In recent weeks, Apple has come under intense fire for the conditions under which workers in its Chinese factories labor to make its products. Partly a matter of the appalling state of laborer’s rights in China and partly a matter of Apple being a very large and recognizable target on which to focus an...
Daily Archives: February 17, 2012
Pinterest Is Not “Playing Dumb” About Making Money
It seems like everyone’s discovered Pinterest this week! Alongside the countless posts dissecting its userbase over, sideways, and under have been a series of stories about how it’s “secretly” “monetizing” — a fact unearthed when LLSocial revealed that the startup was using a service called SkimLinks in order to drive affiliate revenue from purchases...
How Facebook’s Ad Revenue Could Top Out At $10 Billion
Zazzle See Also GET READY: The Price Of Advertising On Facebook Could DOUBLE In July FINALLY: Facebook Will Put Ads On Your Mobile Phone Facebook’s Ad Business Distilled Into 12 Crucial Facts Facebook sells about $1 billion of advertising every quarter and it’s still growing, putting it on course to sell perhaps $5 billion...
No, It’s Not a Scottish Flag… It’s the New Windows 8 Logo!
“If you look back to the origins of the logo you see that it really was meant to be a window,” writes Microsoft user experience director Sam Moreau this afternoon. ” “‘Windows’ really is a beautiful metaphor for computing and with the new logo we wanted to celebrate the idea of a window, in...
CrunchBase: Social, Mobile And Deals Categories Led 2011 Private Tech Investments
In case it wasn’t already clear to you that later-stage social, mobile and deal-oriented companies led venture fundraising last year, here’s some analysis of CrunchBase data that drives the point home, courtesy of Alexey Tolkachiov at BuzzSparks.org. 421 Companies with the “social” tag in CrunchBase raised a total of $5.2 billion over the year....
We ran the numbers, here’s when we think Apple is handing out that $10k App Store gift card
Earlier today, we brought you the news that Apple had begun counting down to 25B apps downloaded from the App Store. The counter on Apple’s page is ticking down at a blazing rate and there is a $10,000 App Store gift card on the line. So we thought we’d do a little back of...
Eric Schmidt to reportedly sell off $1.5B of Google stock
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google’s former CEO and current Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt is reportedly selling off stock worth approximately $1.45 billion “as part of a trading plan that would cut his ownership stake in the Internet giant” from 2.8% to 2.1%. Surely Schmidt’s steeping down from CEO back in April 2011 has had an impact on this decision,...
Purported Next-Gen iPad Display Caught And Examined; 2048×1536 Resolution Confirmed
MacRumors has done something very bad – they went and got themselves an iPad 3 display module. Actually, it’s not so bad when you can apparently just order one online. Normally this part even being online and available ahead of launch would suggest it was a scam, but what matters isn’t the name of...
Trippy Fluid Simulation in WebGL
One of the reasons Google makes its Chrome browser is to push the Web forward relentlessly. Google engineers aren’t afraid to do things like invent new formats for Web images or build WebGL-powered 3D maps of the world, even if most of our systems aren’t ready for it. But in the interest of a...
iGiveFirst wants to making ‘giving’ to charity as easy as ‘tweeting’ and ‘liking’
When we visit sites that host any type of content, be it news or videos, we’re all used to being presented with options on how to share it. On The Next Web you’ve probably become familiar with our sharing options that are displayed above each article. While Facebook has made “liking” a piece of...