The death of traditional retailers.
Sarah Lacy, founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily spoke with Marc Andreessen yesterday about ShoeDazzle’s rapid decline and subsequent rapid turn-around, She asked Andreessen if he has seen anything quite so dramatic in the startup world.
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DARPA plans to pre-select the smartest recruits using newly available brain-scanning methods.
Long before Rin Tin Tin, dogs have been been an important part of military operations—from bomb-sniffing to supply-delivery. But training military working dogs is an expensive and time-consuming process. Anyone who’s spent any time trying to get a dog to even follow the “sit” command knows that some dogs are sharper than others.
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Facebook made two pennies per user per month.
A billion people offer their two cents every month to Facebook, literally. That’s about how much income Facebook generated per user each month over the last quarter.
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Traditional retailers are successfully using mobile apps to attract the lion’s share of consumer attention. The retailers’ share of consumer time spent in shopping apps grew to 27 percent of the total in December, up from 15 percent a year prior, according to Flurry.
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Online education will have an enormous transformative impact on billions of people around the world.
The single most important technological development of the millennium is the advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs). The first reason it is so important is the enormously transformative impact MOOCs can have on literally billions of people in the world. And the second reason is for the equally disruptive effect MOOCs will inevitably have on the global education industry.
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The process of creating art can take less than an hour or go well into extra innings, extending across years as the artist returns to a work that isn’t complete. Da Vinci’s beguiling Mona Lisa was a work in progress when he died.
Raymond Alvarez: Professionals and students alike may wonder what interest an artist/writer has in learning Ruby on Rails. My quick answer is it can’t hurt. The real answer is coming to me.
The State Grid Corporation of China is running the smart-grid project using passive optical networking technology.
Smart-grid technology testing has begun in China hat could eventually be deployed nationwide to make the delivery of electricity more reliable and efficient. It might also serve as a way to deliver high-speed Internet, TV, and telephony to the farthest reaches of the country.
A new Pew Internet reporttakes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer — and what they say they would use in the future.
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Facebook took a look at football fandom across the country as the Super Bowl gets closer.
The National Football League is one of the most popular sports in America with some incredibly devoted fans. At Facebook we have about 35 million account holders in the United States who have Liked a page for one of the 32 teams in the league, representing one of the most comprehensive samples of sports fanship ever collected. Put another way, more than 1 in 10 Americans have declared their support for an NFL team on Facebook.
Pictured with Bigelow is a BA 330 module, similar in function to what the new Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will be.
Robert Bigelow is a hotel ans aerospace entrepreneur, He got rich off budget hotel suites that start at $189 a week. Now they are funding his dream of building inflatable space habitats with rates topping $400,000 a day.
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Americans prefer the iPhone over Android.
Americans overwhelmingly prefer iPhone over Android while the rest of the world has overwhelmingly embraced Android. According to IDC, Android has a 75% market share in smartphones, versus 15% for Apple, worldwide. But in the U.S. the iPhone still rules. Sixty-three percent of smartphone sales at Verizon and 84% of smartphone sales at AT&T are the iPhone.
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Watsi.org co-founders.
Is there a difference between building a successful for-profit and nonprofit startup? Not much, according to Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, there isn’t much of a difference. Y Combinator is an elite accelerator program in Mountain View, Calif., that accepted a nonprofit for the first time this month, Watsi.org. “You could never tell there was a nonprofit mixed in,” he said in a phone interview recently.
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