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Inspiration highlights innovative initiatives and people influencing the tech industry while narrating the tales behind the ideas. It’s a place to honor originality, tenacity, and ground-breaking concepts that encourage others to pursue their dreams and make them a reality.

All Yahoo email accounts will be scanned starting Monday

All Yahoo email accounts will be scanned starting Monday

If you avoided Gmail and stuck with Yahoo mail for the sake of privacy concerns, it's time to find a...

YouTube’s 8-year anniversary: the evolution into a major media giant

YouTube’s 8-year anniversary: the evolution into a major media giant

Since 2005, YouTube has transformed itself from a small website where the average person could share home videos to the...

Holidays Unplugged: disconnect and relax

Holidays Unplugged: disconnect and relax

These days technology is all pervasive, unavoidable even, and we are grateful. It has made it simple to get things...

Hipmunk Vs. Kayak: which company helps customers the most

Hipmunk Vs. Kayak: which company helps customers the most

When it comes to getting a great deal on travel, there are numerous online sites to choose from. Two of...

Patrick Stewart gets personal and passionate at Comicpalooza

Patrick Stewart gets personal and passionate at Comicpalooza

Listening to what was said without context would leave most surprised that it was delivered at one of the geekiest...

Social media is open 7 days a week

Social media is open 7 days a week

Many businesses are trying and failing at social media. Some are succeeding. One of the keys to finding success is...

5 apps to help shopaholics watch their spending

5 apps to help shopaholics watch their spending

Do you love shopping? Do you get a gleam in your eye and exhilaration in your heart when you make...

#YahooWantsSome: Marissa Mayer’s continuing forays into social media

#YahooWantsSome: Marissa Mayer’s continuing forays into social media

Yahoo is finally tossing its hat into the social media ring. Recently, Yahoo announced that it would be incorporating tweets...

If Nikola Tesla had to Pitch Products to Modern VCs

If Nikola Tesla had to Pitch Products to Modern VCs

Nikola Tesla was ahead of his time. In many ways, he is still ahead of our time. Some of his...

Are 3D printers the future of food for 12 billion people?

Are 3D printers the future of food for 12 billion people?

There are food shortages around the world. People die from hunger in all countries and regions. Keeping the seven billion...

Your brand is your baby: digital know-how in a corporate world

Your brand is your baby: digital know-how in a corporate world

You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’! Yep, times are still...

Design creativity: “Infographic on Coffee Cup”

Design creativity: “Infographic on Coffee Cup”

Coffee isn't exactly a technology topic that we would normally cover, but when it's the subject of an infographic that...

Avoid Star Trek spoilers at all costs

Avoid Star Trek spoilers at all costs

There hasn't been a movie since The Sixth Sense that had more potential for disaster than Star Trek: Into Darkness....

Content Flow from Creation to Tweet

Content Flow from Creation to Tweet

If there's one major flaw with the way that many businesses use automation tools, it's that they're not able to...

Yahoo MUST buy Tumblr and then do nothing to it

Yahoo MUST buy Tumblr and then do nothing to it

There are two stages to this gambit by Yahoo that must be accomplished. They have to beat out Facebook, Microsoft,...

10 most unsafe campuses in America

10 most unsafe campuses in America

When it’s time to choose a college, there are a few questions most people consider. Is it a party school?...

A case for posting lots of good content on your website

A case for posting lots of good content on your website

Content speaks for itself. It speaks for a company. It speaks to the people.Most business websites are sorely short on...

Swartz’ anonymous information transferring dream comes to life

Swartz’ anonymous information transferring dream comes to life

The New Yorker, a magazine owned by Condé Nast Publications, released a new online service called Strongbox this morning. First...

Elon Musk vs Tony Stark

Elon Musk vs Tony Stark

In one corner, you have a real many who has dreams of a greener world that travels to space using...

Synthetic drugs may be a bigger concern than traditional narcotics

Synthetic drugs may be a bigger concern than traditional narcotics

The war on drugs has had its share of ups and downs. On one hand, there seems to be a...