YouTube See Also Microsoft Wants A Discount From Apple To Bring Office To The iPad THE END OF SMARTPHONES: Here’s A Computer Screen On A Contact Lens JEFFERIES: The iPhone 5S Is Coming Next June In 6-8 Colors Apple and Microsoft are fighting over Office? What is this, 1997? While startups flash through Silicon...
The immigration debate has been raging for some time now in Washington. Broad immigration reform eluded President Obama in his first term, but many think it’s sure to be addressed in his second. While any change to the current system will likely affect the overall U.S. economy, reforming policies concerning high-skilled immigrants is what...
The App Store is still small enough to offer a great opportunity for small publishers to establish themselves pretty quickly on mobile rather than on the web. “On the web, it’s a little bit easier to get started. Everyone has a cousin who can put together a website, but very few people know somebody...
UK-based online eyewear retailer Prescription Eyewear Ltd (PEL), the company behind Glasses Direct, has bolstered its empire with the acquisition of European contact lens site, LensOn. Wait! It’s hardly the sexiest of industries, but there’s a ton of money in it, and this actually an interesting deal. You see, hardly anyone buys their eyewear...
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Australia has traditionally been one of the few markets in Asia Pacific where the number of Apple devices outnumbers the number powered by Android. However, that may no longer be the case, according to new data from Telsyte (cited in a report from the Sydney Morning Herald), which explains that Android is now the country’s...
Ingress, the Alternate/Augmented Reality (AR) game from Google’s Niantic Labs, is a major evolution of mobile gaming. Apparently, it’s also a good way to get arrested. According to a post on Reddit (I know, I know – but stay with me on this), an Ingress player in Ohio was detained by police for his in-game...
Being smart is not enough for creating a successful startup. There is a wide shelf of good books on how to build a new company, providing a range of useful and practical advice. Two of the best recent examples include Steve Blank’s 4 Steps to the Epiphany and Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup. If...
Last month, while wasting a few moments on Facebook, my pal Brendan O’Malley was surprised to see that his old friend Alex Gomez had “liked” Discover. This was surprising not only because Alex hated mega-corporations but even more so because Alex had passed away six months earlier. The Facebook “like” is dated Nov. 1,...
Yesterday, Twitter announced that it was launching its own version of photo filters and photo editing tools. And like all news around social networks — Facebook, Instagram and Twitter — it got the treatment normally reserved for the Kardashians. But, then we do live in the golden age of narcissism thanks to this weapon of...