Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur and product designer who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. QR codes are everywhere. Frustratingly everywhere in my opinion. Countless companies put them on marketing materials, but not a single person I know actually scans them. I’m...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of clouds, it was the age of legacy IT, it was the epoch of commodity compute, it was the epoch of expensive private clouds, it was the Season of Amazon, it was the Season of IBM, it was...
In the U.S., small business (less than 250 employees) makes up nearly half the GDP and accounts for more than half the employment. But with the Great Recession, a number of these small businesses have gone bankrupt. The bets that entrepreneurs put on themselves came up short. But that’s why they are called “bets”...
Launching in a timely fashion over this Labor Day weekend, #StartupLab is a new virtual mentorship program which will see top young startup founders helping America’s workforce to adopt a more entrepreneurial approach to their careers. A collaboration between the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) and Citi, the free program offers interactive live video chats,...
Android may be dominating the Chinese smartphone market, but that doesn’t mean that China isn’t excited about Apple’s next iPhone. In just a few hours, a Taiwanese pop star has attracted over 100,000 comments and reposts on his Sina Weibo microblog with a post containing suspicious-looking photos of a so-called “iPhone 5″. It’s not...
With each new era of computing, the mix of software titles that we find essential in our day-to-day jobs changes. In the early days, the “big three” were WordPerfect, Lotus and dBase: a word processor, spreadsheet and database application. As time evolved, things got a little more graphical and changed into Microsoft’s Word, Excel...
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Aye Moah of Baydin Inc has done busy people everywhere a giant favor. She’s created a Gmail/Chrome extension called INBOX PAUSE. This glorious tool was discovered by The Next Web’s Zee Kane. It does exactly what you think it does. It prevents any more emails from popping up in your inbox the moment you...
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Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Groupon’s earliest investor and co-founder Eric Lefkofsky has transferred 18.7 million shares of the company, Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg confirmed the transfer, found in a regulatory filing, with a Groupon spokesperson. Most of the shares, 15.4 million, were moved from 600 West Groupon LLC and distributed to Lefkofsky’s beneficiaries. 600...