Shhhh: A wave of tech start-ups are secretly seeking to go public. Choosing to file confidentially for an initial public offering is fast becoming the norm for young technology companies. On Friday, GoPro, the video camera maker favored by extreme athletes and everyday adventurers, became the latest to file such a “secret I.P.O.” Read More.
Most treehouses, whether they’re simple backyard platforms or tiny homes where people live full-time, are made by whacking nails into the side of a tree. But architects decided to take an approach that’s a little more tree-friendly in this design for a new resort in an ecological reserve: Each treehouse is suspended in midair from
The personal computer era that Microsoft so ably dominated during and after Mr. Gates’s heyday as Microsoft’s chief executive has started to fade away. Now, the focus is on social media and mobile devices that run in large part on cloud computing. Read More.
They think marijuana could be the Next Big Thing. But it has some unique challenges. Read More.
While social media immediately began buzzing about the spot, which Seinfeld put together with the help of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, it wasn’t actually a Super Bowl ad. Neither Seinfeld nor Sony, which owns Crackle, paid FOX any money for the segment, according to The New York Times. Instead, FOX reached out to Seinfeld and asked him to
Harvard Business School topped The Financial Times‘ 2014 global MBA ranking for the second year in a row and the fifth time since the FT began ranking full-time MBA programs in 1999. Stanford Graduate School of Business held on to its second place finish of last year, but Wharton slipped from its third-place perch to fourth, replaced by
A PATENT FILING SHOWS THE COMPANY IS EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITY OF DERIVING MOOD FROM BODY SENSORS, USER HABITS, AND CONSUMED DATA TO BETTER DELIVER TARGETED ADS. Read More.
Cosmologists are closing in one a radical theory of the universe that will link it to human life in a very intimate way. Instead of a cold, lifeless void, the cosmos is about to emerge as a living thing whose operations are intelligent and conscious. What does that have to do with meeting your next
There’s a reason the NBC sitcom The Office was such a huge hit. Everyone can relate to having a bad boss and annoying coworkers. For many of us, the people we work with have the power to ruin an otherwise happy and productive work day. In fact, 33 percent of employees count annoying coworkers as the No. 1 reason