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Santa Ditches Google For Microsoft (GOOG, MSFT)
Since the 1950s, Norad, the North American Aerospace Defence Command, has been giving children updates on Santa's progress from the North Pole each Christmas Eve.Norad has teamed up with Google to...
View ArticleMuseum Of Math
Last night the Gotham Gal and I were out and about town attending some holiday parties. One of them was on 26th street, on the north side of Madison Square Park. As we arrived at the building we were...
View ArticleESPN, College Football Instant Replays & Twitter
Video highlights and clips are an ESPN hallmark. And for college football fans, December and January represent bowl season. This year, in partnership with Ford, those fans can get embedded replays and...
View ArticleTwitter Missed a Huge Opportunity Against Instagram and Facebook
The back and forth cold war between Instagram and Twitter has been going on for at least as long as Facebook bought the mobile photo sharing service back in April. It was heightened in July in the...
View ArticleMBA Mondays: Revenue Models - Commerce
Commerce has to be the oldest business model. Sell something to someone. Or maybe it was barter back then. In any case, ecommerce revenues topped $200bn in the US in 2011 and are growing at close to...
View Article'Gun' 'Control'
The tech industry cheerleads the displacement and reconfiguration of huge institutions like the music industry and telecoms. The arms industry shares many of the attributes of those industries, and is...
View ArticleIt’s Not Twitter — This Is Just The Way The News Works Now
If it seems like just yesterday that we were talking about how error-prone Twitter and other social-media outlets were during a crisis, that’s because it was almost yesterday — Hurricane Sandy, the...
View ArticleWhat Does Google Get From Supercharging Kansas City’s Internet?
We get it: Google Fiber is amazing. Netflix says it’s the most consistently fast ISP in America. Analysts from BTIG Research visited Kansas City last month and were “blown away,” by the service,...
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Monsters, Inc. Run Review (iPhone, iPad)
Disney chose to end 2012 with Monsters, Inc. Run, an addictive platformer from Get Set Games, the same developer behind the well-received Mega Run: Redford's Adventure. Featuring Mike and Sulley, stars...
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Monsters, Inc. Run Cheats And Tips
Animated heroes Mike and Sulley are on a mission to rescue Boo in Disney's newest iPhone and iPad release, Monsters, Inc. Run. This endless runner tasks players with navigating their way through tricky...
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RIM Is Already Testing Its New BlackBerry Phones At 120 Companies (RIMM)
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd. said the BlackBerry 10, the new smartphone lineup intended to revive its fortunes, is about to begin testing at more than 120 U.S. companies, including 64...
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Kingdom Rush Free For Limited Time Starting December 18
It would appear that Ironhide Game Studio is in a giving mood. How else to explain the recent decision to make its smash hit strategy game, Kingdom Rush, free for a limited time? That said, yes, the...
View ArticleGuns, Parents and Children
A friend of mine actually sent an email to his friends list last night about his fears that Congress would pass laws on gun control and our right to bear arms would vanish. Silly man. His gun rights...
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Chillingo Celebrates Holidays With 15 Game Sale
The holiday season is in full swing, and publisher Chillingo got the jump on its competitors by announcing an impressive 15-game sale for its iPhone and iPad catalogue. The best part? All of these...
View ArticleThe contextual and exponential future of Facebook
TweetI visited Facebook’s headquarters today and interviewed a bunch of people for the book “Age of Context” that I’m writing with Shel Israel. What’s the age of context? Five radically expanding...
View ArticleThe Valuable Unsung Heroes of Startups
I got a call Sunday from a business colleague while I was sitting in the lounge at LAX waiting for yet another delayed flight.This colleague is a lawyer with whom I work on a deal and have done so for...
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Facebook's Instagram Changes May Exploit Teen Content (FB)
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc.’s Instagram policy changes, announced yesterday, may let advertisers use teenagers’ photos for marketing, raising privacy and security concerns, said Jeffrey...
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Everyone Is Freaking Out About Instagram's New Terms Of Service (FB)
If you want to stop social networking services from exploiting your likeness for advertising, you've got to start paying up.Instagram is changing its terms of use in January. Included in the new...
View ArticleThe Mobile Web
A friend sent me an email last night suggesting that now is the time to start building mobile web applications and services so that we can bring the web we know and love to the mobile world.I am...
View ArticleInstagram’s Latest App Update Fixed My Biggest Pet Peeve, And People Hate It
As a long time user of Instagram, I have come to loathe a certain thing that people do on the service. No, it’s not duckface or Throwback Thursdays. It’s not even the fact that most people will never...
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