Flipboard's Storyboard Advertising Product Crunches The Purchase Funnel Onto One ScreenForbes - Will BurnsSmartWool, one of the first to try Flipboard Storyboards. (Photo credit: Flipboard) Flipboard today launched a new advertising product called “Storyboard” that promises to allow users of its popular magazine-style
Think Like a Software Developermedium.com - Geoffrey Grosenbach More than lines of code, it’s the mental approach that matters The learn to code movement has convinced many people across all professions that they …
The Shape of Things to ComeThe New Yorker - Ian ParkerIn recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has a bench-pressing bulk that he carries a sheepishly,
A world without work is coming – it could be utopia or it could be hellThe Guardian - Ryan AventRobots will eventually do all our jobs, but we need to start planning to avert social collapse Most of us have wondered what we might do if we didn’t need to work – if we woke up one morning to discover
Microsoft really does love LinuxThe Verge - Tom WarrenWhat a difference 15 years makes. Back in 2001, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was busy branding Linux "a cancer" during the height of the software giant's domination of desktop computing. Fast forward
JavaScript Conquered the Web. Now It’s Taking Over the DesktopWIRED - Klint Finley JavaScript was originally created in 1995 to give web pages a little more pep than the tag could provide. Today it has far more powerful …
Why Luck Plays a Big Role in Making You RichBloomberg - Ben Steverman Robert Frank was playing tennis one cold Saturday morning in Ithaca, N.Y., when his heart stopped. Sudden cardiac arrest—a short-circuit in the …
5 Topics for…Google I/OInside Flipboard - Gabriella SchwarzGoogle’s top executives will take to the Shoreline Amphitheatre stage Wednesday for Google I/O, the internet giant’s biggest event of the year. Announcements are expected surrounding virtual reality, area
Goldman Sachs launches GS Bank, an Internet bank with a $1 minimum depositTechCrunch - Fitz TepperGoldman Sachs has traditionally functioned like a run-of-the-mill investment bank. Minimums to open an account were in the range of $10 million, and returns were not guaranteed. While that will still true
Facebook might soon let you earn money from your postsTNW - Abhimanyu GhoshalWith the launch of Instant Articles for publishers to deliver content and ads more quickly on mobile, Facebook made it clear that it was serious about monetizing content. A new user survey from the company,
Sean Parker is on a mission to solve cancerTechCrunch - Sarah BuhrSean Parker, the self-made billionaire who, at the tender age of 19, sparked the digital music revolution, has been at the forefront of some of the most meaningful disruptions of our day from file sharing
What’s Worse than a Difficult Conversation? Avoiding One.Harvard Business Review - Deborah RowlandAs a leader, how can you confront the truth about a situation without fearing rejection, or disagree with someone clearly and cleanly without obsessing about causing offense? I have been an executive major
Stem cells restore sight in rabbits and humansCNET - by Michelle Starr In two different studies, stem cells have been used to regenerate parts of the eye and restore sight to both blind rabbits and blind humans.
