There are two sayings on the back of every Apple product: Designed By Apple in California and Assembled in China. These statements attempt to say that even though the products might be assembled in a different country, Apple is an American company — a fact Apple proclaimed loudly today with a new web page...
Mark this up as one more crucial chapter in the much-thumbed book called “The Consumerization of IT”: a new app has launched from a Y Combinator-backed startup that offers builders the ability to store, manage and view blueprints on and iPad tablet. The unique selling point for PlanGrid, as the app is called, is...
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images It’s pretty crazy to think that Mark Zuckerberg created a social network site in his dormroom in college and managed to grow it into a $100 billion company. Zuckerberg is a genius. He helped the Internet evolve into what it is now. But he couldn’t have done it without...
Social game-maker Playdom officially launched Marvel: Avengers Alliance on Thursday, and executive producer Chia Chin Lee says the title is already disproving some of the common assumptions about social games. The big assumption: that men don’t like to share their activity in social games the way that women do. That could be a problem...
Random House, the world’s largest publisher of the kinds of books you and I read, has made some adjustments to the way it sells e-books to libraries. Notably, they have tripled the price of many titles. Librarians across the country are expressing their discontent. The changes were telegraphed by an announcement a month ago...
This is a useful chart from Goldman’s latest monthly equity chartbook. It ranks the fastest growing companies in the SP 500 (excluding financials and utilities) based on estimated 2012 revenue growth for this year. Goldman Sachs The two that you might be unfamiliar with are National Oilwell Varco (which builds supplies, technology, and offers...
It dismays me to report that Google+ is adding animal masks to Google+ Hangouts. Now, instead of just having conversations like normal people, you can pretend to be cats or dogs! Isn’t that cute and fun? No. Why are you doing this to yourself, Google? Why did you add a LOLcat generator to the...
I’m a huge fan of Google+ Hangouts and I think that the company is really onto something when it comes to interaction over video. It beats the absolute crap out of a Skype conversation, and has fun effects like Apple should be creating for Facetime. The Google+ team has announced some new special effects...
YouTube See Also This Guy Wants To Make Startup Investing More Like Moneyball After Mashable, Ben Parr Is Launching A Startup To Help You Manage Your Information Google’s New York Office Added 750 Employees Last Year Beyond Oblivion was a music startup. It was supposed to change the music industry by bundling unlimited songs...
About six weeks ago, educational video startup Udemy launched its Faculty Project, a nonprofit program for distributing streaming university curriculum online. Early results have been pretty successful, with more than 50,000 students signing up for the program. But that’s not all: the Faculty Project is also bringing on ever more prestigious faculty, with its...