Sal McCloskey — Historical articles

Hope can be a great thing. False hope can destroy lives. Such is the case with what an esteemed colleague wrote on Fast Company about how startups should...

Everyone has startup fever again after Facebook's huge purchase of Instagram last week, perfect timing for Path to announce a $30 million round of funding...

Some ideas were born to work. The Listserve may be one of them What would you say if you were selected to send an email to 10,000 people? 100,000?...

There are already questions surrounding Facebook's purchase of Instagram for $1 billion yesterday. Was it a talent purchase (of 13 employees)? Is it the...

Late last week payment processor Global Payments revealed that MasterCard and Visa cardholders were at risk through a security flaw in their system. ...

France made waves in the P2P industry by implementing a controversial graduated response program in 2010 that was designed to reduce the amount of illegal...

We often look back at the great minds of the past in wonder as their predictions of what the future would look like. Sometimes, they are relatively...

While national and worldwide agencies wage a war against online crime through the criminal courts, Microsoft is finding success using civil suits to help...

There is an inherent problem with the "daily deals" concept. At what point does saving money on items get trumped by buying too many items that we don't...

Before anyone starts attacking me for "traffic envy" or accuses me of turning other blog's follies into pseudo-news a la Gawker, let me say that I...

It has been coming for a decade and it appears to have taken down one of its biggest targets. While there may be very little actual malice between the...

Those of us who have been classically trained in journalism (from back in the days when journalism was more than blogging and posting videos to Twitter),...