If only online ads were more targeted, Duggal says, everyone would be happy. “We believe that if we can show more relevant ads, it’ll be more useful for users. They will be less inclined to block them, we will have to show fewer ads, advertisers will be willing to spend more for each ad.… Read the rest
The potential market for group messaging is enormous—in theory, as big as the current market for email. “I communicate through company email about 0 times a day now thanks to @SlackHQ,” reads another typical tweet about Slack. In a market so vast, there are plenty of other companies challenging Slack for a piece of the pie.… Read the rest
Even managers who don’t think they are biased may be—and just their word choices can send a signal. A new wave of artificial intelligence companies aims to spot nuanced biases in workplace language and behavior in order to root them out.… Read the rest
The best CEOs are the ones who build the management capacity that allows the company to run without them. Despite the perception that Apple’s fate was inextricably linked to that of Steve Jobs, the company has continued to thrive since his untimely departure.… Read the rest
Hitachi today introduced a system that promises to predict where and when crime is likely to occur by ingesting a panoply of data, from historical crime statistics to public transit maps, from weather reports to social media chatter. Hitachi says that “about half a dozen” U.S.… Read the rest
Imagine Uber and Waze had a baby, who grew up and married Foodspotting.
Premise, which gathers real-world economic data by paying people to snap photos and record prices of products in their local markets using the company’s free Android app, just raised $50 million dollars in new investment.… Read the rest
If you haven’t heard of group messaging services, you will soon, most likely because of massive hype about Slack—the current superstar of the tech world. Debuting in early 2014, Slack has eclipsed, at least in the public eye, the former hot messaging app, nearly six-year-old HipChat.… Read the rest
Wearing jeans and a plaid shirt, the cofounder and CEO of CloudFlare, an Internet edge service provider (more on what that means later), describes a grand vision of sweeping changes in the Internet infrastructure market, with much of it sliding over to Amazon.… Read the rest
Conor Russomanno, a self-described neurohacker, asks me to close my eyes and relax. After a few seconds, he tells me later, the screen showed a slight spike at around 10 Hz—a rise in the alpha waves that indicates a restful state.… Read the rest
Apple just ripped off Roku as blatantly as Android ripped off iOS. But Apple has built by far the best Roku Player ever. Despite—or perhaps because of—being a copycat, Apple has a very good chance of winning the Internet-streaming box war.… Read the rest
