Will iPhone 5 Chatter Hurt Apple's Sales?
Posted by PCWorld
Will consumers hold off on purchasing a new iPhone because they think the iPhone 5 is coming out?[...]
Continue ReadingDeath To Powerpoint! Piccsy Rethinks The Pitchdeck, Gets Tons Of Pageviews
Posted by TechCrunch
Your Powerpoint pitchdeck is so boring. So. Freaking. Boring. Although tech bloggers aren’t sent startup’s actual pitchdecks as often as investors are (thankfully), we’re still walked through them on dreadful, “let me read to you from my Powerpoint” phone calls more often than should be socially acceptable. That’s why when image aggregator Piccsy, which is simultaneously a competitor to Pinterest as well as a top 20 content source for the site, pinged us to take a look at its pitch deck, we were pleasantly surprised. A pitchdeck that’s actually fun to read? Can such a thing exist?
Piccsy.com/investors hosts the company’s public pitchdeck, and[...]
Continue ReadingPiccsy.com/investors hosts the company’s public pitchdeck, and[...]
Yahoo! Licenses Platform To Reach Out To The Arab Web
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We’re currently used to more drama-oriented stories coming out of Yahoo!, but that doesn’t mean business hasn’t entirely halted there.
Yamli is a service which offers a smart Arabic keyboard that allows users who type in Latin characters to find -in real-time – the most accurate equivalent Arabic term. It debuted in 2007 but has become an important part of a market which serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The platform also offers services to help navigating the ‘Arabic web’.
Today Yahoo has acquired a license to use Yamli for its Arabic service, Yahoo! Maktoob, which will see it integrate Yamli’s existing technologies into a new product[...]
Continue ReadingYamli is a service which offers a smart Arabic keyboard that allows users who type in Latin characters to find -in real-time – the most accurate equivalent Arabic term. It debuted in 2007 but has become an important part of a market which serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The platform also offers services to help navigating the ‘Arabic web’.
Today Yahoo has acquired a license to use Yamli for its Arabic service, Yahoo! Maktoob, which will see it integrate Yamli’s existing technologies into a new product[...]
Windows 8 gesture controls will make you forget about the mouse (hands on)
Posted by VentureBeat
The upcoming Windows 8 operating system has some serious challenges ahead of it. In changing how Windows has fundamentally worked since Windows 95, some consumers are looking at this new OS and thinking it’s too radical a change.
But in playing with the just-launched Windows 8 Release Preview on a laptop with still-in-beta gesture controls, I’m starting to like Windows 8 better and beginning to see how Microsoft could convince more people to adopt it.
Release Preview is the next-to-last version of the OS that developers and the public will be able to try out before the full Windows 8 version launches. If you’ve read about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, then you know what y[...]
Continue ReadingBut in playing with the just-launched Windows 8 Release Preview on a laptop with still-in-beta gesture controls, I’m starting to like Windows 8 better and beginning to see how Microsoft could convince more people to adopt it.
Release Preview is the next-to-last version of the OS that developers and the public will be able to try out before the full Windows 8 version launches. If you’ve read about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, then you know what y[...]
Internet-obsessed Gen Y is changing traditional HR practices
Posted by VentureBeat
Those who belong to Generation Y — teens and twenty-somethings, including myself – are shaking up human resource departments, according to data from Salesforce Rypple. Young professionals born in the 80s and 90s are much more social than previous generations, are obsessed with their laptops, and hold the Internet on a high pedestal.
Twenty-something employees have flocked to social networks to connect with our coworkers and superiors. Seven in 10 Facebook users have friended a coworker or supervisor and 68 percent of Twitter users have followed a coworker or superior. I can attest to this as I’m friends with and follow many of my coworkers and my boss.
One in three college[...]
Continue ReadingTwenty-something employees have flocked to social networks to connect with our coworkers and superiors. Seven in 10 Facebook users have friended a coworker or supervisor and 68 percent of Twitter users have followed a coworker or superior. I can attest to this as I’m friends with and follow many of my coworkers and my boss.
One in three college[...]
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