While you slept, Justin Bieber’s fans supposedly used 3% of Twitter’s server infrastructure . Twitter did not confirm the claim, it was an overheard utterance from “a guy who works at Twitter” that was picked up by dozens of news outlets after being posted on–where else?– Twitter
While the U.S. holidayed for Labor Day , the rest of the world just …
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iFive: Craigslist Fallout, Samsung’s iPad, IBM’s Super-fast chip, Google China Warning, Mark Hurd Lands at Oracle
Remember yesterday, when I said that you can all stop freaking out about those 100 million “hacked” Facebook profiles? Well, I wasn’t wrong, but the number of major corporations who have been shown to have downloaded that data is big and scary enough to be slightly worrisome. The data collected was public, of course–all of these corporations could have just found this data on Google.
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Major Companies Are Downloading the Data From Those 100 Million Public Facebook Profiles
As figures for the lobbying spend of Q2 of 2010 were released, all eyes were on Google . With a total of $1.34 million over the past three months, it’s definitely an increase, as Consumer Watchdog will tell you
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Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Others Join Google in Big Lobby Spending
On Tuesday, IBM CEO and chairman Sam Palmisano unwrapped the second phase of its already-ubiquitious “Smarter Planet” campaign, pronouncing the 2010s ” the decade of smart .” His premise: this is the decade in which everything will have processors and sensors in it, everything will be connected via the “Internet of Things,” and IBM will reap billions by advising governments on how to make sense of the corresponding data glut, courtesy of the analytical engines it’s spent tens of billions to acquire or build. Speaking in London at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Palmisano reflected on the first year of the campaign, in which IBM signed multi-year, multi-hundred million dollar contracts to manage London’s traffic-congestion system, integrate New York’s crime-data systems, and reduce Shenyang, China’s carbon emissions by 10%, among many others. IBM created 1,200 “smart solutions” for customers in all, he boasted, four times his original target
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IBM’s Decade of Smart: Making Money by Making Sense of Data
GOOD magazine issued a challenge to its design-savvy readers last month, calling for infographics that “explore how much corporate officers in this country are paid,” and using illustration and design to describe data like company profits, stock price, and salaries of CEOs versus lower-level workers. Dee Adams took the top honors with the infographic above, which will appear in print in the next issue of GOOD. According to the judges, “Adams’s piece does an excellent job of illustrating the massive salaries of CEOs and relating them to regular employees in a clean and simple manner.” The comparison of CEO salaries to the percentage of minimum wage earners those salaries could support is an sharp-edged take on the issue
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Infographic of the Day: How Much Does Your Company’s CEO Make? Per Hour?
Why market your company with stick-on emotion when you can tap the real thing?
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Why Market Your Company With Stick-on Emotion When You Can Tap the Real Thing?
The Oracle of Omaha turns 79 today, but he’s not slowing down. Though an economy like this one hurts everyone, Buffett’s done quite well following his own oft-repeated advice: “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” Case in point: In September, when the wheels were really coming off this economy, Buffett dodged the thousands jumping ship at Goldman Sachs to climb aboard the listing investment bank
What do you get when you create a company backed by green venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins and former Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens
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V-Vehicle: An Auto Start-Up from T. Boone Pickens and Kleiner Perkins
What do you get when you create a company backed by green venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins and former Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens?
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V-Vehicle: An Auto Start-Up from T. Boone Pickens and Kleiner Perkins