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EXCLUSIVE: The Women Behind The New Bustle On Reinventing “Women’s Media”

Bustle, a three-year old website for millennial women, now has 50 million monthly readers. Here’s why they completely redesigned it.

Bustle, a three-year old website for millennial women, now has 50 million monthly readers. Here’s why they completely redesigned it.

At Bustle‘s Chelsea office in Manhattan, the two women at the heart of the website’s overhaul—creative director Isla Murray and senior engineer Zahra Jabini—are sitting together in the design room. Around them, the walls are covered in inspiration boards filled with images from recent photo shoots for the online publication. Women wearing colorfully patterned dresses seem to float in a sea of bright pinks, teals, oranges, and yellows. Such scenes of warmth, optimism, and fun have been channeled into Bustle‘s brand-new look, which is being revealed today.

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Kano, Creator Of Build-It-Yourself Tech For Kids, Is Going Beyond The PC

This company wants to make it as easy for kids (and the rest of us) to build and program gadgets as it is to use them.

This company wants to make it as easy for kids (and the rest of us) to build and program gadgets as it is to use them.

From Hackaball to the Mover Kit to Apple’s Swift Playgrounds, a cottage industry has lately sprung up of gadgets and apps dedicated to helping kids learn how to code. Kano, which launched in 2013 as a Kickstarter project, was one of the earlier efforts. And the concept—it’s a Linux-powered computer that budding programmers build themselves, hooked into an online code-sharing community—remains unique.

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This Crucial Step Is Missing From Your Hiring Process

Letting your team members meet with job candidates and debriefing afterward can help you make better hires and develop the talent you have.

Letting your team members meet with job candidates and debriefing afterward can help you make better hires and develop the talent you have.

The goal of any hiring process is to hire the best talent. That much is obvious. But the way you hire can also help you develop—and, ultimately, hang onto—the team members you already have.

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Spotify Just Made The “Shuffle” Button A Thousand Times Smarter

Daily Mix is a new personalized playlist that blends songs you love with new, undiscovered gems that fit right in.

Daily Mix is a new personalized playlist that blends songs you love with new, undiscovered gems that fit right in.

Matthew Ogle wants Spotify to stop feeling so much like a music app. That might sound counterintuitive, since Spotify is pretty much synonymous with streaming music these days, but his quest is simpler than it sounds: More and more, he wants the all-you-can-stream music service to feel like an old friend.

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Why AirPods Are The Best Place For Siri, According To Apple Legend Bill Atkinson

In a Bluetooth speaker? In a messaging app? In a desktop OS? No. Your personal assistant should be in your ear. Here’s why.

In a Bluetooth speaker? In a messaging app? In a desktop OS? No. Your personal assistant should be in your ear. Here’s why.

In the heat of the controversy about removing the analog headphone jack on the iPhone, Apple released a line of wireless headphones called AirPods. They seemed to represent Apple’s vision for the way we’ll listen to mobile music in the future.

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Slack Unveils The First Of Many Integrations With Salesforce

The popular enterprise messaging platform will be able to pull in Salesforce record data, and sync with its Chatter messaging feature.

The popular enterprise messaging platform will be able to pull in Salesforce record data, and sync with its Chatter messaging feature.

The popular enterprise messaging app Slack said today that it’s partnering with Salesforce to let companies that use both platforms more easily unify and harmonize sales lead information and conversations.

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5 Tips To Turn Your Conference Talk Into A Networking Opportunity

Standing out at a busy conference can be challenging, but these tips from a professional public speaker will give you an edge.

Standing out at a busy conference can be challenging, but these tips from a professional public speaker will give you an edge.

You landed a speaking role at an upcoming conference. Great! Now what? Well, if you’re lucky, a decent crowd will show up for your talk, nod politely while you speak, and amble out afterward. That doesn’t mean it was a failure—after all, this is how most presentations at formal events like conferences tend to go. They help you share a few ideas, raise your professional profile, and maybe lead to an exchanged business card or two.

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This Auditing App Lets Your Boss Police Suspicious “Work” Cocktails

AppZen, which offers automated auditing services, just added computer vision and AI to help spot sketchy charges in expense reports.

AppZen, which offers automated auditing services, just added computer vision and AI to help spot sketchy charges in expense reports.

These days, a lot of workers are worried about robots taking their jobs, but now robots are taking jobs that literally no one else was doing—like poring through every inch of people’s dense expense reports.

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Satya Nadella On Microsoft’s New Age Of Intelligence

How the software giant aims to tie everything from Cortana to Office to HoloLens to Azure servers into one AI experience.

How the software giant aims to tie everything from Cortana to Office to HoloLens to Azure servers into one AI experience.

“Microsoft was born to do a certain set of things. We’re about empowering people in organizations all over the world to achieve more. In today’s world, we want to use AI to achieve that.”

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