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Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, speaks at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley saved one of his most enlightening comments for the end of his South by Southwest keynote, when he waved to the two rows of his employees sitting to his right. Crowley said his New York-based company brought...
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds a Kindle Fire tablet computer
Speaking at Austin’s SXSW Interactive in a session the future of game development, DeWolfe said that his new company is “betting on Android in a big way.” Along with former MySpace colleagues Aber Whitcomb and Colin Digiaro, DeWolfe has been...
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Jeff The Brotherhood onstage at the 2011 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival.
Day One at South by Southwest was no picnic. Between the daylong rains, the long lines (some people waited upwards of two hours to pick up badges), gridlocked streets and the spotty wireless coverage, there were plenty of young, exasperated...
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This was Tim Cook's first big product unveiling since Steve Jobs died last year.
Yesterday’s iPad unveiling was Apple’s first big announcement since the death of Steve Jobs, whose legendary skills as a pitchman set the bar for product introductions. How did CEO Tim Cook & Co. do? As others have pointed out, the...
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Salesforces.com CEO Marc Benioff with the late Steve Jobs.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff was an unabashed Steve Jobs disciple, often telling reporters about the business lessons and inspiration he drew from Apple’s late leader. At the iPad launch at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center, Benioff couldn’t resist a running...
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Apple is launching the iPad 3 -- or maybe the the iPad HD -- today at 10 am PST. The tech blogosphere is abuzz with speculation. So much news and rumor is already out that the news cycle may have...
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The Bushehr nuclear power plant in 2010. A computer worm is believed to have damaged Iran's centrifuges that year. Critics say new code could facilitate similar attacks.
For the past few months, a team of computer hackers has engaged in an aggressive form of cyber subversion. Its work has enraged critics and led to accusations that it is endangering people’s lives. It’s not Anonymous. The group causing...
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Nutrisystem (NTRI) primarily makes money selling frozen meals to people trying to lose weight. That’s not the sort of business model usually labeled “social media.” Yet there Nutrisystem is, in the stock holdings of the Global X Social Media Index...
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Still using that old Razr? You’re in the minority now. More U.S. adults own a smartphone than those who have traditional handsets as more folks use mobile devices to surf the Web, check e-mail or edit photos, according to a...
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Barnaby Jack uses a mannequin equipped with an insulin pump to demonstrate the security vulnerabilities of wireless medical devices.
In his San Francisco apartment, Barnaby Jack waves a small antenna to demonstrate how a deadly hacker attack against a diabetic would begin. The 34-year-old is best known for hacking into cash machines and making them spit out money on...
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