To say that News Corp has had some problems over the past few years would be a grievous understatement, but that’s about the best way in which it can be stated. In short, the company has been a carnival of follies with (arguably) foolish investment…
Each quarter, Facebook and Google continue to spend more and more on lobbying efforts in Washington D.C. As evidenced by the most recent disclosure reports filed in the U.S. Senate’s lobbying database, both of the companies hit all time highs in term…
iOS: As we grow older and have more commitments, it becomes harder and harder to get friends together in one place to watch a ball game or play video games. Xbox Live and PSN help take care of the latt…
Draconid Meteors Over Spain
What are those streaks in the sky?
They’re meteors from the
Draconids
meteor shower that peaked earlier this month.
The above composite image captured numerous meteor streaks over 90 minutes above the Celtic ruins of Ca…
Bill Gross is the man who made the technology behind the first keyword advertising systems online and has long been rumored to be aiming to challenge Twitter.
Today Gross launched a big, ambitious new social network called Chime.in. The service aim…
Kleiner Perkins partner and former Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker is about to take the stage here at Web 2.0 Summit to present on Internet trends, as she does every year.
I’ll be writing this up live, so keep refreshing. For now, you can flip thr…
David Vladeck, The Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (a wing of the FTC), was appointed by the Chairman of the FTC, Jon Leibowitz, in April 2009. Today, Vladeck took the stage to speak in conjunction with Dr. Ann Cavoukian, The Information …
Generally you’d put mustard on a grilled hotdog, but if you happen to grill your hand or some other part of your body you’ll want to slather on the spicy condiment as well. Why? As Instructables user…
If Google search trends can predict where flu will break out in advance of actual reports of flu, can search trends also predict where revolutions are brewing? Judging from search trends in Egypt, Greece, Spain and the United States, it appears that al…
How do we bridge the distance between our true creative ambitions and the jobs we take to pay the rent? Poet Mary Jo Bang describes her slow build to mastery.
