Top Stories of the Day // November 16, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Nov 16, 2014

SARAH BUHR Our South Park, Ourselves read more

JOSH CONSTINE Kevin Rose Plots A Luxury Ecommerce Empire Starting With New App Watchville read more

KYLE RUSSELL The Samsung Gear S Is A Smartphone On Your Wrist Announced back in September, the Samsung Gear S is the South Korean electronics company's sixth attempt at making a smartwatch. It's got the specs of a... read more

DAVID MIERKE 3 Reasons You Can’t Just Ask Customers What They Want Do you like apples or bananas? Coffee or tea? Pepperoni or cheese pizza? Simple questions result in simple answers which, when researching and developing a... read more

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JOHN BIGGS The T Machine Swipes All The Tinders read more

ERIC BURNS Universities Are Schooling Tech Companies In Video It's no secret that the ivory towers of academia don't get much respect from the tech industry. It’s become conventional wisdom that Computer Science degrees... read more

JEFF MARKOWITZ Managing Talent In A Networked Age, Part 2 In Part 1, my colleague Reid Hoffman said that recognizing that top talent may someday want to leave can lead to more honest conversations at work that can even... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: Silent Noise  The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday,... read more

An Interview With William Gibson, Author Of The Future  William Gibson didn’t invent the Web but he gave us the language we use to describe it. His original... read more

EyeFocus Accelerator Launches In Berlin To Focus On Eye-care Startups  A new startup accelerator launch in Berlin this week. But while there are accelerators dotted all over Berlin,... read more

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