Last spring and summer, Kathryn Minshew, co-founder of The Muse and Inc’s “15 Women to Watch in Tech”, was trying to raise money for the female-focused jobboard site that was growing thirdty percent a month and reaching 250,000 dedicated active users every month by June of 2012. She pitched herself,…
The February Jobs Report in Two Simple Charts
The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, beating expectations, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7%, its lowest level since December 2008. Here’s the breakdown of employment status for all Americans age 16 and above:
Yahoo Killing Message Boards Site and Other Products
Yahoo announced in a Friday afternoon blog post that it’s killing seven products from its line of consumer offerings. The doomed products include Yahoo’s BlackBerry app and Sports IQ. The BlackBerry app will still be available to users who have already downloaded it, but support for it will cease. The…
Plotter Turns the Map on Your iPhone Into a Social Discovery Tool and the Digital Cure
For all the talk about how much better Google Maps is than Apple’s default maps app on the iPhone, the experience for both essentially boils down to the same thing: search for a place on a map and look up directions. Plotter aims to take mapping on the iPhone to…
Beyond Facebook: 7 Social Networks You Should Work For
If you love social media, Facebook isn’t the only place you can launch an awesome career. In fact, these seven social networks are all amazing places to work—and they’re all hiring, too. Take a peek inside the offices of these cool companies and learn more about their culture, team and…
Make Better Presentations With the Instagram for Pitch Decks
“Hey, I really enjoyed making this PowerPoint,” is one of those things nobody says. Haiku Deck aims to change that with its iPad app for making and viewing presentations. Before addressing the pain point of bad PowerPoints, the founders of Haiku Deck were part of TechStars’ inaugural class of entrepreneurs…
Apple Remains the Top U.S. Smartphone Maker, Report Says
Apple has extended its lead as the top U.S. smartphone-maker, by grabbing another 3.5% of total market, according to ComScore‘s latest data. The Cupertino, Calif. giant captured a formidable 37.8% of the U.S. market during the three-month average period ending January 2013, leaving its competitors in the dust. (ComScore compares…
Does Apple Ever Regret Making The iPad Mini?
There are so many reasons to love this photo of Apple marketing boss Phil Schiller holding up an iPad Mini. For one thing, it captures the kind of hushed sanctimony and reverence with which Apple introduces things that are, essentially, little plastic gizmos. But mostly I love Phil’s weird off-camera gaze,…
10 Actionable Trends For Mobile Marketers In 2013
It is almost silly to think that in 2013, many enterprises are still struggling with mobile strategies. The fact of the matter is that enterprises can sometimes be just as big, slow and bureaucratic as the Federal government. That can also be true for the enterprise marketing departments that are,…