Originally published at the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business Net Impact Chapter at Mills College, The Soulful MBA Blog Today the blogosphere was ablaze with the news that Facebook has planned to purchase the social media hipster darling Instagram. For those who aren’t familiar, it is a mobile photography app with all the saccharine-sweet…
n late January Google made what it described as a “small change” to its privacy statements that not only has major implications for advertisers and market researchers but also your personal privacy. If you are one of the estimated 200-400 million people around the world with a Google account, you received an email that explained…
Next week Congress will vote on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The bill will force websites large and small to stop advertising with or taking paid advertisements from sites that aggregate pirated content in addition to having a regulatory committee to seek out Internet piracy and remove violators from the web. I get it;…
Originally posted at The SoulfulMBA for Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business Net Impact Chapter at Mills College Last week we lost one of the greatest pioneers in tech industry history, Steve Jobs. Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple Computers died of pancreatic cancer last week amid a media storm created by the…
Originally posted at Lorry I Lokey Net Impact Chapter I recently got a new cell phone, which came pre-loaded with an application many are already familiar with as Google Latitude. I like to refer to it as “Google Stalker,” because when the user grants permission, their friends can literally track them wherever they are. If…
Later this month, Silicon Valley tech magnate Peter Thiel will announce the names of the 20 lucky college students he will pay $100,000 to drop out. Thiel believes that similar to Americans’ willingness to assume large sums of debt for housing, the ever-increasing debt being assumed by students will create a similar bubble, which too…
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