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The Rise Of Fake News Amidst The Fall Of News Media
The Fake News epidemic is a direct result of our continued failure to create a stable business model around professional news media. We seem to have forgotten that the news media sector continues to be...
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The #FakeNews Effect On Commerce And Critical Thinking
The issue of fake news is extremely serious and it requires immediate attention. Its proliferation will undermine trust in everything. Everything will look fake. Including the truth.Without reliable...
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The Summer Of Love - Photos And Stories - SF Leads In Culture Not Just Tech
The California Historical Society has opened a Summer of Love photo exhibit and is collecting people’s stories about this very important cultural event.To riff on the famous call to action voiced by...
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Do No Evil, Google And The Year Of The Monkey...
According to the Chinese zodiac Google became a public company in the year of the Monkey, in August 2004.In Western culture we are familiar with the story of the three monkeys who very wisely: see no...
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The Crunchies: An Aspirational Fantasy Of Startup Diversity; Plus Chelsea...
Chelsea Peretti (above) a comedic actress, introduced the 10th Annual Crunchies — awards celebrating startups and VCs in Silicon Valley — and managed some decent jokes poking fun at the techie audience...
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Silicon Valley Innovators Warned About Hyperscale Tech Companies
We are in an era of “Hyperscale companies” such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple that limit opportunities for startups warns Sam Altman, head of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s...
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The Limits Of Persuasive Realities: Hacking The Brain Stem With VR Marketing...
Successful technologies start life by being good enough to be useful. Could some technologies become unbelievably good at what they do—and become too good to be used?Todays marketing technologies have...
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S&P Teams With Girls in Tech To Launch Free Tech School For Females
S&P Global, a top financial services firm, has teamed with Girls in Tech to offer free online classes for 350 “girls and women around the world.”The eight-week course is focused on science,...
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The Endangered CMO: Survival Tips From Microsoft's Grad Conn
The average job tenure of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) continues to decline and is now less than half that of the CEO’s average of 7.2 years. It’s tough being a CMO in today’s fractured media...
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Alphabet/Google Q1 Fails To Reverse Ad Value Slide
Alphabet/Google announced first quarter financial results that beat Wall Street analyst estimates. But the jump in revenues hides a large problem.From Matthew Lynley at TechcrunchThe Google core...
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Spiceworks Survey Of IT Workers: Women Are Better Educated But Paid Less
Women in IT jobs are more likely to have a college degree than their male colleagues but are paid about 6 per cent less.The survey commissioned by Spiceworks, a professional network for IT workers,...
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Analysis: Facebook's 3,000 New Editors - Is it still a tech platform?
Timothy Lee at Vox reports:Facebook is hiring 3,000 people to stop users from broadcasting murder and rapeFacebook has faced a string of incidents where users have filmed shocking events — like rape...
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More Bad News For Media Industry In KPCB Internet Report
There's no good news for media companies in the latest Internet Trends report from VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as Google and Facebook share an astounding 85% of all new Internet...
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Hertz Foundation: 6 Decades of Finding And Funding Top Scientific Talent
The SF/Bay Area based Hertz Foundation has found a way to surface the best young scientists and fund their work which accelerates the timeline for new breakthroughs. It’s attracted attention from the...
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The Future Will Be Voice Operated Only When Digital Assistants Learn To Use Apps
Our voice is important for Democracy… and in getting more productivity from our technologies.The future sounds a little like Cold War Eastern Europe as the digital assistants try to listen-in and...
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Elsevier Adds Fourth California Acquisition:
Elsevier, the European publishing giant has acquired Bepress, a 73 person academic publishing service based in Berkeley, California for an undisclosed amount as it expands its publishing, analytics and...
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Former Intel CEO Dies In His Sleep - Paul Otellini's Legacy
Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, the world’s second largest chipmaker, died in his sleep the company announced Tuesday - he was ten days shy of 67 years old.His retirement from Intel in May 2013...
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Chip Sales hit Record Levels - Costs Of Innovation Rise
Gordon Moore’s Law describes the economics of innovationDemand for chips is huge with chip prices jumping higher every month and shortages of key components such as memory halting product manufacturing...
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Innovative Ideas Will Eliminate $5bn In Costs Says General Electric
Ideas generated by General Electric’s workforce will produce more than $5 billion in production cost savings said Joshua Mook (above), engineering leader at GE speaking at a conference in San Francisco...
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$GOOG's X And The Science Of Media Distraction
The November issue of The Atlantic magazine celebrates its 160th anniversary with a cover story on a search for the Science of Creativity — “Inside Google’s Moonshot Factory”.The Atlantic's Senior...
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