Delivering news digitally in a personalized manner is a nut many a startup – as well as many established Internet companies and publishers – are desperately trying to crack. A newly-founded Palo Alto startup called Hawthorne Labs is one of them. Today, the company released their first application, dubbed APOLLO, for the iPad (iTunes link [...]

It’s easy to say that online education can never capture the full experience of being in a classroom, the one-on-one chats with the teacher, the face-to-face bonding with classmates, the simplicity of raising your hand when you have a question. Opening a chat window or sending an email just doesn’t compare. The question is: How [...]

It’s been exactly one month after Diaspora, which aims to become an open Facebook alternative (much like OneSocialWeb and others) raised just over 0,000 in funding from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others through Kickstarter. Since then, it’s been quiet, but the team of four NYU students has been making some progress in actually building [...]

Article Marketing: How to Build an Empire Writing Five Articles a Month Do you offer a truly brilliant product or service? Do you wish you had more leads to sell it to? Do you need to drive more revenue so you have cash on hand to spend on implementing better and better ideas, or to [...]

Meena wants to become a computer engineer. She believes that if she works hard enough, she can build her own “big business”—maybe a Google. So she is determined to complete her schooling and earn an engineering degree. Young girls like Meena, just 16 years old but with the ambition and confidence to enter the tech [...]

Use Article Marketing to Build Expert Status in the Regression Market Building a reputation as an expert is essential for a successful article marketing campaign. It’s not enough to write an article, submit the article to directory site and hope that customers click on your back links to learn more about you. You must sell [...]

Use Article Marketing to Build Expert Status to Work in the Regression Market Building a reputation as an expert is essential for a successful article marketing campaign. It’s not enough to write an article, submit the article to directory site and hope that customers click on your back links to learn more about you. You [...]

Editor’s note: The following guest post is written by Larry Chiang, author of What They Don’t Teach you At Stanford Business School and an advisor to the new Stanford Student Startup Lab. STANFORD, CA—Here on campus, a couple of undergrads successfully built their own Y Combinator. It launches today. It’s called SSE Labs and it [...]

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a lot of interesting things to say tonight at the D8 Conference. But to me, one of the most interesting topics he talked about was only brought up by a question from the audience: Apple TV. We all know that Apple considers the device a “hobby,” and tonight Jobs explained [...]