Keen On… Tyler Cowen:...
We are not nearly as innovative as we think we are. That, at least, is the view of Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason university and the author of The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History,Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel...Steve Case: It’s Craz...
AOL founder Steve Case has a three-point plan to get job growth back on track in America, and it all revolves around ways the government can spur more entrepreneurship. Over the past three decades, high-growth companies created 40 million jobs. “It accounts for all the net job...Siri Cracked Open, Theo...
Serving as a stark reminder that there are people on the Internet who are way, way too damned clever, the guys over at the iPhone design/development house Applidium claim to have cracked open Siri to take an unsanctioned look at its ( her? his? ) inner workings. In a rare (but quite...Herman Cain’s 404...
I see what you did there, Herman Cain. Sneaky and hilarious, but for what it’s worth, your 404 page is probably getting more hits this week than your entire site. Even though you’re probably not going to be president, you, sir, win Internet of the Week. Now let’s go and...
Best Buy Preps $249 Asu...
The ratio of awful tablets to good ones in this year’s Black Friday ads doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence, but there are some good deals to be found even at this early stage. Case in point: Best Buy’s leaked Black Friday circular has the first generation 16GB Asus...
WhereIsTheCool.com: A L...
With its pink and white color scheme and emphasis on self expression, Pinterest has found a rapidly growing audience of women, and investors are lining up. But guys might not find content for them on Pinterest’s home page. Hell, even its Cars & Motorcycles channel is filled...
How To Be An Optimist I...
Editor’s note : Contributor David Kirkpatrick the author of The Facebook Effect and founder of the Techonomy Conference , taking place Nov. 13-15 in Arizona. It’s no secret to most readers at TechCrunch that technology is changing the world. Unfortunately, there are a...
In Defense Of The Stylu...
A little while back, I got an email from Atmel, one of the leading touchscreen makers, asking if I wanted to check out their latest creation: a new active stylus that works with an improved touchscreen, for stylus actions alongside normal finger-touches and technologies like palm...Why Mobile Flash Died: ...
Adobe’s mobile Flash efforts have recently gone the way of the western black rhino, and Principal Product Manager Mike Chambers isn’t too pleased with how the Adobe chose to broke the news. In fact, he feels so strongly about it that he’s offered up his own...