The Five Most Disruptive Innovations at CES 2014


The launch this week of our Big Bang Disruption book added significant urgency to our annual search for the biggest disruptors at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. After all,...
    






The Five Most Disruptive Innovations at CES 2014


The launch this week of our Big Bang Disruption book added significant urgency to our annual search for the biggest disruptors at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. After all,...
    






Ready To Text The Fridge? LG’s Partnership With LINE Lets You Message Home Appliances


The simple act of text messaging may take us step closer to smarter homes. LG Electronics has unveiled a virtual assistant service that lets customers text their wireless home appliances through the...
    






The End Of The Line For Freemium File Sharing?


Technology firms looking to enter a market space and unseat incumbent vendors with strong existing relationships to customers have long adopted a bottom-up freemium approach. Essentially the theory...
    






Facebook To Help Brands Convert 55 Million U.S. Hispanics


In 2014 brands must finally resolve their fate with Hispanic consumers. Most companies see only the growing number of Hispanic consumers and their estimated $1.5B purchasing power in 2015, yet fail...
    






China Bites Into Bitcoin


Bitcoins were worth nothing in 2009, when the digital cryptocurrency was first minted on the computer of its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, who claimed to live in Japan. Four years later the...
    






How An Artist And A Dancer Saved An American City


Culver City, once the heart of California’s movie industry, was dying just a decade ago.  The downtown was decaying.  It had become a sleepy commuter town.  Today, however, people have proclaimed it...
    






Five Hurdles The Steam Machine Has To Overcome


It seems that iBuyPower’s Steam Machine will be the first to market, priced at $500, sized between an Xbox One and PS4 and reportedly close to outperforming both. Many are celebrating the arrival of...
    






John Malone’s Liberty Media Wants To Absorb Rest Of Sirius XM


Billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Media announced late Friday a proposal to turn Sirius XM Radio into a wholly-owned subsidiary by creating a third class of Liberty Media shares. Liberty already...
    






Scarlett Johansson Wishes to be a Film Director


She is a dynamo alright. The blonde actress, Scarlett Johansson is thinking big. Scarlett has bought the rights to a couple of books which she plans to convert into motion pictures. After being...