Foggy Bottom has a plan to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech. When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds .
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Bing just took over maps and search on your BlackBerry as part of Microsoft's crazy-quilt strategy to gain a toehold in the smartphone game. But fallen giant RIM makes for an odd partner. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to the stage at the BlackBerry World Conference today to announce a partnership with Canada's RIM, bringing MS tech to key parts of the BlackBerry smartphone experience.
Read More »Olive Garden’s Ad Campaign Backfires
We all have our chain restaurant guilty pleasures.
Read More »The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Media
01 / Univision > > For pleasing its Latino base, and threatening the TV network establishment. Univision reaches 95% of U.S. Hispanic households, making it one of the top five networks in any language.
Read More »Sayonara, Sardines: Tiny Fish Are Just As Vulnerable To Collapse As Large Ones
More than 70% of the world's fisheries are currently being harvested at capacity or are in decline, but fish are also delicious and quite good for you. What's a conscientious diner to do? The conventional wisdom has always been to avoid big fish at the top of the food chain--marlins, sharks, and tuna, for example--and focus on little fish, like sardines and anchovies, which have shorter lives and can reproduce more quickly.
Read More »Apple’s iMac Upgrade Plays It Very Safe With Hardware Tweaks (Again)
Yes, the company's signature desktop PC has a speedier set of guts and the new Thunderbolt connector. But has Steve Jobs's absence forced Apple to scale back on innovation? Apple just upgraded its iMac signature desktop PC with a speedier set of guts and the new Thunderbolt connector.
Read More »How to Use Game Mechanics to Reward Your Customers
There's a green card . Then there's silver, gold, and platinum
Read More »The Secret Weapons Of Syrian Protesters: Pen Cameras
Protesters have developed a novel way of smuggling information to the outside world: trading in their mobile camera phones for small, discreet pen cameras. While Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria has not been engaging in violence on a Qadaffi-like scale, snipers have reportedly fired on peaceful protesters and civilian casualties were reported in several cities recently.
Read More »"Osama Bin Laden" Gets No Love On Google AdWords
"Osama Bin Laden" was tops in Google search yesterday. But not in search advertising, where not a single seller stepped into the void. Web 2.0 was alive and popping on Monday in the wake of the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed
Read More »Echo Nest, Teaming With Rdio, Brings Next-Level Beats
What happens when you mash up an MIT spun-out music metadata company with a Skype-backed music subscription service? The future of music. A partnership has just been struck that could change the way you listen to music
Read More »iFive: Another Sony Hack, Amazon’s Tablet Details, Ubisoft’s Film Division, Intel As Apple’s Factory, Twitter Buys TweetDeck
1. Sony's woes are deepening: Sony Online Entertainment has also been breached , as well as the PSN, and over 24.6 million user accounts are affected. It's early days, but Sony thinks over 12,000 credit cards have been compromised one way or another and personal info on the millions of other users may include addresses, names, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords
Read More »Arab Air: How The Middle East Is Rewiring Our Friendly Skies
Illustrations by Catalogtree One new hub of global air travel is in the Middle East.
Read More »Where Does Your Computer Go When It Dies?
When you take your computer or cell phone back to the store to be "recycled," do you have any idea what actually happens to it?
Read More »The Start-Up Recipe
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Your start-up, Julia Child-style.
Read More »Interviewing Geoffrey Moore: How to Find Your Economic Sweet Spot
This article is part 7 of an 8 part series. Read part 6 here . Geoffrey Moore’s latest book, Dealing with Darwin , addresses how to achieve innovation at each stage of a company’s development.
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