How PayPal’s App Update Could Reinvent The Company
Owen Thomas, readwrite.comWhat is PayPal? A new update to its mobile apps, set to be unveiled today, had me thinking about that question. If PayPal executes well on the opportunities it’s exploring, it may have many millions of its users rethinking the money-mov…
Google’s 15th birthday: 15 things you didn’t know
Tom Meltzer, theguardian.comGoogle is 15 years old today. To celebrate, here are 15 facts you probably didn’t know about them.
1. Google was originally called BackRub. The homepage read: “BackRub is a ‘web crawler’ which is designed to traverse the web.”
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Greg McKeown, hbr.org
Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. In fact, his boss raved about him. His manager gave him top ratings in his performance evaluations, space to do his work…
Google’s strategy to take over computing continues: Chrome apps “For your desktop”
Kevin C. Tofel, gigaom.comOn the official 5th birthday of Google’s Chrome browser, Google introduced Chrome apps for Windows desktop users. The new “For your desktop” section of the Chrome Web Store launched on Thursday and offers applications that run outside …
How To Stop Your Mind From Working Too Hard
Deborah L. Jacobs, forbes.comThis is a guest post by Ben Thomas, a journalist who writes about the brain. He blogs at The Connectome. You can find him on Twitter.
We humans are the only creatures that actively study our own minds, fine-tuning our thought…
Andrew O’Connell, hbr.org
You can ease an organization’s overall e-mail burden by teaching top executives to send fewer, and clearer, e-mails, a team from consulting and academia has discovered. In a study at the headquarters of a large company, the team found that each…
Telemarketing is top channel for ROI
b2bmarketing.netThe power of telemarketing to influence brand perceptions and deliver high level engagements with hard-to-reachprospects has been underlined by the results of our new survey. Joel Harrison …
Microsoft And Nokia: A Marriage Made In Hell?
Forbes Leadership Forum, forbes.comThis article is by Gerard J. Tellis, a professor at the University of Southern California‘s Marshall School of Business and the author of Unrelenting Innovation: How to Create a Culture for Market Dominance.
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