By Sarah Lacy On October 9, 2013Quora has barely thought about monetizing and has nowhere near the hype it once enjoyed, but give it credit for one thing: It has seemingly done the impossible. It has found a way to make very high quality user-generated…
Google Android Secure, Eric Schmidt Insists
Google chairman (and former CEO) Eric Schmidt thinks that his company’s Android mobile operating system is “more secure than the iPhone,” according to a ZDNet reporter attending this year’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. Apple would probably take…
Yahoo pretties email to woo Google users
Yahoo on Tuesday spruced up its free Web-based email service as chief Marissa Mayer continued her quest to win users from rival Google for online tasks people tend to daily. Upgrades to Yahoo Mail rolled out to mark its 16th birthday included letting…
Russian FSB to Give NSA Lesson in Digital Surveillance at Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympic games in the Russian city of Sochi promises to be a blast from the (Soviet) past with a dash of NSA-style surveillance thrown in, according to reports hinting that Russian security services will run a surveillance network so comprehensive…
6 Digital Trends Every CEO Should Know
Moore’s law states that the power and speeds of computers will double every two years, and it’s held true. There has been no single factor that has impacted businesses to a greater degree than the ability of computers to perform better. This speed of change and digital capabilities has brought an unprecedented digital revolution and placed greater demands on companies to respond to rapid changes in the marketplace. Here are six digital trends every CEO should know. [Read more…] about 6 Digital Trends Every CEO Should Know
10 Websites You Can’t Live Without
The internet has been around long enough that most of us have come to grips with the general flavor of it . . . cat videos, movie reviews, baby videos, social networking, dog videos, and so on. But every once in awhile, there comes along a website that is—wait for it—actually useful.
Once you find this kind of website, you will soon wonder how you ever functioned without them. The web is littered with pages such as these; you just have to find them. Here are 10 websites that you may not have heard of, but once you start using, you just won’t be able to live without. [Read more…] about 10 Websites You Can’t Live Without