Google Glass And Wearable Tech: This Is A Game-Changer, Not A Fad
It’s easy to identify something that’s going to take the world by storm. Just look for the product that’s quickest to be labelled a fad. To be discounted is a serious concern. But we can look directly...
View ArticleBolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP
It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners.If you don’t already follow him on Twitter please click link and follow. You won’t...
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How To Make A Million Dollars An Hour
While researching, "How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds get away with siphoning off America's Wealth" (Wiley 2013), I stumbled upon these stunning factoids:In 2009, David Tepper, the...
View ArticleDoing Business On A Handshake
I often wish we could do business on a handshake. I've been thinking about it more and more these days. We negotiate a sophisticated set of documents when we invest in a company and for the most part,...
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Almost A Quarter Of US Teens Mainly Use Their Smartphones To Go Online
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 37 percent of Americans ages 12 to 17 tap the Internet using a smartphone, up sharply in just a year, according to a 2012 Pew survey released on Wednesday.Twenty-three...
View ArticleHow Apple Gets All the Good Apps
Apple tightly controls its software and hardware, and is fiercely competitive in battling its rivals, especially in the mobile market. And yet, while the company never creates apps for anyone else’s...
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Facebook And Yahoo Are Starting To Look Eerily Similar (FB, YHOO)
I’ve seen the future of Facebook, and it is... Yahoo!Between 1994–2000, Yahoo! dominated the consumer Internet industry and much of the world’s attention. The company’s exclamation mark cast a long,...
View ArticleGroupon Needs To Be Saved From Itself
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View ArticleThe Veronica Mars Movie
There's an interesting project that launched on Kickstarter this week. The creator of the cult TV show Veronica Mars and the lead actress have launched a project to make The Veronica Mars Movie. In one...
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With Android Management Shakeup, Google Reveals The Broad Sweep Of Its Ambition
Google’s master plan for mobile is finally coming into focus.The latest development: Andy Rubin, who has run the Android mobile operating system since 2004, even before it was acquired by Google, is...
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Samsung's Answer To The iPhone 5 Comes Out Today
Samsung will unwrap its latest blockbuster smartphone, the Galaxy S4, at the Radio City music hall in New York on Thursday evening as the South Korean phonemaker tries to bring the fight to Apple's...
View ArticleGoogle Reader, Please Don’t Go — I need You To Do My Job
When I learned Wednesday night that Google Reader is shutting down, I literally broke into a sweat. Like many journalists, I’ve come to rely on the 242 RSS subscriptions I manage through Google Reader....
View ArticleWhy Apple Really Needs To Kill It With iOS 7
Six years in, the polish is starting to rub off. After a historic launch and years of grand slam updates to its hardware and software, the iPhone now appears more vulnerable than ever. To retains its...
View ArticleWhy Your Marketing Campaign Sucks
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it...
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Why Elon Musk Refuses To File Patents At His High-Tech Private Space Company
To patent an idea, you must publish it. Many firms prefer secrecyTHE conventional way to protect intellectual property is to patent it. This gives an inventor legal protection for his idea: if others...
View ArticleFun Friday: Back In The Day
Sometime in the past week here at AVC, it was suggested we do "back in the day" for fun friday. I like that idea and so here we go. I did most of my programming in college, at MIT. And I wrote most of...
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Google Builds An ‘X-Team’ Of Tech Executives — But For What?
Something funny is happening in Mountain View. First Andy Rubin, the man who invented Android, and now Jeff Huber, the former head of Google’s mapping and advertising divisions, are moving to a...
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IBM And EMC Are Fighting Over SoftLayer, The Hottest Enterprise Company In...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp and EMC Corp are among parties in talks to buy privately held database web hosting company SoftLayer Technologies Inc, in a deal that could...
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The World’s Cheapest Cell Phones Are Now Just $10 Each
Recently, students from MIT journeyed to Shenzhen, China, the capital of low-cost electronics manufacturing, where they discovered that cell phones can be had for as little as $10, likely the world’s...
View ArticleWhy Did Google Reader Die?
I’ve made it pretty clear that I don’t like RSS readers. When you subscribe to your favorite sites and read all their articles in a single, text-heavy interface, you’re eliding the beauty and variety...
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