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More than six months after Hurricane Sandy, pockets of eastern seaboard residents remain displaced, even as they rebuild. There is still much to be done to return the region to normalcy. But as someone who was involved in some of … Continue reading →

Three spectacular new panoramas give an eye-popping look at NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity hard at work on the Red Planet. Each photo is a mosaic stitched together using more than 20 raw images taken by the Curiosity rover itself, said … Continue reading →

Reporters covering events such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings or the Boston Marathon bombings turned immediately to Instagram to source photos from the scene — a difficult endeavor, given the limitations of Instagram’s in-app search to hashtags and … Continue reading →

Hashtag. Hashtag. Hashtag. It’s like the Marcia Brady of symbols for musiciansMariah Carey is the latest to infuse a song title with a hashtag, plopping one in her new single, “#Beautiful,” featuring fellow Grammy winner Miguel. Carey’s crew released the … Continue reading →

There’s no need for fluff and buzzword BS when there’s rock-hard data to draw upon. Look around the business world, and you’ll see marketers who are enhancing their products with data-informed decisions. When you consider the vastness of data sets … Continue reading →

So far, BlackBerry has debuted one touchscreen phone and one keyboard phone in its line of devices running BlackBerry 10 software, both high-end smartphones. Now it looks like BlackBerry’s plans for the next wave of devices have leaked, and it’s … Continue reading →

In November 2011, Hearst President David Carey predicted that more than 1 million people would subscribe to its tablet editions by the end of 2012. It was a somewhat bold prediction — at the time only 400,000 people were subscribing … Continue reading →

Mark Zuckerberg can put another big accomplishment on his resume. Facebook cracked the Fortune 500 list on Monday for the first time, about nine years after launching and less than a year after becoming a public company. In fact, it … Continue reading →

So you’ve finally finished developing your product or service, flushed our your business model, and you’re ready to dive head first into your new business venture — but how the heck do you raise enough capital to get started? Taking … Continue reading →

Most of us guard our cell phone numbers like a mama lion. Those privileged numbers are only saved for the coolest of friends and the best of buddies. We don’t usually hand it out like candy to passersby or those … Continue reading →