Charity Begins on Your Smartphone Taimoor Zubair 9/28/2011 43 comments There's a growing roster of smartphone apps designed to help users contribute funds and services to charitable causes.
Back in Bangalore Todd Watson 9/26/2011 3 comments India's third-largest city is a vibrant and fascinating place to do business -- even "secret" business.
Rachael Chong, Founder & CEO, Catchafire.org IE Radio 9/15/2011 108 comments Rachael Chong left investment banking for the world of microfinance. She helped start-up the USA branch of BRAC, mobilizing skills-based volunteers to provide financial services and other support to the poor, especially in Asia and Africa. Following the success of BRAC USA, Rachael founded Catchafire.org, an innovative Web-based nonprofit which matches skilled volunteers to meaningful pro bono opportunities, helping nonprofits and social enterprises to leverage the goodwill of trained professionals. We'll talk to her about her latest venture and the state of online giving and activism.
Charity Begins on Your Smartphone Taimoor Zubair 9/28/2011 43 comments There's a growing roster of smartphone apps designed to help users contribute funds and services to charitable causes.
Back in Bangalore Todd Watson 9/26/2011 3 comments India's third-largest city is a vibrant and fascinating place to do business -- even "secret" business.
Rachael Chong, Founder & CEO, Catchafire.org IE Radio 9/15/2011 108 comments Rachael Chong left investment banking for the world of microfinance. She helped start-up the USA branch of BRAC, mobilizing skills-based volunteers to provide financial services and other support to the poor, especially in Asia and Africa. Following the success of BRAC USA, Rachael founded Catchafire.org, an innovative Web-based nonprofit which matches skilled volunteers to meaningful pro bono opportunities, helping nonprofits and social enterprises to leverage the goodwill of trained professionals. We'll talk to her about her latest venture and the state of online giving and activism.
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
The apartment and house sharing service, Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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