As reported on LifeHacker. If you pay your bills on time and have been financially responsible, but have never had a credit card or taken out a loan, your credit history is a blank slate. Lenders use your credit report to make decisions about whether or not to give you a credit card, what that card’s limit should be, or to grant you a loan. But with no credit history, there’s no record of how…
As reported on LifeHacker. by Eli Rubel Ok, cool. Meetings. They seem simple enough, right? I mean, you just book the thing, show up at a coffee shop, ask some smart questions, and then on to the next one. Boom. Am I winning, or am I winning? NO. WRONG. TRY AGAIN. That was me two years ago. And the worst part? I thought I was crushing my meetings. Two per day, five days a week—that’s not…
As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON BodeTree launched early last year to help small business owners better understand and make sense of their financial data. The startup has been attempting to make the absurdly tedious world of financial software fun, or at least less crappy, pitching itself as a “financial tool for people who hate finance.” As Sarah wrote at the time, BodeTree syncs with QuickBooks for data importing, but differentiates itself from similar tools by providing…
As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN HURST Deep in Utah’s high desert, Adobe is putting the finishing touches on its latest outpost — a low-slung but stylish 280,000-square-foot compound.Sadly, the circumstances surrounding the building sound more mysterious than their reality, even with the NSA’s new data center as a close neighbor. The location in the south suburbs of Salt Lake City is an up-and-coming region for tech business sometimes called “Silicon Slope.” Adobe’s new campus will operate as the…
As reported on Wired. BY SARAH MITROFF ToPo Athletic’s line of men’s shoes. From left the RT, RX, and RR. Photo: ToPo Athletic Tony Post has gone from five fingers to two toes, all in the quest for the ultimate sneaker. The former Vibram CEO, who brought us the FiveFinger shoe, is finally showing off his next shoe project from his startup ToPo Athletic. Just like the original Vibrams, ToPo’s (Tony Post, get it?) first line is sure to elicit…
As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Facebook is a data company. Today’s news about its new search features proves it. So did last week’s news about the company testing what it can charge people to send Mark Zuckerberg a message. And tomorrow at Open Compute Project’s Open Compute Summit, Facebook will again show why becoming the world’s largest data broker depends on the success of its massive data-center buildout. The Open Compute Summit is Facebook’s creation, really. The company open-sourced its…
As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS Wearable connected devices are having a moment — largely anticipatory — as excitement builds about the potential for sensor-packed mobile kit that you strap to your person and use to augment/record activity from your daily life. Yesterday Google announced the first hackathons for its Project Glass smart specs to get developers thinking about building apps for a new type of mobile device, while a smorgasbord of wearable fitness tracking gizmos such…
As reported Engadget. By Daniel Cooper BBC News is reporting that there’s another casualty on the British high street today as video rental chain Blockbuster enters administration. The company began life in the motherland back in March 1989 and, like several of its brethren, couldn’t compete against online offerings from Amazon (amongst others). It’s the second business in 48 hours to go under after HMV did the same yesterday. BBC News is also reporting that administrators Deloitte will continue to honor gift cards and will keep the stores trading…
As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS You know a mobile app store is still young and needs more content when the company behind it still writes its own blog posts when interesting new apps appear in it. With 150,000 apps, the Windows Phone store isn’t actually quite as empty as the Windows 8 store, but Microsoft could sure use some marquee apps for its mobile platform. To get developers and consumers a bit more excited about it, the company…
As reported on TechCrunch. by JAMES ALTUCHER Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and several-times entrepreneur. His latest books are I Was Blind But Now I See and 40 Alternatives to College. Please follow him on Twitter @jaltucher. People read TechCrunch because they want to create something, they don’t want to follow orders all of their lives, and they want financial freedom. I’m being blunt. The above three items feel good. God bless you. Hopefully once you get the three things above,…