Why Your Car Is Now A Giant Smartphone On Wheels
A GM-curated app store? Hackathons? Mary Chan, of GM’s “Global Connected Consumer” unit, on how the auto industry speaks Valley.There was a time when the automotive industry was the pride of America,...
View ArticleJack Dorsey's Dream Job Is Mayor Of New York
First, Twitter. Then came Square. Next stop Gracie Mansion?Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey was on 60 Minutes last night, where he spoke again about his New York mayoral ambitions. The tech innovator, who...
View ArticleJonah Berger Knows How to Make This Video Go Viral
Jonah Berger may know more about how to make content go viral than anyone on Earth. He thinks Malcolm Gladwell got it wrong and that Rebecca Black's "Friday" is the worst song ever, but is that enough...
View ArticleFacebook Co-Founder Launches A New Foundation
Dustin Moskovitz’s new project, Good Ventures, is hoping to "help humanity thrive".Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has teamed up with his partner, former Wall Street Journal reporter...
View ArticleNew Research Suggests Rapid Treatment Of HIV With Antiretrovirals Can "Cure"...
Of 70 patients treated in a study by the Institut Pasteur in Paris, 14 had not suffered a recurrence of the disease an average of 7 years after stopping the medication.More research seems to be...
View ArticleThis Company's Hourly Exercise Breaks Make It More Fit, Sure, But Also More...
Overit Media's employees can tell the time by whether they’re doing leg lifts or tricep dips. And they’re convinced their workout program is good for the company’s bottom line.About a year ago, Jen...
View ArticleWhat You Can Learn About Innovation By Taking The Trash Out
Wherein the David and Goliath of Big Garbage ride a trash truck together. Recyclebank's Jonathan Hsu and Waste Management's Dave Aardsma on an innovative approach to turning grime into gold.Think of...
View ArticleHow Alan Dershowitz And Two Entrepreneurs Will Disrupt Billable Hours
Viewabill brings radical transparency to the attorney-client relationship.There’s an old joke: A lawyer dies and goes to heaven. At the pearly gates, he protests to St. Peter, “But I’m too young to...
View ArticleWith Dblcam, Use Both Your iPhone's Cameras At Once
Hindsight and foresight are 20/20 with a new iPhone app that deconstructs the space around you.A new app launches in the iPhone App Store today with a simple enough premise. Dblcam (pronounced “Double...
View ArticleWithout Facebook's Bob Baldwin, You Might Never Have A Birthday Party Again
How Facebook's calendar view for events--without which many of us wouldn't even remember to get up in the morning--went from idea to inception.Bob Baldwin’s social networking habit was hurting his...
View ArticleTake A Peek Inside Starbucks's $35 Million Leadership Lab [Video]
How the coffee giant mobilizes employees to become brand evangelists.This fall, Starbucks hauled 1,000 lighting instruments, 445 chain motors, 120 speakers, 21 projection screens, and 5,000 live coffee...
View ArticlePopVox Asks: Should Congress Furlough Itself?
Marci Harris of PopVox on how a DC media outlet channeled viewers' frustrations with Congress through her site.When last we spoke, Marci Harris was building out PopVox, a non-partisan site that helps...
View ArticleFacebook's Ongoing Quest To Make Money From Mobile
According to Justin Osofsky, an MBA with a law degree but no coding experience, 70% of mobile Facebook users return to the app daily versus only 40% on desktop. Now, how to cash in?The next time you’re...
View ArticleHow YouTube's Next Lab Can Quadruple A Channel's Subscribers
Even the best comedian's jokes aren't funny if you can't hear them. Ben Relles, Next Lab’s head of programming strategy, is here to help.Like many comedians on YouTube, Franchesca Ramsey was struggling...
View ArticleLet Marissa Mayer Do Her Job
In case you've lost track, she's the CEO of Yahoo. Not Working Women Inc.“People are looking at you as a role model as well, looking at you as an example,” Savannah Guthrie told Marissa Mayer on the...
View ArticleThe Anti-Instagram: Snapheal Clicks With Fewer Filters, More Magic
Snapheal’s insight is that all of us want to be photo editors. Now we can be.At a moment when most photo apps are about adding things--filters, hashtags, a multiplicity of viewers--Snapheal,...
View ArticleCan Oculus's $300 VR-Enhanced Ski Goggles Break The Curse Of The Lawnmower Man?
Using affordable hardware derived from cell phones, the Oculus Rift headset may finally deliver a rich virtual reality experience to gamers--and far beyond. Here, CEO Brendan Iribe talks us through the...
View ArticleConfessions Of A Conference Crasher
Jerry Jao of Retention Science reveals how he pulled off the ultimate bootstrapping heist: sneaking into a major business conference to pitch his startup.One day last summer, Jerry Jao stood...
View ArticleThe Dolby Theater, Site Of Oscars Broadcast, Is Audio "Nirvana"
Getting it to that stage was something of a beast, says Dolby sound architect David Gray.When I ask David Gray, the sound architect behind the Dolby Theater, from which the Oscars will be broadcast...
View ArticleWhy Mr. Morris Lessmore's Creators Told Their Story App-First [Video]
At Moonbot Studios good storytelling drives innovation, and that sometimes means doing things out of order.Everyone told William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg that they were doing things out of order....
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