Image: AP The iPhone is a very good device right out of the box. You could be happy with just the Safari web browser, email application, and Google Maps. But if you want to make it a great device, you need to hit up the App Store as soon as you’ve set up the...
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings This year was filled with PR disasters. And Twitter made all of them exponentially worse. “There now seems to be an appetite for getting excited for these blunders,” says Paul Argenti, a professor of corporate communication of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business who has advised clients including Goldman Sachs and General Electric on...
Mark Zuckerberg has picked an interesting holiday destination this Christmas after choosing Vietnam, which is one of the few countries where Facebook doesn’t dominant the social networking scene, owing to it being blocked by authorities. According to a report from Vietnamese website Tuoitre News, Zuck and girlfriend Priscilla Chan are spending the festive period...
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series we call Redux, where we’re re-publishing some of our best posts of 2011. As we look back at the year – and ahead to what next year holds – we think these are the stories that deserve a second glance. It’s not just a best-of...
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Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book is I Was Blind But Now I See. You can follow him@jaltucher. I was in a meeting with Uri Geller. You know who he is. He’s the psychic that...
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — took a WiFi stroll through the forest that is Hollywood’s attempt to lock down our TVs. And by stroll, this one features @stevegillmor at a leisurely somewhat brain-cell challenged pace. You can almost see him think, except that there’s not...
As the weather gets colder and colder, there really is nothing better than bundling up by the fireplace. The calming glow. The heat. It all just warms your heart, doesn’t it? But what if you don’t have a fireplace of your own? This is where Ted Martins‘ Fireplace comes to the rescue. Now, you...
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series we call Redux, where we’re re-publishing some of our best posts of 2011. As we look back at the year – and ahead to what next year holds – we think these are the stories that deserve a second glance. It’s not just a best-of...
While living in New York’s tech community this past year has been a wild ride, it’s been a ride alongside a welcoming, supportive and extraordinary group of people. We’ve seen pivots, partnerships, massive hiring, acquisitions and rapid rounds of funding. And we’ve seen more success than failures, which has inspired us to keep running....