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Flipboard's Storyboard Advertising Product Crunches The Purchase Funnel Onto One Screen
Forbes - Will Burns
Flipboard today launched a new advertising product called “Storyboard” that promises to allow users of its popular magazine-style media reader to dive deeper into the advertising, if they want to. Users
Think Like a Software Developer
medium.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 Come
The New Yorker - Ian Parker
How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product. I. Launch Day In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in
A world without work is coming – it could be utopia or it could be hell
The Guardian - Ryan Avent
Robots 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 Linux
The Verge - Tom Warren
Redmond has truly embraced the open source community What 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
JavaScript Conquered the Web. Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop
WIRED - Klint Finley
Author: Klint Finley. Klint Finley Business Date of Publication: 05.12.16. Time of Publication: 7:00 am. 7:00 am JavaScript was originally created in …
Why Luck Plays a Big Role in Making You Rich
Bloomberg - 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/O
Inside Flipboard - Gabriella Schwarz
Google’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 deposit
TechCrunch
Goldman 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 posts
TNW - Abhimanyu Ghoshal
With 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,
What’s Worse than a Difficult Conversation? Avoiding One.
Harvard Business Review - Deborah Rowland
As 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 humans
CNET - by Michelle Starr
We've really only just begun to probe the potential of stem cells and the implications they will have on human health, but new research from two separate international teams shows that their potential