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- How to up Your Zoom Game, According to a Huge New Study
Tons of data driven insights on how people interact and talk on Zoom, and what people perceive as positive and negative.
- How Omicron Symptoms Differ From Delta, Past COVID-19 Variants
All the symptoms I experienced were spot on with Omicron. Most notable symptom for me was the fatigue. I was incredibly tired.
- Bill Gates is helping fund factories for 7 coronavirus vaccine candidates - Business Insider
This is astonishing, almost unbelievable which makes me want to look for some further information. Gates said the top seven vaccine candidates would be picked, and then building…
- Facebook: Old posts by Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared - Business Insider
The really surprising thing here is that Facebook ever deletes anything. I didn’t think they did. Huh. 😯
- Funding not secured: Musk's explanations about taking Tesla private does not work - Business Insider
Elon Musk seems to be trending less Steve Jobs and more Howard Hughes.
- China's social credit system blocked people taking 11 million flights - Business Insider
China creating an "extra-legal" system to punish people outside of the typical legal system. This is empowered by connected data. Since the debtor list was first created,…
- Amazon won't sell Nest products from Google - Business Insider
This is just bonkers to me. To be clear, retailers have a right to sell whatever they want, but these kinds of decisions show why I think Net Neutrality is so important. If…
- TED talks that could help you become more productive
- Microsoft Scott Guthrie calls HP deal a Salesforce takeout - Business Insider
But perhaps it has more significance because Microsoft was able to take HP away from Salesforce, the market leader in CRM software, and a direct competitor to Microsoft Dynamics.…
- Donald Trump broke the conservative media
AP/Reuters/iStock/Business Insider Sean Hannity, sitting comfortably in his air-conditioned New York studios on a hot August afternoon, was on a fiery rant. "Honestly, I am…
- A Harvard psychologist says too many people think about happiness all wrong
But psychologists are increasingly discovering that when it comes to happiness, trying can backfire. Instead, the paradoxical key to true happiness seems to be accepting…
- Amazon Web Services versus Microsoft Azure, Google, Oracle - Business Insider
What exactly are these companies selling? Who's buying it? And why is one company that wasn't even in enterprise technology a decade ago — Amazon — beating the pants off everyone…
- Former MTV president and Yahoo board member predicts what will happen to the tech industry in 2016
David NeedlemanDan Loeb asked Michael Wolf to find a CEO for YahooOn Tuesday, top business strategist Michael Wolf gave a massive presentation on the future of tech and media in…
- Atlassian JIRA splits into JIRA Core, JIRA Software, JIRA Service Desk - Business Insider
Atlassian JIRA is going through some big changes, the company announced today, splitting into three separate products.
- The CEO of a $30 billion company explains why tech companies overwork their employees
- Apple Watch review - Business Insider
A full review of the Apple Watch.
- Mysterious Bombs Are Exploding In Ukraine — And Not In The War-Torn East - Business Insider
More than a dozen people were injured late Monday when a grenade blast rocked a courthouse in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the latest in a recent series of mysterious…
- The Tech Industry Has Reached The Moment Of Truth
IMAGINE that Apple had folded in the mid-1990s, as some predicted at the time.
- Obama Declares Climate Change Is A Fact - Business Insider
- How To Use Facebook's 'Turn Off Platform' Setting - Business Insider
- Jeff Bezos On How Innovation Happens - Business Insider
- Cities Focusing On Big Data And Mobility
The massive trends that define business right now mobility, engagement, big data, and innovation in the face of economic hardship are defining our most innovative cities, and it's…
- Michael Lewis Princeton Commencement Remarks
These are two of his key points: He said that success is "always rationalized" because successful people don't want to acknowledge that they were actually just really lucky.…
- Meet Ben Silbermann, The Brilliant Young Co-Founder Of Pinterest
Pinterest is the new obsession, and their recent funding will further that along. It's a good reminder that after 9 months they had less than 10,000 users. Things start much…
- The IM Conversation In Which 19-Year-Old Zuckerberg Decided To Build Facebook, This Year's $100 Billion IPO
We know this because back in college and in the year or so following, Mark Zuckerberg held lots of instant message conversations with friends and confidants about his plans for…
- This One Slide From Wal-Mart Basically Says It All...
- The Big Data Conundrum
But even as Hadoop is fast becoming the de-facto data management platform for Big Data, it remains a low-level infrastructure tool incapable of being helped by traditional BI…
- Twitter's Forgotten Cofounder, Noah Glass
- Mary Meeker's Latest Amazing Presentation About The Future Of Tech
- LEAKED: AOL's Master Plan
- The Number One Reason People Still Haven't Joined Facebook
The number one reason for people not using Facebook? It's not a fear of losing privacy. It's because they think it's a waste of time. And they think that increasingly, as they see…
- Why It's Healthy To Completely Unplug (And 6 Steps To Do So)
I'm probably a good example of what you'd call a web junkie. I'm connected to the web almost all the time, whether I'm at home, working or on the go. For one, a lot of my work is…
- Tapulous: Christmas iPhone App Download Traffic Is Double Last Year’s
Dan Frommer: TTR4 has been the #1 free app for several days, and is cranking in the downloads. Tapulous tells us that peak Christmas downloads reached 45,000 per hour, and that…
- 66% Of Groupons Are "Profitable" For A Business
- Biz Stone Wants To Create A 'Twitter News Service'
- DOWN ON THE (CONTENT) FARM: Here's Why I Would Never Invest In Demand Media's IPO
- Roubini: "There's Not Going To Be Anybody Coming From Mars Or The Moon To Bailout The IMF Or Eurozone"
- 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Clich, sure, but it's also more true than at any time since the Gilded Age. While politicians gloat about our…
- Shanghai: 1990 vs. 2010
- If Your Kid Plays Sports, You MUST Follow This Startup
- FOX NEWS Makes More Money Than CNN, MSNBC, And NBC-ABC-And-CBS News Combined
When Roger Ailes started FOX News in 1996, people said he'd have no chance against CNN. This year, FOX News will likely make $700 million of profit--more money than CNN, MSNBC and…
- News Corp's Sky News Is Making Every Journalist a Twitter Convert
News Corp-owned Sky News is enticing its online newsroom reporters to post on Twitter by downloading social media software into their computers. Each journalist gets Tweetdeck so…
- Google Has Become A Vast Repository Of Keyword SPAM
Over the weekend I tried to buy a new dishwasher. Being the fine net-friendly fellow that I am, I began Google-ing for information. And Google-ing. and Google-ing. As I tweeted…
- Google News Without News Corp. Is No Big Loss
The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing…
- News Corp. Digital Chief: We Could Block Google In Months
Jon Miller, News Corp.'s chief digital officer, says News Corp. could remove itself from Google's index within months. Telegraph: When asked how long it would be before Mr Murdoch…
- Facebook Now Accounts For 1 In 4 Internet Pageviews
Here's a startling conclusion by Perry Drake of database marketing firm Drake Direct: Facebook accounts for 25% of U.S. online pageviews. Read the rest of this story » See Also:…
- Twitter Revenue Will Hit $4 Million This Year
Twitter is on track to earn $4 million in revenue this year, according a new profile in Wired magazine. What else did we learn? The director of the show House swings by to cheer…
- The NYT Has More Comment Moderators Than HuffPo Has Reporters
Is New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger brave? Is it brave to employ 11 people to moderate the comments on the New York Times (NYT) web site? Is it brave to take a crushing…
- Twitter's Future Foretold
Overheard in a Palo Alto cafe this morning (the speaker was a veteran venture capitalist): "Twitter had better sell out before it's too late. Young people don't like Twitter. My…
- Windows Vista Exec's Solo Album Almost As Good As Vista
Former Microsoft (MSFT) Windows executive Jim Allchin, who left the company in early 2007, has had enough time on his hands to release a solo guitar-and-vocals album, "Enigma." It…
- Time For America's CIO Vivek Kundra To Resign
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- New Seattle P-I Shows The Future of Newspapers
The Seattle P-I will shut down its print edition and go web-only. In the process, it will fire 88% of its newsroom, shrinking its staff from 165 to 20. And therein, unfortunately,…
- We Can't Figure Out How To Make Money On Web Video, Either
YouTube will generate about $200 million of revenue this year,* say two WSJ sources, short of Google's expectations. Chief salesman Tim Armstrong is trying to overhaul YouTube's…
- The New WSJ.com: More Readers, Who Are Less Interested
Last year Rupert Murdoch reversed himself and decided not to make the online version of the Wall Street Journal free. That looks like a good call: WSJ.com has been posting huge…
- Vimeo: Hey, People Are Watching Our Videos
Last month Barry Diller told investors that things were going swimingly at Vimeo, IAC's little video-sharing site. Not swimingly enough to consititute a real business -- the…
- NYT's TimesPeople Social Network: Another Good Idea From The Times
The latest New York Times (NYT) digital feature: TimesPeople, a social network for Times users. Good news: You'd have to look pretty hard to find similarities between it and…
- Videos Live Fast, Die Young On Web
Want to make a splash with your Internet video? Better do it fast: Web clips attract their peak audiences a mere three days after they're uploaded. That's one finding from a study…
- Technorati Raises $7.5 Million, Crashes
Technorati, the once-promising, but has-been blog search engine, has raised $7.5 million of a $10 million Series D round, PE Hub reports, citing a regulatory filing. Returning to…
- WSJ, IAC (Finally) Launch FiLife Personal Finance Site
As promised (several times), Dow Jones/News Corp and IAC have finally launched* FiLife, a personal finance portal/service site that's been more than a year in the making.
- A Reason To Visit CNBC's Web Site: Real-Time NASDAQ Quotes
Finally, one reason to care about CNBC on the Web: real-time NASDAQ stock quotes. The network has started providing real-time quotes by subscribing to a new service from NASDAQ,…
- Rupert Murdoch, Blogger?
Buyout mogul Carl Icahn says he's just about ready to start blogging at his personal site, The Icahn Report, any day now -- as long as he gets the OK from his lawyers. Has he…
- Microsoft's Zune Adds NBC Shows, Other Features; Still Unable To Combat
Want to buy those NBC episodes that you can't get on Apple's (AAPL) iTunes store anymore? Head over to Microsoft's (MSFT) new Zune TV store, which includes NBC (GE) episodes among…
- Murdoch's WSJ: More News, Less Business
Keep forgetting what paper you're reading when you crack the WSJ in the morning? It's not you. It really is different since Rupert Murdoch bought it last year. How different? The…
- Motionbox Goes HD
Video-sharing and storage site Motionbox is now offering some users an HD option. The NY-based service's premium members, who pay $30 a year, will be able to upload and play HD…
- PaidContent Shakeup Hiring Management, Rafat To Editorial
LA-based blog PaidContent.org is hiring a Dow Jones and Yahoo Finance veteran, Nathan Richardson, as CEO, Valleywag says. The company is also said to be adding a sales manager.…
- Nintendo Goes Back To The Well For A Wii Hit
Big news for Wii players, and Nintendo investors: The company is ready to port one of its best-selling franchises to its new console: Driving game Mario Kart Wii will go on sale…
- EU To Clear Google-DoubleClick on Tuesday, Google Into Display
After a year's worth of ludicrous scrutiny, the Google-DoubleClick deal will finally clear its last regulatory hurdle next week, the FT says. The EU is reportedly set to clear the…
- WordPress Founder: 25% Of Blogs Are Spam
At the Future of Web Apps conference, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg boasts that his blogging service powers more than 2.5 million blogs, CNet's Caroline McCarthy reports. But…
- Quarterlife Jumps To NBC, Bombs
MySpace and producer Marshall Herskovitz say that "Quarterlife", the TV-like Web show, is a hit. But when the show jumped to an actual TV network last night, it flopped. NBC drew…
- Panther Express Closes $16 Million Series B
Content delivery network Panther Express has closed a $15.75 million Series B funding round, led by Index Ventures. Gold Hill Capital and previous investor Greylock Partners also…
- Wallstrip Host Lindsay Campbell Leaving Show, Staying With CBS
Lindsay Campbell, the face (and voice, and much of the brains) of Wallstrip, is leaving the Web video show. But she'll stay with the same employer: Lindsay has a new job at CBS…
- Why HD Won't Save Radio, And Why Fred Wilson Thinks It Will
HD radio, terrestrial radio's perennial "wait till next year" magic bullet, gets a lukewarm reception from the WSJ ($), which allows that "HD Radio's Prospects May Improve". But…
- Blockbuster (BBI) Surrenders to Netflix, Jacks Prices
Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes was serious about making Blockbuster's mail order business profitable--or letting Netflix kill it off. Last month he told investors he'd rather focus on…
- Viacom, Microsoft In $500 Million Ad, Promo Deal
Microsoft and Viacom will work together on ads and promotions for videogames and TV shows. The deal's terms were not disclosed, the AP reports, but the companies said the deal has…
- IAC, Brightcove In Video Pact. What Took So Long?
Barry Diller's IAC says it will use video platform Brightcove to publish web clips across all of its sites, and that it has started doing so with Ticketmaster, Citysearch and…
- Jon Stewart Targeting Jan. 7 Return?
We hear from a well-placed but second-hand source that "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart plans to go back on the air Jan. 7. Comedy Central says no decision has been made on whether…
- Welcome, Mr. Murdoch: Here's Your Page Views
In the months leading up to Rupert Murdoch's WSJ takeover, some of the Dow Jones crew insisted that WSJ.com might keep its subscription wall -- even though Murdoch clearly…
- SNEAK PEAK: Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal Cover
- CNBC Signs David Pogue As Contributor
Now that CNBC's relationship with the Wall Street Journal has grown, ahem, complicated, it's looking to the NYT for on-air talent. Andrew Ross Sorkin is a contributor, and now…
- Apple (AAPL) iPhone Goes Corporate, Part 4: Hedge Funds
- How Steve Jobs Can Fix Apple TV
It's no secret that Apple TV -- the company's would-be digital hub for your living room -- isn't selling like hotcakes. Late Friday, Macworld published new Apple TV sales…
- News Corp (NWS): Launching An Ad Network, Too - Silicon Alley Insider
FIM is building out it own ad network, designed to sell inventory across its MySpace, IGN and Photobucket properties.