eBay spotted the importance of mobile devices very early on, but now they have turned their attention towards wearables. The company’s Innovation and New Ventures group wants to try and deve... Read more
Google plans to make real-time translation devices that will translate language for simple conversation across language barriers Google likes to create things that gather data, which can be... Read more
Earlier this week, the Data Center of China Internet (DCCI) released a report (h/t Tech In Asia) that showed nearly 35 percent of the Android apps it surveyed were secretly stealing user dat... Read more
Researchers who leverage public data for life-changing medical breakthroughs have long promised that donors can remain anonymous. The truth is, we’re going to have to choose between innovati... Read more
We’re charging headlong into a future filled with one-way mirrors behind which the rich spy on the poor, and the strong on the weak. Last week Wikileaks–remember them?–released a sheaf of do... Read more
Not a bad start Google+ is taking another major step needed toward becoming a full-fledged Facebook rival: it’s launching Google+ Pages, which allow brands, products, companies, businesses,... Read more
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My research team documented that one quarter of all technology and engineering startups nationwide from 1995 to 2005 were started by immigrants. Read more
We’re already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their US educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries. Read more
The difference with Web 2.0 is these sites and apps are incredibly cheap and quick to build and host. Read more
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife America has to start making things or the economy won’t work KIGALI, RWANDA– As I’ve mentioned before I like my entrepreneurs risk-taking and a little crazy... Read more
WHEN a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in January, the first picture appeared on Twitter. In June, Twitter users were mourning Michael Jackson before major news outlets reported... Read more
This past weekend the Twitterverse spoke-out in exasperation against traditional media networks and the lack of instantaneous coverage of the Iranian election Read more
Image via Wikipedia There’s been much hype, crazy valuations, and overall market excitement about businesses that promise to unleash the power of the social graph, location, recommendations... Read more
Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, two Stanford grads who signed up for the Launch Pad class at the University’s Institute of Design (aka d.school), could have hardly chosen a better path to tr... Read more
