July 30, 2014 Daily Report: OKCupid Experiments on Seekers of Romance by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES The dating website OKCupid has published the results of three experiments it conducted on users in the name of…
July 30, 2014 OkCupid Admits to Facebook-Style Experimenting on Customers by REUTERS By REUTERS OkCupid, a top U.S. matchmaking website, intentionally mismatched users to test its technology, the IAC/InterActive Corp service said on Monday, weeks after…
July 30, 2014 Facebook Tinkers With Users’ Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Last week Facebook revealed that it had manipulated the news feeds of over half a million randomly selected users to change…
July 30, 2014 Seattle Takes Oracle’s Cloud by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY The Pacific Northwest city continues its rise as the world’s center of cloud computing, moving from infrastructure to applications. Oracle is…
July 30, 2014 Twitter Stock Jumps on Soaring Revenue, but Growth Remains a Concern by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Twitter has demonstrated an ability to extract more ad revenue from each user, and it is adding products that let it…
July 29, 2014 The ‘Sharing Economy’ Goes White-Collar by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC In some ways, the new focus Uber and Airbnb are putting on business professionals is a risky maneuver as regulators have…
July 29, 2014 F.T.C. Publishes Steps for Mobile Industry to Prevent Overbilling by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN In the midst of a lawsuit against T-Mobile for overbilling, the F.T.C. on Monday published a list of best practices…
July 29, 2014 Using the ‘Public’ Network Option by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Plus, finding the date and time stamps on iPhone photos. Published: July 31, 2014 at 12:00AM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/1mVx6ZO…
July 29, 2014 Airbnb Expands Into Business Travel by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC Airbnb introduced a new business travel initiative on Monday, expanding beyond the vacation and couch-surfing crowds the company has traditionally focused…
July 29, 2014 Looking for Love on the Web, as It Experiments With You by MOLLY WOOD By MOLLY WOOD The dating website OKCupid published the results of three experiments it conducted on users in the name of science. Published: July…