15 companies that will change the world

These game-changing startups are likely to upend existing industries - and spawn new entrepreneurial opportunities. By Erick Schonfeld and Chris Morrison

The Future of News, Tablets, and Business Models



There is much talk these days about tablets and ereaders. It seems like every newspaper on the planet see them as the "prophet" that will save them from their doom. By Thomas Baekdal

How the Social Web Destroys Traditional Marketing


There is a whole generation of people who need to change how they communicate with the world. Just this week, Michelin hired TBWA to create a Facebook campaign around their slogan "The right rite changes everything," in an attempt to rebrand the Michelin Man. By Thomas Baekdal

Bill Gates: We need global 'energy miracles'

Microsoft Corp. founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday called on the world's tech community to find a way to turn spent nuclear fuel into cheap, clean fuel. By John D. Sutter

The Future of User Interfaces



User interfaces—the way we interact with our technologies—have evolved a lot over the years.

From the original punch cards and printouts to monitors, mouses, and keyboards, all the way to the track pad, voice recognition, and interfaces designed to make it easier for the disabled to use computers, interfaces have progressed rapidly within the last few decades. By Cameron Chapman

Divvyshot launches refreshingly simple photo sharing



Divvyshot, a photo-sharing start-up, has opened to the public. It's a clever and attractive site for photo sharing, with an emphasis on group events. It also has the world's cutest sharing feature for iPhone users.

Wi-Fi-Equipped School Bus Sedates Rowdy Teens With Their Favorite Opiate: The Internet



Beep beep, here comes the Internet Bus. By Jeremy Hsu

Microsoft Aims to Get Back in the Game in Mobile

After losing ground to Apple and others, the software giant may need an acquisition to avoid losing out in the smartphone market. By Cliff Edwards

Go fishing for online music with Radio Tuna



Radio Tuna is a search engine that is designed specifically to scour Internet radio stations based on a variety of parameters. You have three search options: station name, genre, or artist. By Jasmine France

Visualizing 6 Years of Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]


Facebook (Facebook) was launched on February 4, 2004 and has come a long way from a Harvard-only networking site in the intervening years. By Muhammad Saleem

Facebook's Ad Plans: Tackling Google Head-On

There's news that Facebook is releasing a new version of its Ad Conversion tool for advertisers to see how well their placements are going. Interesting stuff, if you're an advertiser. But the back story is huge: It shows that Facebook is now trying to tackle Google head on. By Kit Eaton

How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off)


Here's how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely. By Gina Trapani

3 New Ways to Measure the Social Web

When most people think of web analytics, they think about pageview tracking; basically, measuring which pages on a website are being viewed. By Tim Trefren

Pixar exec to join Twitter as CFO



Can a new chief financial officer paint some real revenue for Twitter? By Caroline McCarthy

Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million


Google has acquired social search service Aardvark, says a source that has been briefed on the deal, for around $50 million. By Michael Arrington

BoomTown Heads to TED (and Promises No Pretentious Tweets!)



What is it about TED, the iconic conference founded an astonishing 25 years ago, that gets so many people who don’t go in a lather? By Kara Swisher

Goodbye, Cruel Sun

The history of Sun's high ride and demise, and the continuing story of the newly-merged Oracle's fortunes, will occupy the minds of the IT industry and its pundits for a long time to come. By Buckeye Hamburger

Twilio

Twilio provides a telephony infrastructure web service "in the cloud", enabling web programmers to integrate real-time phone calls into their applications. Twilio's simple, powerful API minimizes the learning curve required to build advanced, reliable voice communications applications that solve critical business needs.

The Information Divide

In the era of the real-time Web, information travels at a greater velocity than the infrastructure of mainstream media can support as it exists today. By Brian Solis

Why Online Retailers Must Be On Facebook

Over 56% of shoppers to top e-retail websites who interact with social media websites have elected to “friend” or “follow” or “subscribe” to a retailer on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

What Augmented Reality Could Actually Look Like

Seems like there's more and more chatter about augmented reality stuff lately. But gimmicky architecture aside, how could AR actually change the way we live, shop, and operate?

What is Google Buzz?

So what exactly is Google Buzz? Used on a PC or mobile, Buzz reminds us of an RSS combined with all of your social networking—all within the existing Gmail and Google.com infrastructure.

Facebook turns 6!

Facebook celebrates its sixth birthday. Just one year ago, Fortune put founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the magazine’s cover in a story entitled "How Facebook is taking over our lives." By Jessi Hempel

Apple's Hard iPad Sell

Apple will need to convince consumers that they need an iPad. However, failure to do so wouldn't be a disaster for the company. By Arik Hesseldahl

Hot Tech Companies Like Yelp Are Bypassing IPOs

In a desire to keep control, they're opting for private rather than public investment—even, as in Yelp's case, with rich bids from Google and Microsoft. By Peter Burrows

How to use Flickr to get creative with your photos

Journalists have every reason to be wary of uploading content to Flickr — without the right controls photos uploaded to the site can be downloaded and used without permission elsewhere on the web.

Looks Like Google May Have A Super Bowl Commercial



While Google is a company built on advertising, for the most part it has stayed out of advertising itself on the dominant medium: television.

App.itize.us



A curated site of “the best produced and designed iPhone applications that are available for download via the App Store.

Digital Nation

Here's a worth while 96 minute video to watch about our Digtial Nation.

7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Today, video’s potential is obvious: it can be a marketer’s dream and yield tremendous successes. By Tamar Weinberg

Sproutpitch

Allows entrepreneurs to pitch their startups, projects and ideas to the world through video.

MinuteBase

An online application for writing meeting minutes. It provides you with easy-to-use tools to create meeting agendas, format minutes, assign actions, and share documents with your colleagues and partners.

Google shows off Chrome OS tablet ideas



Who could resist the months of hype that paved the way for Apple's iPad debut last week? Apparently not Google, which has shown its interest in tablet computing with its browser-based Chrome OS. By Stephen Shankland