Mobile Marketing Set to Create Havoc and Opportunities
Procter & Gamble should be kicking itself for not developing a mobile operating system when it had the chance: More people worldwide own mobile phones than toothbrushes. Get...
Facebook IPO Day: The Scene At NASDAQ’s NYC Times Square HQ [TCTV]
In case there was any confusion after Facebook's eight years in business and its recent geographic expansions, it was cleared up today: Facebook's home and heart lies in Silicon Valley.
TechCrunch TV saw that first-hand this morning...Nike pulling all Nike+ services into one dashboard this fall
Nike+ is finally going to get the overhail it needs. Emails from Nike+ Active are hitting inboxes of users, letting them know that the site will be down starting on June 5 while it moves to the new Nike+ (the version that Nike FuelBand users are accustomed to.) As of now, Nike+ users have had...
How to Stop Birds from Flying into Your Windows [Crowdhacker]
Ever found a beautiful bird dead outside your home? Chances are it smashed into your window and never recovered. For every dead bird you find, just imagine how many were snatched up by a cat or pulled i...
Twitter Ups the Privacy Ante Ahead of Facebook’s IPO
Twitter fired another salvo in the privacy wars, announcing that it will allow users to block it from recording their wanderings around the web. Take that, Facebook!
Twi......
Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow: If You Buy Facebook Stock, You’re In For The Long Haul
Social enterprise software giant Buddy Media Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Lazerow was at no loss for words this morning when it came to dissecting Facebook’s impact on advertising.
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The President’s Tech Gurus Want A Few Good Men And Women At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Next Week
The President's technology gurus, US CTO Todd Park and CIO Steven VanRoekel, will be looking for savvy innovators to work with at next week's TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York (tickets here). Park and VanRoekel will be announcing some...Verizon FiOS to introduce new 50/25, 75/35 speed tiers in June
Looks like Verizon FiOS is about to get a whole lot faster. According to Broadband Reports, the current broadband symmetrical 25/25 Mbps tier will soon be changed to 50/25, while users on the 35/35 symmetrical tier will have their speeds upgraded to a whopping 75/35. The new 50/25 and 75/35 tiers will be available in...
Dish: Sure, we’ll build LTE, just give us four years
Dish Network has taken possession of it’s 4G spectrum and it’s ready to deliver its competitive mobile broadband network – in 2016. In a filing with the FCC, Dish basically asked the FCC for the granddaddy of all extensions for turning in its LTE homework assignments.
Top Stories: May 14-18, 2012
This week on O'Reilly: Coding is tied to cultural competence, not just a profession; Jim Stogdill wondered if solution vendors are waiting for broad Hadoop adoption before jumping in; and we learned how Schoolers, Edupunks and Makers are reshaping education.
The Best Programming Text Editor for Linux [Linux App Directory]
Linux users have more text editors, IDEs, and command-line tools than a programmer can shake a stick at. If you're looking for a good programming text editor, we recommend Kate. It's super easy to get s...
Can Facebook stay cool now that it’s an enormous public corporation?
“A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars,” Sean Parker says in the famous line from “The Social Network.”
Trite though the line may be, Facebook, valued at $104 billion, is in the process of minting …
