Whenever a new Web trend comes along, there are people who ask, “What is the point of this?” If millions of people are using something, there has to be a reason. In our What Is the Point of… series, we’ll explain it to you. This week, we’re asking, What is the point of Branch?...
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If you have ever tried to use SPSS you know the nightmare that it can be when trying to do even simple analysis. SPSS is designed for statisticians to analyze data sets. But even statisticians find it aggravating to perform such tasks as making a neat graphic to show the relationship between variables. So here’s...
The ability to pay for real-world items through a smartphone, without cash or cards, is one of the tech industry’s most promising revenue generators, if only someone could figure out the right formula. Nearly every segment of the American economy has spent the last few years figuring out how to take a slice of the...
When it comes to helping CEOs and other executives stay on top of the big issues at their company, a startup called 15Five has taken inspiration from Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. Even though Chouinard is supposedly out of the office on outdoor adventures for several months of the year, he developed “5-15 reports” (weekly employee memos...
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While Facebook struggles to feed ads to 900 million fickle members enjoying its free services, LinkedIn is working on selling paid services to its 175 million professional participants. Its fastest growing products, accounting for more than half of the company’s revenue, turn the serious social network into a giant job mart. “ is the...
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TweetDeck, the Twitter owned social media tool, has just rolled out updates for its Chrome app, bringing in all the new features that recently arrived in the Web app. These updates include incremental changes that have been made over past few weeks, like the ability to silence users instantly upon blocking them and a handful of...
Japanese mobile gaming giant GREE is ramping up its international presence which, most recently, saw it move into a London office and announce plans for a development studio in Vancouver, Canada. With that in mind, the company has given an indication of how its plans for world domination to reach 1 billion users are progressing...