AP Mitt Romney just picked Congressman Paul Ryan to be his VP candidate. Some observers are saying that, by picking Ryan, Romney played right into Obama’s hands, on account of Ryan’s having put forth a budget proposal that will cut benefits for Medicare, Medicaid, and other entitlement programs. These proposed cuts, the story goes,...
Fans of custom Android software should be happier this week thanks to a centralized service created for developers. Called OTA Update Center, it gives the creators of custom ROMs a place to store their software; helpful because without the service, these developers have to maintain or rent server space for their software. And Android...
It’s a potential “doomsday machine.” It’s “quite literally out of control.” Hedge fund managers and Nobel winners say it should be banned. Others insist it should at least be regulated. Its practitioners are “parasites.” Mark Cuban says they are “the ultimate hackers,” who “scared the hell out of me.” Last week they wiped out...
Mitt Romney’s VP pick Paul Ryan published a huge plan to save America earlier this year. Called the “Path To Prosperity,” it is a proposed budget for the federal government that includes massive tax cuts and tax simplification, with spending cuts to major government entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Here are the...
AP Images Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) — Harvard University’s endowment has made a small investment in Facebook Inc., the social-networking service that got started on its campus by Mark Zuckerberg. Harvard Management Co., which runs the endowment for the world’s richest college, held 20,000 shares at the end of June, according to a regulatory filing....
With less than two weeks left to The Next Web Conference Latin America, we help you get ready with a new post series that will bring you everything you need to know about this exciting region. This was the first question we tried to answer when we kickstarted our Latin America channel 14 months ago: Where...
While Chinese search titan Baidu has certainly built itself up as an Internet startup with Chinese characteristics, it has also drawn inspiration from Silicon Valley culture. Its headquarters in Beijing are a testament to that fact. Baidu’s sights are set on the top. The company is already the undisputed leader of the Chinese search...
It has been a phenomenally successful Olympics for Great Britain Northern Ireland, securing third place in the gold medal table behind the might of the USA and China. But rowers, cyclists, runners and boxers aside, it has been a massive event for broadcasters too, in what the BBC was touting as the first digital...
Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures, took issue with GigaOM this week after we expressed skepticism about his company’s plans to hire a “VP of Global Good.” In an interview with tech site Geekwire, Myhrvold said, “I think we do a whole lot more good for the world than GigaOm does. How big is...
Innovation looks different from industry to industry — some new products improve current processes while others completely disrupt them, challenging the way we see situations we’ve put up with for so long. As online and offline world continue to collide, more and more companies are harnessing the possibilities of the web to solve offline...