LinkedIn's Data Guru's Second Act At Salesforce
This article contains an interview with DJ Patil, vice president of product at RelateIQ.Last month, Salesforce did something they're known for: They bought a company. But RelateIQ, which fetched the...
View ArticleEBay Is Running Its Own Sociology Experiments
This article contains an interview with Elizabeth Churchill, head of human-computer interaction at eBay Labs and executive vice president at ACM SIGCHI.For e-commerce giants like Amazon and eBay,...
View ArticleInside NYC's Bold Plan To Turn Payphones Into Wi-Fi Hotspots
This article contains interviews with Nicholas Sbordone, spokesman for the Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications, NYC Councilmember James Vacca, chair of the Technology...
View ArticleThese Delivery Startups Are Racing To Build The Best ETA Engine On The Block
This story contains interviews with Lyft's VP of Data Science Chris Pouliot, SpoonRocket CTO Anson Tsui and Factual's Tyler Bell.For services that deliver products and people across town, efficiency is...
View ArticleBieree, The Smartphone-Controlled Beer Brewer
This story contains an interview with Leo Estevez, founder of Leo Innovations, LLC, and creator of Bieree.The key to perfecting a good home brew is monitoring and recording the temperature of the beer...
View ArticleFive Reasons Amazon's Fire Phone Is A Comical Failure
Amazon's new Fire phone got us pretty psyched when it was first announced. But now that we've spent some time with it, the Fire phone is a nightmare in the hand. Not every facet is a disaster, but...
View ArticleCan Hackers Help Save North Korea?
This post contains interviews with Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation, Alex Lloyd of Accelerator Ventures, and Park Sang-Hak.North Korea has been called the world's most inhospitable place...
View ArticleThis Heads-Up Display For Your Car Has One Big Flaw
Back when the iOS App Store was in its infancy, developers were experimenting with all sorts of wacky apps. One of those was meant to turn your phone into a heads-up display (HUD) by placing it on the...
View ArticleThe Race To Be The Ultimate Siri Killer
This article contains an interview with Tim Tuttle, CEO of Expect Labs.If you watch TV, you've probably seen the Microsoft commercials that take potshots at Siri. Ditto from Google, pushing Google Now....
View ArticleWho Really Controls The Wearable Tech Market?
This story contains interviews with Michael Dering, CEO of Valencell; Steven LeBoeuf, president and cofounder of Valencell; and Jason Krikorian, general partner at DCM.Sensor technology, more than...
View ArticleHow To Hack A Sonos Sound System To Terrify Your Friends
This story features an interview with independent developer Aaron Gotwalt.In the dead of night, you awake to the sound of a creaking door. Upon finally falling back asleep, a dish smashes to the floor...
View ArticleHow To Use Data Science In Your Publicity Campaign
This article includes an interview with Spokepoint cofounder Dan Siegel.Most advertising is all about statistics. But when it comes to getting press, most companies still use traditional "PR," personal...
View ArticleYour iPhone Camera Can Work As A Microscope
This article contains an interview with Jing Luo, creator of the Catalyst Frame.A small startup in the Bay Area is working on a development which could revolutionize scientific research: Cheap,...
View ArticleHow Recording From The Road Is Changing The Music Industry
This story includes interviews with recording engineer Warren Huart; co founder of SoundBetter Shachar Gilad; CMO of Musistic Joel Halpern; founder and CEO of FreshSessions Dan Miller; and cofounder of...
View ArticleHow Open Source Helped Segment.io Grow A Healthier Company
This article includes interviews with Segment.io's Calvin French-Owen, Diana Smith, and Ian Storm Taylor.Segment.io builds tools to help companies more easily connect their websites to analytics and...
View ArticleThis Is Going To Change How You Listen To Music Forever
This article contains interviews with Dr. Lior Shamir, associate professor at Lawrence Technological University; Nick Meaney, CEO of Epagogix; and Alexis Kirke, permanent research fellow in Music at...
View ArticleInside The Bizarre Phenomenon Known As "Glitch Art"
This story contains interviews with Paul Hertz, independent arts curator; and Nick Briz, Chicago glitch artist and co-organizer of the online glitch art repository 0p3nr3p0.International artists that...
View ArticleHow This Algorithm Detected The Ebola Outbreak Before Humans Could
This story features an interview with HealthMap cofounder Clark Freifeld.When an infectious disease starts spreading, it seldom takes its time. And when that infection is called Ebola, any delay in...
View ArticleAre You Fluent In Emoji?
If someone adds a happy face to the end of a text message, you know what it connotes. But what about messages without any text, only little yellow faces? Can people really communicate exclusively in...
View ArticleVisualize Your Favorite Music... On Your Shirt
This story contains interviews with Madison Maxey, CTO at Crated.If you're in to wearables, techno, and raves then you're going to want to check out the new Sync shirt created by Crated, a design...
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