Is a vague job title to blame for the hot water Charlie Baker and General...
For the past few days, Cambridge’s General Catalyst and Charlie Baker, the potential Republican nominee for governor, have been embroiled in a bit of a controversy. On Friday, Baker was the focus of...
View ArticleTechnology has yet to transform democracy — but change is coming
It’s rare in the world of tech or politics when gurus go back and remind us of their early predictions and then admit how wrong they were. So Micah Sifry’s book, “The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet...
View ArticleFacebook’s “Free Basics” is like AOL for poor people — and that’s a good thing
A couple of weeks ago, advocates of Internet “fairness” saved millions of poor Indians from the nightmare of free access to Facebook . No doubt they’ll soon try and rescue sub-Saharan Africa from the...
View ArticleNews on Snapchat: Like old-school broadcast with ‘everyone’s camera’
Although the app rose to prominence by allowing users to share quick, fun video messages that would disappear after being viewed, it has seen advertisers and media companies become eager to court its...
View ArticleDid EMC’s sale push noncompete reform over the edge? Not exactly
"How I wish," said Ellen Rubin, CEO of data-storage startup ClearSky Data. "If it were a movie, that's how it would go."
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