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Two months ago, an Australian designer named Fred Nerby redesigned Facebook as a side project for himself and posted it to Behance. His design went nuclear. Nerby says at minimum it’s received 20 million views worldwide. With such notice comes some perks. Just twenty-four hours after his design went live, he says firms from...
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Online note-taking site Evernote is the latest high-profile Web firm to get hacked after the company reset all of its near-50 million users’ passwords following the discovery, and subsequent blockage, of suspicious activity on its network. Users will be promoted to enter a new password when they log in to the service. There’s good...
There’s a new rule at Apple: if you’re an executive or board member, you’re not allowed to let your holdings of Apple shares get below a certain threshold. The company recently instituted new requirements that CEO Tim Cook has to hold stock worth 10 times his base salary, that other executives hold three times...
If SXSW Interactive is “spring break for geeks,” SXSWedu is spring break for geeks who want to help the country turn out even more geeks. Kicking off Monday in Austin, Tex., the conference attracts entrepreneurs, investors, school leaders, policy makers and others trying to use technology to improve and remake education. Last year, it drew...
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Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs. He also founded Commonred and is ex-Electronic Arts. I met Ryan Smith about nine years ago in a college apartment in Provo Utah. We were both attending school, and after asking him what he was working on...
When Andreessen Horowitz invested a whopping $15 million into Rap Genius this past fall, they were keen to point out that the platform can be used for decoding more than song lyrics, and extend to other forms of wordplay — literature, historical texts, political speeches, and the like. The venture capital firm has really...
Editor’s note: Brandon Carter is a marketing manager at Outbrain, a content discovery platform on a mission to help readers find the most interesting content online. Follow him on Twitter at @sleepchant. It’s been nearly impossible to consume any kind of media in the last few weeks without hearing about Netflix’s new original series “House of Cards.” With...