Tag Archives: United States

Impact of Technological Skills on New Media Journalists

May 18, 2012   Sohail Qaisar

Last April, Facebook launched a ‘Journalists on Facebook’ page, intended to serve as a resource for growing number of reporters using Facebook for the purpose of finding sources, interaction with people and to publish stories. A couple of months…

HBS graduate launches bcalm, a drink to help us carry on in our hectic, always connected lives

May 18, 2012   Courtney Boyd Myers

In barely one generation we’ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them — often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect,…

The Webutante Ball Recap: The King, the Queen, Photos and more

May 17, 2012   Courtney Boyd Myers

For the tech and media elite who made it above 14th St last night for the 4th annual ‘Unruly’ Webutante Ball, I hope your hangover has finally started to subside. Last night’s big event, founded by Gawker TV head turned Thrillist…

On the eve of its IPO, Facebook likely to set share price at $38 – valuing the firm at $104 billion

May 17, 2012   Robin Wauters

Facebook appears set to price its highly anticipated initial public offering at $38 a share later today, according to the Wall Street Journal. That will probably – but not with utmost certainty – be the final IPO price at which…

White House’s cybersecurity chief calls it quits, adding uncertainty to current legislative gridlock

May 17, 2012   Alex Wilhelm

The White House today lost its key cybersecurity official, who intends on returning to ‘private life,’ The Hill reports.
Moments ago we brought you news covering the current status of cybersecurity legislation in Congress, a critical topic as the bills…

Meet the 8 promising startups presenting at COMMON Pitch Milwaukee: American Innovation

May 17, 2012   Harrison Weber
Meet the 8 promising startups presenting at COMMON Pitch Milwaukee: American Innovation

Back in December we wrote about COMMON, a creative community for accelerating social change, and COMMON Pitch NYC. That event highlighted the brightest ideas for collaborative consumption — the ways social technologies help us to borrow, share and trade everything we need.
Since April, COMMON…

US cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure remain mired in politics

May 17, 2012   Alex Wilhelm

If you recall, one of the points argued on behalf of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was that it was required, from a policy perspective, to keep the most important elements of the US’s infrastructure safe from those…

Square (ex-)employees take to Quora, Glassdoor to heavily discuss its growing pains

May 17, 2012   Robin Wauters

Working for an ambitious, fast-growing startup is very, very tough. Working for digital payment company Square may be even more gruesome than very, very tough, if a good number of reviews on Glassdoor and this Quora thread are anything…

US Senator investigates Google, NASA over use of private airfield for company jets

May 17, 2012   Matt Brian

A deal between Google and NASA is to be investigated by US Senator Charles Grassley over ‘benefits’ the search giant’s have enjoyed following its use of NASA’s Moffett Federal Airfield in California to store and operate its fleet of Google…

Confirmed: Pinterest raises $100 million from Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, previous backers

May 17, 2012   Robin Wauters

After we broke the news that visual bookmarking and curation site Pinterest was about to announce a big funding round, with AllThingsD following up with the name of (the only) new backer Rakuten, the Japanese ecommerce giant this morning confirmed…

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