The Powers That Be Are 'Trying To Take...
Companies and governments “trying to take control of the internet” are undermining the founding principles of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned.The inventor of the World Wide Web said the...
View ArticleSmartphone Socio-economics
No MBA Mondays today. I'm obsessed about something else this morning.Benedict Evans has a series of blog posts up showcasing twitter data from a company called MapBox.Here's London (iPhone is Red,...
View ArticleHuawei Boss Trashes Smartphone Rivals: Apple Is 'Slipping' And People Only...
The chairman of China’s Huawei tells Matt Warman how the company plans to rule the smartphone market and that it can overcome political ‘spying’ fears in the US.London’s Camden Roundhouse used to house...
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