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If your product isn’t selling, who do you turn to? Those who help make your product? Or those who buy it?
For newspaper publishers it’s a trick question, because they’re accustomed to thinking of their customers as their readers. That’s not true: Their readers are the product, and advertisers are the customer.… Read the rest
In this episode, Dylan Tweney and Jordan Novet catch up with data science maven (and New York tech scene fixture) Hilary Mason about her new startup, Fast Forward Labs, and how it will help companies solve their data science problems.
Read more about Fast Forward Labs on VentureBeat.… Read the rest
Above: The actual iPhone 5 next to the front panel of what may be the iPhone 6.
Gadget videoblogger Marques Brownlee continues testing a piece of glass he got a couple weeks ago that he believes is the front panel of the upcoming iPhone 6.… Read the rest
In this episode, Dylan Tweney and Jordan Novet speak with Benj Edwards, a journalist who is digging up screenshots from the old Prodigy online service. We talk about the challenges and joys of digital archeology.
If you want to know more, check out Edwards’ website about Vintage Computing.… Read the rest
Above: Tim Draper of DFJ
If you thought venture capitalist Tim Draper’s plan to split California into six states was ludicrous, get ready for two more years of intensely rolling your eyes.
Draper’s team will announce tomorrow that it has collected more than the 807,615 signatures required to put the constitutional amendment on the ballot, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.… Read the rest
The guys who invented Yo are not stupid.
Their app may be — depending on who you talk to, the idea of an app that does nothing but send the message “Yo” is either charmingly clever or incredibly annoying — but the founders are not.… Read the rest
Above: If only it were so easy to enable privacy on our mobile devices.
I was on “Opening Bell” with Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday morning, shortly before Amazon announced its Kindle Fire smartphone. Here’s what I had to say. I got some of it right!
Above: ProtonMail founders Jason Stockman, Wei Sun, and Andy Yen.
ProtonMail, an encrypted email service that advertises itself as “NSA-proof,” launched to much acclaim about a month ago.
Since then, the company says it has signed up 200,000 users – and it just launched a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo because, co-founder Andy Yen says, “that is the best way to get financing and also keep ProtonMail independent.”… Read the rest
Hello everyone!
I wrote this post about the Amazon Fire phone yesterday morning.
At the time I wrote it, I didn’t yet know what the phone was called or any of its exact details — that came later in the day, with Amazon’s official unveiling.… Read the rest
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