Daily Archives: August 2, 2011

How Steve Jobs Is Running Apple During His Leave (AAPL)

August 2, 2011
How Steve Jobs Is Running Apple During His Leave (AAPL)

Image: Dan Frommer, Business Insider See Also: Vintage Steve Jobs Video: “Focusing Is About Saying No” Some Of Apple’s Board Started Looking For Steve Jobs’ Replacement Did Steve Jobs Lie About FaceTime? Despite his leave of absence for health reasons, Steve Jobs remains in constant contact with his top executives, the Mercury News reports....

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10 Brilliant Google Engineers Facebook Needs To Poach Right Now

August 2, 2011
10 Brilliant Google Engineers Facebook Needs To Poach Right Now

Facebook is rumored to be developing a search engine to compete with Google’s. If so, it’s going to need some of Google’s brains. But which ones? A business analytics firm called Seravia came up with a list of 10 Googlers it thinks Facebook should target. How Servaia people came up with the list is...

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Ukrainian politician plagiarizes Steve Jobs’ Stanford speech almost word for word

August 2, 2011
Ukrainian politician plagiarizes Steve Jobs’ Stanford speech almost word for word

Steve Jobs is a legendary orator with a conversational but magnetic style that is so impressive that books have been written about how to emulate his style. Recently, the Ukrainian Secretary of National Security and Defense, Raisa Bogatyreva, decided that she loved Steve Jobs’ speech to Stanford in 2005 so much that she would...

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CHART OF THE DAY: Why People Still Subscribe To Newspapers

August 2, 2011
CHART OF THE DAY: Why People Still Subscribe To Newspapers

People are still subscribing to newspapers for two reasons, according to a survey from AdAge: they want local news, and they want coupons.  Local news hasn’t really worked online, so newspapers are okay on that front for now. But if Groupon and LivingSocial continue their successful runs, it could be yet another reason for...

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Groupon’s Worst Nightmare: Amazon Entering Daily Deals Space

August 2, 2011
Groupon’s Worst Nightmare: Amazon Entering Daily Deals Space

Daily deals giant Groupon has to be wondering what it did to anger the largest e-commerce player in the market. According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon is not only launching a daily deals program, called Amazon Local, but the initial rollout is coming to Groupon’s backyard of Chicago. Not only is Amazon trying...

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Google Chrome Predicts And Pre-Loads Instant Pages

August 2, 2011
Google Chrome Predicts And Pre-Loads Instant Pages

Today, Google has pushed three new features to the latest stable version of its Chrome browser. Instant Pages pre-renders certain pages in the background, like top search results or the ‘next page’ link in an article, when the software can reasonably predict that the user will go there next. A pre-rendered page will appear...

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THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Why Google Is Beating Apple In The Smartphone Game (GOOG)

August 2, 2011
THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Why Google Is Beating Apple In The Smartphone Game (GOOG)

The Google Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email Image: AP See Also: THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Is Google’s New AdWords Credit Card A Good Idea? THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Baidu Continues To Push Google Aside, Dominates In China THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Could The Google+ Honeymoon Be Already...

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Keen On… How Mobile Will Make Us Smarter, More Efficient & Healthier (TCTV)

August 2, 2011
Keen On… How Mobile Will Make Us Smarter, More Efficient & Healthier (TCTV)

Who doesn’t want to be more efficient, smarter and healthier? According to Kleiner partner Chi-Hua Chien, the mobile revolution can, potentially, do all three – developing applications and services on our smartphones that make us more efficient, smarter and healther. And that’s why Kleiner, Chien admitted to me when I interviewed him at our...

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LVMH/Louis Vuitton Is Redefining Luxury Marketing With NOWNESS.com

August 2, 2011
LVMH/Louis Vuitton Is Redefining Luxury Marketing With NOWNESS.com

LVMH featured Daphne Guinness in a short film on NOWNESS.com Image: Kathrin-Thuy OTTO via flickr See Also: The Next 12 Sports Records That Will Be Broken The Leaping, Sprawling, Randy Moss Catches We’ll Never Forget The First 15 iPad Apps You Must Download Earlier this summer, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton won a Webby...

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Kleiner Perkins Backs Former Hulu CTO Eric Feng’s Social Startup Erly

August 2, 2011
Kleiner Perkins Backs Former Hulu CTO Eric Feng’s Social Startup Erly

Kleiner Perkins is announcing a new investment this morning in stealth company Erly. Interestingly, Eric Feng, newly appointed partner at KPCB and previously founding CTO of Hulu, is starting the new new social company with two other former Hulu employees, Eugene Wei and Andrew Lin, who were previously Head of Product and Head of...

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