Blog Profile / Epicenter
| URL : | http://blog.wired.com/business/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology / Technology Industry News | |
| Posts on Regator: | 5218 | |
| Posts / Week: | 19.2 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Astronomical Math Behind UPS’ New Tool to Deliver Packages Faster
In a sense, all business boils down to math. But some companies have tougher equations to solve than others.
Social | Awkward Google Wisely Buys the Least Human Social Network
Why impersonal collaborative mapping network Waze is the perfect social acquisition for Google.
Airbnb Vows to Fight NYC Ruling Against Room Sharing
Airbnb is vowing to fight City Hall in New York by standing up for one occasional innkeeper facing a $2,400 fine for renting out his room.
Forget ‘Information Wants to Be Free’ — So Does Money
To reach its full potential, the internet needs a kind of connectedness Stripe co-founder John Collison says it still struggles to afford.
Markets | Apple’s Flat Design Falls Flat on Wall Street
There are a handful of big events that Apple hosts each year that can be a catalyst for share price. This week’s Worldwide Developer Conference is one. And while the developers to whom it is targeted may have fallen in...
Big Tech | A Primer on the Kremlinology of Apple’s Big Conference
If you read between the lines at today's Apple event, there are some interesting political contours.
Groceries Could Be Amazon’s Next Killer App — If It Can Solve the Math
If Amazon gets groceries right, the implications are far greater than another convenient option for getting your daily bread. But the logistics of grocery delivery are dizzyingly complex.
10 Questions | The Man Who Escaped Microsoft and Took a Whole Company With Him
Wired Business sat down with Expedia founder Rich Barton in San Francisco’s South Park to talk power to the people, Google Glass, Microsoft, what the hell happened with the Qwikster debacle, and why picking fights with entrenched industries is a...
Social | George Fakei?! Takei Says That’s Not Always Him on Facebook
George Takei says he gets a lot of help with his Facebook page, prompting surprised fans to say, "oh myyy."
10 Questions | Meet the CEO Who Plans to Make Boatloads Off Your Bottom
Dollar Shave Club's newest product willl put CEO Michael Dubin's salesmanship to its most serious smell test. "One Wipe Charlies" are Dollar Shave's attempt to disrupt the bathroom in a whole new way. Wired sat down with Dubin to as...
Social | In a Shift, Facebook Says It Will Make All Ads Social
Facebook will now retrofit social features onto every ad.
Markets | Unlocking Cellphones Means Unlocking Innovation (Really)
Phone unlocking ought to be an important part of the American innovation-by-tinkering story. The government should not be in the position of picking winners and losers.
Why Marketers Shouldn’t Dismiss Email: A/B Testing the Obama Campaign
Even if they thought the emails sounded like sketchy pleas from internet con artists, ignoring the human desire not to be annoying may have been the single greatest conceptual breakthrough of the campaign. It turned out to be worth more...
Retail | Building the Amazon of Home Repair
If you believe that the referral and sale of everything from getting your teeth fixed to washing your car moves online, then it follows that some company is going to become the Amazon of local online services. Today, ClubLocal is...
Airbnb Vows to Fight NYC Ruling Against Room-Sharing
Airbnb is vowing to fight City Hall in New York by standing up for one occasional innkeeper facing a $2,400 fine for renting out his room.
Forget “Information Wants to Be Free” — So Does Money
To reach its full potential, the internet needs a kind of connectedness Stripe co-founder John Collison says it still struggles to afford.
Data | Business Grads to Wall Street: Drop Dead
It used to be that bulge bracket investment banks and big-money hedge funds had the pick of the quantitative and data-minded crop coming out of top business schools. That was especially true of those students based in the finance world’s...
Social | Facebook App ‘Pipe’ Bets Big on File Sharing
Pipe, which helps people share large files over Facebook, launches Wednesday. It is part of a steady stream of companies helping people move around files, something computer users were supposed to have stopped doing years ago.
Why Google Needs Shopping to Save Search
Google is the best at a lot of things, but so far shopping is not one of them.
Social | This Is the Perfect Pinterest Picture, According to Science
It turns out the most popular Pinterest pictures have no faces in there. That and five other Pinterest photo secrets have been gleaned from a massive database of user activity.