Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley
Last spring and summer, Kathryn Minshew, co-founder of The Muse and Inc’s “15 Women to Watch in Tech”, was trying to raise money for the female-focused jobboard site that was...
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The February Jobs Report in Two Simple Charts
The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, beating expectations, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7%, its lowest level since December 2008. Here’s the breakdown of employment status for...
Yahoo Killing Message Boards Site and Other Products
Yahoo announced in a Friday afternoon blog post that it’s killing seven products from its line of consumer offerings. The doomed products include Yahoo’s BlackBerry app and Sports IQ. The...
‘Star Trek’ Mobile App Kicks Off Super Bowl Campaign
The app was designed to be a one-stop shop for Star Trek fans. It includes a news feed feature that shows off Star Trek news articles from around the web....
Plotter Turns the Map on Your iPhone Into a Social Discovery Tool and the Digital Cure
For all the talk about how much better Google Maps is than Apple’s default maps app on the iPhone, the experience for both essentially boils down to the same thing:...
Yelp Reports Q4 Losses As Local Gets More Crowded Than Ever
Yelp just reported its fourth quarter earnings and things aren’t looking that sunny for the stalwart local discovery site. In Q4 Yelp raked in $41.2 million in revenue, losing $.08...
Apple Remains the Top U.S. Smartphone Maker, Report Says
Apple has extended its lead as the top U.S. smartphone-maker, by grabbing another 3.5% of total market, according to ComScore‘s latest data. The Cupertino, Calif. giant captured a formidable 37.8%...
Does Apple Ever Regret Making The iPad Mini?
There are so many reasons to love this photo of Apple marketing boss Phil Schiller holding up an iPad Mini. For one thing, it captures the kind of hushed sanctimony and...
Office 365 For Business Is Here. Good Luck Figuring Out What It’ll Cost You
Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud-based office suite, is moving the turf war against Google Docs to the business world with today’s announcement of business-ready subscriptions. But you’ll need a spreadsheet to figure...
10 Actionable Trends For Mobile Marketers In 2013
It is almost silly to think that in 2013, many enterprises are still struggling with mobile strategies. The fact of the matter is that enterprises can sometimes be just as...