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Next On Google Maps: Offline Navigation, Street Views From The Grand Canyon
Google Maps, the enormously popular mapping service with 1 billion monthly active users, showed off its latest advances today. The announcements, while impressive, seem to be an evasive maneuver ahead...
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Stop-And-Frisk Watch Smartphone App Is Foursquare For NYPD Searches
A new smartphone app lets New York City residents film police searches on the street... and pings them when searches take place nearby.The NYPD is one of the most technologically advanced police...
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Wifarer's Indoor GPS And The Never-Lost Generation
Meet Philip Stanger, CEO of Wifarer, who wants you to always find your way in shopping malls and museums. Philip Stanger is the CEO of Wifarer, an indoor positioning technology company. What happens...
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HTC Revenues Falter--And It May Be Shut Out Of Windows 8
News updates all day from Fast Company.HTC is said, by inside sources speaking to Bloomberg, to be "shut out" of the introduction of Microsoft's hotly-anticipated Windows 8 operating system for...
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The Radical Transformation Of Customer Service
I spent the last three months researching breakthroughs in customer service to prepare for a workshop I recently delivered for a global technology firm. I interviewed Harvard professors, read books,...
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Voxy's Paul Gollash Makes Language Learning Social, Local, And Mobile
Voxy is more than Rosetta Stone meets The New York Times--it also provides location-based lessons about your immediate surroundings, and provides access to tutors via video chats."Language learning is...
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How To Win The Talent War
I once hired a developer who had more experience in his field than I did in mine. His resume touted roles at companies I one day hope to emulate, and his Rolodex read like a who’s who of tech startups....
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Does Your Phone Know How Happy You Are? The Emotion-Recognition Industry...
Who among us has never growled like a cave person at their laptop? Or giggled uncontrollably into a smartphone? Exactly. So there are good reasons why the emotion-recognition industry is quickly...
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Apple Rumor Patrol: What To Expect At WWDC 2012
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference starts next week with a Tim Cook keynote, so the rumor mill is spinning frantically. Here's what it's spitting out.All New Macs (Except The Mini?)Apple sometimes...
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How To Move Your Brand From Good Enough To Remarkable
Remarkable businesses are innovative to the point of being individual, are due cause for conversation, and leave a lasting impression. Making your business remarkable might be one of the toughest...
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Shaker Is Your Friendly Neighborhood Bar--Online
Israeli entrepreneurs create a "Cheers" for the Internet.Remember how a lot of people once dismissed Twitter? "Why do I want to read about what my friend is making for dinner?" they asked. Same with...
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Thunderclap's Crowdtweeting Experiment Struck Down By Twitter
News updates all day from Fast Company.Twitter effectively shut down Thunderclap, a day-old crowdsourcing platform on which people can back tweets they support in order to turn them into trending...
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Facebook Opens The Door On Its App Center
Over 600 apps listed in the company's new hub.Facebook today launched the App Center it announced last month. The goal is to make it easy for users of the social network to find social apps. "The App...
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Apple Settling On $2.25 Million Sum In Australian "4G" iPad Issues
News updates all day from Fast Company.Apple has been under fire from Australian authorities over claims it misled consumers there with information that the new iPad is a "4G" device. While the iPad...
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Scott Aukerman, "Comedy Bang! Bang!" And The Podcasting, Tweeting Kings of...
Can podcast production companies be startup incubators for comedians? Scott Aukerman’s been making people laugh since long before the digital age. As a writer for HBO’s "Mr. Show" in the mid-90s, he...
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How Stay-At-Home Moms, A Doctor, And A Pro Wrestler Make Social Media More Human
Austin Evarts of GoChime believes that the future of social media advertising is the person-to-person pitch--and that the human element can never be automated. In other words: social media is...
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Want Passionate Employees? Include Them In Your Company Narrative
Inclusion draws upon the two-way nature of real human conversation. Yet inclusive communication goes a crucial step further: It extends the practice of back-and-forth interaction in a way that entitles...
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Startups Should Play To Their City’s Strengths. Here’s How.
Wayne Embree, a vice president at the Oklahoma City nonprofit incubator i2E, offers five tips for entrepreneurs who want to make the most of small- and medium-sized markets. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION...
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Cracking The Venture Capital Glass Ceiling
The founders of True & Co. put lacy thongs in the swag bags at a mostly male tech conference; their eyebrow-raising approach to launching caught the eye of a few women investors. Is this what it...
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Google, Mark Cuban, And A Glimpse Into The Heart Of Patent Darkness
Law & Order: Intellectual Property Unit. We're gonna spider, parse, and scan like it's 1998, when Lycos acquired patents that could cost Google hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties. To...
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