With Ad Sales Still Falling, Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro Leaving – Confirmed


Henrique De Castro, Yahoo's chief operating officer and the man responsible for reviving the Internet company’s falling sales, is leaving the company scarcely a year after CEO Marissa Mayer hired him...
    






Monster Drinks Face Challenges Despite High Sales


Monster drinks have made it big. They are in demand especially by teenagers and athletes who get a high from the caffeine contained within the drinks. Such is the popularity of Monster drinks that...
    






Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street Jumps From Blizzard To Riot Games


Riot Games has just hired Greg “Ghostcrawler’ Street as the new Lead Designer for the world’s most popular game, League of Legends. Street spent a decade working on the Age of Empires team, but is...
    






FiLIP Is The Smartphone For Kids Too Young To Have A Smartphone


Sometime around the middle of last year I first heard of the FiLIP. The device is billed as a wearable smart locator and phone for kids, which is an accurate description, but doesn’t fully capture...
    






Bloat, Censorship, Reaction: UK Government Takes Control Freak Approach To Tech


Britain’s Coalition government has been desperate to be seen as on the cutting edge of technology since the beginning of its term. It is bizarre, then, that it pressured some of the country’s...
    






Small Firms Are Making Big Bucks In The Analog Economy


Imagine if Tim Cook fired up the production lines and started churning out the Apple II instead of the latest Macbook Pro. The world would think he had gone barking mad. After all, what company in...
    






How A Little Caffeine Can Boost Your Memory


If you’re trying to commit a set of items to memory, you may want to give your brain a bit of caffeine. But how you time it matters, finds a new study out today in Nature Neuroscience. The...
    






Jon Taffer: How He Turns Failed Bars Into Major Successes


To further understand the bar and restaurant industry, I spoke to one of the leading experts in Jon Taffer. You might know Taffer from his hit reality TV show “Bar Rescue”, where he takes bars that...
    






The Judge Won’t Call Asbestos-Lawyer Shenanigans Fraud, But It Sure Smells Like It


There’s an old journalistic turn of phrase that keeps us on the right side of the libel laws, while getting the point across: Sometimes it’s a crime what’s legal. That is an apt description for the...