If you thought that vending machines that dispense nothing but baby carrots are the latest green innovation in this field, we’ve got news for you. There’s a vending machine that is far more progressive and innovative. It provides you with a “fun w...
I write The Digital Life, a monthly tech column in our sister Condé Nast magazine, GQ. This is my column from last month's issue (dated January). To subscribe to GQ, click here. The trouble with business books is that they don't update in real tim...
The moment is always awkward. You scramble to unwrap the biggest gift under the tree as fast and as happily as possible -- certain you know it's exactly what you asked for -- only to have sinking disappointment overcome you, as you realize that al...
With Juniper predicting that mobile in-game purchasing will hit $4.8bn by 2016, this is a market that brands can’t afford to ignore. But can companies take a share of the virtual currency revenue, or are they restricted to using it as an opportuni...
EA wants you to know that their Play4Free, or Freemium, titles are all the rage these days. EA took time out of its busy schedule today to announce that the community of players enjoying their free-to-play browser-based games has reached 25 millio...
When a new year begins, we business owners wonder what’s in store for the upcoming 12 months. After all, with technology moving faster than ever, who could have foreseen the takeover (then falter) of daily deal sites a year ago? Or the ability of ...
How did Dropbox go from idea to 50 million users? Why did Steve Jobs want to buy it? And why did the founders turn him down? Grab this interview and hear how it all went down. Drew Houston is the cofounder of Dropbox, which offers free cloud-based...
on the innovation blog Time’s annual innovation issue GirlApproved Android’s Brick & Mortar play Freemium Mechanics
In 2007, we made an interesting discovery at Box, the content-sharing company I run: our service aimed at consumers and small businesses was being used in big enterprises. At first we didn't understand how Box had made its way into large organizat...
The 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2011 ] Correspondent Aasiv Mandvi's best comment is: "Turns out these games are free, up until the point when you don't want them to suck." [More from Mashable: ... Read the full story at
This is a guest post from Rafael Corrales, CEO of LearnBoost. LearnBoost has been an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers for the last ten months. Prior to them becoming an advertiser, I had written about LearnBoost a couple of times includi...
