Back in October 2010, billionaire tech investor Mark Cuban jumped into the daily deals game with a $1.5 million seed investment in gift online shopping deals startup JungleCents. Because the startup took a somewhat alternative approach to daily deals, using a lead generation model to give publishers supplemental revenue streams, today, JungleCents has seen...
What Should You Do If Your Employer Asks For Your Facebook Password? HOT TOPIC Sure, you sacrifice some of your rights to privacy when you enter the workforce, but asking for social passwords seems to be an extreme request. Employees are advised to be proactive and ask about social media policies and, of course,...
An update to popular read later service Instapaper has been fast tracked in order to bring Retina support to its users. The new version, 4.1, has a nice set of new features including some brilliant new fonts. The update was finished on an aggressive schedule after developer Marco Arment realized that he would have...
It seems that noted firebrand Mike Daisey’s story – the one about the crippled, underaged factory workers who unspooled tales of woe and torture at the hands of their evil Foxconn masters at Apple’s behest- was at least partially fabricated. He was outed as, at best, a bad journalist and at worst, a fraud....
Now that the new iPad has hit the shelves of stores around the world, equipped as it is with a Retina display, it’s going to have a frustrating effect on otherwise happy owners of the original iPad or the iPad 2 – and that’s not just blind envy of those who bought the shiny new...
With its resolution of 2048 x 1536, the iPad’s retina display can make even the most well-designed apps look dramatically better. The screen, as Tim Cook proudly pointed out, has 1 million more pixels than an HDTV set. Naturally, any app that puts a strong emphasis on its visual appearance stands to gain in...
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Some people are surprised when they find out that Getty Images is just 17 years old — its brand name has become such an institution in the image licensing and stock photography space that many people assume it’s been around for decades longer. But starting in 1995 just at the dawn of the Internet...
The latest version of OS X Mountain Lion developer preview was released earlier today and there is one change that has been noticed already. Designer Dustin Curtis points out that Mountain Lion now asks your permission before allowing Mac apps access to your contacts. There is a new dialog that pops up when an...
In case you haven’t heard, one of the most popular episodes of “This American Life” ever was a bit fabricated. Not just a bit, it was pretty much BS and the show issued a retraction today. The episode was centered around Apple’s operations in China. Here’s what TAL had to say about the issue...
We have all had some sort of emotionally meaningful experience on social media, whether it’s re-connecting with an old friend, finding out that someone is pregnant or just gave birth, following a celebrity’s up-to-the-minute news or just getting called out by your mom for Facebook PDA. As we reported yesterday in this QA with...