Amazon Fans Its Kindle Fire Flames With Apps. Ahead of its arrival next week, Amazon is making an effort to promote its Kindle Fire by mentioning it'll have "several thousand" apps available, including "Facebook, Pandora, Netflix, ...READ»
CNN paid $20 million for personalized iPad magazine Zite this week. But if you use it, odds are you won't get CNN's original news. So what's CNN getting for its money? READ»
Great strategists win by seeing options that others ignore. They approach the game with a different playbook. A look at Steve Case's approach to business, and how it can help you succeed. READ»
The iPad magazine looks gorgeous and works about as well as Zite, Flipboard, et. al. It even understands if you're not into AOL content. And it's cool with that. Why? Its creators, David Temkin and Sol Lipman explain.READ»
Aw, look at the cute baby! Coloring in the lines! Riding that trike with ease! Looping those shoelaces into bunny ears! You're all grown up now, Twitter!READ»
AOL is flexing yet another of its gooey tentacles to get a grip on a market: It's partnering with Slacker Radio for streaming Net radio. Pandora? Look out.READ»
A few months back, the White House announced the creation of Startup America, a public-private partnership to accelerate entrepreurialism in the U.S., chaired by AOL cofounder Steve Case. Now Case's old business partner, former Time ...READ»
San Francisco design agency Studio O+A has sent us images of its new West Coast headquarters for AOL in Palo Alto and -- hold on to your foosball tables -- it doesn’t completely suck!
We say that not because Studio O+A sucks. The ...READ»
Artists love to portray technology as the villain, as a force for evil that makes short work of our humanity. (Call it the Hal Effect.) Matt Pyke isn’t one of them. The artist -- who, it should be noted, works out of a log cabin in ...READ»
Skype has unveiled a happy, neato, fun-fun office in Stockholm for 100 of its happy, neato, fun-fun employees. Designed by Sweden's own PS Arkitektur, the design revamps the inside of an old brewery with soft, poofy furniture and ...READ»
As the saying goes: "There's no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." Similarly events that make news keep happening. So here's our early summary of that news.READ»
To join an email list before 1986, users had to wait for someone to painstakingly adjust the code to include them. For Eric Thomas, that was too uncomputerized for a computerized system.READ»
Last week at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, I had the pleasure of meeting Blair Cobb, the Director of AOL Cause Marketing. Their new AOL365 program is exactly the type of for-profit and non-profit partnership that I describe in We First as a critical path to a more sustainable and prosperous future.READ»
1. AOL is expected to lay off between 400 and 500 people in the U.S. today (about 8-10% of its staff), as part of its push to make itself more profitable. The content side of AOL is likely to take the biggest hit, due to the new ...READ»
In a blog posting late yesterday Google announced it had tweaked its search algorithms--trying to improve its ranking accuracy, and affecting trillions of search queries. It's good for Google, but it may actually be terrible for a number of other businesses.READ»
