First-generation immigrants are more likely than their nonimmigrant peers to become an entrepreneur. What’s more, entrepreneurship rates across age categories, when adjusted to take into account the percentage of each age group that is active in the labor market, were relatively similar, the report found.Catherine Clifford in Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Reaches Highest Level in More Than a Decade May 23, 2013
The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs. As the growth of OTT messaging and media sharing shows, a user’s social needs are being met with no need for a social network.
Keith Teare in The Future Of Mobile-Social Could Spell The End For Social Networks
I go along with this idea more and more…
May 21, 2013Biohacking — you can do it, too
May 21, 2013People watch TV online primarily for three reasons:
1. They want to catch-up on a show they missed in broadcast.
2. They want to watch something they haven’t seen on TV before.
3. They want to repeat a show they’ve already seen on broadcast TV.
Repeat viewers comprise a small segment of the online audience, with 30% of respondents in an ABC study saying that they had gone online to re-watch an episode they’d already seen on TV.6 Similarly, nearly 40% of viewers used ABC.com to watch a re-watch an episode after seeing it on TV.
— Sheila Seles (from MIT Media Lab) in It’s (not) the end of TV as we know it.
May 14, 2013Yes, to the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThomas Edison, creator of electric light bulb, when asked by a reporter where he would send his sons to college. May 14, 2013
