With the approval of the Swedish government a new Twitter account @Sweden has been created with the intention to let a different member of the Swedish public tweet on behalf of the country each week. The feed is currently occupied by a writer and marketer called Jack. Although he also admits to being called...
Google’s Marissa Mayer has had no small task on her hands. Heading up the company’s local, maps and location services group, she was tasked to make light work of big problems. As such, she was part of the inner circle in Google operations. Once known as The OC (short for Operating Committee), Reuters says...
COMMON, a creative community for accelerating social change, is now accepting applications from entrepreneurs to present at COMMON Pitch NYC. The event highlights the brightest ideas for collaborative consumption — the ways social technologies help us to borrow, share and trade everything we need. COMMON explains: Changing the world is the challenge of our generation, and using...
“If you go to an eighth grader and ask them how many want to be applied mathematicians, not many hands will go up.” So says Dhiraj Rajaram, founder and CEO of Mu Sigma, a Chicago-based startup providing analytics (or “decision sciences” as the company calls it) as a service to a large pool of...
More Top Stories Top 7 Epic Tech Fails of 2011 From Netflix to RIM, Jon recounts the years biggest “Oops!” moments. If you’re having a bad day, these colossal mistakes should cheer you up. Check out the Top 7 Epic Tech Fails of 2011. 5 Biggest Surprises of 2011 Richard counted down the biggest...
Picture a full-screen Facebook news feed filled with all the beautifully designed items that all your aesthetically inclined friends have purchased. Now clean up the user interface so there’s no spammy news ticker. Got it? Then you have arrived at Fab.com, the Web’s fastest growing flash sales site specializing in design. Today it launched...
From time to time I come by videos of talks that VC’s or entrepreneurs have done, and they’re absolute boring snoozefests. Although, once in a while I find a true gem like this one. In a talk last month with the Stanford University Technology Ventures Program, Dana Mead from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers breaks...
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Texan Republican Representative Lamar Smith and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill, which we described in great detail here, could signal the end of the Internet as we know it. It’s chock full of loose political language...
Apple isn’t exactly known for letting consumers and developers tinker with its products. While the Apple II had expansion slots and a relatively open design, later hardware shipped by the company would become harder to modify. What they sold was what consumers got, with very little room for customization. Today, developers are having a...
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 case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications. Here’s an interesting post from ActiveState’s Jan Dubois on running Bugzilla...