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Samsung Is Profiting Wildly Right Now, But It Faces A Very Scary Fact (GOOG,...
In the past year, Samsung went from being a moderately successful electronics manufacturer to the leading non-iOS mobile device maker. Together, Apple and Samsung earn 98% of the profits in the...
View ArticleHow A Local Government Can Help Local Startups
I get policy types asking me this question a lot - how can we help local startups?Well one way is to use their products to deliver better and more efficient services to citizens.The State Of Iowa is...
View ArticleThe Keyboard Begins To Slowly Fade Away
My seventh grade typing teacher, whose name I sadly do not remember, saved my career.All through elementary school, teachers pulled their hair out because my handwriting looked like I kept my pencil or...
View ArticleHow Three Mile Island Hurt Long Islanders
A long list of perpetrators are responsible for the fact that Long Islanders once again found themselves sitting for weeks in cold and dark homes. Add one more name to the list: Three Mile Island.At...
View ArticleUpsetting the Apple-cart: Google Just Torpedoed the iPhone's Profit Margins
Google just released its latest in-house Nexus branded smartphone and if you read the various reviews of this device over at The Verge, All Things D, VentureBeat, etc. you'd likely come away rather...
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Marissa Mayer Just Gave Her New CFO Ken Goldman An $18 Million Compensation...
Yahoo's new finance boss will receive up to $18m in salary, bonuses, restricted stock and stock options over the next four years, according to a regulatory filing.Ken Goldman, a veteran technology...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Big Fish Swallowing Little Fish in 2012
It's nothing new. Small companies get swallowed up by larger companies because they are struggling or because they bring enough value to allow them to "cash out" and join the bigger entity.For some...
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Facebook's Biggest Source Of Traffic Is Also The Least Monetizable
To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero.Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and countless others...
View ArticleGingerly, iPad Into The Crowd
I was a skeptic when Apple introduced the iPad in the spring of 2010. It was immediately clear that this would be a hot-selling item, but tablet computers were not new and had never been more than a...
View ArticleBoomerang: Apple's "It Just Works" Promise to Customers
Mapplegate, the PR fiasco surrounding Apple's new iPhone mapping software, doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon. You can read all about the details elsewhere but I wanted to make a couple...
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Social Discovery: The Serendipity and Science Behind the Social Internet
It's a big part of the modern-day tech movement and it's growing fast. Social discovery is about creating serendipitous experiences, aided by science (algorithms), to help us find people, products, and...
View ArticleSearching For A Real Antitrust Problem
Google“Google” and you’ll see results for the company’s many services, from Google News to Google Maps. Google something else entirely, and there’s still a good chance you’ll be directed to one of...
View ArticleA Post Startup Execs Should Forward to Your Spouse or Partner. 12 Tips for...
I recently wrote a post about how to manage relationships when you’re at a startup or are busy executive. It was based on an excellent book I had just read by Brad Feld & Amy Batchelor (his wife).I...
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Google: Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Has Earned $8 Million On YouTube Alone
Gangnam Style, the most-watched YouTube video ever, with more than one billion views, by K-pop sensation Psy has generated $8 million revenue on YouTube alone, said Google chief business officer Nikesh...
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Steve Jobs Made Aggressive Threats Against Companies That Tried To Poach...
Steve Jobs threatened to sue smartphone manufacturer Palm if the rival company did not agree to stop poaching Apple employees, according to documents made public by a US court.The communication from...
View ArticleMemory To Myth: Tracing Aaron Swartz Through The 21st Century
I met Aaron Swartz in Cambridge shortly after he’d been indicted for downloading lots of JSTOR articles on MIT’s network in 2011. My Wired colleague Ryan Singel had been writing about his story, and...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft Would Want A Piece Of Dell
If Microsoft takes a $1 billion to $3 billion stake in Dell, a possibility under discussion according to CNBC, the deal would mean more of a captive audience for Microsoft’s bread-and-butter Windows...
View ArticleApple Needs An Old School Beat
There are plenty of people who claim to know what kind of financials to expect from Apple when it reports earnings this afternoon, but the truth is no one has any idea.Analyst estimates for Apple’s...
View ArticleThe Women Entrepreneurs Festival
Today is the Women Entrepreneurs Festival at NYU. Many of you know that the Gotham Gal is the co-founder of this event with Nancy Hechinger who is on the faculty at NYU ITP. This is the third year this...
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Google Hints At Phone With Long Battery Life, Wireless Charging, And An...
Google really wants you to know that as early as spring of 2013, something big is coming from Motorola, the mobile phone manufacturer Google acquired in May 2012. And while Google executives didn’t...
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