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One reason why Andrew Mason held onto his job as Groupon CEO for long, we were told, was that he had the support of employees—and ousting him would crush morale. That no longer seems to be the case, according to Glassdoor, the jobs and careers site which lets employees rate their bosses. While Mason...
statigr.am/cynthiamarie69 Consider this: Instagram has 100 million active users. And the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service has, at last count, 109 million photos tagged, simply, “#me.” By the numbers, if you’re on Instagram and you haven’t taken a picture of yourself, you’re doing it wrong. Yet the digital self-portrait—the selfie—is somehow seen as a scourge, a...
If you do not have sweaty palms after watching this clip then you’re a braver soul than we. Reactions: @panzer Seriously…so unnerving to watch that. — Brian Stucki (@brianstucki) March 1, 2013 @panzer Bro level off the charts. — Steve Streza (@SteveStreza) March 1, 2013 @panzer @sammywalrusiv That was Brotesque™ — Matt Drance (@drance)...
Before Groupon made him a household name in technology, Andrew Mason worked on a little project called The Point. In Chicago, it gained some street hype for proposing a project to dome the city, and thereby end the scourge of horrific weather that the poor locale endures. Trantorian fantasy aside, Mason’s The Point was...
App.net, the social network started by imeem and Picplz founder Dalton Caldwell, has made its first change to the ‘Developer Incentive Program’ that was introduced last September to reward its top developers. Chief of which sees the total bucket fund that is distributed to app-makers rise to $30,000 per month from an initial $20,000. Ad-free...
In the past few weeks, I have written two stories about the menace the Internet represents, particularly in view of the hacking attacks almost certainly perpetrated by the Chinese Red Army. In particular, my contention that we need to develop a next generation Internet that’s more secure and, preferably, walled in, drew a lot...
Ouya, the $99 Android game console that racked up more than $8.5 million in Kickstarter funding last August, will finally begin shipping to backers next month. The big date: March 28, according to CEO Julie Uhrman in a Kickstarter update this morning. A full launch in retail stores is still set for June. (See also:...
Facebook is testing a redesign of its Timeline feature on users in New Zealand. From the looks of it, the change is a subtle but significant shift to how the social giant organizes information on users’ profiles. We got a look at the redesign, courtesy of ReadWrite founder Richard MacManus, who resides in New...
A forthcoming connected device — a onesie shirt that monitors a baby’s position, breathing, temperature and sound — poses the dilemma of how to make one’s little data open to collaboration with other systems developed for the internet of things. Each washable Peeko Monitor shirt from Rest Devices contains a strip that detects information...