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Ashton Kutcher brings jOBS back to Macworld

by Ane Howard, January 31, 2013 | Comments

Kutcher and Gad take main stage to share their experience playing Jobs and Wozniak

Actors Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad opened the MacWorld's first significant event Thursday, to discuss "jOBS," an upcoming feature film chronicling the life of Steve Jobs (played by Kutcher), the co-founder of Apple and his often tumultuous and changing relationship with Steve Wozniak (played by Gad). On playing a recently deceased leading figure of this century, a person who has ...

Colin Powell: Social media can help bring democracy

by Ane Howard, September 20, 2012 | Comments

Social media and the "information revolution" are good, but not without dangers

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff welcomed former Secretary of State General Colin Powell and Jeff Immelt, General Electric CEO and chair of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness Thursday at the Dreamforce 2012 in front of a packed house of enthusiastic 16,000 attendants. The topic of the day: leadership and social enterprising. The two men were asked by Benioff to share their ...

Richard Branson: Who needs college? Start a business

by Ane Howard, September 19, 2012 | Comments

Chairman of Virgin Group's head is not only in the Cloud but heading for Mars

Sir Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Group, sat down Wednesday at Dreamforce 2012 for a fireside chat with Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com. The topics discussed ranged from Branson's well-known, dare-devilish adventures, exploration and human settlements on Mars to social computing, rock and roll and celebrities, and a theme dear to Benioff, using information technology to produce positive social change ...

Marc Benioff fires up audience at Dreamforce 2012

by Ane Howard, September 19, 2012 | Comments

Announces Salesforce Chatterbox – “The Dropbox for the Enterprise”

Marc Benioff, the CEO and founder of Salesforce.com has reasons to be fired up. As he took the stage as the opening speaker of Dreamforce 2012, shares of Salesforce rose $1.09 to $157.38, up 61% since the start of the year. Benioff led his talk by stating that Salesforces.com forecasts $3 billion in revenue for its fiscal 2013 year. Not ...

Four start-ups that may actually help small businesses

by Ane Howard, April 18, 2012 | Comments

A reporter's personal quest for cool start-up services that are practical

As a journalist covering emerging technologies and as a Web entrepreneur with my own start-up, I am often required to test various products and services that come across my desk. More often than not, the Web apps or services that I am asked to review are simply not addressing real pains or offering big enough improvements on existing products; others are too difficult to set up and ...

Mobile app links fun and finance together

by Ane Howard, April 12, 2012 | Comments

Toshl Finance helps you regain control of your finance with the help of "Monsters"

Following my own frustrating experience with my mobile bank app this past week, I was quite intrigued this morning when Toshl, a Slovenia-based startup with an office in Mountain View released Thursday the latest version of the financial app Toshl Finance. With every financial institution in the country releasing its own version of a mobile app, what makes Toshl Finance intriguing ...

Self Magazine announces muscle-flexing game at GDC 2012

by Ane Howard, March 8, 2012 | Comments

Responding to a growing market, programmers are creating games by women for women

Hoping to reach women with social gaming, Self Magazine a health and fitness publication for women published by Condé Nast Publications, announced Thursday at the Game Developers Conference 2012 the upcoming launch later this month of its first Facebook game inspired specifically by its annual fitness event Workout in the Park . Workout in the Park encourages participants to get out of the gym and into ...

Google honors Mark Twain's birthday

by Ane Howard, November 29, 2011 | Comments

Author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer gets his Doodle

The author of American classics "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885) and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) is honored today with Google's latest doodle. Mark Twain, whose birth name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens and was born on November 30, 1835, in the tiny village of Florida, Missouri is featured today's on Google homepage. Previous doodle depictions of famous people have included Marie ...

Google celebrates photographer Louis Daguerre

by Ane Howard, November 18, 2011 | Comments

Google Doodle marks Daguerre's 224th birthday

Google's latest Doodle honors Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype and the world's first photographer known for having taken a person's picture. The French physicist invented the daguerreotype in 1838, which he named after himself, a process of transferring images to silver-coated copper plate. He is also credited of having taken the first photograph of a human being. Recent most notable ...

Happiest Minds gets happy with $45M Series A funding

by Ane Howard, November 16, 2011 | Comments

The round is led by Canaan Partners, Intel Capital and Ashok Soota

India-based Happiest Minds announced Wednesday that it raised $45M Series A funding from Canaan Partners, Intel Capital and Ashok Soota. The cloud computing IT services company plans to use the funds to expand its market share globally and to hire new talent. "Happiest Minds is a services company. The funding will be used to ramp up and scale business development and delivery on all service ...

Animoca raises funds from Intel Capital and IDG-Accel

by Ane Howard, November 15, 2011 | Comments

Smartphone games developer plans new apps with tens of millions of dollars in fresh capital

Hong-Kong-based Outblaze Ventures Holdings Limited, commonly known as Animoca, announcedTuesday that it's raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding from Intel Capital and IDG-Accel. David Kim, CEO and co-founder of Animoca, would not disclose the amount raised, saying to me: "I can say that the total sum is in the tens of millions of dollars (US)." With the ...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 rings up $400M in sales

by Ane Howard, November 11, 2011 | Comments

Video game shatters sales record with entertainment franchise

Activision Blizzard's "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" video game shattered its own sales records with a staggering $400 million in sales on its first day in stores. The game went up for sale on November 8 in the United States and the United Kingdom alone. The Santa-Monica based video game company broke last year's not-too shabby record of of 5.6 million ...

Obama gets to keep his net neutrality rules

by Ane Howard, November 10, 2011 | Comments

GOP defeated for now, but the fight goes on

The Senate's attempt to overthrow President Obama's Open Internet Order failed on Thursday. "The open Internet is essential for American jobs & society. Glad to see the Senate reaffirm balanced #netneutrality rules," the President tweeted from his Twitter feed @whitehouse. The Senate closely overturned Thursday a “resolution of disapproval ” brought to the floor by Senator Hutchison, R-Texas, and 42 co-sponsors. As reported on Wednesday, ...

President Obama to veto bill over Net neutrality

by Ane Howard, November 9, 2011 | Comments

Net neutrality bill is a threat to 'Internet economy and the democratic spirit' says White House

President Obama's Office of Management and Budget is threatening to veto on Thursday the Senate's S.J. Res. 6 proposal, also known as a "resolution of disapproval." In the White House's opinion, the resolution undermines the Open Internet Order. The Open Internet Order, which is pro Net neutrality, was passed last year to prevent broadband providers from blocking access to specific websites and ...

Facebook faces off with Charlie Rose

by Ane Howard, November 9, 2011 | Comments

Veteran journalist grills Zuckerberg and Sandberg on the future of Facebook

Monday night, veteran and acclaimed journalist Charlie Rose aired on his show exclusive conversations taped last Thursday in Palo Alto with Facebook’s top executives, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. The interview first ran on PBS, and can also be watched on CharlieRose.com. Rose touched upon a wide array of topics during his taped conversations. In a nutshell it ...

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