If you compare Twitter to other display ad based businesses, it appears the company will not be generating gobs of revenue in the future. Pascal Emmanuel Gobry at our own Business Insider Research took a look at the amount of revenue that comes from a unique visitor to display ad based busine... Read more...
Following two rough years of drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations has declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia. According to the UN, a famine means more than 30% of children in an area are malnourished, at least 20% of households face extreme food shortages and more than tw... Read more...
JP Morgan (JPM) is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States. JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans that go on food ... Read more...
The British government announced plans to modernize and reform U.K. copyright law following up on recommendations contained in the Hargreaves report commissioned by British Prime Minister David Cameron and a technical review by telecoms regulator Ofcom. The most significant decision is the scrapp... Read more...
Two years ago, a Stanford business school student named Tristan Walker sent Foursquare cofounders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvaduraian email out of the blue, asking for a job. Today, Tristan is Foursquare's director of business development. During his tenure, he's built partnerships between F... Read more...
As an impulse buy, you might plunk down a few bucks for a Shamwow, an Aluma Wallet or a Shake Weight. But would a TV infomercial persuade you to part with thousands of dollars on a get-rich-quick scheme? There are many thousands who would and do. If there were no suckers, there wouldn't be so... Read more...
At a recent summit, porn industry leaders and an expert panel held a discussion with .XXX’s Vaughn Liley. The open industry Q and A, to form the industry’s business plans for the new TLD, did not go well. Big Porn’s take-away illustrates a troubling future where vanity TLDs are nothing more t... Read more...
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A federal judge has denied Google's request to dismiss several lawsuits accusing the company of illegally collecting private information from open Wi-Fi networks. The ruling, filed in California court Wednesday, is a setback for Google as it tries to put its "Street View" debacle behind it. In M... Read more...