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With great power comes great responsibility … that means Cloud companies too
Photo Credit Greg and Mellina
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
This great quote from the movie Spider-Man, is just as true for technology, as it is for superheroes.
Technology has made possible tremendous changes in our quality of life in the last couple of decades. Everything from surgery to transportation, education to construction,...
Your Latest Anti-SOPA Celeb? Al Gore
Passage of the Stop Online Piracy Act could “have the effect of really shutting down the vibrancy of the Internet,” Al Gore warned this week, according to Mashable.
Speaking to a crowd at a CareerBuilder, Gore joined the chorus of people who warn that the effort to ratchet back piracy could lead to censorship and a dulling of the Internet’s...
My resolution: think big, take risks
Max Levchin was the co-founder and CTO of Paypal, and founded Slide in 2004. He served as Slide’s CEO until the company was sold to Google in 2010, and left Google in the fall of 2011. He is also an investor in various startups, and is currently working on a new stealth-mode startup in the big data space. We wanted to hear what his plans for next...
My Resolution: Be a Better Manager (a FourSquare Exec’s Plan for 2012)
Dennis Crowley, CEO, Foursquare
Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of Foursquare, has been thinking about location for a long time. He built Dodgeball in 2003 and sold it to Google two years later. With Foursquare, which he built in 2009, he returned to his idea of building a location-based service that helps people explore the world around them. The company...
Alwaleed Bin Talal Invests $300 Million In Twitter
Twitter Inc., the microblogging service with more than 100 million users, won a $300 million investment from Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as it pushes through a redesign of its site to attract advertisers.
Alwaleed, ranked the richest Arab businessman this year by Arabian Business magazine, and his investment company agreed to buy a “strategic...
For Green Groups, a Shift in Tactics
In The Times’s Sunday Review section, I wrote about the generational leadership change that big environmental groups are undergoing and how it is affecting their strategies. Several leaders and observers I interviewed noted that in an Occupy Wall Street era, some people have little patience for the notion of courting corporations and policy makers...
Are Smart Phones Getting in the Way of Your Marriage?
It’s an easy trap to fall into. You have your smartphone next to you while you’re in bed next to your partner and BAM! you hear it go off. It’s probably an email requiring your attention. At least you think it is. Maybe it’s just Facebook telling you that one of your exes “friended” you. Maybe it’s someone...
More College Grads Want to Work for Tech Firms Over Wall Street
As the Occupy movement perseveres and Google’s stock price continues to skyrocket, it’s no surprise that American youth don’t want to work at investment banks. Citing a survey of 6,700 early-career professionals, The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly one-in-five young workers want a job at Google, making it the most popular...
Five signs you need a technology detox
It drives me crazy when I’m with someone who incessantly checks email or texts. For years, I prided myself on my clunky, camera-less cell phone with a texting function so primitive I simply didn’t bother. Recently, I caved and upgraded to an iPhone and have noticed myself slipping into behavior I generally consider rude and compulsive in...
Newly Leery of Nuclear Power, Europe Faces a Cold Winter (Time.com)
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Figaro.
Almost eight months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, energy remains a sector fraught with tension. In its annual energy report, European Energy...
