Swiftdine Speeds Up Dining Out July 13, 2016 By Dan Fost Like so many other innovations in technology today, Swiftdine has its roots in an everyday problem that someone wanted to solve. The Azeez family of Lima, Ohio, enjoyed eating together in restaurants, but the father, Kemi Azeez, was a busy doctor who couldn’t afford […]
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Hana El-Samad: ‘A Star in Her Field’: UCSF, March 26, 2013
Hana El-Samad: ‘A Star in Her Field’ To explain her research into the workings of cells, UCSF scientist Hana El-Samad offers an analogy from the world of machines. “Imagine a telephone or Internet network,” she says. “Despite their staggering complexity, packets of information find their destination on these networks and are interpreted correctly.” Cells work […]
The IPO Shopping Cart: San Francisco magazine, May 2012
The IPO Shopping Cart Yes, it feels like 1999 all over again. But will the newly minted millionaires from Zynga, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Facebook burn through their cash the way many did in the bubblicious days of the dot-com boom? We talked to financial advisers, luxury sales folks, and people who survived the first bust […]
SXSW 2008: Revenge of the nerds
Everyone kept asking for a take on the Sarah Lacy-Mark Zuckerberg keynote interview run awry at South by Southwest in Austin last week. Having weighed in on the subject in Fortune.com, I might as well offer my thoughts. My main thought was: I felt sorry for Sarah Lacy. Sure, I thought she could have done things […]
I can get Satisfaction
I come across a lot of startups in my work as a technology journalist, and quite often I can’t tell if they have any shot of making it. I admire the passion, but I know that they face many hurdles, and many will fail. I don’t know if Get Satisfaction, the startup that I profiled […]
Feel better, Om Malik
I’d like to join the chorus wishing for Om Malik‘s speedy recovery. In today’s New York Times, I have a story about how Om suffered a heart attack just after Christmas — and how other A-list bloggers like Paul Kedrosky and Michael Arrington warn how stressful it is to have to constantly update a site. Om was […]
Fortune, if not fame
A story I wrote about what Rupert Murdoch might do with the San Francisco Web site MarketWatch.com is up today on Fortune.com. Fortune has revamped its Web site, and it looks great. Now, instead of stories appearing to come from CNNMoney, you can tell that they’re by Fortune writers. I hope to contribute more in […]
USA Today: Cash, charge or cell phone?
I’ve got a story in this morning’s USA Today about how cell phones will soon have credit card information stored in a chip, so that you’ll only have to wave it over a scanner in order to pay for something. While all the experts I spoke to said this is a very secure technology, there […]
Second Life will be bigger than the Internet
That was the startling assertion I heard from Philip Rosedale, CEO of San Francisco’s Linden Lab, producer of the virtual world Second Life, at a breakfast hosted by Conde Nast’s new business magazine Portfolio at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, Sept. 11. Yet despite such an outrageously hype-filled statement, Rosedale […]