Emerging headphones purveyor 50 Cent studied a predecessor closely before pressing play on his own venture. When Beats by Dre headphones debuted in 2008, the size of the $100-plus headphone market was a faint $92 million. Four years later, the good doctor's b-emblazoned earpieces have achieved near ubiquity, and the $100-plus segment has been cranked up to $512 million.
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I conduct many interviews via phone, such as with Clayton Christensen , Sunni Brown , MailChimp’s CEO Ben Chestnut , Adrian Slywotzky and Geoffrey Moore . I love phone interviews because I can learn a plethora of information from really interesting people in a fairly short period of time.
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By giving male mosquitoes a case of intense infertility (and counting on the females to not notice anything, um, missing from the experience), scientists hope they can prevent a second generation of bugs from spreading malaria.
Read More »5 Innovative Language-Learning Tools
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Read More »Coming Soon: Genetically Modified, Malaria-Fighting Mosquitoes
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Read More »Meridian’s New Desktop Audio System
This desktop audio system from British hi-fi staple Meridian comprises two separate components: the $3,000 Audio Core 200 stereo controller and the $6,000-per-pair DSP3200 loudspeakers.
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