Office inventory management systems: Not exactly the world’s sexiest software to be sure. Yet, without inventory and asset management systems, many enterprises would likely work at a similar pace to the DMV. Currently, SMBs have no shortage of tools to choose from when selecting a software system for tracking office assets and inventory; however,...
Even though it’s the end of summer and tech news has started to slow to a crawl, there was actually quite a bit to talk about on OMG/JK this week. In this episode, Jason and I focus on three key things: Amazon’s Kindle web reader, Facebook Messenger, and games on Google+. Is Amazon screwing with...
The Huffington Post has come across this fascinating five-minute interview of Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s Palo Alto office in June 2005. The clip is apparently part of a longer 40-minute-interview from a documentary about millennials shot by Ray Hafner and Derek Franzese. That interview has never been shown in full, and if I were Hafner and...
Image: Business Insider Since opening in 2004, Shake Shack has become a phenomenon: people will wait in lines for hours for a burger made with the chain’s special “shack sauce.” It was a brilliant concept devised by New York City restaurateur Danny Meyer, whose Union Square Hospitality Group also includes a host of other restaurants...
Wondering which restaurant you should go to? The Mexican app Yumbling, which just went out of private beta this week, can offer you recommendations directly on your phone. But how exactly does it work? What does Yumbling do? Yumbling is an app that provides entertainment recommendations to its users in Mexico, from restaurants to...
Growing up in the US, I obviously can’t speak for what it’s like to interact with Government agencies in other parts of the world. Here, though, there’s always that degree of separation between “we the people” and Uncle Sam. Since 2009, NASA has been trying to change that, all in the name of following...
As we noted in June, Apple is building what is sure to be the coolest office building ever in Cuptertino, CA. The building is so important to the company that no less than Steve Jobs went to a Cupertino City Council meeting a couple months ago to seal the deal. They were eating out...
When I was growing up, one of my all-time favorite toys was my Nerf dart blaster. Every summer, the other neighborhood kids and I would take off on our bikes, blasters strapped to our backs, and have a full-on foam war. It’s been a solid decade since I’ve raised my not-so-dangerous weapon, but the...
Image: Flickr BabyBen See Also: This is Brittany. She’s 25, And She’s Got A Start-Up Funded By The Groupon Guys Here Are The 14 Startups Presenting At NYC Dreamit Demo Day Today Former YouTube Mobile Exec Launches A Dating Site For Couples The details of the mega round Dropbox is raising haven’t been released,...
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