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Publisher Of The Atlantic Calls For Fast Action On Apple’s Refusal To Share iPad Customer Data
Jay Lauf is publisher of The Atlantic and he is frustrated by the lack of customer data Apple is willing to share with publishers on the iPad. Writing on Minonline: …with the recent confirmation that Apple is getting ready to launch the iTunes of newsstands, we could be on the verge of ceding our content ...
Survey Shows An Always-On Society
We tend to be canaries-in-a-coal mine here in Silicon Valley as we tend to live the way others will in the near future. One of those canaries is always working, or at least, always being able to work — we are always on. This survey, commissioned by Egnyte, a provider of cloud based file servers, ...
Nair: Handling The Complexities Of A Global Business
Nair & Co has built a thriving business in offering services that handle the incredible complexities of employing staff in different countries. This Silicon Valley headquartered company works with local tech companies to manage the HR functions, and the many tax and regulatory issues governing employees abroad. I met with founder Shan Nair. Here are ...
Reports of Netbook’s Death Greatly Exaggerated
With all the excitement around the iPad and predictions of dire impacts to the netbook market and perhaps even laptop sales, we got to wondering: Is the netbook really dead? Nifty, low-cost netbooks hit the scene in late 2008 and sold over 36 million units in 2009, according to ABI Research. Even with projected sales ...
Paypal’s Max Levchin: The Rise Of The Angels . . . And The Fall In Innovation
I’m a fan of Max Levchin and his fellow Paypal alumni because this group has spent the past five years creating many of the more interesting Silicon Valley startups. Mr Levchin recently sold Slide to Google and he is an investor in Yelp and several other startups. And he is still young and has a ...
Juniper Moves Into Mobile Security As Malware Attacks Jump 250%
Juniper Networks announced that it has moved beyond the router and extended its business to providing mobile security systems including the world’s first global threat and research center focused on mobility. The move follows corporate adoption of smartphones and the need to manage security across all devices connected to the corporate network. The Junos Pulse ...
SNCR Announces Award Finalists – Gala Next Week
The Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) announced the 2010 SNCR Fellows Choice Award honorees are: – Brand of the Year: Old Spice, for the highly successful social media campaign conducted in conjunction with Weiden + Kennedy that re-energized this 70-year-old brand for a new generation and a new female audience – Innovation of the ...
Yammer Founder On PayPal: Understanding The Power Of Virality
I spent Tuesday evening with the founders of Yammer, Box.net, and Zendesk, a full report is coming. In the meantime I wanted to share a conversation with Yammer co-founder David Sacks and his pedigree at Paypal. I have a fascination with Paypal and its alumni because they have gone on to build, and invest in ...
MediaWatch: Can’t Get There From Here…
The demise of the old media appears to have slowed but it hasn’t gone away as the transition towards a digital business model continues to hold many challenges. We still haven’t figured out how to transfer high quality old media to the digital platform. And that’s an astounding position. You would think that by now ...
Tynt – Building A Business On Copy And Paste
Who would think that there is a business in providing an online copy and paste service? Tynt believes that there is a very large opportunity even though it hasn’t yet figured out how best to monetize it. Tynt provides publishers with a way of monitoring how and where content is being shared. A reader highlights ...