When I first got into blogging about street photography, I told myself that I wasn’t going to sell out to the man, and that I would keep my blog as ad-free as I could. The reason I decided this was to keep it more of a passion and a hobby, rather than a job. I [...]
Just before the weekend, Facebook announced that it would begin allowing third-party applications and websites to request that users share both their mobile phone number and address. Now, the company has said that it will be putting the new feature on hold while it makes changes to make sure that Facebook users are aware of [...]
U.S. investigators will be holding a press conference this afternoon to announce criminal charges related to the alleged theft of email addresses and other personal information from 120,000 iPad users. The theft occurred back in June of this year, when hackers compromised AT&T’s servers with an automated script. At the time, a group calling itself [...]
1. What kind of consumers do luxury brands target?
A luxury brand may have 2 million fans on Facebook, but it is unclear whether these are also the people that can afford and regularly shop for the brand’s products.
To get a better handle on these issues it is necessary to [...]
I am often asked if I have found a secret – or at least a consistent answer – to successfully building businesses over my career.
So I’ve spent some time thinking about what characterizes so many of Virgin’s successful ventures and, importantly, what went wrong when we did not get it right. Reflecting across 40 years [...]
Wall Street took heart from a report showing better-than-expected earnings from Oracle (ORCL), the Silicon Valley software giant. Technology stocks have been on a roll this spring, and investors eyed Oracle’s fourth-quarter report on June 23 for signs the rally might continue.
Sales, profits, and new software bookings for Oracle’s fiscal fourth quarter ended on May [...]
Google Inc. is working on a new operating system for inexpensive computers in a daring attempt to diminish Microsoft Corp.’s longstanding control over people’s computer experience.
The new operating system, announced Tuesday night on Google’s Web site, will be based on the company’s 9-month-old Web browser, Chrome. Google intends to rely on help from the community [...]
At its user conference in San Francisco last week, Cisco Systems boasted about the 30 new businesses it’s developing. One is scheduled to launch by the end of this year—in a very literal way.
The company that pioneered the Internet router is about to enter a new frontier, sending one into geostationary orbit on a satellite. [...]
Twitter has been used to fight tyranny, deliver tragic news, follow politics, and now some California residents have found another innovative purpose for the micro-blogging service: marketing weed. A medical marijuana dispensary in California has begun gravitating to online mediums, including Twitter, to get the word out, according to Fox News. Under California law, nonprofit [...]
Some big and far-reaching issues clutter America’s legislative docket today—a cap-and-trade approach to carbon emissions, a wholesale revamp of health care. But a key subset of advertising and media executives are focusing elsewhere. They’re worried about the threat an online privacy bill, or any similar federal regulation, could pose to their businesses. One proviso they [...]
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