InMobi, Google & Facebook Mobile Ad rival, Puts Personalized Discovery Feature Into Mobile Ads

InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile advertising platform, launched a discovery feature called Miip that aims to transform staid mobile advertising into a personalized, content-rich experience. The launch will keep InMobi, whose main rivals are search engine Google and social network Facebook in mobile advertising, in step with users who increasingly devour content through apps and social media feeds on their devices.

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The 5 Types Of Organizational Structures: Part 4, Flatarchies

This is part four of a five part post that explores various types of organizational structures that either already exist in today’s business landscape or are starting to emerge as viable options for the future of work. Each post will explore one of these structures and then I’ll provide a final summary post on all five. These concepts and ideas are taken from my book, The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization. The five types of organizational structures that I will explore are:

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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Signals Successful Pluto Flyby

NASA’s Deep Space Network has received confirmation that its New Horizons spacecraft did indeed complete a spectacular flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto.  More than 12 hours after its closest approach of some 7750 miles from Pluto’s icy surface, mission controllers announced that they had received a signal at 8:52 PM EDT tonight.

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Adobe Flash Woes Prove Steve Jobs Was Right

The hack of Hacking Team has been enlightening on a number of levels. It appears to show that Hacking Team has been dishonest about the nations on its client list and at the same time it was a wakeup call that Hacking Team is not unique in providing subversive tools and zero day exploits to customers—including government agencies. One thing we’ve learned from the Hacking Team hack is that Adobe Flash has serious issues and hackers know how to exploit those issues to execute malicious code.

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The Simplest, Cheapest, Most Effective Task Management Solution I’ve Found

Managing a To-Do List has been the bane of my existence for more years than I care to think about. As the CEO of a growing company I tried out countless Task Management Software programs along with exploring about every To-Do App that got released. Yet, no matter how many systems I tried I couldn’t seem to make one work. Usually I ended up spending so much time creating the To-Do Lists in these systems that I had no time to actually do my To-Dos! After repeated failed attempts I was beginning to have a complex – Was I really incapable of staying on top of everything that needed to get done? Finally I decided to really dig into the root cause of why I couldn’t make these systems work for me, and the things I discovered led me to implement the simplest, cheapest, most effective task management solution imaginable. Yet that solution genuinely changed my life!

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Tesla CTO: Batteries + Solar Will Lead to Cheap Electricity Within 10 Years

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Energy storage technology is key to popularizing solar energy generation, and that point was underscored by the feature speaker at a large solar energy conference in San Francisco Monday: Tesla Motors’ chief technology officer, JB Straubel. Straubel took the stage at Intersolar’s opening ceremony to extol the energy density and other

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Samsung Leak Claims Galaxy S6 Edge+ Announcement Set For August 12th

Every September since 2011, Samsung announced a new Galaxy Note at the IFA conference in Berlin. However, sources with The Wall Street Journal have reported that Samsung is moving up the announcement for the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 this year. By debuting the Galaxy Note 5 sooner, Samsung would be able to get ahead of the new iPhone unveiling.

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