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PUBLISHED: April 15, 2013

Exclusive: Andrew Mason's Last Interview As Groupon CEO

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason was fired on Thursday. This is a not entirely surprising development given that on Wednesday afternoon, he and his fellow top executives reported quarterly earnings that can…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2826 words)

What To Read As Nemo Comes To Town

We recommend breaking out some hot chocolate and curling up on the couch tonight with these longreads...
PUBLISHED: Feb. 8, 2013

From Phones To Tablets: 23 Apple Designs That Never Came To Be

Editors’ note: The following is an excerpt from Design Forward: Creative Strategies for Sustainable Change (Arnoldsche Art Publishers), edited by Hermut Esslinger. In 1982, Apple was in its…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3042 words)

The Predecessor To Google Books, Facebook Graph Search, And Rewind.me--In The Early 1900s

You want an idea to survive hundreds or thousands of years? Step one: Don’t write it on paper. Alexander Konta believed this deeply. Paper yellows and withers and crumbles; it is the printed…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 17, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2591 words)

Syria Deeply Outsmarts The News, Redefines Conflict Coverage

The conflict in Syria has been raging for 629 days. Between Internet blockades and the serious threat to journalists' safety, public reporting on social networks has been a primary--and sometimes…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1665 words)
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Walmart's Evolution From Big Box Giant To E-Commerce Innovator

Jeremy King was ignoring the largest retailer in the world. For a month, he'd been getting calls from a Walmart recruiter. King was used to being wooed, since he was well known in Silicon Valley as…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3310 words)

UFC Tries To Prove It's Capable Of A Knockout

On the afternoon before one of the biggest mixed-martial-arts fights of 2012, a group of Ultimate Fighting Championship employees takes up position in a sun-blasted parking lot outside the Mandalay…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4454 words)

UFC Tries To Prove It's Capable Of A Knockout

On the afternoon before one of the biggest mixed-martial-arts fights of 2012, a group of Ultimate Fighting Championship employees takes up position in a sun-blasted parking lot outside the Mandalay…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4454 words)
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