Whether you love him , hate him , or are just a little jealous of his newly minted multi-billionaire status, you have to admit that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook , has made some visionary leadership moves. In less than 10 years, Zuckerberg’s taken an idea for an online social network from his Harvard dorm room and delivered it into the homes, offices, pockets, and purses (via mobile phones) of 845 million users around the world. Last year, more than half of Facebook’s users logged in every single day, spending a whopping 4 hours and 35 minutes posting, reading updates, and “liking” more than 2 billion posts a day
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Most would say you'd have to be crazy. But this Chinese gadgetmaker proves being crazy can make you $100 million a year
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Sometimes, "perfect" can be a problem. Here's how to make your company more nimble. We have a common saying in my company: You can either be slow and perfect or fast and good
Read More »Get Faster & More Flexible: 5 Tips
Sometimes, "perfect" can be a problem. Here's how to make your company more nimble. We have a common saying in my company: You can either be slow and perfect or fast and good
Read More »Social Clicks: Sounds Associated with African Languages Are Common in English
Some Africans click, but English speakers don’t. That’s been the conventional wisdom about click sounds, which serve as regular consonants in Zulu and Xhosa and a few other African languages but which were presumed to just be used in English for encouraging a horse, imitating a kiss, or expressing emotions such as disapproval or amazement. But researchers have recently found that clicks are far more prevalent in the world’s lingua franca than had been thought.
Read More »Temperatures–Not Acid–Could Cook Coral to Death
One of the biggest natural tragedies of recent years is the deterioration of Australia's Great Barrier Reef , a vast structure of coral off the continent's east coast that supports a profusion of wildlife.
Read More »Temperatures–Not Acid–Could Cook Coral to Death
One of the biggest natural tragedies of recent years is the deterioration of Australia's Great Barrier Reef , a vast structure of coral off the continent's east coast that supports a profusion of wildlife. In addition to overfishing and nutrient pollution, the world's largest natural structure has suffered from rising ocean temperatures. But, perhaps less well known, Australia's west coast has some massive reefs of its own, offshore in the southeastern Indian Ocean.
Read More »5 Alternative Ways to Get Your Story Told
The best business story might not get noticed by the top publications, but there are plenty of other ways to get it published. If you are starting a company , one of your goals is probably to get written about in an influential media outlet in your space.
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Read More »Indonesia to Set Up $5.6 billion Palm Oil and Rubber Firm
By Janeman Latul and Fathiya Dahrul JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government plans to create one of the world's largest palm oil and rubber firms in March by combining state planters with total assets of $5.6 billion, a government minister told Reuters on Thursday. [More]
Read More »Inside Facebook’s S-1 Filing: 845 Million Users, $3.7 Billion In Revenues In 2011
The day has finally come as many has long predicted and hoped: Facebook today filed its S1 registration . We're combing through the numbers at present--we'll update as we get a better grasp on the figures--but here are the initial highlights. Net income for 2011 reached $1 billion in 2011, on revenue of $3.7 billion, up from $606 million on revenues of $1.97 billion in 2010
Read More »Website Smackdown: Mayo Clinic vs. Cleveland Clinic
Two of the country's most respected hospitals: Which one has mastered the art -- and science -- of great website design? In this week's Website Smackdown, I’m taking a look at the websites for two of the biggest hospital complexes in the world, the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic.
Read More »La Maison du Chocolat’s Seductive Valentine’s Treats
This Valentine’s Day, La Maison du Chocolat is thinking outside the heart-shaped box with four new chocolate confections handcrafted with exotic fruits, spices, and cocoa beans from around the world.
Read More »Private Spacecrafts Are Your Transportation, Your Scientists, And Your Real Estate Brokers
In the absence of NASA's Space Shuttle Program, private companies are left to fill the black hole of space exploration. Now, 50 years after John Glenn orbited the Earth, some very different kinds of explorers are leading the way. 1.
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