A former Facebook product manager named Noah Kagan has written a brutally honest article about how and why he got fired from Facebookin 2006 and what he learned from it. The experience must be particularly painful, given that it eventually cost Kagan a $100 million fortune. So the fact that ... Read more...
This is a format exploding in front of our very eyes. It's bigger than Pandora, and in fact, it's the reason why Pandora has so many jabbing competitors! According to just-released survey data from Edison Research and Arbitron, 103 million Americans are now accessing online radio in some form, in ... Read more...
Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information. Twitter will give Yandex access to its so-called firehose of all pub... Read more...
Independent rights group Merlin has reached an out-of-court settlement with LimeWire, the P2P file-sharing company that was shut down by a federal court in October 2010 due to a "massive scale of infringement." The amount of the settlement is not being disclosed, but Merlin CEO Charles Caldas t... Read more...
YouTube wants to start a subscription service of streaming movies a la Netflix and Amazon's new streaming service for Prime customers, the Post reports. They're planning to launch it first in the UK and Europe where there's less competition and they can test it, before rolling it out inte... Read more...
If you were in Southern California on Thursday afternoon and happened to notice what looked like a skyscraper darting across the sky, you weren't seeing things. That was the Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle, the largest rocket ever to launch from the West Coast. Since the craft is 235 feet tall --... Read more...
A great leader has the unique ability to admit when he’s wrong. Without this ability you suffer the fate of Napoleon and end up dead on your way to Russia. I was wrong about my assessment of Chairman Reid. After I stopped being all Carl Thomas emotional and things like that, I thought about... Read more...
The Central Intelligence Agency has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an industry source. The previously undisclosed CIA contract is worth about $100 million, said the industry ... Read more...