It was, and still is, the country’s premier conference on tech and media, with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, the Google leadership, Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey, and many other leading players. Swisher is also the author of aol.com: How Steve Case...
1971 – The first email was sent byRay Tomlinson; his message was a simple “QWERTYUIOP,” which marked the beginning of communication via email. 1972- First email management systemwas created byLarry Roberts, which enabled users to list, select, forward, and respond to email messages 1978 –...
Previously, she was communications director at Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angeles, where her work included the launches of the Toyota Tundra and Toyota Prius, the car manufacturer’s two most successful launches ever. She was also recently named a “Working Mother of the Year“ by ...
Smartphones had put a camera in everyone’s hand, and Twitter had created a real-time platform from which those photos and text updates could be instantly disseminated to the world. Billions of connected humans and devices were being woven into a global brain. That brain was all of u...
Navigator was briefly the dominant internet browser. Netscape's IPO in 1995 was a seminal event of the internet boom years. Microsoft launched its first version of Internet Explorer the same year. Microsoft had a huge advantage: It could package Explorer with its ubiquitous operating system and ...
Last year I was giving some thought on how we could increase the size of our email list on one of our sister sites. We publish a bi-weekly newsletter there and while the subscriber base has been growing steadily, I wanted to increase the size at a faster rate. ...
"February core CPI rose 0.36%, 6 basis points above consensus expectations, and the year-on-year rate fell by less than expected to 3.8%. The composition was disinflationary however, with a sharp normalization in non-housing services inflation and a return to the Q4 trend for the owners' ...
- Year founded: 1978 - Year defunct: 2011 - Lifetime: 33 years Back in 2011, Borders—a book and music megastore—had to close its 400 stores around the country when the company was liquidated. Unfortunately, much of Borders' stock was CDs and DVDs, at the critical tipping point wheneve...
TheAOL Time Warnermegamergerin Jan. 2000, is regarded as the peak of this bubble, which would become the biggest merger failure in history. At the very peak of the bubble, Greenspan famously doubled down on his belief that the Internet bubble was sustainable and that the tech sector, along...
How big was the team you worked on, how many people did you manage, what was the budget you handled? These numbers are also important to employers. Take a look at this example from a customer service CV. CV Work Experience Example—Scale Supervised a team of 30 customer service agents ...