Yahoo recently announced a number of product tweaks to modernize and standardize its products, including stalwarts like Yahoo Groups. But amidst complaints about user privacy, Yahoo rolled back the redesign entirely last week, and promised to tread much more carefully as it explores any further changes. Read More »
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Ingenuity 2010, brings together more than 400 VC firms and 50 presenting entrepreneurs for two days of innovation, strategy and knowledge-sharing, and includes a series of six-minute presentations by pre-screened entrepreneurs, keynote addresses from industry leaders, roundtable discussions with recent Davos Award winners, and networking receptions. Read More »
Just about every company online should add some social spice to its site. In the case of Yahoo, where turmoil is reaching crisis proportions, an aggressive dose of social networking elements could help the former Internet giant maintain its huge audience and leadership position in advertising. Read More »
There’s been a flurry of activity lately in local mobile advertising, often dubbed the Holy Grail of marketing. Players like Google and Facebook have a distinct competitive edge thanks to their sheer size, but smaller guys can succeed they keep a few key things in mind. Read More »
Tweetbeat, a new service that launched this week from Kosmix, uses the company’s filtering algorithm and semantic-analysis engine to make sense of the Twitter firehose, and then allows viewers to zoom in on topics, pause the live-stream and even rewind to view past events. Read More »
Eager to get over the embarrassing departure of former chairman and CEO Mark Hurd, who joined Oracle and was subsequently sued by his former employer, Hewlett-Packard has named a new CEO — but the response to its choice has been underwhelming at best. Read More »
The only developer conference dedicated to payments –- PayPal X Innovate 2010 –- will take place Oct. 26-27 at Moscone West in San Francisco. The conference brings together industry experts, developers and entrepreneurs to explore areas that are dramatically changing the way we pay. Read More »
Are you or someone you know a recent convert from PC to Mac? Has the single most difficult thing to deal with been breaking your old keyboard shortcut habits? Maybe understanding why the differences exist will help you be more patient when adjusting to them. Read More »
We are entering a time when many devices are connected to the web, and entrepreneur/author Mike Kuniavsky is promoting the use of “Service Avatars” to heighten the user experience for connected devices. Kuniavsky is the CEO of ThingM, and the recently released book “Smart Things”. Read More »
The Film Marketing Summit is a senior-level marketing conference to share candid insights between top entertainment industry executives and world-renowned marketing leaders. The goal is to drive fresh insights and viewpoints that have direct and immediate application to movie marketing—and potentially tip a few sacred cows. Read More »
As the demand on wireless networks increase thanks to more data consumption and more smart phones how can operators manage it, and will LTE be enough are the questions facing wireless operators as well as those building products as mobile devices meet cloud based applications. Read More »
It’s not just the bandwidth on mobile networks that slows your mobile browsing down; sometimes it’s the processor that prevents your phone from providing the full and best mobile experience, Steve Mollenkopf, EVP and general manager of CDMA Technologies at Qualcomm, said at Mobilize today. Read More »
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