Some startups are changed when acquired by large vendors, while others don't change much at all. In the case of content-discovery service StumbleUpon, which was acquired by eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) in 2007 for $75 million, things haven't changed all that much.
StumbleUpon still uses open source too
read more
The stories of Webmasters earning six and seven-figure incomes continue to flood the Internet.
Everything always looks so polished and put together once success has arrived.
In fact, you may have even caught yourself thinking, “They make it look so easy!” or “Why can’t I do that?”
While th
read more
THIS time last year it looked as if Hillary Clinton's path to the Democratic nomination would be a cakewalk. She had the best brand-name in American politics. She controlled the Democratic establishment. She had money to burn and a double-digit lead in the opinion polls. And as the first American
read more
Sometime in March, 2008, Robert Szeleney tried to install and use a Linux distribution—Ubuntu 7.10. Well, it turned out to be "a disaster" according Mr. Szeleney. This story would not be surprising if not for the fact that Robert Szeleney is a very technically minded individual, you see, he is th
read more
How much computing power can you cram into a single desktop PC? In our research on image reconstruction we often have to perform large-scale scientific computations, which can easily take weeks on a normal PC. To tackle this problem, we have developed a special PC that is capable of performing our
read more
Apple (AAPL, news, msgs) will launch its newest version of the iPhone in the next few days or weeks. Nobody knows exactly when, but the best guess is somewhere between June 9 and July 15.
The new phone, designed to work on high-speed third-generation (3G) wireless networks, will shake up the wir
read more
Why are so many people so hostile to free markets?
Markets provide miracles that we take for granted. Clean, well-lighted supermarkets sell 30,000
read more
By reading was has been written by the media, one would have tought that Bill Gates was Godlike inside the Microsoft Corporation. Now we know better.
read more
|