Fer Gregory/Shutterstock One of the assurances I keep hearing about the U.S. government's spying on American citizens is that it's only used in cases of terrorism. Terrorism is, of course, an extraord
The best way to get a job is to know someone who works there, or know someone who knows someone. That’s how I got the job at Exec – A mutual friend made the intro to the Exec team. But…
Dame Stella accused ministers of interfering with people’s privacy and playing straight into the hands of terrorists. “Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of th
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . September 2012 I've done several types of work over the years but I don't knowanother as counterintuitive as startup investing. The two most impor
About five years ago I lived downtown in a major city in the US. I've always been a night person, so I would often find myself bored after my roommate, who was decidedly not a night person, went to sl
As part of its announcement of the new-look Maps app for Android today, Google slipped in some other news. Latitude , the social location-sharing service that launched in February 2009, is to be retir
Thirty independent community news sites have banded together to tell the world, in effect, “We are not Patch.” The project, called Authentically Local , includes such well-known sites as Baristanet ,
What the car-hailing service Uber likes to call “surge pricing” makes a lot of sense as a way of managing the supply of cars: during periods of high demand, the company boosts the price of a ride book
Fred Wilson, at a recent PandoMonthly, called Foursquare " Maps with people in them ." Maybe if this were 2009 it would be. But I'm forced to disagree with the iconic venture capitalist. Foursquare is
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