The big news of last week was the announcement of Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) and the 1,000-plus soon to be minted millionaires that will result. Perhaps the most unlikely of these is David Choe, the guy that took options in lieu of payment for a bawdy wall mural he painted in Facebook’s previous headquarters some years back.
Being addicted to your cell phone is not uncommon. Many of us have a hard time not playing with our phones even when enjoying a dinner out with friends. Just the other night, a friend of mine stopped in mid sentence to answer her phone. That doesn’t include the number of times she answered text messages while we were eating. My phone was dead or I probably would have been right there with her. Enter a new game called Phone Stack that is liable to cost one of us some money.
Here’s a powerful realization for you to act upon — if you don’t take your expensive, absolutely life critical smartphone into the bathroom, it can’t fall into the toilet. Seriously, keep your business out of your business. That said, though iPhone owners are somewhat less likely to diddle in the loo, smartphone users overwhelmingly aren’t giving it a break when they go to the restroom.
Whoa, nelly. Previously, analysts predicted that Apple’s Mac + iPad computers sales would make it the world’s largest “PC” vendor sometime within the first six months of 2012. So much for those rosy expectations — who thought that the Cupertino, California company would double tablet sales last quarter.
There have been a few trends emerging at CES. One of which is the celebrity endorsement. Justin Bieber is surely the perfect choice to unveil an ugly piece of garbage that flails its arms and legs while trying to emit a song or two.
So, you’ve created a startup with a great product and you want to grow the business and you need money — then it’s time to find a venture capitalist to get funding, right? Actually, not necessarily. A British entrepreneur has done it all old school, expanding into three countries with scores of employees, with sweat equity.
Sweden is either a forward-thinking country or a country where any crackpot can get a new religion officially recognized. It all depends on your point of view.
Twitter seriously needs to rethink its account verification policy, whatever that policy may be. Otherwise more Wendi Deng-style fakes will sneak through.
When Research in Motion started selling their tablet, they declared that “amateur hour” was over. Never mind that the Playbook didn’t then and still doesn’t have native email, calendar and contact apps. Since then things have gone from bad to worse as sales tanked and inventories built. But don’t think their foolishness is over.
Here is a theme that just keeps coming up again and again that begs an in depth examination. “Smartphones” running some older, often jurassic version of Android – how many devices offer Ice Cream Sandwich? — just aren’t showing up in web metrics, mobile commerce or otherwise generating the kind of data that oozes money.
People getting fired over what they put on Facebook is nothing new. Since its inception there have been people who haven’t quite figured out that you have to use discretion when posting. Apparently a large group of officers in the UK police need a little refresher course on common sense.
This little tidbit comes from the bass-ackwards school of business where the customer is stupid and exploitable until proven otherwise. That said, Verizon didn’t get to get to be the largest wireless and wireline carrier in these oddly dysfunctional United States by knowing when to quit, so gird your loins Joe and Jane Sixpack — they will be back.
First, he surprised everyone by not going with a studio partner and then not losing money. Having crushed those expectations in a big way, Louis CK has again upset the capitalist apple cart by taking his stash o’ cash and giving it to his employees and charity. Is this guy an effing commie, or what?
A crew of criminals executed a well planned electronics heist — they tailed the driver of tractor trailer to a truck stop where confederates were watching, surreptitiously hauled the trailer away to a location where another truck was waiting and got away. The only problem is that they stole a bunch of “tablets.”
For all parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and family friends, Google has created an easy way for you to make sure that the children in your family get a phone call from Santa. Yes, the messages are limited and somewhat canned, but for a free service and a little smile from the kids your life, it’s not so bad. There are also some other services that will send letters and postcards to your little ones as well.
More 18,000 Likes and 11,000 Tweets for a media product not created by a big media company. The really, really cool thing about this story is the math underpinning it is easily understandable and, moreover, numbers of this size aren’t beyond what an average person can imagine. Is this enough to kill Universal, Warner or Sony? Probably not, but it’s good news nonetheless.
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