When Groupon first arrived on the scene, it was heralded for being the fastest growing company of all time. There is, of course, a danger to being a fast growing company. It’s hard to predict if the incredible growth is just a fad, or something that can last in the long run. In Groupon’s...
Founderscard FoundersCard CEO Eric Kuhn created his business — an exclusive membership organization for founders and serial entrepreneurs that offers perks like instant elite status on airlines, discounts with Apple and ATT, and more — because it’s something he wishes had been around when he started his first company. “I had started an internet...
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I’m serious. According to exceptionally in–depth reporting on The Daily Dot, a publication that tries to monitor the heartbeat of the social web, three powerful, karma-rich Redditors have been booted from their coveted roles as bosses of a number of NSFW-themed subreddits over allegations of bribery. Redditing, in case you are some sort of...
Mobile application development platform Parse has released an update for Android apps that supports the third-generation of Facebook’s SDK. In this new version, developers will be able to take advantage of native logins, an updated user interface that ties in with a user’s Facebook friends and nearby places, and mobile app install ads tracking....
The White House has responded to a petition submitted to its We the People website instructing the government to secure funding for and building a Death Star by 2016. Unfortunately, the answer is no and the Obama Administration has outlined several reasons why it’s not going to happen — in a rather amusing way....
How far are we willing to go to protect our children? Do we trample their rights in the hope of making them safer? In the wake of serious school violence and tragedy, many would probably say we can’t possibly go too far. But at a magnet school in San Antonio, Texas, the recently launched Student...
At last, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), launchpad for the world’s least-necessary inventions, is over. But now comes the most fun part of the show: We asked you to nominate the worst products you could find on the show floor, and boy, did you deliver. As promised, the first person who submitted the winning loser...
Jump on an electric scooter in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco, drive it over to the Caltrain station on your way to work in the South Bay, and just leave it there. That’s the idea behind the new one-way trip feature, launched on Friday by the Zipcar of electric scooters, startup Scoot Networks....
After the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned of a vulnerability in Java 7 that could allow malicious software to be installed on users’ machines, Apple moved swiftly to shield OS X users who have downloaded Java 7. On Friday the company disabled the OS X plug-in for the latest version running on some...