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July 16, 2014
Visa Launches A PayPal Competitor
The credit card company also opened the doors to its San Francisco innovation center.
Until 1958, consumer credit worked on a one-off basis. Banks convinced merchants, one by one, to accept a consumer's personal line of credit, which the financial institution confirmed over the phone by checking its phonebook-like records. It wasn't until Bank of America introduced the BankAmericard--an entity later spun out and renamed Visa--that the plastic credit card and the now-familiar interactions of swiping and signing were introduced to the general public.
Awwchitecture: Couple Gets Engaged In Bjarke Ingels' Giant Maze
Love is in the labyrinth.
True love is no match for a starchitect's labyrinth. Yesterday, two lovebirds got engaged in the middle of Bjarke Ingels Group's giant wooden maze inside the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The couple, identified by the National Building Museum as Erin O'Connor and Peter Dwyer, went to the museum on their first date.
The Yo App, It's Now For More Than Alerting Israelis Of Rocket Attacks, Annoying People
The controversial app company opens Its API to developers.
Yo, an app that let's you send a push notification to other people and not much else, just opened its API to developers.
Airbnb Unveils A Major Rebranding Effort That Paves The Way For Sharing More Than Homes
Airbnb is laying the foundation for marketing a slew of new sharing-economy services down the road.
Brian Chesky is too excited about the color magenta--yes, the purplish-pink hue found in printer cartridge ink. The CEO of Airbnb, the megahit service which enables users to list their homes on the web and rent them out to guests, is raving about the color's "pop" and "spirit"; about its "modern" look and "sophisticated" feel; about its "playful" vibe and "fun" tone. Chesky has been enamored with magenta ever since he was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design; more recently, he even went so far as to launch an internal campaign to get other Airbnb designers to integrate his favorite color into their work. "I have too much energy--I have to stand up," announces the hulking 32-year-old as he talks, bouncing up and down at his company's San Francisco headquarters.
Roboto Rebooted: Why Google Updates Its Font Like The Rest Of Its Products
With its ambitious plan to create a single design language for all its products, Google had to update its main font to work on any screen.
In the digital age, the printing press has largely gone the way of Dodo, but we still treat the design of typefaces as being as permanent as if it was made up of centuries-old metal blocks. You just don't 'tweak' a typeface... do you?
Google: 6 Reasons Why Nobody Uses Your App
Nobody using your app? It's okay, you aren't alone. Here's what may have gone wrong, according to Google.
There's a dirty secret behind many of those hot new app startups you hear about every week. They have seed funding and a flashy landing page. They have articles in Techcrunch and promises to disrupt the Universe. They have everything except users because nobody actually ever wanted the app.
The Common Core Standards Need To Bust A Move
Uninspired Curriculum Options Leave Teachers Frustrated. Companies Like Flocabulary See A Big Opportunity To Change That.
The beat fades in with space-age synth as the music video opens on an astronaut, weightless and adrift alongside stars and distant galaxies. "I've been first and I've been last," a rapper proclaims as he opens the song.
Ask The Experts: Is There A Way To Incorporate My Day Job Into A Side Hustle Without Being Shady?
You love your job but it doesn't pay the bills. You need a side hustle. Here's some advice on how to make that happen.
Finding a job that you love that pays well can feel a dream more impossible than finding the tooth fairy riding a unicorn. Many people are happy to get at least half of the equation.
July 15, 2014
Girl Geek Academy Wants To Get 1 Million Girls Coding by 2025
Their mission: To boldly go "where no girl geeks have gone before."
According to a survey by the International Game Developers Association, women now make up 22% of the game development workforce--a number that's doubled since 2009 but is still relatively low, with men dominating at 76%. It's a common story of men holding the larger share of positions in the tech and startup industries (women only account for 25% of professional computing occupations in the U.S., according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology)--but a female group of self-proclaimed hackers, hustlers, and hipsters based in Australia are out to change that.
Microsoft Might Be Planning Its Largest Round Of Layoffs
A report from Bloomberg said an upcoming round of job cuts could exceed the 5,800 jobs cut in 2009.
Is the axe about to fall at Microsoft? As part of restructuring efforts, the software maker could undergo its largest round of layoffs, exceeding the 5,800 jobs that were cut in 2009, according to Bloomberg.
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