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A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars. That’s Twitter’s new unofficial mantra as they go public. Twitter had revenue of $253 million in the first six months of 2013 but it was not profitable, according to its S-1 prospectus, which was made publ
You should enjoy your job. Some studies have shown that liking your job can lead to longer life. The feeling was applied by one of Samsung’s product chiefs who just left over the lack of fun. They should have put in more beanbags. Kevin Packingham, Samsung’s chief product officer of its U.S. m
In the world of tech, to get bigger you have to get smaller. No, that doesn’t mean downsizing the staff. It means taking today’s technology that already seems so tiny and making it even smaller than normal. Intel’s latest effort to expand beyond its PC roots involves reaching out to hobb
Samsung may have started the trend but LG isn’t going to let them be the only one with a curved display smartphone. Get ready for the LG G Flex. LG is preparing a smartphone with a curved display, CNET has learned. It confirms previous chatter about the company’s work with plastic OLED s
The socialists and the conservatives are speaking the same language in France as they unite to tell Amazon to stop undercutting their local stores. Accused of unfair competition in France, Amazon.com and other online book retailers were on Thursday the target of both left- and right-wing lawmakers.
As with so many federal employees, non-essential NSA employees were told they would be on furlough do to the government shutdown. Given that the government shutdown makes an exception for “national security,” some employees of the National Security Agency may have been surprised Tuesday to get a let
One screen entertainment is so 2012. Today, it’s all about the second screen. With a smartphone, tablet, or both in hand while watching television, people are multitasking their entertainment and the big social networks want you to telling your friends all about it on their platforms. After “B
If you want to take advantage of the government funding your public sector ideas and turning them into reality, you have until the beginning of next week to get in your application. Last month, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced an entrepreneurship-in-residence program for startups solving public
The truth is ugly. It really is. They’re teenagers. They’re driven by maturing sexuality, drug-based mischief, and an unyielding disdain for anything that resembles authority. They speak their minds on social media in ways that would make many teachers blush (especially when they’r
Move over, BlackBerry. HTC is challenging you for the most failed smartphone manufacturer title with a 90% market value drop in two years. They say that deaths come in threes, but we’re not sure they were referring to smartphone makers. Either way, it seems that HTC might be following in the footste
In the car tech world, electric is all the rage. Kia is bringing their quirky little SUV/Crossover/Wagon/Thingy to the electric vehicle market. Cue the electric hamsters. Kia, the automaker known for those dancing hamsters in its ads, has announced it will be bringing to market an all-electric versi
We aren’t quite to the point of convenience that the Star Trek universal translator brings to the table, but we’re getting there. Usually, ordering a meal in a non-English speaking country isn’t too bad if the restaurant has pictures, since you can just point and nod. But pictures
