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It's related to the Dell - VMWare reverse merger. They have to raise cash to fund the merger.

A flash game I built in high school (about 7 years ago) went from an average of $30 per month on AdSense to $500 the next month, to $3,600 the month after that due to an unexpected…

While the implementation of this would be pretty straightforward, the method signature you're asking for seems convoluted, in my opinion. Here's why: - "add1" is not very descripti…

The greenshoe increases the demand. MS placed a 38.00 bid with an enormous size, so if you were to look at the live feed, you would have seen something like: Bid: 38.00 x 9999999 A…

Update: we ended up second place in the Ann Arbor Hacka2thon. GooseCast (ccgoose.com) took the top honors. Thanks for everyone's feedback so far!

For now we're pretty much only targeting the US (hence the zip code thing). We originally had browser geo-location, but disabled that for a few reasons. We will re-enable it soon.

Actually, that's already a feature! In the bottom left you can specify a date range.

FYI - Please click 'allow' when your browser prompts for geo-location. If you don't see many events around you, log in with Facebook and the system will fetch publicly-available ev…

This has huge implications - imagine every "thing" having a freely-available API. Combine that with predictive analytics and we can come really close to predicting the future.

What an incredible idea! This can become even more valuable if ifttt can open its platform to enable outside developers to create and distribute custom action blocks and triggers f…

Complex pricing schemes tend to be a sign of a monopoly or oligopoly. The sellers of the market use these complex pricing schemes to skim off as much consumer surplus as possible. …

This concept can even be taken further - rather than testing just a name, use AdWords to test your entire product before even building it. For example, if you are thinking of openi…

It appears Web Intents has taken the time-tested concept of an enterprise service bus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_service_bus ) and used it in a non-enterprise applic…

Here's some validation of the "boring" concept: http://techcrunch.com/enterprise/ It's amazing to see how these M&A transactions pale in comparison to what's going on in the consum…

This article seems to make a lot of sweeping negative generalizations about MBA students. I agree with the author's obvious argument that people who lack domain experience and who …

This article fails to bring several factors into its economic model. It should be about incentives and demand elasticity here - the "steepness" of the demand curve. According to th…

That's a good point - enterprise software is meant to be customized to a business, so maintaining a strong repository of documentation is difficult, if not impossible. However, I'v…

SAP's lack of openness is a huge problem, and will continue to hinder its development. Not only does the license cost millions of dollars, but then the enterprise that purchases it…

It's funny you say that - there's a lot of Kool-Aid drinking that goes on at Accenture (or any other corporate consulting brand for that matter). Re-reading my post, it does look a…

As a current Analyst (1 year out of college now) at Accenture, I have a few points to add: Positives: - Accenture greatly helps develop one's people skills and networking skills wh…