Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company
(I'm live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. Mark Zuckerberg is on-stage for a question-and-answer session. You can watch it h...
How High Will Real-Time Search Fly?
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 his death...
Volkswagen to Rely Solely on IPhone App for GTI Launch
Automaker Says Move is Cost-Efficient Way to Reach Target Demo — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Volkswagen of America is launching the newest-generation GTI exclusively on an iPhone app, a cost-efficient ap...
Video: Symbian Executive Rips into Google's Android
Last week, Lee Williams, executive director at Symbian stopped by in our office to brief me on a new version of Symbian that is going to be released soon. He talked about SEE09, their developer confe...
Herd Mentality
Conformity is a powerful instinct. There's safety in numbers. You have to be different to be better, but different is scary. — So of course there's some degree of herd mentality in every industry....
Avalanche is top phishing gang by far this year
A single group of attackers accounted for a quarter of all phishing in the first half of this year, according to a new study. — A single group of attackers accounted for a quarter of all phishing in...
New Video Discovery Site Promises To Make a Rippol In The Stream (1,000 Beta Invites)
The last thing the world needs is another video site, right? Well, that's not stopping Aaron Crayford, who convinced a bunch of his supercomputer engineer buddies to put together Rippol …
EU adopts tough file-share stance
The European Parliament has given the green light for member states to cut persistent file-sharers off from the net. — It has dropped an amendment to its Telcoms Package which would have made it har...
Box.net's Unannounced Funding
The company raised another $7.1 million this month from its current investors — Draper Fisher and U.S. Venture Partners — but kept mum, allowing the new money to be revealed instead by an SEC filing. ...