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Newspapers can get free golf content from SendtoNews and make it look like their own.
The Canadian sports media liscensor now distributes ready-made golf articles and video packages to 150 partners, who share in any associated ad revenue.
The initiative comes as newspapers face shrinking staffs on top of a growing need to offer expensive video content.
Canadian sports media company SendtoNews...
Wall Street is finding ways to make money off your every move
Investment firms like hedge funds are big buyers of so-called "alternative data." That's data that comes from the apps we use, the online shops we buy from, and the GPS tracking within our smartphones.
This info helps investors figure out where to put their money and gives insight into, for instance, how stocks will perform – which...
Earlier this week, the US blamed Iranian hackers for a series of attacks in 2012 and 2013 on several targets, including a New York City dam.
The attack on the dam gave the hacker info about water levels and the dam's sluice gate, which could have allowed the attacker to open the gate and flood part of the city, the US Department of Justice said.
But the hacker was foiled because the sluice gate...
If you've been paying attention to trends in finance, you know there's a lot of buzz around startups in financial technology, more commonly known as FinTech. FinTech companies are using the power of the internet to disrupt the financial industry. By cutting out the middle man (i.e., banks) and lowering costs, they're able to make financial services far more efficient and consumer friendly....
Business Insider received some criticism over the weekend from readers — and, truth be told, internally from our own staff too — who wondered why we published an article on how to hire an assassin on the internet. The story describes the hidden services on Tor, an anonymously encrypted "undernet" that exists in parallel to the regular internet. It's used by people who want to surf the web in...
In a note to investors, Topeka Capital Markets analyst Victor Anthony predicts Facebook's annual revenue will reach $12 billion in 2016. He thinks Facebook will book about $5 billion in sales this year, and add about $1.5 billion each year after than in revenues. Anthony's refreshingly thorough note breaks Facebook's revenue down by ad product, of which there are at least 12: Display ads: More...
Federated Media Publishing was once a game-changing startup poised to shake up the digital advertising world. Now, it's the one that's been shaken by a fast-moving industry, with layoffs and turnover in its executive ranks. In its heyday, the groundbreaking startup sold ads for some of the fastest-growing websites, including Mashable, TechCrunch, and Business Insider. It raised a $50 million...
AppStori is a crowdsourcing platform that aims to take developers' apps from conception to completion. We spoke to co-founder Arie Abecassis about how it works and what it's all about. "We want to socialize the app development experience," he said. "The crowd can engage in different ways, whether it's by acting as beta testers or contributing money. We want to empower consumers and developers at...
SecondMarket, an online marketplace for buying private company stock, just released its Q1 2012 report.
In the report, SecondMarket lists the most watched private companies. Once again, Facebook ranks number one, even though it will be going public soon.
There are a bunch of other statistics about the state of secondary markets in the report, too.Facebook was the most-watched venture-backed...
Dropbox is one of our favorite and most useful apps available right now.
The file-sharing service acts as a virtual folder on your desktop or mobile device, allowing you to "drop" files in an online storage locker and download them again later from anywhere.
We've covered Dropbox's features at length in the past. Since Dropbox allows developers to use its API, there are a ton of great...