Oct 05 Eric Schmidt on Google vs. Facebook By News Desk Gwen Ifill interviewed Google's Eric Schmidt -- the company's former CEO and current executive chairman -- as part of the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday. Among her questions about the search giant: can it really take on Facebook with it's… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch Eric Schmidt on Google vs. Facebook Gwen Ifill interview's Google's Eric Schmidt as part of the Washington Ideas Forum. Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch Are Social Media Services the Next Tech Bubble? The estimated value of tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is soaring, but could another tech bubble be building? Ray Suarez discusses the social media services that are at the center of this question with Fortune magazine's Jessi… Continue watching
Jun 16 Report Reveals Social Media’s Aging Audience A new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found that the audience for top social media services has grown older in just a couple of years. Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch Twitter Is Everywhere Now, but Can It Make Money? From the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden to Rep. Anthony Weiner's scandal, Twitter has been in the news recently for helping break news. While the social media giant's popularity has soared among politicians, movie stars and people… Continue watching
May 17 Watch Author James Gleick Traces Information’s Evolution in New Book Author's New Book Traces Evolution of Information… Continue watching
May 17 Can You Make it Through the Month? Financial Decisions of the Poor Here's an online "game" found for us by one of our most trusted advisors, Boston University Finance Professor Zvi Bodie. It gives a sense of what it means to be poor in America these days. Eye-opening, if dispiriting:… Continue reading
May 09 The Drudge Report Drives More Top News Traffic than Twitter or Facebook, Study Finds The Drudge Report outranks social media when it comes to driving news traffic to top Web sites, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. In a comprehensive examination of online traffic… Continue reading
Apr 20 Egypt’s Uprising: Tracking the Social Media Factor A Dubai-based news and information company analyzed social media revolving around the Egypt uprising. They discovered a new conversation rising, growing larger and asking Arab people, "who are we and what will we be in the future?"… Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch Social Media Curation Tool Separates News From Noise Startup Storyful explores how to separate the news from the noise in social media. Continue watching