Expanding into the emerging Internet of Things market shouldn’t be too hard for Cisco considering how it’s the largest manufacturer of networking equipment in the world, but that doesn’t mean it needs to go through the trouble of building a new business from scratch.
The fate of Yahoo’s employees is being determined by where they are on the new kill list that CEO Marissa Mayer has written up, though I’m sure many of them wouldn’t mind getting fired at this point. The list is the basis for the company’s current restructuring efforts, and i
We won’t know until later today what exactly happened at Twitter on Sunday, but we do know that whatever it was, it resulted in the departure of four of the company’s top executives, including the head of Vine. The departure of media head Katie Jacobs Stanton and product head Kevin Weil
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on Tuesday that he’s taking on two new jobs, the most notable of which is the founder of a new personal fitness startup, while the other is a venture partner for Index Ventures. Amusingly enough, he made the announcement through his Twitter account, an
Some interesting, but not all that surprising, data from Deloitte suggests that a little more than a quarter of the people in developed nations won’t make a single phone call this year, and most of the people that do will only do so occasionally. According to Deloitte, this can be attributed t
Would Instagram would be as popular as it is today if it didn’t limit its users with its square images? What about Snapchat and its ten-second messages, or Vine and its six-second videos? The answer is no, because those limitations are what keep things clean and simple for users. That being sa
This year, Instacart managed to more than triple its staff to around 300 employees, but it won’t be nearly as aggressive with its hiring next year. This isn’t necessarily an indication that the grocery delivery startup is doing poorly, but rather that it’s matured to the point
Being able to work with some of the most-popular celebrities in the world is one of the perks that comes with being owned by Facebook, and it looks like Oculus intends to take full advantage of that perk. Beats proved that getting LeBron James to promote your product can be a massive boost to your [
A little under a year ago, there were less than a dozen publishers using Snapchat, but after seeing how useful the app’s Discover platform is for tapping into the coveted millennial audience, the number of publishers has jumped to seventeen, with many more expected to join in the nea
Challenging an e-commerce behemoth like Amazon requires an immense amount of connections and resources, not to mention experience and strategy. Jet.com has plenty of the latter two, having been founded by the same man who founded Diapers.com, and with $350 million in new funding and another $150 mil
Although everyone can agree that self-driving cars will be hitting the market in the near future, nobody can agree on when that’ll actually happen. Google’s prediction that fully autonomous cars will become available to consumers in five years or so has been the most aggressive of all th
Twitter currently has around 320 million monthly active users, which is a hell of a lot, but that’s only a fraction of its true user base. The problem with measuring Twitter’s user base is that the service’s content is easily accessible to people who aren’t registered with it