Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks By David Cornish, wired.co.uk Business There’s a ubiquitous smugness that appears to accompany the purchase of an ereader. It’s not in the box, nor is it downloaded as an optional extra — but a quick glance at the expression of an ereading commuter beside their… RT @WiredUK:…
startl.org Applications now open for 2013 Accelerator After a year hiatus, Startl is again partnering with DreamIt Ventures to offer a very select group of enterprises the opportunity to engage in an intensive, company-building immersion… http://flip.it/1zxEW Accelerator 2013 Related articles Ranking Applicants For An Accelerator (alexstechthoughts.com) DreamIt Health Startup Medlio Has a Virtual Insurance Card:…
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Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money By Colin Lecher, popsci.com People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced version of yourself, you’re more…
By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Software consulting is a multibillion-dollar business, and the means by which most enterprise software actually ends up in business. Consultants figure out what companies need, install it, customize it, and train workers on it. As more software is… http://flip.it/5rrL9 How the Cloud Changes Software Consulting Related articles OpenStack, Mobile, Amazon and…
iPhone 5 coming to Walmart’s Straight Talk prepaid plans January 11th Brad Molen, engadget.com Customers have been able to enjoy the iPhone experience on Walmart’s Straight Talk “BYOD” phone plans for quite some time now, but the prepaid provider will begin directly selling the iPhone 5 — as well as the iPhone 4 — on…
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Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud demonstrates the need for enterprises to develop new ways of harnessing the vast potential of big data. Yet these marketing clouds beg the question of who will help… http://flip.it/sfvZe Related…
Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com Apple does hardware and software well, and it’s at the top of its game when it does them together. But when it comes to Web services, the company is a laggard, with an ever-lengthening conga line of missteps. There are hands-down fiasco… http://flip.it/fuyg5 Related…
Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction J.J. Colao, forbes.com When Pete London posted a resume on LinkedIn in December 2009, the JavaScript specialist stumbled into a trap of sorts. Shortly after creating a profile he received a message from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, another from… RT @ForbesTech: Hounded by…