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Tech-free life has its benefits


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Technology can feel burdensome after a while, since smartphones and social media make it so that you’re unofficially on call 24/7 for your friends, family, peers and professors. Even Randi Zuckerberg, whose brother, Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of one of the largest social network enterprises in the world, agrees that we’re all getting a […]

Emailing can still be refined


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For its 16th birthday, Yahoo decided to celebrate by changing the look of its email inbox. The result? The makeover made Yahoo’s inbox look cleaner, flatter and eerily familiar — if you compare Yahoo’s email interface side-by-side with that of Gmail’s. The setup and the spacing of the navigation and inbox sections are now strikingly […]

Twitter IPO dampens investors’ projections


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It’s March 21, 2006. After another long day of debugging and hashing out code at the startup, co-founder of Twitter — twttr at the time — Jack Dorsey sends out the first-ever tweet. What Dorsey published was nothing out of the ordinary. The small team at twttr didn’t know what to think of the idea […]

Buyouts not always successful


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Google has a lot to be proud of. Having just celebrated its 15th birthday along with the release of its newest search algorithm, Hummingbird, Google continuously tops the rankings for lists such as most innovative, most desired workplace and more. As one of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley, Google has accumulated the time […]

Society too dependent on phones


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Remember that scene from Dr. Dolittle 2 when the animal whisperer takes away his daughter’s cell phone? Probably not. It’s all I remember from the movie, starring Eddie Murphy as the doctor and Raven Symoné as his daughter, Charisse. After Dr. Dolittle snatches the antiquated-looking cell phone, Charisse responds with a sharp retort: “What am […]

Startups can benefit from some guidance


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In the second grade, I entered an invention contest. I had a great idea in mind and wanted to introduce it to the rest of my class. That invention? The Sharpencil, a brilliant product that would always keep your pencils sharp. Take off the rose-colored glasses, however, and the Sharpencil is actually a No. 2 […]