“The Good Wife” finished its fourth season last night, overshadowed as always by TV’s other blockbuster Sunday offerings, from “Homeland” to “Game of Thrones” and “Mad Men.” This season had a rocky start— Kalinda and her implausible, raunchy ex-husband, he of the perverse ice cream— but boy did it recover. The last two thirds of the season have been fantastic, a sprawling, entertaining, tightly plotted, non-didactic (yes, that is a “Mad Men” dig), razor sharp examination of power, ethics, and corruption, as serious and seriously entertaining as anything on cable.Continue Reading… … Read More
Australia poised for tech start-up boom: Google study
Tech start-ups could be worth Aus$109 billion (US$111 billion) to the Australian economy by 2033 — on a par with retail or education — and create half a million jobs, a report for Google found Tuesday. The PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) study “The Startup Economy” said that by…
Start button confirmed to make a comeback in Windows 8.1, sort of
We first heard rumors about a possible comeback of the Start menu button in Windows 8.1 last week, but now sources speaking to The Verge have confirmed that this will indeed be the case, only it’s probably not what most detractors were hoping for. The newly reintroduced button will reportedly… … Read More
Moisés Naím on the End of Power
Power is shifting—from large, stable armies to
loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble
start-ups, from presidential palaces to public squares. It has
become harder to wield power and easier to lose it, and the world
is becoming less predictable as a result. As people become more
prosperous and mobile, writes Moisés Naím, they are harder to
control and more apt to question authority. View this article.
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Sarah Palin echoes Romney: Tesla Motors ‘losers’ who build ‘bricks’
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin attacked the start-up company Tesla Motors on Friday, describing the California-based car manufacturer as “losers.” Palin was commenting on Fisker Automotive in a Facebook post. The “green” automaker was launched after receiving a loan from the…
With Acquisition, Apple Looks Indoors for Future of Maps
Apple has acquired WiFiSlam, a start-up company that helps improve the accuracy of indoor maps and other services. Indoor maps look poised to become a new battleground between big tech companies. … Read More
Must-see morning clip: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey tweets at his mom daily
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey made quite an impression on “60 Minutes’” Lara Logan, who described him as a great philosopher of our day. Dorsey tells Logan that he views his start-ups, social media giant Twitter and electronic pay system Square, as movements.But not everyone who uses Twitter is trying to start a revolution–part of the movement is the ability to enhance peoples’ daily lives. “I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner,” says Dorsey. “And for 99.99999 percent of the world, it’s useless. It’s meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.”Continue Reading… … Read More
