China Cracks Down On iPhone-Smuggling Housewives
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Suppliers for what was one of China's largest online iPhone stores have been hauled to court for allegedly evading taxes by smuggling Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads into the...
View ArticleFeature Friday: Etsy Gift Cards
It might seem strange that a service that is seven years old would just be getting around to gift cards, but Etsy did not have its own payment service until this year. Paypal was the default payment...
View ArticleCandy Crush Saga Review (iPhone, iPad)
It's probably impossible to not fall in love with Candy Crush Saga, the smash hit Facebook game that finally debuted on iPhone and iPad. Broken down into its most basic elements, this phenomenal title...
View ArticleRetailers Are Zeroing In On 'Post-Pie Shoppers' This Thanksgiving
(Reuters)—Retailers are targeting "post-pie" commerce, the jump in shopping created by the boom in smartphones and tablet computers which Thanksgiving diners grab as they collapse onto the couch after...
View ArticleiPad Mini: All Big Tablets, Please Go Home (Review)
The iPad Mini is proof positive why technical specs don’t matter anymore. It’s slower than both the third and fourth-generation iPads, and it features a significantly lower resolution screen that...
View ArticleMedia Companies: Embrace Project Glass, It’s Going To Change Everything
As consumer hardware goes, few items have had such an instantly polarizing effect as Google’s Project Glass, the concept smart glasses (or, to be more precise, augmented reality head-mounted display)...
View ArticleKarma’s Gift To Facebook: F-commerce Done Right, Finally
Since writing that Facebook Gifts would likely kill a bunch of startups, I’ve heard from many of those startups. Naturally, they disagree.Wrapp, for example, has argued fervently that its gift...
View ArticleCandy Crush Saga Cheats And Tips
Play Candy Crush Saga for just a couple of minutes and prepare to become hopelessly addicted. This delightful match-three puzzler features delicious-looking candies, strategic play and music guaranteed...
View ArticleAngry Birds Star Wars: Overwhelming Number Of Fans Prefer Rebel Alliance
As longtime Star Wars fans, we've always gravitated towards the evil Empire. Not only do they have the Death Star, but also Darth Vader, Stormtroopers and the Emperor. There's just something cool about...
View ArticleDream of Pixels Review (iPhone, iPad)
Tetris in reverse. That's the easiest way to describe Dawn of Play's outstanding iPhone and iPad puzzle game, Dream of Pixels. It's the sort of thing you need to see in action to fully understand, and...
View ArticleiOS And Android Games Of The Week: November 16, 2012
It was one heck of a week for puzzle games, especially for iPhone and iPad. We found ourselves locked in a fierce debate over which head-scratcher should prevail. Android, mercifully enough, was much...
View Article40 Engineers Worked 14-Hour Days, 7 Days A Week To Get Obama Reelected—Here...
The Obama campaign's technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong.Josh Thayer, the lead engineer of Narwhal, had just been informed that they'd lost another one of...
View ArticleAFSE Open House This Morning
I am not doing a regular post this morning because I am spending the morning helping to recruit eighth graders to attend The Academy for Software Engineering next fall This is our second class for AFSE...
View ArticleThe Most Important Offseason Acquisition For The San Francisco Giants Could...
Baseball, more so than other sports, is known for its massive data collection, complex statistics and informed managerial decisions. So it should be no surprise that, just as corporate enterprises are...
View ArticleAn internet thanksgiving
This week, in the United States, people will be celebrated Thanksgiving, a time to eat turkey and look at the things we’re all thankful for. With this in mind, I’d like to thank the people who make one...
View ArticleLincoln
The Gotham Gal and I saw Lincoln yesterday. I would encourage everyone, certainly every american citizen, to see it. Spielberg creates a time machine via the magic of film. And Daniel Day-Lewis'...
View ArticleIs America Really On Its Way To Being Energy Independent? Frack, Yeah!
America is on track to produce all the energy it needs at home.UNTIL the late 1950s America produced all the coal, oil and natural gas that its citizens could burn. But as they grew rich and bought...
View Article23 Startup Tips From Oprah Winfrey
This article previously appeared in Forbes.Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. Other installments include: Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, Richard Branson, Walt Disney, Mark...
View ArticleEntrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.
It’s 4.50am. Sunday morning. And I couldn’t sleep. I have much on my mind since I just returned from a week on the road. 5 days. 3 cities.Late night Mexican food. Beers. Airports. Delays.I left on a...
View ArticleMBA Mondays: Revenue Models
We are kicking off our next series on MBA Mondays with an assignment. We are going to peer produce an exhaustive list of revenue models for web and mobile businesses. Then I will publish that list and...
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