The Power Of Pull: Joi ...

Editor’s note : The following set of excerpts is from the recently published book The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things In Motion by John Hagel III , John Seely Brown , and Lang Davison. The excerpts are taken from throughout the book. See the...

Finally A Green Story I...

I love our planet as much as the next person, but I despise efforts by companies and people to get credit for caring about the earth with empty gestures. Like Pepsi’s ridiculous Aquafina press stunt . Read the original post:  Finally A Green Story I Can’t Mock: The Sun Chips...

Bill Gates Talks About ...

How does Bill Gates inspire students to change the world? Tune in here to find out. Gates is kicking off a college tour today with a speech to students at UC Berkeley. View original here:  Bill Gates Talks About How To Change The World (Live...

Playdom Nabs Fomer Yaho...

Social gaming company Playdom has hired David Sobeski , a former executive at Yahoo and Microsoft, as Chief Technology Officer of the company. Sobeski most recently served as a senior vice president at Yahoo, in charge of developing the company’s Open Strategy and Data platform as...

Why a Bad Economy Is th...

A guest post by Adam L. Continued here:  Why a Bad Economy Is the Best Time to Start a...

Hey, Twitter Startups: ...

There are thousands of apps built on top of Twitter, but are any of them a true killer app that could give rise to an entirely new sub-industry? Venture capitalist, and Twitter investor, Fred Wilson doesn’t think so. While Twitter desktop clients, mobile apps, photo uploading...

Online Advertising Reve...

The online advertising industry climbed out of last year’s recession in the fourth quarter. New data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterhouseCoopers shows that online advertising revenues in the U.S. climbed 2.6 percent annually in the fourth quarter to $6.3...

Venture Funding Doubled...

Venture capital is flowing once again to startups at a steady pace. During the first quarter of 2010, the total value of venture funding doubled to $12.8 billion from $6 billion a year before, when it was scraping the bottom of the barrel. Excerpt from: Venture Funding Doubled To...

Mobile Data Traffic Exp...

As smartphones like the iPhone and Android take over the mobile Web, the amount of data traffic going over cellular networks is expected to grow 40-fold over the next five years. UK firm Coda Research Consultancy forecasts that in the U.S. alone mobile handset data traffic will grow from...

Flash Player To Come Bu...

The rumors were true: Adobe and Google are tightening their partnership , seemingly both warily eying Apple in the process – and Mozilla plays a role in this story as well. Concretely, Adobe has announced that its Flash Player will be included with future versions of Google Chrome...