Here's How Yahoo! Gets to $40 By the End of 2013
Yahoo!'s stock has been on a run in the last 6 weeks, despite a weak broader stock market. Here's the case for why it's upward move is just starting.
Eric Jackson, ContributorYahoo!'s stock has been on a run in the last 6 weeks, despite a weak broader stock market. Here's the case for why it's upward move is just starting.
Eric Jackson, ContributorWhen Apple's iPad mini debuted on Oct. 23, reviews were generally positive but a bit muted: What, no Retina display? And why is it so expensive? But now, after a week or two of playing with it, some of the most prominent reviewers of Apple gear are never going back. Never going [...] read »
Last week, Antioch University announced its intention to allow students to take credit-bearing classes based on some of the courses offered on Coursera. Until now, online courses have been used primarily in one of two ways: as MOOCs (non-credit-bearing classes open to anyone), and within the academic institutions producing these classes, to support a "flipped classroom" model for their own registered students. read »
Getty Images This election isn't just a victory for President Obama to lead the nation for four more years -- it's also a win for a stalwart group of statisticians who were predicting his victory all along. In particular, Nate Silver at his New York Times blog, FiveThirtyEight, came out on top by [...] read »
Earlier this week I wrote about how business democratization in a few key areas is already unleashing a wave of innovation that will drive our economy for the next decade. This week has already shown us two efforts that only further prove my point.. read »
Needed: more venture capital and more new start-ups to employ college graduates and drive the dynamic element of capital appreciation, innovation, American technology and engineering talents. This is the growing mantra that must be addressed in the second term of Barack Obama. read »
Subterranean parking next to a wine cellar, plus a car elevator and a vanishing TV in the bathroom mirror — is there anything this man cave in Connecticut is missing? A remote-controlled toilet, perhaps? No, it has that too. read »
On Monday I made a few calls for Organizing for America and spoke to voters in Ohio ahead of President Obama's convincing reelection victory. One call stood out. The man spoke in heavily accented English and told me that this would be his first Presidential election as a U.S. citizen. He lived outside Columbus, and that after gaining his citizenship, he registered this year to vote. You're supposed to run through through the script that the nifty web-based program OFA provides you for phone-banking,[...] read »
In the more than 900 days since Bradley Manning was first jailed as the suspected source of the WikiLeaks' bombshell releases of 2010 and early 2011, his legal defense has never disputed that the young Army private leaked a collection of classified documents. But only now, for the first time, has Manning actually made an offer to formally admit to that act of secret-spilling. read »
Concur Technologies, provider of online expense management software, posted mixed results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended September 30. read »
Obviously unafraid of taking on established competitors, the Toronto-based cloud-oriented photo sharing service – MyShoebox – has exploded onto the scene in a big way. According to a report, the company has seen users upload almost 2 million photos since it launched last week. read »