Playing To Win: Mobile Gamification Done Right
Gamification, or the use of game elements to promote desired behaviors among customers and employees, has been a popular business strategy for decades. Loyalty programs, cereal box prizes,...
View ArticleWe Found Out Why New Yorkers Are Obsessed With The New Miami-Inspired...
"This is going to be a party, may as well get to know each other," our petite instructor shouts out while us students all shake hands. The live DJ in the corner blasts Shakira from the speakers while...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Gay Bars in San Francisco
San Francisco has long been known for its vibrant gay and lesbian community, and it has the nightlife to prove it.The city is home to a wide variety of bars and clubs featuring drag shows, costume...
View ArticleHow A Startup Landed $6 Million From The Founders Of Dropbox, Yelp, Box,...
Joshua Reeves is the CEO of a startup that raised a $6.1 million seed round from big Silicon Valley names.His investors list reads as a who's who of Silicon Valley:Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, Dropbox...
View ArticleThese Are The Gadgets Forcing Us To Rethink Privacy
Tech consumers are becoming increasingly privacy-conscious, and the catalyst of late seems to be Edward Snowden's big reveal of PRISM, the NSA's domestic spying program.But look at all the information...
View ArticleThe Most Surprising Things About America, According To An Indian...
Aniruddh Chaturvedi came from Mumbai to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn., where he is majoring in computer science. This past summer he interned at a tech company in Silicon...
View ArticleThermal Images Of New York City Explain Why Cities Are So Much Hotter Than...
Artist and photographer Nikolay Lamm from self-storage search engine StorageFront.com took pictures of New York City with a thermal imaging camera in order to show the unique temperature structure of...
View ArticleUS Lawmakers On Both Sides Are Skeptical About Military Action In Syria
U.S. lawmakers from both parties expressed skepticism regarding a possible military strike on Syria following a 90-minute briefing held Thursday evening, with many feeling President Obama needs to make...
View ArticleMeet The N.J. Professor Who Hedge Funders Keep Calling For Insight On Herbalife
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the battle of investors who've made opposite bets on the shares of Herbalife <HLF.N>, both sides - including firms led by billionaires Bill Ackman and George Soros...
View ArticleThe First Game Of The College Football Season Was Delayed By A Scary...
It only took South Carolina 80 seconds to score the first touchdown of the season, but the game itself is going to take longer than expected thanks to a lightning storm that has entered the area.The...
View ArticleIf August Was Bad For Stocks, September May Be Even Worse
Traders close the books Friday on the worst month for the Dow and S&P 500 in more than a year, and are likely to be cautious ahead of the long Labor Day weekend."The end of the month day before a...
View ArticleA Massive Canyon Was Just Discovered Under Greenland's Ice Sheet
One mile under Greenland's ice sheet lies a 460-mile long canyon that went unknown to scientists until now.The discovery was several decades in the making as NASA and researchers from Germany and the...
View ArticleHawaii Quarterback Unleashed A Brutal Block Against USC
Hawai'i quarterback Taylor Graham unleashed a vicious block on USC during a reverse run sending the Rainbow Warriors bench into a tizzy.After transferring from Ohio State to Hawai'i, Graham is starting...
View ArticleMeet The Harvard-Educated Brazilian Billionaire Who's Buying Up America's...
Jorge Paulo Lemann, the chief investor and strategist at 3G Capital, recently bought Heinz (along with Warren Buffett) to go along with two other American brands he controls: Burger King and...
View ArticleHere's What It's Really Like To Compete In Beauty Pageants
This post by Cynthia Zhang has been republished from Quora with her permission.I competed in Miss NY Chinese in 2010, and went on to compete in Miss Chinese International in Hong Kong after being...
View ArticleGoogle And Microsoft: 'Today Our Two Companies Stand Together' Against US Ban...
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith published an unusual blog post today in which he describes how his company and Google, usually a fierce competitor, are united in a lawsuit that seeks permission to...
View ArticleShanghai Made Its Own, Grimly Delicious Version Of The Giant Rubber Duck
We've called out Chinese cities for copying the giant Rubber Duck a Dutch artist recently made for Hong Kong, but Shanghai deserves credit for coming up with an original spin on the floating bird...
View ArticleRickie Fowler Plays A '70s-Style Private Investigator In A Brilliant New Ad...
Farmers Insurance has a new ad campaign centered around Rickie Fowler playing a golf private investigator styled after the P.I.s seen in 1970s television shows.Fowler, who goes by the name "Dick...
View ArticleThe Easiest Way To Core A Head Of Lettuce
Here's a quick, fun, and easy way to core a head of iceberg lettuce. Click for sound. <div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div>Produced by William WeiSEE ALSO:...
View ArticleThree Ways That The West Could Make Life More Difficult For A Hostile Russia
FOR a time after Vladimir Putin first became Russia’s president almost 14 years ago, there were hopes that, though no liberal, he was moving in a pro-Western direction. But as he prepares to welcome...
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