Ideaforge

 New research by Pew suggests there has been another increase in the proportion of U.S. adults getting news via social media platforms. Read More

Source: Tech Crunch

 At this point in the game there should be a single page on every corporate website, preferably accessible from its front page, that includes the name and all contact details for the Chief Security Officer, including the last four digits of her social security number. It should be her responsibility to ensure that no one uses this information for nefarious purposes in addition to her daily… Read More

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 Many of you have strong personal and political beliefs (or so I hope) — but aside from tweeting angrily, what’s the most effective way to put those beliefs into action? Tech:NYC, a nonprofit group advocating for the New York tech industry in state and city politics, is addressing that problem with a new website called Tech Takes Action. You may remember that Tech:NYC was… Read More

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 If you’ve never worked for a complete jerk, consider yourself lucky. Roughly one in five people polled say they’ve experienced bullying in the workplace — and 61 percent of the time, the bully is the person to whom an employee reports directly. None of this is news to Stanford Professor Bob Sutton. We talked with Sutton yesterday about what it means to be an asshole, how to… Read More

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 In the aftermath of the Note 7 debacle, many wondered whether the Note line was done for good. It seems that the latest iteration — despite carrying a high starting price of $930 — has delivered a win for the folks at Samsung. Today, they announced that its pace for U.S. pre-orders of the Note8 have eclipsed those of every other Note release to date. Read More

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 Dopamine Labs aims to give any app the same addictive power that Facebook, Zynga and others have spent millions to perfect. Now, armed with $1 million in seed funding and some initial data that they’re experiments in mind control actually work, Dopamine Labs is spending money to boost its staff and sales and marketing efforts to bring more apps in on its brain science. Read More

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 Airbnb is celebrating a partial win over a housing law change in Berlin that last year led to a total clampdown on the short term renting of entire homes to visitors to the city. City authorities had couched the move as a necessary measure to tackle housing shortages.  Read More

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 Women have been in the workforce for decades, yet many are still encountering frustrating obstacles when trying to move up the career ladder. These situations can happen in any industry, but the tech and startup community has been under added scrutiny because female founders are less likely to get funding and a paltry 7% of venture capital partners are women.  Now some people have been… Read More

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 Fitbit today came out with some additional news that might give Wall Street some signs of life as it looks to compete with an increasingly complicated fitness tracking environment — and the stock is surging this afternoon as a result. Read More

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 Amazon has accused several book publishers, marketers and authors of using the Kindle Direct Publishing system to artificially inflate their sales numbers and has now filed for arbitration against them. Read More

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