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Death To The QR Code - Business Insider

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You have successfully emailed the post. Death To The QR Code. Jul 7, 2011, 4:00 PM. Over the past few years, "QR codes" - those square, mobile barcodes - have started to show up in some U.S. advertising. While QR codes are cute and novel, and may be big in Japan, they're not the future of advertising here. So it's time to drop them. Even Google is. And then there are the inevitable delays in finding the barcode app in your phone, waiting for the camera to prepare itself to shoot photos, getting the right...

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CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Apple's Revenue Comes From - Business Insider

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You have successfully emailed the post. CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Apple's Revenue Comes From. Apr 21, 2010, 2:00 PM. Apple's iPhone business, which didn't exist three years ago, now represents a whopping 40% of the company's revenue, and has been the company's biggest revenue generator for three quarters in a row. During the March quarter, iPhone revenue grew 124% year-over-year. Follow the Chart Of The Day on Twitter: www.twitter.com/chartoftheday. Get updates in your inbox.

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RIM Is Screwed - Business Insider

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You have successfully emailed the post. Apr 1, 2010, 1:36 PM. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIMM) is in trouble. Not because of yesterday's earnings problems. Missing revenue and unit shipment expectations because of a one-time inventory adjustment at one of its carrier partners. But, rather, because RIM is simply not positioned well for the future. So it's no surprise that RIM executives think everything is fine. As usual, co-CEO Jim Balsillie raved about RIM's success on the company's earnin...

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Hosed Adobe Doing Damage Control By Sending Out Videos Of Flash On Dell Tablets - Business Insider

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You have successfully emailed the post. Hosed Adobe Doing Damage Control By Sending Out Videos Of Flash On Dell Tablets. Apr 2, 2010, 11:35 AM. Apple's iPad - which doesn't support Adobe's Flash plugin - is getting a slew of media companies to modify their video and advertising infrastructure to work around Flash. So Adobe is in damage control mode, rushing to remind people that other tablets running Flash will exist, someday. A PR firm representing the company just sent us this, for example.

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Why I’m Joining Quartz, In One Handy Chart. Starting this Friday, I’ll be the new Tech Editor. An excellent, newish business news site from Atlantic Media. Here’s the quick version:. A little more on that middle part about City Notes. The mobile startup I’ve been working on with my friend Mark Dorison. Why not raise a bunch of VC money and go nuts? We might do that, someday but we’re waiting for the right time and the right partners. What about this site, SplatF? The Dropbox OS Is Taking Shape. Page more...

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Mobile Startup Bug Labs Having Surprising Success In Enterprise - Business Insider

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You have successfully emailed the post. Mobile Startup Bug Labs Having Surprising Success In Enterprise. Apr 22, 2009, 1:20 PM. When open-source mobile gadget startup Bug Labs. It was hoping to first serve the gadget-hacker community - tinkerers and do-it-yourselfers who wanted to build their own mobile software. Instead, the company is finding surprising success in the enterprise, Bug Labs founder and CEO Peter Semmelhack tells us. Think of it as a lego kit for mobile geeks. All attached to a base unit.

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Blip.TV Stops Neglecting Its Website, Rolls Out A Nice New One - Business Insider

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You have successfully emailed the post. BlipTV Stops Neglecting Its Website, Rolls Out A Nice New One. May 17, 2011, 8:12 AM. BlipTV founders Mike Hudack, Dina Kaplan, and Justin Day. One of the web video pioneers that has focused on episodic video content. Has mostly neglected its website until now. Blip had chosen instead to work on its back-end for video producers, its distribution network across the Internet, and, more recently, its ad business. For company context, Blip now has about 50 employees, a...

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CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Takes Over Gaming - Business Insider

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You have successfully emailed the post. CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Takes Over Gaming. Sep 9, 2009, 5:35 PM. Apple continues to set its sights on the gaming industry, touting its massive, low-cost game selection as a reason to buy an iPod touch (or iPhone) instead of a Sony PSP or Nintendo DS. During today's iPod event. Apple showed off this chart. It illustrates that the iPhone platform has almost five times the number of game and entertainment titles that Sony and Nintendo's portable systems have. Notify m...

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Meet Adam Lisagor, a.k.a. 'Lonelysandwich' - Business Insider

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You have successfully emailed the post. Remember This Face, This Guy's Going To Be Huge. May 14, 2010, 4:45 PM. Making the jump from obscure Internet-nerd fame to broad, mainstream recognition is a tricky task. Few have done it, and there's no clear path. But it's been a long time since we've seen someone as promising (and just plain funny) as Adam Lisagor. Who goes by " Lonelysandwich. So we're calling it now: Remember this face and voice, because we think you're going to see a lot more of him. Click he...

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Zuckerberg: Facebook Revenue Growth 'Really Strong', Still Hiring - Business Insider

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You have successfully emailed the post. Zuckerberg: Facebook Revenue Growth 'Really Strong', Still Hiring. Jan 12, 2009, 11:40 AM. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says the company did "really well" against its revenue expectations for 2008, and that the company is still hiring, especially engineers and salespeople. We had a chance to catch up with Mark for a few minutes during our visit to Silicon Valley last week. Specifically, Mark says:. My colleague Henry Blodget notes. Cross the 1,000 employee mark...