By Erin Griffith On October 22, 2013Last year, like many, many commerce and social sites, eBay got a little Pinterest-y. The entire shoppable web is moving from text search and algorithm recommendations to browsable tiles of images curated by humans…
Social media activity related to certain electric vehicles on the market was recently gathered by researchers. I wasn’t surprised to see a high-end performance/luxury car get the highest number of social media mentions. That would be the Tesla Model…
Originally published on Gas2. By Christopher DeMorro. Last week the car-blogging world was all aflutter over news that a Tesla Model S caught fire after it collided with a still-unspecified piece of road debris that punched a 3-inch hole in the electric…
US investors powered the S&P 500 to an all-time high Thursday, one day after Washington politicians reached a deal to reopen the government and avert a feared debt default. The S&P 500, the broadest of the major measures of US markets, closed at 1,733…
ExpertFlyer Hot Topics — Where the Rubber Meets the Runway For road warriors who covet frequent flier miles, a trip around the world is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put all those miles to extraordinary use. Jenny McIver closes out our Round…
Algorithmic trading is changing the way the stock market game is played, as human reaction times are no longer fast enough to keep up with machines that can make nearly instantaneous decisions about stock trades. A human chess grandmaster takes about…
On August 30, 2013Shares of cloud computing giant Salesforce are up more than 13 percent in early trading today following better than expected Q2 earnings report released after the markets closed yesterday. The company closed trading yesterday at $…
Whether you love them or not, electric cars are one of the hot cleantech consumer products that incite people to take notice and make their thoughts known. People comment about electric vehicles a lot. They are green chic. Come on, who does not want…
On October 2, 2013Apple has hired cable television industry veteran Jean-François Mulé as the engineering director of an undisclosed project. The move only further stokes rumors of the long-rumored Apple TV and the company’s plans to disrupt the…
On October 2, 2013Retail retail analytics and intelligence startup Quri has raised $10 million in a Series B round led by Matrix Partners with participation from return investors Catamount Ventures and Simon Equity Partners. Matrix general parner…
