DarkList Links Silk-Road-Style Drug Dealers


When the Department of Justice took down the anonymous, Bitcoin-based narcotics bazaar known as the Silk Road in October, the dark web drug market didn’t disappear. It splintered into smaller markets...

Top 10 Super Bowl Ads From The Past Decade selected by Kellogg School Of Management


This article is by Tim Calkins and Derek Rucker, Kellogg School of Management. Calkins is clinical professor of marketing and Rucker is the Sandy...

How the Duolingo Founders Offered Free Education To Millions


As stars fill the night sky in Veracruz, Mexico, 23-year-old Uziel Alejandro López kicks back at home to play on his Android smartphone. His thumbs breeze over the brightly colored screen, but this...

Contact Lenses to Measure Glucose Levels


With the refined diet and packaged unnatural foods of today’s supermarket culture, diabetes is a menace. It plagues about one out of every 20 people on the planet. Like its twin disease of obesity,...

Exploiting Unconventional Oil Fields Need Overcoming of Tough Logistics Challenges


Unconventional oil and gas production is a huge factor in the US.  “Unconventionals” – which include shale gas, shale oil, and tight gas sands – accounted for over 8.5 trillion cubic feet of...

Google and the Social CRM Business


Relax, CRM vendors. Google is not getting into the customer relationship management business (CRM) anytime soon. But they should. Google seems to understand the Social CRM needs of small and medium...

Court Prods FCC In Unexpected Direction In Last Week’s Verizon Ruling


By Andy Oram A court ruling this past Tuesday on FCC “network neutrality” regulation closes and opens a few paths in a three-way chess game that has been going on for years between the US District...

If You Doubt That Social Media Has Changed The World, Take A Look At Ukraine


When the Arab Spring erupted in 2010, one of the first things people noticed was the very visible role social media seemed to play.  Many began to call the series of political uprisings “Twitter...
    






Should Digital Health Startups Prioritize Eyeballs or Revenue?


The good news, I guess, is that the well-worn “eyeballs versus revenue” debate – a dialog that has beset the tech world for years – has at long last reached digital health, suggesting that now there...