Asia Last week in Asia: Yahoo-Alibaba agree deal, India’s Bharti ups 4G ante, SingTel buys food site and more Welcome to the latest Last Week in Asia round-up, our selection of the key stories and developments from across Asia’s growing technology and Internet spaces. China Top story: Yahoo and Alibaba Reach Agreement on Comprehensive Plan for Alibaba Stake Following much speculation, the struggli
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But Spain's LigaBBVA -- considered a tier below the EPL on the pitch, although it's home to powerhouse clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona -- actually looks to be world soccer's digital leader. To get the fuller picture, we scoured social media sites, and consulted LigaBBVA as well as the Spanish sports and social media site Sportwist. Perhaps the place where La Liga's social media dominance shines
Name: Fancy Hands Quick Pitch: Delegate work to a smart and savvy band of personal assistants for $25 to $95 a month. Genius Idea: Fancy Hands lets you hand off time-consuming, menial tasks to reliable web-based assistants. Ever want to pay someone to sit on hold for you? Or to compile a list of the best gluten-free food in your area? Fancy Hands is a NYC-based startup that lets you do just that.
Top stories included the rumored Facebook Timeline redesign, a fake Facebook suicide video, as well as Facebook's new iPhone camera app. Outside the world of Facebook, other popular stories included Google Chrome surpassing Internet Explorer as the most used browser. Commenter, TileGuyJesse, made a joke about Internet Explorer being the number one Internet browser...for downloading other browsers.
These companies provide technological solutions for non-profits, give fledgling startups a place to work and donate to charity every time a song is downloaded. While the companies are diverse, they are all on a mission to change our lives for the better and improve society. Here's a roundup of featured projects from the last week, including exclusive video interviews with the founders of these inn
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February 2009 One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them. Then I thought: what would the other 9 be? When I made the list there turned out to be 13: 1. Pick good
Kelora Patent Found Obvious: Are Other “Obvious” Software Patents In Danger? Editor’s note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactions in computer-related technology areas. He specializes in developing IP strategy for young technology compan
Like nerve endings which translate senses into electrical impulses in your nervous system, sensors can translate the physical world into the digital. In the process, they can help humans become more aware of ourselves. The “quantified self” is an increasingly popular term. It means using algorithms to correlate all these sensor data, and provide valuable information for better living. In an earlie
In Walter Isaacson?s biography of Steve Jobs, Isaacson describes the time that Jobs cold called Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning, Inc., to learn about Gorilla Glass (which is now used in more than 500 devices). Weeks? assistant refused to put him through, but offered to take a message. Jobs described that as “typical East Coast B.S.” In response, when Weeks returned the call, he was told by Apple
Update 5/28: See below for another recent IPO that did even worse, although at a much smaller market cap. Facebook’s first five days as a public company saw its value drop 13.1 percent, the worst first-week performance of any initial public offering in a decade. That’s the sorry picture compiled by Bloomberg at the close of trading yesterday. In contrast, Visa’s 2008 IPO resulted in a first-week b
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
While the game wasn't made by Draw Something creator OMGPOP (which was recently purchased by Zynga), it shares quite a bit with that game in terms of play. "We love singing in the shower and always wanted to create a music based game, we just couldn´t find the right recipe," Vlado Hrincar, one of the developers for the app told Mashable. "Then we came across the Draw Something concept and that was
The New York Board of Education has banned the use of electronics in public schools since the 1980s. For years, there was an "out of sight, out of trouble" policy. Recently, new safety precautions such as metal detectors and backpack checks upon entry, have made it harder for middle school and high school students to smuggle their gadgets into classes. Electronics are confiscated on sight. Two yea
Now, Facebook is reportedly doing the same with viral videos. A new "trending videos" feature is being rolled out to some Facebook users, according to a report from TheNextWeb. Once you've got the new feature, it will auto-populate with videos your friends are watching on Facebook's Open Graph apps.
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