Germany's Problem with Women
forbes.comwomen are accused of playing the victim, of enjoying that victimhood, of using victimhood to win some other spoil. What spoil one wins there, I’m not sure. Gender justice is not about victimhood, nor caricatures of gender roles or stereotypes, nor ending the fun for everyone. What the women of #aufschrei and campaigns like it teach us is that gender justice means ensuring everybody gets to pursue life passionately and fully, with equity and dignity.
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HBO Has Only Itself To Blame For Record 'Game Of Thrones' Piracy - Forbes
forbes.comThis underscores the larger problem with how so many companies in the entertainment industry think about piracy. Instead of thinking about the ways lack of access to media creates opportunity for piracy, and how increasing the access to products could help stave off illegal downloads, too often people want to take legal measures or implement digital protection on their products. These “fixes” always have easy work-arounds.
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How To Do Things with Videogames: An Interview With Ian Bogost - Forbes
forbes.comIn some ways, the concept of the gamer is one of the worst ideas that proponents of games have advanced. It signals it as sort of a lifestyle –that gaming is something that you do and you identify with primarily. We don’t do that with other mature media and we don’t do that with other activities.
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Cancer, Innovation and a Boy Named Jack
forbes.comJack is a scientist and innovator. And his work on creating a simple test for the identification of pancreatic, lung and ovarian cancer is simply amazing. Here are some of his facts: -His test is 168 times faster than what is currently available. -It’s 26,000 times less expensive. That’s not a typo. -And it’s potentially almost 100% accurate. Here’s what makes it even more astonishing: -Jack is 15 years old.
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Welcome to the Era of Design
forbes.comYou see, expecting great design is no longer the preserve of a picky design-obsessed urban elite—that aesthetically sensitive clique who‘d never dare leave the house without their Philippe Starck eyewear and turtleneck sweaters and buy only the right kind of Scandinavian furniture. Instead, there’s a new, mass expectation of good design: that products and services will be better thought through, simplified, made more intuitive, elegant and more enjoyable to use.
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How Apple Store Seduces You With the Tilt of Its Laptops - Forbes
forbes.comYou see, the Apple Store was never created on the premise that people want to buy stuff. Instead Apple discovered that by creating an ownership experience, customers would be more loyal to the brand. The Apple Store was designed to create an ownership experience from the moment a customer walks through the door.
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How Would You Like A Graduate Degree For $100? - Forbes
forbes.com“It’s pretty obvious that degrees will go away,” Thrun says. “The idea of a degree is that you spend a fixed time right after high school to educate yourself for the rest of your career. But careers change so much over a lifetime now that this model isn’t valid anymore.”
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Silicon Valley's Hottest New Start-Up Idea: Nothing - Forbes
forbes.comDo you have a can’t-miss idea for a start-up that could be the next Facebook, Pinterest or Draw Something? Great. Write it down on a piece of paper. Now burn that piece of paper. Congratulations. You’re halfway to your first billion.
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Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years - Forbes
forbes.comWe will never have Web 3.0, because the Web’s dead.
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Justin Bieber, Venture Capitalist: The Forbes Cover Story
forbes.comBieber holds stakes in a dozen such companies. FORBES was able to verify four: messaging platform Tinychat, social-curation app Stamped, gaming outfit Sojo Studios and, most critically, Spotify, the disruptive music service founded by Daniel Ek and backed by everyone from Sean Parker to Li Ka-shing.
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Inside Forbes: The 5 Reasons Behind Our Bold New Home Page - Forbes
forbes.comThe fact is, most visitors to any Web site enter through the side doors — that is, article pages — by way of search and social recommendations. Still, a web site’s home page announces loud and clear who you are and what you believe in. Our new home page is distilled to make a statement, to stress the clarity of our vision. FORBES is authoritative, inclusive and open to voices and ideas. It’s the best way we know to serve the needs of our loyal readers — and to extend our 95-year-old brand to a new generation of business news enthusiasts.
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