News Obama, Kids, & All Tomorrow's Web Apps: President Focuses on Tech Education At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids. "Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation is essential to meeting the challenges of this… Jolie O'Dell View comments
E-Commerce Online Retail Thriving: 8% Growth Expected This Holiday Season Yesterday we reviewed the past decade in online retailing. Today we look at some forward-looking statistics about e-commerce. In particular we analyze the upcoming holiday season and how online retailers can expect to fare. Amazon.com was founded in 1995, but it famously didn't make its first annual profit until 2003. Those days of struggle for… Richard MacManus View comments
Google Google Brings Local Business Coupons to U.S. Mobile Users Google has announced today that, just in time for holiday shopping, they are enabling local retailers to display coupons for in-store use on mobile devices of Google-searching users. Any business using Google Local Business Center can upload mobile coupon offers, and any user searching on Google.com using a mobile device can find the coupons on… Jolie O'Dell View comments
web The Last Days of Desktop: Chrome Welcomes Third Party Extensions Google Chrome has begun taking submissions from third party developers. In a blog post written earlier today, Google is asking developers to contribute to the Chrome extensions gallery - an act that will put third party applications on both the Chrome browser and eventually the operating system. Dana Oshiro View comments
start Collected: Topic-Based Feeds Delivered If your job requires you to have your finger on the pulse of an industry, then you should take note. Curated feed community Collected offers users a great option for aggregating the latest info from their favorite sites. First developed by Stockholm-based new media agency Great Works, Collected aggregates feeds from blogs, YouTube, Twitter… Dana Oshiro View comments