Ads Everywhere! Tremor Video Runs Four-Screen Ad Campaign For GoPro Very few advertisers are able to take advantage of the ability to reach viewers on multiple screens. In the days leading up to and during ESPN’s X Games in Los Angeles, Tremor Video showed how it was done, with a four-screen ad campaign for video camera maker GoPro. GoPro’s campaign ran from June 26 through July 1, in effect tryin

Meet The Double, A YC-Backed Teleconferencing Robot With An iPad For A Face Teleconferencing has changed the way business is conducted. Small companies can hire talent in another city, large corporations can save money by having international meetings in a conference room, and managers can keep tabs on off-site workers through services like Lua. But as technology never rests, neither does the tele

Apple App Store Investors are generally advised to ignore the day-to-day noise that dominates the financial headlines. But given the increasing mobile availability of information, most investors can't resist. We went through more than 90 finance-related mobile apps and these are the best ones we found. Everyone from novice investors to veterans of the market will find these apps handy–these days,

From the perfect storefront to top-notch products and branding, allocating resources to your small business's tangible and visual aspects can seem natural. But less obvious factors, such as employee satisfaction, can be just as important to your success. These tips can help you create a strategy to boost employee happiness and increase the likelihood of keeping employees on staff long term. Why Is

[brightcove video="1782457740001" /] Students in MIT's Robust Robotics program have defied the laws of airplanes. They have created a robotic airplane that can fly at high speeds, through obstacles, using only on-board sensors. And it's doing all that without benefit of GPS. The students set out to create "autonomous plane navigation in confined spaces," and that's exactly what they did. Using a l

Looks like even Gotye knows his song, "Somebody That I Used to Know," is an overplayed, viral sensation that has spawned an entire genre of YouTube covers. So the singer decided to acknowledge the hundreds of piano-playing, harp-plucking, and guitar-strumming fans who paid tribute to the catchy tune. How? He made a whole new song from the covers. Gotye calls it "Somebodies," and it's just as annoy

Music is a big part of everyone's life, with 45% of people listening to 10 or more hours of music each week, according to a recent study by Lab42. And social music players like Pandora and Spotify are ruling the airwaves. Not so surprisingly though, people enjoy using music streamers, but not paying for the premium versions of those players. Only 20% will cash in to hear some tunes, and 60% of lis

Since The Oatmeal draws comics like 5 Ways To Fight A Crack Whore, the kids down in Mountain View figured they could play a joke on him. This summer the artist wrote that Google+ comment threads sound like *crickets*, poking fun at the social network’s lack of engagement. He also criticized not being able to “set up a fancy profile URL so I don’t have to link people to http://plus.google.com/blerg

YC-Backed HiMom Helps Your Parents Keep Up With Your Life, One Postcard At A Time Social media sites like Facebook have become a central part of the lives of many families, letting them keep tabs on each other’s lives through pictures. But they’re not for everyone. My mom and dad, who live in the U.S., have no interest in joining Facebook. They are okay with email, and my dad will even video Skype

[nggallery id=7013] Playful and inspiring -- these might be ten of the coolest Pinterest pins we've collected yet. If you're anything like us, you love spending time looking through the many boards of Pinterest in search of your next perfect repin. On our Pinterest account, we have boards ranging from cool gadgets for your home to extraordinary iPhone cases that will leave your old case feeling a

VP Pick, Paul Ryan, Has (Mostly) Been A Friend To Technology I’m going to get a lot of hate mail for this article, but it’s a fact that Mitt Romney’s Vice Presidential pick, Paul Ryan, has mostly been a friend to Silicon Valley and the technology industry. Ryan’s voting record has supported better access to high skilled immigrants, an open Internet, crowdfunding for startups, and intellectual prop

Barnes And Noble Cuts Nook Tablet Prices As New Kindle Rumors Surface Well, Barnes and Noble seems to be in a giving mood today. The company revealed earlier this morning that eager customers can nab themselves a 16GB Nook Tablet for $199 — $50 off its original price. Meanwhile, the 8GB Nook Tablet now goes for $179 (down from $199), and aging Nook Color can how be had for the relatively low price

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — took to the airwaves with a mid-summer tour of Twitter’s third party clampdown, whether Minecraft is the future of software development, why two-factor authentication wouldn’t have stopped the Wired hack, and the usual push notification supermeme. @scobleizer was mostly back from Disneyland, while @jtaschek took a bre

Now In 20 Cities, Startup Grind Aims To Inspire The Next Generation Of Global Entrepreneurs “Silicon Valley doesn’t have a monopoly on brilliant entrepreneurs and founders,” Derek Andersen tells me over coffee, “so we want to find them wherever they live, give them a stage and an opportunity to share their hard-won experiences with those who need it and might benefit from it.” That mission stateme

Lego Celebrates 80th Birthday With Whimsical Animated Short [VIDEO] To recognize 80 years of toy creation, Lego has released this 17-minute story of the company's history. This short film, which can be found on YouTube, is sure to invoke feelings of nostalgia in every adult who loved the plastic brick toy as a kid. The animated video describes the life of Danish toymaker Ole Kirk Christiansen, who