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Important Power Players Assemble To Discuss How Social Media Can Be Used For...
THE PLAYERS: 1. Hunter Walk, director, product management, YouTube 2. Meg Garlinghouse, head of social impact, LinkedIn 3. Biz Stone, cofounder, Twitter 4. Ken Weber, executive director, Zynga 5. Nick...
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Apple’s Not-So-Secret Weapon: How iCloud Keeps Them One Step Ahead Ahead Of...
illustration by matt dartford For decades, Steve Jobs extolled the virtues of "building the whole widget"--in other words, designing and manufacturing a computer or a digital media player or smartphone...
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Dish Rumored To Soon Unveil A National Satellite Network For High-Speed Internet
According to sources speaking to Bloomberg, Dish Network Corp. is planning to launch a nationwide satellite-based broadband Net service, possibly as soon as the end of September. The system will use a...
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4 Things To Consider When Contemplating A Major Career Change
Are you contemplating a big career change? Tell us how you're prepping in the comments below. Kelly Lynch spent 15 years of her career in equity trading and then private wealth management. When the...
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Photobucket Revamps To Rival Social Sharing Photo And Video Sites
Photobucket has just revealed a vastly made-over user experience for its online photo service, which has usually functioned as a photo depository of sorts. The company says it's reacting to a recent...
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How Facebook Is Building Next-Gen, Hyper-Green Data Centers
This Facebook facility in Prineville, Oregon, represents a new wave of data centers, which also happen to be beautifully designed.
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How Shutterstock CEO Jon Oringer Solves Problems
"Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions," says Shutterstock founder and CEO Jon Oringer. Watch to see how he unravels them.
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You Can't Be Effective When You're Too Smart For Your Own Good
I have had the good fortune to work for, with, and coach many brilliant people. I have watched many of them struggle with being smarter and faster than everyone around them. Being the smartest one in...
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The Next Big Idea From Twitter's Founders? Pinterest, Basically
Evan Williams and Biz Stone are launching a familiar-looking service called Medium. Here’s why tile layouts like Pinterest’s are becoming the go-to design strategy for emotional heft.
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Hear About The Evolution Of Social Innovation From The Experts Who Helped...
In this introduction to a new video series, watch Seventh Generation CEO Jeffrey Hollender, YouTube’s Hunter Walk, and others discuss how having a social mission has become a more and more integral...
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"Boss" Creator Farhad Safinia On Bringing The Dark Drama Of Politics To The...
As the Starz series on Chicago politics returns for season two, creator Farhad Safinia talks about his inspirations and the creative choices that give the show its unusual, unapologetically dark...
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When Growing The Business Means Firing Your Customers
The first hint that Aprigo CEO Gil Zimmermann needed to rethink his data security business was that his company had stopped using its own product. Aprigo’s employees were no longer storing documents...
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Arabian Dessert: At Cheesecake Factory's Middle East Locations, No Booze, But...
The Arabian Desert may not be the first place you’d imagine ordering a Bang Bang Chicken and Shrimp, Avocado Eggrolls, or anything else on the menu at The Cheesecake Factory. But the mecca of American...
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How A Healthy Snack Company Has Created Hundreds Of Thousands Of Good Deeds
The snack bar company Kind has spent years perfecting a system that gives its customers a chance to do good, and influence the direction of the company’s corporate philanthropy. In the process, they’ve...
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Big Fish's Virtual Casino App Now Lets U.K. Gamers Walk Away With Cold, Hard...
Zynga competitor Big Fish, whose popular Card Ace: Casino iPhone app attracts one million monthly active players, will now let players bet real money on games of slots--and cash out their winnings....
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The Chick-Fil-A Way: Why Brands Should Have Stronger Opinions
Chick-fil-A, a Georgia-based fast food chain specializing in chicken sandwiches recently entered a highly exclusive, and not always savory, league of brands—that is, brands with opinions. It happened,...
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The Case For Keeping Libraries Alive
It’s not about checking out more books. An initiative is focusing on libraries around the world as centers of social and economic change, as well as centers to help the most disadvantaged citizens.
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Are Some Fonts More Believable Than Others?
Recently, Errol Morris pulled a covert experiment on readers of The New York Times. The result? Typefaces can sway your beliefs.
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Instagram Homes In On Mapping With Version 3.0
Instagram is releasing version 3.0 of its photo app today, and it improves on the browsing experience in several significant ways. The boldest new feature is called "Photo Maps." All the photos you...
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The Future Of Water Is Drinking Water That's Been In A Toilet
Here’s a secret: You probably already are. But as we need to find ways to conserve water, treated wastewater may become a more obvious part of what we drink. The trick to making that work isn’t...
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