PRIDE!!! Thanks @tim_cook! pic.twitter.com/HT07aOBG4A — Mark Bober (@markbober) June 29, 2014 Although Apple CEO Tim Cook had hinted at his sexual orientation…
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How Reed Hastings’ busy 2005 winter vacation led Netflix to embrace big data
Netflix CEO thought he could do a better job at developing a recommendation algorithm than his engineers. He failed - and the episode shaped the way the company has looked at data ever since.…
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Henry Blodget of Business Insider has opened up about his site's growth and other metrics, but for someone who is promoting transparency, he hasn't told us the most important things we need to know in order to tell whether BI is successful or not.…
Read MoreThe Samwer brothers suddenly lose their shyness
It’s become almost cliche to say that the Samwer brothers, Europe’s most successful — and notorious — internet entrepreneurs are publicity shy.…
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Steve Ballmer gets a pretty generous cover story in BusinessWeek. It’s a fun read, but I don’t see much in the way…
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Will the social gaming leader be the next great IPO? The New York Times’ DealBook has a pretty tough piece on the…
Read MoreInvesting in Amazon: The cloud won’t make you rich overnight
Amazon published “disappointing” earnings this week, and the market responded, slashing up to 12 percent off the company’s value. It’s a market that’s preoccupied…
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Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports Gartner figures suggesting that homegrown servers such as those built to Facebook’s Open Compute designs “now account for 20…
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As Platfora, yet another Hadoop-powered startup, secures $5.7million from Andreessen-Horowitz, Bloomberg BusinessWeek offers the CEO Guide to Hadoop. The BusinessWeek articles illustrate…
Read MoreVerizon’s acquisitions provide an enterprise path to the cloud
At the end of last month Verizon acquired CloudSwitch, adding value to Verizon’s January acquisition of cloud data center provider Terremark. Around…
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Android’s continued dominance is making headlines again thanks to new data from Nielsen, but today’s must-read is this fascinating piece from VentureBeat…
Read MoreFacebook and Google: lessons to learn from Myspace
Last week, News Corp. unloaded Myspace for a pittance. Understanding why Myspace failed to maintain its early dominance in social networking is critical to determining whether Facebook is similarly vulnerable, and whether Google+ is on the right track.…
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One of Myspace’s founders, Chris DeWolfe, bends BusinessWeek’s ear, and the result is a cautionary tale of the fall of Myspace. DeWolfe…
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There’s a nice piece in this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek, which uses bubbles, social networks and advertising as a gloss over a more…
Read MoreWhy Apple’s Pushy Publishing Plan is Paying Off
Apple is catching a few fish with vinegar, if the slow but steady stream of magazine publishers who've opted to accept the company's new in-app subscription rules is any indication. Monday Bloomberg's Businessweek joined the growing coalition of those willing to accept Apple's prickly terms.…
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Bloomberg Businessweek devotes the front cover to the cloud this week, with a story that does a pretty good job of describing…
Read MoreLogitech Revue Google TV Teardown Reveals Netbook At Heart
Want to know how one of the first Google TV devices looks like on the inside? Well, you're in luck: iFixit just published a Logitech Revue teardown, revealing that the hardware that makes Google TV work isn't really all that different from a plain old netbook.…
Read MoreBW Digital Alum Neal Joins NYC Media Lab As First Executive Director
We've peeked in from time to time at the New York City Economic Development Corp.'s efforts to jump start the city's struggling media indust……
Read MoreCheat Sheet on BusinessWeek’s Relaunch, Under Bloomberg
Since we didn't get early access, but WSJ did and wrote two long stories on it, we can only make it easier for you to digest those. Hence th……
Read MoreHere’s the Cover of the New Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Launching Apr 23
Courtesy the exclusive they gave to WSJ tonight. Wonder why they didn't give it to us...hmm. Here is a teaser cover from this week's BW.…
Read MoreIf SNL Were To Do A Sketch About BusinessWeek Redesign…
...With an earnest young editor, too polished for his own good. Except this isn't a sketch, it is real. BusinessWeek under Bloomberg, brilli……
Read MoreBloomberg BusinessWeek Cuts 25; Moves A Dozen To The Wire Service
About 25 staffers were let go from Bloomberg BusinessWeek as the title prepares for its major redesign late next month. Among the 25 who wer……
Read MoreBascobert Leaves Dow Jones To Be President, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Paul Bascobert is the new president of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, succeeding Keth Fox, who is staying at McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP). Bloomberg exe……
Read MoreThe First Bloomberg BusinessWeek Issue
The integration of Bloomberg BusinessWeek is complete, as the first print issue bearing Bloomberg's name is hitting the newsstands now, four……
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