There’s never a shortage of big problems confronting the world — think the looming scarcity of fuel, food and water. Addressing such issues is the purported goal of HUBweek, a series of events… Read more »
Gigaom Research analyst Haydn Shaughnessy has a new report out on Applying lean startup theory to large enterprises. For those in the IT buyer community, the implications of lean product development… Read more »
Despite the fact that they are in financial distress — or perhaps because of that distress — both the Boston Globe and the Washington Post are experimenting with some interesting new… Read more »
A health-focused crowdfunding campaign wants to let patients waive some privacy protections in exchange for better communication with their doctor. Read more »
Thanks to new technology for collecting and sharing health data, visiting with the doctor can be as simple as sitting down with your computer or smartphone. Read more »
The Boston Globe can be seen as a bellwether for metropolitan newspapers. Its digital strategy so far appears to be off to a slow start but some see more to the… Read more »
Do you have new ideas about advertising, social media or publishing that you’d like to try out at the New York Times? Now’s your chance. The company will take in three… Read more »
For years, newspaper subscribers who go on vacation have donated their papers to classrooms where students would do things like cut out pictures. Now, Boston readers will be donating iPads instead. Read more »
After years of providing content for free through Philly.com, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News will launch their own paywalled sites in early 2013. Read more »
The owner of a struggling Cambridge, Mass. bookstore took to HackerNews to try to save the business. Here are some of the more interesting ideas users have suggested to keep Lorem… Read more »