Making Money in the Cloud — There’s a Word for That
By Mark Herman Industry and government have untold amounts of data at their disposal and, like flecks of gold, there are valuable pieces that are frustratingly hard to access, given the limitations to...
View ArticleThe Surprising Cities Creating The Most Tech Jobs
With the social media frenzy at a fever pitch, people may be excused for thinking that Silicon Valley is still the main engine for growth in the technology sector. But a close look at employment data...
View ArticleDon’t Waste Money – Make Your Social Media Advertising Smarter, More...
# 5 of 10 More Don’ts of Corporate Social Media By Davia Temin and Ian Anderson “Advertising is the price companies pay for being un-original,” designer Yves Behar has said. But on social media,...
View ArticleThe true value of success lies beyond the ledger
This article originally appeared on The Next WebAnthony Del Monte is the CEO and founder of Squeaky Wheel Media, a Web design and development agency based in NYC, as well as the co-founder of...
View ArticlePrivacy and trust: The implications of U.S. carriers ending premium SMS billing
Andrew Bud is the global chairman of MEF. Last month three of the major U.S. carriers — AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile entered into an agreement with 45 states to stop billing customers with premium...
View ArticleIt’s 10 O’Clock — Do You Know Where Your IT Costs Are?
As we all earnestly dissect what went wrong and what went right in IT last year, it strikes me that there’s one topic we’re all dancing around without quite zeroing in on it. The topic is money. It’s...
View ArticleYour Social Media Activity Could Prevent You From Getting A Loan
By now, you likely already know it's not unusual for human resource managers to judge you by your Facebook and Twitter presence (in addition to your resume, of course). But it appears a number of small...
View Article5 Reasons Nest Sold To Google
The big obsession yesterday was with why Google spent $3.2 billion on startup Nest Labs. But lost in the shuffle of the breathtaking price and lots of questionable speculation about whether this is...
View ArticlePresident Obama Pushing Support for Technology Industry
President Obama is pushing an initiative to create 15 innovation partnership centers across the country, funded, in part, by $1 billion in federal support. Congress never approved the money, but the...
View ArticleStartup founder salaries: Younger, more inexperienced entrepreneurs pay...
This article originally appeared on The Next WebOur report last week on the salaries that startup founders pay themselves stirred up a lot of discussion here on The Next Web, Hacker News, Twitter and...
View ArticleHow HarperCollins’s Chief Digital Officer Uses Big Data To Make Publishing...
Having worked at EMI records for over a decade, Chantal Restivo-Alessi knows what it's like to have the digitization of media cannibalize your industry. "I went through the digital revolution early on...
View ArticleFive Ways Cloud Platforms Are Extending Sales Effectiveness
Bottom line: Sales effectiveness is going through an inflexion point driven by rapid advances in cloud computing platforms and applications. Changing business models, emergence of...
View ArticleGoogle’s Game Of Moneyball In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Over the past couple of months, Google has been playing its own peculiar game of Moneyball. It may not make a ton of sense right now, but Google is setting itself up to leave its competitors in the...
View ArticleGoogle confirms it’s selling Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion, but keeps...
This article originally appeared on The Next WebIt’s confirmed: Google is selling Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. The company made the announcement in a blog post that claims is an “important...
View ArticleWhy Android Is The Real Winner In The Motorola-Lenovo Deal
Lenovo’s purchase of Motorola from Google should be welcomed by the Android ecosystem. It will reduce friction between the other manufacturers and Google, it will allow the Motoroloa team to thrive,...
View ArticleNo longer just a clone factory, Rocket Internet has huge plans for global...
This article originally appeared on The Next WebGerman technology incubator Rocket Internet is most commonly associated with being a clone factory that creates imitations of successful businesses, but...
View ArticleRakuten opens an R&D center in Paris, its third worldwide, to find ‘next big...
This article originally appeared on The Next WebIt’s all go at Rakuten right now. Fresh from announcing the $900 million acquisition of Viber last week, the Japanese e-commerce giant has opened an...
View ArticlePayPal opens up its new slick mobile SDK to all developers
Expect to see PayPal pop up as a payment option in more apps soon. Today, the payments company announced that it will open up its new mobile SDK to all mobile developers in 30 countries Feb. 24. The...
View ArticleWhy The Facebook-WhatsApp Deal Is Bad For Users
In Facebook's $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging application, it's easy to see who comes out on top. Less clear is who will wind up getting the shaft, though it seems...
View Article3 Ways Social Media Is Driving A Business Revolution
It’s hard to imagine a life before social media, even though sites like Facebook and Twitter have been around for less than a decade. As businesses look back over that decade, they can easily see how...
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