This post is part of the “Future of Business” series, which examines how cutting-edge technologies are rapidly reshaping our world, from how businesses run to how we live. “The Future of Business” is sponsored by SAP. See more Future of Business Everyone knows that iPhones are made up of lots of tiny parts. Not...
In the workplace, the way you look has a huge impact in your own confidence as well as the way others view you — especially if you’re in a management position. Your fashion sense can reveal your personality, your preference, and, inevitably, your management style. To get a better perspective, we spoke to Tiffiny Dixon, the...
BlueStateDate.com Alex Fondrier doesn’t think politics should be the proverbial “third rail” in a relationship. In fact, Fondrier points to a study from the Journal of American Politics which found that, next to religion, political compatibility is the second most important criteria in a lasting relationship. That’s why last year, Fondrier and Francois Briard decided...
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Every two weeks, The Next Web helps you keep track of interesting technology events around the globe by bringing you a list of upcoming tech conferences, meetups and get-togethers. As the end of the year approaches, we’ve already added a few of next year’s events. For most of these events we’ve arranged a special...
Late last summer, I walked up to a presenter at an event held at General Assembly’s London campus. One of the speakers –a charismatic Oxford grad — had a business that helps recent graduates find job placements in smaller startups. The idea being that if they gain experience in smaller companies, they can establish...
Last week, research from content analytics company Chartbeat confirmed a secret I’ve known for some time: readers are spending most of their time on the south side of web pages. 66% in fact according to their data. The takeaway could not be more important for revenue hungry publishers: reader attention is on unattended page...
In case you didn’t notice, it’s the golden age of enterprise startups. And some investors believe it will continue for another seven years or more. No one is completely sure what will come after that, but it’s worth reflecting on what brought us here and what the dynamics are of this enterprise golden age....
As 2013 gains steam, the big data and analytics world is radically changing. Just these past few weeks, I’ve spent time with industry thought leaders including Mayank Bawa, Mike Olson and Scott Yara, talking about the emergence of a new analytics stack that displaces the current BI-ETL-EDW paradigm. This new stack fundamentally rethinks the...
Looks like it’s that time of year again — the time when rumors of a “Facebook phone” pop up like tulips after a spring rainstorm. This time around, it was a cryptic announcement from the social network about a mobile event next week that set the rumor mill in motion: since the invitation mentioned...
Right after it launched the iPad mini, Apple filed a trademark application for the name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As Patently Apple noticed earlier today, however, the USPTO will likely refuse Apple’s trademark filing because, the reviewer argues, “the applied-for mark merely describes a feature or characteristic of applicant’s...