Blog Profile / Epicenter
| URL : | http://blog.wired.com/business/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology / Technology Industry News | |
| Posts on Regator: | 5178 | |
| Posts / Week: | 19.4 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Social | The Software Revolution Behind LinkedIn’s Gushing Profits
LinkedIn took a huge risk pausing all development for two months as it switched to a turbocharged new system known as "continuous deployment." The gamble paid off big: LinkedIn now releases new web and app features twice per day, compared...
Why Your City Still Won’t Be Getting Google Fiber
Think Google Fiber's expansion to Austin signals future plans to come to your town? Sorry — infrastructure isn't Google's business.
Startups | To Hack Health Care Costs, Employers Can Now Track How You Grocery Shop
A just-launched online service called NutriSavings will give workers coupons and cash back to encourage the purchase of more nutritious foods. In exchange, you'll have to lift the curtain a little on what you buy at the grocery stor...
Startups | The Easiest Path to Online Riches Is Good Ol’ Buying and Selling
While Google and Facebook might be transformative internet technologies that mint their inventors money, your consumer internet startup is more likely to hit that billion-dollar mark if it's in the business of digital transactions.
Social | How to Buy Friends and Influence People on Facebook
Whoever said you can't buy friends was dead wrong. Here's our guide to the not-so-underground friend market.
Social | How Facebook Home Will Deposit Ads Right Into Your Pocket
Facebook's new mobile platform, Facebook Home, will not ship with any advertisements. But advertisements are the whole point, and they will land in Facebook Home eventually, starting with the automatic "Cover Feed" scroll that shows up as soon as you...
This Is How to Fix the ‘Patent Fix’ We’re All In
From the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents, this is the final piece in Wired's special series of expert opinions on "the patent fix" -- including specific proposals for fixing the software patent problem.
Retail | These Cake-Feasting Robot Eyes Could Kill the Barcode
Japan's Brain Corporation has invented a clever optical scanner that can recognize a dazzling range of pastries and ring customers up accordingly. The scanner, BakeryScan, is coming to America -- and soon may be coming for the barco...
Retail | Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money
Forget software as a service. Welcome to the age of stuff as a service.
Retail | Your Internet Shopping Sprees Are Driving an Astonishing Building Boom
Retailers online and offline will need a combined 25 million square meters in additional space over the next five years to store and handle the stuff they sell, according to a new report. That's the size of more than seven...
Digital Content | Corporate Spin Machines Should Love the SEC’s Netflix Ruling
With a ruling allow corporations to disclose new financial information on social networks, the SEC has paved the way for companies to package more of their news independent of the media.
Mobile | In Death of the PC, eBay Sees Path to Escape Amazon’s Shadow
eBay is relying on the idealistic promises attached to the switch from PCs to mobile devices to sell its own $300 billion future.
Big Tech | This Material Will Power the Future — If Somebody Can Profit From It
Is graphene the next great leap forward in material science, or a science project that, like carbon nanotubes, stubbornly falls short of fulfilling its commercial promise?
Retail | Japan’s Answer to Jeff Bezos Sets Sights on Amazon, America
Mikitani launched e-commerce startup Rakuten in mid-1997, just before Amazon went public. But his vision of online shopping had little in common with the standard being set by Jeff Bezos.
Big Tech | Microsoft and Blackberry Dueling for a Bronze
It’s the race for third place. No matter how either Microsoft or Blackberry spins their latest mobile efforts, for now at least, there is no catching Apple at the high-end or the many flavors of Android racking up sales up...
Big Tech | Here’s the ‘Very Anonymous’ Building Facebook Demanded From a Starchitect
Facebook commissioned renowned architect Frank Gehry to build a new headquarters wing. Then the internet company demanded Gehry tone down his signature style and produce a "very anonymous" building. Here are the results.
Hardware | Big Boards and the Rise of Massive Office Screens
Even as tech consumers obsess over small, mobile screens for personal use, tech companies are buying up massive "big board" screens to rally staffers around common goals. We look at 10 specific examples.
Retail | Google All but Officially Admits It Wants to Be Amazon
For the past several months, Google has danced coyly around the question of exactly how deep it wants to dip into the world of shopping. But its official confirmation this week of its long-rumored same-day retail delivery service signals a...
Digital Content | Amazon’s Plan to Own Reading and Writing Advances with GoodReads Buy
Amazon looked back to its roots in bookselling and forward to its future as the global overlord of all human literary output by announcing its plan today to purchase social reading site GoodReads.
Retail | Why Walmart Wishes It Were a Startup
What a half-trillion-dollar company hopes to gain by coming to Silicon Valley.