New Hampshire Republican Senate hopeful Jim Bender apologized to a voter for targeting her online in his election campaign using controversial technologies from Internet data firm RapLeaf Inc. Read the rest of this entry »
The Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) announced the 2010 SNCR Fellows Choice Award honorees are:
Cassandra–the figure in Greek mythology who told the truth about the future but was never believed–seems an unlikely name for a database. Read the rest of this entry »
Partner Conference PromotionThe Indian Private Investors Conference is a director level, interactive conference with speakers and panellists being industry leaders drawn from India and abroad. The speaker line up for this event boasts of some reputed and eminent professionals such as; Anubha Shrivastava, Managing Director - Asia, CDC GroupBharat Bakhshi, Partner, Jacob Ballas Capital India Pvt
The demise of the old media appears to have slowed but it hasn’t gone away as the transition towards a digital business model continues to hold many challenges.
A pair of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently gave robots the capacity for deceptive behavior. We caught up with one of them, Alan Wagner, to find out how troubled we should be about this. Read the rest of this entry »
It seems to me that our comfort levels are our worst enemy. Once achieved, it’s like hull speed on a boat – you can’t go any faster. It is at this point that our brands stand still. You become so complacent that you catch yourself avoiding challenges rather than embracing them. Life on the edge [...]
Eli Harari is going out on a high note. The Israeli entrepreneur is giving up the CEO post at SanDisk after a quarter that illustrated consumers’ growing appetite for the flash memory chips it pioneered. And fears about flash hitting a technological dead end are premature, he is quick to add. Read the rest of this entry »
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Congratulations to Laughing Squid on its 15th anniversary curating the best of San Francisco/Silicon Valley culture. Founder Scott Beale now lives in New York but that hasn’t changed the high quality content you can find on Laughing Squid.