Despite the interconnectedness of the global economy, the economics of bringing skilled foreign workers to the United States remains very much local.
Mention Kickstarter these days and blockbuster campaigns come to mind. But for all the success stories on Kickstarter, there are many, many failures. So what’s the secret to ending a campaign with tall boys rather than tears?
If you were to tick off the ideal leader for Yahoo, you’d wind up with a description that sounds a lot like Marissa Mayer: Highly technical, product-oriented, as Internet-savvy as anyone in the world, and charismatic enough to energize followers.
“The Microsoft Office for Windows” debuted in 1990. Since then, nothing has come close to unseating it.
Google VP Marissa Mayer will become CEO of Yahoo, leading a company that badly needs a turnaround.
Craig Newmark calls his recent induction into the Internet Hall of Fame for building Craigslist a “clerical error.” If it were (and it most definitely is not), there would be a certain symmetry to it. Errors, or happy accidents, have a way of finding the eccentric technologist. Newmark’s eponymous internet site is the chief example.
Instead of studying under New York bagel master, renegade baker Dan Grad created the perfect bagel at home thanks to online advice and scientific research. He’s part of a growing, potentially disruptive DIY food movement.
For interior designer and budding restaurateur DeeAnna Staats (lots of vowels, yes, but two names), it all begins with the iPad. And, as with every great Hollywood story, goes fantastically over the top from there.
Late last year, San Francisco startup Jetpac offered $5,000 in prizes to anyone who could figure out how to teach a computer how to tell which of your Facebook friends’ vacation photos are any good. This week, that $5,000 turned into $2.4 million in funding.
The remains of social news sharing site Digg were bought by New York-based incubator Betaworks on Thursday.
It’s easy to pile on when a tech company seems headed for the deadpool. But one classic example shows that ignoring the conventional wisdom can sometimes make you rich.
A new trend toward dual-class stock in Silicon Valley undermines investors.
Travel search engine Kayak was all set to go public almost two years ago, but a dismal economy and an iffy stock market forced the Connecticut-based company to pull its offering. Times have changed, at least for online travel companies, and Kayak is ready to try again.
Andrew Zolli is a funny kind of optimist. As a futurist, he thinks it may be too late to pull the world back from many of the most dire global crises—climate change, financial meltdown, the energy crunch. But in that unpleasant future he sees an opportunity
If there’s one thing tech-business obsessives seem to love more than a good success story, it’s a good failure story. The social media schadenfreude commenced Tuesday morning as Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins tried to convince shareholders at the company’s annual meeting that the BlackBerry had a future.
Nextdoor and Topix, two online community networks, hope virtual fences will translate to real businesses.
Microsoft is buying Perceptive Pixel for its touchscreen expertise and a few patents, just in case Apple decides to throw a lawsuit at the Surface tablet.
Deprived of TV as a kid, Geoff Huston read a lot of books, which led to a love of words that, oddly enough, led to the internet in Australia. Now Huston says the openness he prizes in the internet is under threat.
Facebook is leading the charge against corrupting app-store leaderboards from Apple and Google.
Manchester United isn’t a soccer team—at least not in the business sense. It’s an ad-dependent, content-producing media company that wants to go public. Sound familiar?
When you consider the San Francisco Giants’ success in this year’s All Star vote there is clearly something else at play than just baseball. For the Giants and other Major League teams, it’s all about All Star tech savvy.
As a fresh torrent of money floods into their market, app makers are getting paranoid, constantly on the lookout for dirty tricks that can pump up traffic and user growth at strategic times, hoodwinking investors and corrupting app-store leaderboards .
It’s great that we’re opening up a path to early-stage investing so that everyone can dabble in some VC action. But we shouldn’t forget about the people who want to bring a dream to life without quitting their day jobs.
Which video sharing app should you commit to? Viddy or Socialcam? Anil Dash breaks it down for you.
As a country, we’ve made a historical commitment to ensuring that virtually every American has access to reasonably priced, standard, high-quality communications. Our national phone system was the envy of the world when it was first built. Now we’re moving to a time of deep communications inequality.
Users and developers may be howling over Twitter’s crackdown on third-party apps, but the intent is clear: Twitter wants to gain more Apple-like control over the Twitter user experience.
The cognitive perils of having lots of open windows have been somewhat overblown. It’s not always bad for us—and sometimes it can be very good.
Einstein may have worked in the patent office, but Switzerland at the turn of the 20th century didn’t have Google, Facebook and and other Silicon Valley giants stalking the earth in search of top science and engineering talent.
Women tell Google its social network is too clunky and nerdy.
Barack Obama may have come out as a BlackBerry addict, but it hasn’t been just Tea Partiers who have defected from the president’s preferred mobile platform in the years since he took office. The Waterloo, Canada-based smartphone maker has lost customers across the political spectrum, erecting multiple milestones of failure along its path toward disintegration.
