Let the sunshine in. Sometimes knowing you are observed is enough to make you behave well. That’s why the free press is so valued in the U.S, why we have the Freedom of Information Act and why several states have sunshine laws that allow citizens and the press to hold officials accountable. So there’s...
Within the next year or so, a flood of HTML5-based Web apps will be coming to mobile devices. It will likely start with games and dedicated applications like e-readers and move to more general use apps like news sites. Companies like Facebook and Amazon will be at the tip of the spear. The next...
Twitter is obviously where real-time lives (mostly…). It is an essential networking and conversational tool. Brands should devise a smart plan to organically be relevant and successful on Twitter. The more authentic and real-time your conversation is, the better you will perform as a marketer on Twitter. Twitter and the plethora of research tools...
Russian search giant Yandex has announced today that it has acquired ‘social newspaper’ service The Tweeted Times as part of a push to integrate more social data into its search results. The Tweeted Times is similar to Paper.li, in that it generates a ‘newspaper’ on the Web containing stories shared by people you follow on...
Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, has acquired startup venture The Tweeted Times, which enables people to create custom online ‘newspapers’ generated from their Twitter accounts. Financial terms of the purchase were not disclosed, but Yandex says it aims to continue offering the social news service and that the entire The...
Time is relative. It can be cheap, free, expensive, long and short. For an Entrepeneur time is one of the most valuable assets there is. You can’t buy more. It is fixed and you only have a certain amount of it. Every minute you are not spending on your company you are losing money....
Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook cuts a low profile, and so some people are asking whether he can be as tough as Steve Jobs in crucial negotiations. As our friend Dan Frommer asks at SplatF: “Is Tim Cook mean enough?” He quotes Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who had to deal with Steve Jobs...
One key element for the success of electric vehicles going forward is charging technology, but we’re getting there. Kyoto-based Nichicon has now developed what they say are the world’s smallest and chargers for these vehicles, the NQC-A202 and the NQC-A302. Both chargers are sized at just 150x35x60cm, about 50% smaller than existing devices. The...
Image: Groupon via Flickr Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: Groupon CEO Andrew Mason wrote a strongly-worded memo to his troops to dispute some of the negative media coverage the company has been having lately. Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote an email to employees say the company isn’t going to change while...
Tim Cook, Apple CEO Image: Associated Press Ever since Tim Cook has taken over as Apple CEO, people have been wondering whether he has that intangible “vision thing” that can make him an equally successful CEO as Steve Jobs. The answer: no one knows, including Tim Cook itself. Only the future will tell. But...