We’re all excellent storytellers, especially when it comes to spinning a tale about why we failed. Here’s how to stop doing that.
Sometimes, when it comes to achievement, our biggest enemy is ourselves.
Samsung’s New Note 7 Borrows The Galaxy S7’s Curves And Camera
The new Note features an iris scanner than can be used as an alternative authentication method.
Samsung released the Galaxy Note 5 last year, and this year brings the Galaxy Note 7. Wait. What happened to the Note 6? Samsung skipped from 5 to 7 for good reason. It wanted the new Note’s name to sound like that of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge devices, which are selling very well this year.
What Uber China’s Merger With Didi Means For The Company’s Future
After years of bruising competition that cost them billions, the merger makes both companies much stronger.
On Monday, Uber China and its biggest rival in the country, ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing agreed to merge, ending a fierce competition between the two companies that was costing them billions of dollars. While Uber has a stranglehold on the market in many other countries, in China it was losing money, reportedly to the tune of $2 billion over the past two years.
An Exclusive Look At Airbnb’s First Foray Into Urban Planning
Airbnb announces a brand-new innovation lab called Samara, whose first project is a novel community center in Japan.
Two years ago, the founders of Airbnb were asking themselves what the company could become, now that its vision of becoming the world’s largest home-share community had come true beyond their wildest expectations. That’s when they happened across a list of the top 10 tech companies of the 1990s. They were stunned—and scared. Nine of those once-hot companies were now floundering or dead, and they had all done everything right. But by simply focusing on their core businesses, each of those startups had allowed competitors to copy them. Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk realized that if they weren’t thinking of what else their business might become, Airbnb would eventually become a dowdy has-been.
After Being Sued By Tinder, Can This Threesomes App Survive A Rebrand?
3nder, an app for threesomes, is rebranding to stay alive in the face of a lawsuit from Tinder.
Dating app Tinder is going after fledgling startup 3nder, an app that facilitates threesomes, in a lawsuit that claims 3nder is benefiting from the similarity between the two companies’ names. Not only is Tinder suing 3nder, they’re also suing its founder Dimo Trifonov as well, a move that could defund his whole operation.
These Are The 50 Best Places To Interview For A Job This Year
The best places to interview are probably not the companies you associate with the best employee experiences.
If you think the best places to work are also the best places to interview at, you’re sorely mistaken.
Target’s Tech For Tots Aisle: Sure To Be A Guilty Parenting Hotspot
The Connected Nursery section at 450 stores will sell devices—including a $99 rubber ducky—aimed at making life easier for parents.
The under-slept, overworked parents of small children are often happy to empty their wallets for any product that promises to make life a bit more manageable. And what better way to do so than modern technology?
Here’s What You Need To Negotiate At Each Stage Of Your Career
Negotiation is one job skill you’ll always need. But the things you’ll want to negotiate should change with your career.
If you’re looking for ways to advance your career, you’ll find lots of well-informed people telling you to change, grow, and learn new things. That isn’t bad advice. It’s been argued that the job skills you need, the types of people in your network, and even the ways you use social media all have to evolve depending on the stage of your career and the one you’re trying to reach.
Mission Impossible: The Ridiculous Tech Of Jason Bourne
The latest chapter in the action series is generally on target for major trends in technology, but it goofs in some embarrassing ways.
Jason Bourne. You know his name, and you know what to expect in the action/espionage franchise: Stupendous car chases, brutal hand-to-hand combat, and a big CIA control room where tech wizards watch his every move around the world. The latest Bourne flick has loads of all that, making it a joyful seat-gripping action flick. It also has absurd scenes with garbled tech concepts flying at the audience as fast as the villains pursuing Bourne.
Scientists Wanted Transparency From Theranos, But Got A Product Launch Instead
Scientists say Theranos has left them with more questions than answers.
Theranos once promised to revolutionize the blood testing industry. But its methodology remains secretive, despite calls for transparency from the scientific community. Now, it is facing federal investigations, private litigation, voided tests, and its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, is banned from operating a lab for two years.
