It’s been pretty fascinating to watch Netflix’s growth from a company that Blockbuster laughed at in 2000 (when Founder and CEO Reed Hastings and former CFO Barry McCarthy proposed to Blockbuster management that they run its online brand) to the single largest source of web traffic in North America in 2011. There have been...
To celebrate the fact that my vacation during the last two weeks of August has been officially confirmed (!), I am posting the most massive infographic I have ever seen: “The Social Travel Revolution” brought to you by the folks at still-in-beta travel startup Tripl. Most shocking statistic: 50% of all Americans are on...
And that’s really what I found to be the major stumbling point throughout my day: simply switching to a new OS. It took me a while to retrain my fingers to the location of the CTRL key on the Chromebook – located in a different place than the Apple Command key. Having tweaked my...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. This week the firm Strategy Analytics released research indicating that although Apple shipped nearly three times...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. Sameer Patel of the Sovos Group wrote an excellent blog post on the way organizations tend...
Tonight, I’m making a sweet potato, black bean and avocado dinner thanks to Gojee, a recipe-search site that knows what I have in my pantry and uses that knowledge about my ingredients and past recipes to deliver fresh ideas for dinner. The site, which launched earlier this month, reached 50,000 users in 10 days....
If you pride yourself in your geekery, then there are a few things that are essential to your office. Whether you fancy yourself a minimalist, a bit extravagant or somewhere in between, wearing the geek badge is like joining a team. You need to don the uniform. Fortunately for you, this uniform doesn’t require cheap polo...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. This week Microsoft Research released Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime, a developer preview of...
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Image: LAist See Also: Google Is Blasting Business Profiles From Google+ Google+ Is Big In India WHOOPS: Google Admits Games Are Coming To Google+ First it was William Shatner. Now, Google has suspended Alyssa Milano from Google+. Milano tweeted the news about a half hour ago, and sure enough, her profile is gone. (Full...