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Rick Smolan's Newest Project Will Try to Breathe Life Into Big Data
Rick Smolan, creator of the epic “Day in the Life” photography books, is taking on a new challenge: Big data. “Big data” has become a buzzphrase many people like to hate for its vagueness, but Smolan’s...
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A Little Night Reading With Light-Up Devices
We’ve all been there: The person on one side of the bed is ready to sleep while the person on the other side wants to stay up and read a little longer. The night owl usually wins because the sleepy one...
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Address Book App Brewster Now Factors in Location, Fixes “Favorites”
Brewster, the smartphone app that pulls all of your digital address books into one place, has introduced some new features meant to make your digital life management that much easier — even if you’ve...
View ArticleMissing From Surface Tablet: Barnes & Noble's Nook App
When Microsoft agreed to invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble’s new subsidiary Nook Media LLC earlier this year, Barnes & Noble committed to creating a Nook e-reading app for Microsoft’s new...
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Viral Video: The Creepy Alien Movie From the "Twilight" Lady
It’s called “The Host,” and it’s all depressing sci-fi future, with the usual aliens occupying human bodies and taking over the whole world. You know who’s been snatched if they have glowing eyes....
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Viral Video: Samuel L. Jackson Channels Taylor Swift (Oh, Goody)
A while back, the incomparable actor Samuel L. Jackson did an epic reading of the book “Go the F**k to Sleep.” Now, the “Django Unchained” movie star is taking on an even bigger task, with a dramatic...
View ArticleEric Schmidt Unloads on China in New Book
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth. Corporate Intelligence reviewed preliminary galleys of Schmidt’s new book, “The New Digital...
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Study: Online Media Pays Off for Consumers More Than Offline
Apparently, you can get media satisfaction — as long as you are online as opposed to offline. According to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group, consumers accrue more value from their online...
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Gavin Newsom Talks About Transparent Government (Video)
Last week, I ambled over to the Founders Den in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood to talk to California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom about his new book, “Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and...
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Old Media Doesn't Get New Media, Chapter 203: The Sheryl Sandberg Attack
Take one Silicon Valley exec. Who is rich. Who is a woman. Who seems, on the superficial surface at least, to have it all. Mix with high-profile book she has penned about gender issues in the...
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Leading Up to Sheryl Sandberg's Book Launch, LeanIn.org Goes Live
Just days away from the launch of her first book, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and a group of fellow women entrepreneurs have launched LeanIn.org, the...
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Telling Employees He Hasn't "Walked the Talk," Cisco's John Chambers Leans In...
As most of the free world knows by now — from the ubiquitous media coverage that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and her new book, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” has gotten of late — there...
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The Pramana Collective: New Tech PR Firm Made Up of Old PR Hands
A trio of high-profile tech communications execs from Twitter (Sean Garrett), Facebook (Brandee Barker), and Skype (Brian O’Shaughnessy), have joined forces to create a new firm called the Pramana...
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Leaning In to No. 1: Sheryl Sandberg's Book Tops Both NYT and Amazon...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg might still be trying to figure out the social networking giant’s mobile monetization strategy, but there’s one thing she has locked: The top spot on two of the most...
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Actually, Amazon Paid About $150 Million for Goodreads
According to sources, Amazon paid about $150 million for Goodreads, the popular books recommendation service. But that number could close in on $200 million, if certain performance metrics are met....
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Google's Next Group of Gadgets Will Blow You Away, Says Eric Schmidt
Google chairman Eric Schmidt is spending a lot of time on the road right now — he’s got a new book to promote — but he has popped into Google’s Motorola unit to see what the phone company is working...
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Paperback Version of Jobs Best-Selling Bio to Be Released in Fall, With New...
Simon & Schuster said it will finally be publishing the paperback edition of Walter Isaacson’s best-selling authorized biography of Steve Jobs on September 10, which will feature a new cover image...
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Apple Loses E-Book Antitrust Trial
All of the big publishers settled with the U.S. government after the feds accused them of conspiring to fix e-book prices with Apple. But Apple fought the case, and now it looks like that decision may...
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I Connect, Therefore I Am Distracted: Q&A With Author Alex Pang
Tech-enabled distraction is one of the more pressing issues of our time, I’d argue. We seem to be increasingly terrible at paying attention, and at detaching ourselves from our devices. But while many...
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Tragedy: Amazon's First CFO and Internet Pioneer Joy Covey Dies in Bike Accident
Photo by Bob Williams, from Joy Covey’s Facebook profile I met Joy Covey in the mid-1990s, which is a very long time ago in Internet terms, on a trip I made to Seattle to visit the then-fledgling...
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