YouTube The eBay store in 2005′s “40-Year-Old Virgin” seems dated—but it may just be retro. See Also Target Unveils Key Measure To Kill ‘Showrooming’ Former Law Student Promises To Change His Name If You Give Him $75,000 It’s Possible To Build Mobile Commerce Without Cannibalizing Desktop Revenue What keeps eBay’s top executives awake at...
Kevin Smith/Business Insider Samsung debuts its new Smart TVs at CES. See Also At CES, Even The Refrigerators Are Absurd The Bizarre Truth About The Largest Gadget Show On The Planet Here’s Your Complete Look At Samsung’s New Smart TV As expected, television was the biggest story out of the Consumer Electronics Show this...
Kim Bhasin / Business Insider See Also BERNSTEIN: It’s Not Unreasonable To Believe Apple Is Going To Have A Truly Monstrous iPhone Quarter Apple Drastically Cut Its iPhone Orders For Next Quarter Wait, Is This The REAL Reason Apple Cut Its iPhone 5 Orders? The Wall Street Journal is reporting tonight what just about...
If you’re reading this post, chances are you use Twitter as a place to chat about, link to, search, debate and debunk the big and little things going on in tech. But as you know (and as Twitter likes to remind us again and again and again) Twitter is also home to a lot...
The proliferation of organized “hackathons” has been a big story over the past few years. Quite a few developers that I’m friends with see them as a way to keep themselves sharp on their own products and ideas, especially when a different company is the one putting the event on. I recently attended, and...
An online tribute to Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old activist who helped create RSS and committed suicide this past week, has attracted more than 1,500 links to research and academic papers. The site with the full list of links and research is here. It’s an effort to honor Swartz, who faced up to 35 years...
MIT released a statement today on the death of Aaron Swartz, a computer programmer and information activist who committed suicide two days ago. MIT president L. Rafael Reif expressed “profound condolences” for the “inexpressible loss” of this talented young developer and activist. “I want to express very clearly that I and all of us at...
Google will be showing off a new digital coupon product tomorrow that lets you more easily redeem coupons targeted to your interests. Google announced the product, called Zavers by Google on Friday, but said it will be showing off the product first-hand to visitors of Google’s booth at the annual National Retail Federation (NFR) Convention...
Tongal, a startup site that hooks crowdsourced videos with big brands, has raised $15 million from a private equity firm. New York-based Insight Venture Partners has invested in Tongal, which plans to use the funding for a rapid expansion. Tongal links writers, directors, actors, social media experts and other creators with brands. Among the brands that...
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