When Mary Meeker speaks, the Valley listens.
This week, Meeker, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (the venture firm founded in 1972 that's invested in pretty much every major tech company of the last quarter century) unveiled her 88-page analysis of Web, mobile, technology, and societal trends.
Here, we've excerpted the most important elements of the report, especially trends that may affect small business and startups.
Mention Dale Carnegie or his best-selling book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, to your colleagues and you're likely to encounter cringes and knowing, semi-sarcastic smiles.
Perhaps it's the general ambience that surrounds Carnegie today, evoking images of Babbittry, good-natured guffaws and glad-handing, the perpetual American boosterism, that provokes these reactions.
Steve Simpson is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists and the second is to inspire all of you artists and designers out there, in evolving art through thoughtful exchange of technique & inspiration. Tune in daily to see who the next artist of the day will be … who knows, maybe you could be our next featured artist!
Steve Simpson is an Illustrator based in Dublin, Ireland. He is best known for his children’s picture book illustrations and packaging designs. To stay up to date and find out more about Steve, check out his Network.
We are living in an age where technology is playing a most important part and each and every work of our daily routine life is connected with it. And the today’s topic is also very interesting and it’s also related with the progress of technology, we can say the due to technology we’ve a very easy life that was never before. If we look towards the life of ancient man they were spending a life which was full of hardworking and efforts for the survival but comparatively the life of a modern man is full of easiness and enjoyments, now we’ve also jobs like a fun, such as writing. I am a writer and whenever I am writing on any of the topic I feel enjoy because I like this profession and one of the eminence in my writings is the simplicity and I never make hard any topic.
On any given day, we're all living vastly different lives, often doing the exact same things. For our Memorial Day Shooting Challenge, we had you photograph the day, whatever that day held.
As you may have heard, a bunch of people just acquired Scrooge-McDuck quantities of cash thanks to this morning's Facebook IPO. So exactly who is walking around with an extra billion dollars in their bank account? Here's a visual breakdown of everyone who sold their shares today, and how much they made.
From going to class, balancing studying, and socializing, maintaining relationships and dealing with financial burdens, today's college student has a great deal on his mind. Take a look at just some of the issues college students may be concerned with on a daily basis.
Maybe this scenario sounds familiar to you: A few years ago I found myself working an office job that was ok. It paid ok, I liked the work ok, I liked the people I worked with ok, and I was pretty ok at what I did. Like I said, it was ok. But I didn’t love it. I didn’t wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose that drove me to excel at my job. It wasn’t what I really wanted to do, but for the longest time I put up with it because I’d done the math. What I really wanted to do was go into digital publishing, which in my mind required a new computer that would cost at least $3,000, software that my current laptop couldn’t handle, at least one or two creative/business partners, and a camera/other gear I couldn’t afford.
Did you know that every two days as much data is created as was created since the dawn of civilization until 2003?
With that much data out there, it’s no surprise that sync has become an integral part of our everyday lives. Whether it’s keeping your emails synced across devices, sending a file via Dropbox, or keeping up with your business by syncing your contacts, calendars, tasks, and more with CompanionLink, sync is nearly everywhere.
Take a look at the infographic below to see just how prevalent sync is in our everyday lives! Then, let us know what you sync in the comments below.
The general job description of a graphic designer is a pretty vast platform. Wherever there is a logo, letterhead, brochure, layout to be made or any other design project for either the online or print, you will surely find a graphic artist behind it. There is basically a large domain in which designers can develop their business, which is great because this offers them multiple choices and they can truly do something that they enjoy.
iPad has almost all the features what a tablet user can think of. With its sleek design and fully loaded features, it has made its place in the market and no other company product seems to beat it in the competition. The icing on the cake comes with thousands of Apps specially designed for iPad, most of which are free.
When Google speaks, the world listens.
And today, when Google asked its users to sign a petition protesting two anti-piracy laws circulating in Congress, millions responded.
A spokeswoman for Google confirmed that 4.5 million people added their names to the company's anti-SOPA petition today.
Not too shabby.
The petition, which was available via a link from Google's homepage, states that although fighting online piracy is important, the plan of attack described in the SOPA and PIPA bills would be ineffective.
Here's a look at Research In Motion's revenue on trailing four quarter basis. It's not pretty.
And it's not going to become pretty any time soon. The company is forecasting a slowdown in smartphone sales for the next quarter.
The funny thing is that the stock market wrote off RIM a year ago. It's just now that the revenue is actually starting to drop.
The private funeral for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is taking place today, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The iconic Apple co-founder died on Wednesday at the age of 56.
An Apple representative told the news outlet that no public memorial is planned for Jobs. In announcing the news to employees on Wednesday, Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the company would be holding a "celebration" of Jobs' life for the company's employees, allowing them and the public to send in thoughts, memories, and condolences.
Netflix lost another 10% in stock value today. We have no idea why it's tanking today, but this one-year chart of the stock is ugly.
This infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole Nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth. As WISE scanned the sky, capturing this mosaic of stitched-together frames, it happened to catch an asteroid in our solar system passing by. The asteroid, called 1719 Jens, left tracks across the image. A second asteroid was also observed cruising by.
The Linux operating system is not just for nerds. Even though you may not realize it, chances are you probably have a version of Linux running right under your nose. It’s found its way into a multitude of devices, both large and small.
In 1894, over 3000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois had that wages reduced. Many of the workers were members of the American Railway Union, and as such, they went on strike.
Everyday. Inspire yourself everyday!
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users.
