by Om Malik
Kanye West's Gone, an eight-year old song hit the BillBoard Hot 100, thanks in part to a viral video hit on YouTube that used it as a soundtrack. That bump on the rankings show that ratings and rankings of media are mere relics of a past.
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The third major update of Windows Phone is on the way. Microsoft announced it on Monday saying it will roll out to older phones in the coming months but it also brings support for larger phones with 1080 displays.
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New York-based digital health academy StartUp Health has picked its latest class of digital health startups.
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Announcing the designers of Tesla's cars and Microsoft's next-gen gaming console Xbox One to our experience design conference RoadMap.
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Sonos CEO John MacFarlane declined when Spotify asked the company to join its connected audio intiative. Instead, he hopes to pick up new customers with a $200 speaker, and promises to make Sonos more like Chromecast.
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Nuage Networks makes network services as dynamically available as virtualized applications need them to be, in a programmable and automated multitenant infrastructure. By utilizing the key tenants of software-defined networks (SDN), Nuage Networks brings the power of NOW to data center networks everywhere.
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As BuzzFeed expands internationally, it's not relying solely on local-language editors or traditional translation. Instead, it's outsourcing translation work to language learning startup Duolingo.
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The Israeli firm helps users cut down on their mobile data consumption without using fewer services -- a feature that will be critical in Facebook's mission of connecting more people in the developing world.
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There are too many choices available for consumers when it comes to devices and apps that track your steps or daily activities. What needs to happen is consolidation across the industry and a focus on storytelling, not just activity.
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Microsoft says it has seen the light in terms of designing software that business users actually want to use. For its new Q&A feature for visualizing Excel data, for example, the product team spent six weeks thinking about UI before even thinking about technology.
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Email sometimes seems like an outdated technology, but email newsletters can still be a thriving business model. The former CEO of Daily Candy offers some guidelines.
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Mixing comedy and music to create viral video is a time-honored tradition of online video, but in 2013, according to YouTube's experts, what gets these videos to spread has evolved.
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Got a Windows 8 machine and want to kick the tires of Google's Chrome OS? The latest development channel of Chrome lets you do that, provided you know the one simple trick to enable it.
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Is Twitter ruining America by making it easy for politicians to create a bubble in which they only communicate with fans? Actually, the transparency and lack of filters has as many positive aspects as it does negative ones.
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The rise of APIs as a source for web services and data means that developers don't have to reinvent the wheel on every feature -- they can source it from an API. This trend brings about the composable enterprise.
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Global revenue from the internet of things totaled $200 billion in 2012 and is expected to rise to $1.2 trillion by 2020. The U.S. is poised to lead in this area, and lawmakers can help.
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A future of ubiquitous computing -- in traditional devices but also in everyday appliances and home goods -- is near. Ahead of our Mobilize even next week we asked 10 thought leaders what this means for us.
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Booz Allen Hamilton serves clients in areas such as national security, financial services and life sciences, and data science is an increasingly important part of the job. Its VP of Strategic Innovation talks about how he approaches hiring data scientists and analyzing clients' data.
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Microsoft directors have talked to eight external CEO candidates, including Oracle co-prez Mark Hurd, theWall Street Journal reported.
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Book publishers worldwide are grappling with the digital transition, figuring out ebook pricing and competing against a massive number of other forms of entertainment. Here's how these themes played out at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
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Tuesday 15 October 2013
BillBoard, Nielsen and ridiculousness of charts in the Internet age, as shown by Kanye West’s Gone
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