Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley
Last spring and summer, Kathryn Minshew, co-founder of The Muse and one of Inc’s “15 Women to Watch in Tech”, was trying to raise money for the female-focused job site...
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Meet Maddie, the Acrobatic Dog Who Launched a Dream
Typically, we think of dogs as sidekicks, best friends, perhaps even confidantes. But rarely do we discover a dog who is a also a lucrative business partner. Maddie the Coonhound...
Why Processor Choice Matters To BYOD
When IT managers build a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) plan, chip architecture usually isn’t high on their list of considerations. At first glance, it’s easy to see why. After...
Should TED Ban Marketing Pitches? Google Glass Talk Was Pure Promotion
Sergey Brin’s Google Glass presentation at last week’s TED2013 conference came off as little more than a product pitch. Wearing his “Google Glass” throughout the presentation, Brin begins by noting that...
Why Microsoft Shouldn’t Have Bothered ‘Scroogling’ Google
That Microsoft is using this silly word in TV and online ads nevertheless remains a conundrum. I’d thought the company had stopped nastily smearing competitors right after its painful antitrust...
Tablet Mobile Web Traffic Now Eclipses Smartphone Traffic [Charts]
If you are surfing the Web from a mobile device these days, odds are you are doing it not from a smartphone, but from some type of tablet. According to...
Why Can’t Johnny Write? Don’t Blame Social Media
Books were my best friends, when I was growing up. I read all the time, but wrote little. It wasn’t until I hit my teens that I began to write...
Mobile Apps In The Enterprise: 7 Essentials For The New Ecosystem
Mobile devices have become the world’s steady companions that we take anywhere and use everywhere. A recent forecast by McKinsey & Company estimates that by 2014, 1.7 billion mobile devices...
‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Passes $1 Billion Worldwide
Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” has joined a very special club: it is now among the 15 movies in history that have earned more than one billion dollars...
The February Jobs Report in Two Simple Charts
The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, beating expectations, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7%, its lowest level since December 2008. Here’s the breakdown of employment status for...
Chromebook Pixel Review
“Disposable.” When Eric Schmidt and Google first introduced Chrome OS, its operating system designed for desktop and laptop PCs, they kept using that word. Schmidt promised cheap devices that were...
Google+ Update Adds Crazy Big Cover Photos + Other Stuff
The latest changes to Google+ might not have a huge impact – but that doesn’t mean they aren’t huge. Wednesday, Google revamped its Google+ profile pages, making the social network...
Why Android Takes Forever to Get Cool Apps
Even though there are more Android phones than iPhones in the United States, the number and variety of Android apps lags compared to Apple’s offerings. For instance, Android users had...
Sony RX1 review: shooting like a pro with a pocket-sized camera
It’s hard to shoot pictures in the dark. You typically have the choice of either taking a blurry, dim photo, or using a flash and ruining the ambiance. So you...
How Syfy Turns TV Shows Into Social Phenomenons
Syfy, known to viewers as Sci-Fi up until 2009, recently celebrated its 20-year anniversary. Along with the channel’s revamped branding, new strategies for formulating and distributing content online emerged. Whether...
12 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Online Security
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, I got the chance to sit down with Stephen Cobb, a distinguished security researcher for the IT security company ESET. We...
Facebook’s Big, Bright Redesign = More News Feed Junk
Social networks like Facebook and Google+ are suddenly more image-happy than ever. And that’s awesome, in theory. But images ≠ photos. And that’s an important distinction. (See also Facebook Updates News...
Make Better Presentations With the Instagram for Pitch Decks
“Hey, I really enjoyed making this PowerPoint,” is one of those things nobody says. Haiku Deck aims to change that with its iPad app for making and viewing presentations. Before...
Will Anyone Create a Killer App for Google Glass?
Last summer, Ian Shakil, then a recent graduate of Stanford business school, got to try on Google’s head-mounted computing device, Google Glass, earlier than almost anyone outside the company. Hanging...
Michael Dell Discovers A New Ring Of Hell: Carl Icahn
It seemed bad enough to me that Michael Dell was going to get in bed with private equity sharks (and Microsoft) and try to take his company private, which is...