See Also Are We ‘A–hole Sexist Pigs’? Marissa Mayer: Here’s What It Was Like Being The Only Female Geek At Stanford And Google Marissa Mayer Is The New CEO Of Yahoo That awkward moment where a really great thing happens to someone you know, but it’s kind of bad for you, but admitting that...
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You deserve a break today, indeed. Augmented reality pioneer Steve Mann visited a Parisian McDonald’s with is family a month ago. Mann has a system called the EyeTap physically installed in his skull that records video and streams augmented reality data directly to his retina. Upon ordering, McDonald’s employees at 140, Avenue Champs Elysees,...
Live Nation Labs, the investing arm of music giant Live Nation, has purchased music discovery app Rexly for an undisclosed amount. The deal, which had been in the works for several months, was finalized Friday and announced Monday via both companies’ blogs. “This isn’t really an exit—it’s a continuation of the vision,” Rexly co-founder...
Google+ has a lovely feature called “What’s Hot.” This feature shows you all of the most popular posts on the network, except they basically all have one thing in common – you can’t comment on them. Why? There’s a 500 comment limit on Google+, which we’ve known about for some time. It’s time to...
PSFK Future of Retail Report The consulting team over at PSFK has put together a great report that details the major trends that are changing the world of retail. In it, they also provide some scenarios about what could work in a rapidly evolving retail world. One of the scenarios stuck out as we looked through...
Venture capital investments picked up significantly this quarter, with a 37 percent increase in funding and 3 percent increase in deals over the previous quarter. The period also saw strong emphasis on mobile investments and seed funding, according to a report released by CB Insights. There was a total of $8.1 billion in financing...
Paul Maritz CEO of VMware at Structure 2011. Over the past four years, VMware under CEO Paul Maritz, has been nothing if not ambitious. It entered the battle for software developers with its SpringSource acquisition in 2009. It jumped into email and applications by buying Zimbra the following year. Those moves, by a CEO who...
Blogspot See Also The Impressive Career Of Yahoo’s Young New CEO, Marissa Mayer Twitter’s Chairman And CEO Are ‘THRILLED’ About Marissa Mayer’s Hire At Yahoo How Up To 85% Of Google Search Results Are Actually Paid Ads Yahoo has a new CEO: Marissa Mayer. She was the 20th employee at Google, where she spent...