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This episode of the What to Think podcast is sponsored by Pivotal Tracker. In this week’s podcast, we kick off an occasional series of interviews with platform builders: the founders and inventors who are creating software platforms upon which others are able to build things. We’re calling this seri

Quirky might seem like one of the more extreme examples of Silicon Valley excess in recent years, but its recent pivot — and the way its CEO handled it — is a rare example of honesty and transparency. The startup’s premise was inspired, if a little idealistic: Take inventors’ half-baked ideas, help

If you’re not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you’re likely losing them to someone else. Register now for the 8th annual MobileBeat, July 13-14, where the best and brightest will be exploring the latest strategies and tactics in the mobile space. ASPEN, Colo. — Kleiner Perkin

If you’re not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you’re likely losing them to someone else. Register now for the 8th annual MobileBeat, July 13-14, where the best and brightest will be exploring the latest strategies and tactics in the mobile space. ASPEN, Colorado — “I think of

What a day! Yesterday morning, the New York Stock Exchange went offline, United Airlines grounded its entire fleet, and the Wall Street Journal website went offline. All three outages were related to technical glitches of one sort or another. And on top of that, the Chinese stock market tanked. That

When Carter kissed me, it wasn’t for a brief moment. It was a kiss that carried us from one hot moment against the painting, my hands dipping underneath his pajama pants and sliding around, gripping his hard ass. It was a kiss where he growled my name and wrapped his hands around my waist, picking [

For advertisers, ad-blocking software is an annoyance. For IT administrators, it might just be the key to reducing network congestion. A recent study (.pdf) by Simon Fraser University in British Columbia has found that installing ad-blocking software reduces ordinary Web-browsing bandwidth usage by

Everyone hates email. It wastes our time, too much of it is spam, it’s a to-do list that strangers can write on, it’s ugly, it’s slow, it’s unreliable. And did I mention the spam? Perhaps the worst thing about email is the way it makes us unlikeable. I’m a reasonably nice person, as anyone […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jen Grant has joined Looker as its chief marketing officer. She was formerly a vice president of marketing at Box and a CMO at Elasticsearch. Looker may not be one of the big names in data analytics, yet, but the company has impressive growth. Its revenue has grown fivefold in the past ye

Docker is hot. That much was clear from the buzz — and the news — around this year’s DockerCon. The evidence suggests that the billion-dollar company responsible for accelerating the “container revolution” is at a tipping point. 550 people attended DockerCon in 2014. This year, there were at least 2

More than three-quarters of marketers do email marketing exclusively with marketing automation platforms. Find out why in our Marketing Automation webinar on June 18. VentureBeat’s podcast, What to Think, is back — and this time, we’re trying something new. In the first of a series of interviews wit

The “Internet of Things” is a trendy term that probably makes you think about connected toasters and smart refrigerators. But for GE, it also includes jet engines and power generators. You might not think of these giant artifacts of industrial culture as part of the Internet of Things, but they will