Category: Business Owners

Since launching in 2008, GitHub has become by far the largest place on the internet for hosting and collaborating on software code. The company, which is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft, now hosts more than 85 million projects, and boasts 31 million monthly users. But while you’ve been able to store your code on GitHub, you couldn’t[…]

Every business owner knows that the key to generating referrals is creating a positive customer experience. When someone has a great interaction with your brand, they’re more likely to go and recommend you to their friends or colleagues. One recommendation can mean a lot to your business, but what if you could turn that happy customer into a referral champion:[…]

Talk of artificial intelligence often leads to speculation about how machines may displace workers. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks we should talk more about how AI algorithms can expand the workforce now—by helping people with disabilities. “There are a billion people in the world who don’t fully participate in our economies or societies,” Nadella said, at the WIRED25 Summit in[…]

During a panel on the need for a more democratic approach to philanthropy, Giridharadas said our age of “extraordinary elite generosity,” has still one big problem: benevolent billionaires have been “building the most unequal America in 100 years.” “Ordinary people, the bottom half of this country, on average has not gotten a raise since 1979, [and] 82 percent of wealth[…]

Though many (mostly male) founders continue to doubt the extent of sexual harassment in the startup sphere, a new survey from Y Combinator suggests that the venture capital scene is far from a safe place for female entrepreneurs: More than 20 percent of women who responded said they had been harassed. In its blog post about the findings, YC also[…]

Google’s internal tests developing a censored search engine in China have been very promising, CEO Sundar Pichai said on stage on Monday as part of the WIRED 25 Summit. “It turns out we’ll be able to serve well over 99 percent of the queries,” that users request. What’s more, “There are many, many areas where we would provide information better[…]

Of all the buzzwords on which Silicon Valley thrives—growth, engagement, disruption, profit—none is more central to the way tech works than scale. Whatever you’re building, it’s not worth much if you can’t make it work for the masses—because that’s where the world-changing happens. Which is why Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff thinks philanthropy is the wrong way to attack the social[…]

Artificial intelligence researcher Fei-Fei Li has spent her career trying to make software smart—with some success. Lately she’s begun to ask herself a new question: How can we make smart software aligned with human values? “As much as AI is showing its power, it’s a nascent technology,” Li said at the WIRED25 Summit in San Francisco Monday. “What’s really important[…]

Some people call bitcoin “the internet of money,” suggesting the digital currency and related technologies could do for the financial system what the internet did to information distribution over the past few decades. But skeptics are still waiting for a “killer app,” while bitcoin prices have never returned to their late 2017 peak when trading hit more than $20,000 per[…]

“If big tech companies are going to turn their back on US Department of Defense, this country is going to be in trouble,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Monday, defending government contracts amid a wave of employee protests. Bezos spoke at the WIRED25 summit, where Steven Levy, WIRED’s editor-at-large, asked his view of companies using the most advanced technology to[…]