TECH

Sears Holding Corporation ($SHLD) retains a massive portfolio of commercial real estate, much of which is sitting empty. The solution: turn empty retail stores into high-tech data [...]

Bloomberg was privileged to an inside look at Google X lab, the company’s R&D proving ground for testing new ideas that range from teleportation to global internet access! [...]

Charlie Rose recently interviewed Bill Gates, discussing their relationship and final interactions over Steve Jobs last couple months. The clip below shows Gates in a [...]

Jason Perlow, Senior Tech Editor at ZDNet, raises a pressing concern that many have yet to consider: How will Chinese and Korean instability affect technology production? Perlow outlines country specific [...]

Google cofounder Sergey Brin presents the Google Glass initiative at the recent TED 2013 conference. It’s really awesome what the company is doing to integrate technology [...]

The top photo is from Benedict XVI announcement in 2005 + the bottom photo from yesterdays announcement of Pope Francis I = rate of technological adoption [...]

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi recently [...]

MIT’s Technology Review recently released its annual compilation of the 50 most disruptive companies they expect to further innovation in 2013. In addition to profiling the [...]

There has been a lot of attention given to cyber-attacks from a group of hackers that is thought to be funded by the Chinese government. [...]

Facebook announced its latest feature today, Graph Search. Unlike how Google pulls keywords and returns links, Facebook will soon allow you to search exact phrases [...]

2012 was a big year for tech innovation and consumer products and next year is shaping up to be an even larger progression. From the next Apple and Samsung mobile devices to the Google Glass and Fiber projects, it will definitely be interesting to see where the industry ventures in the coming months.

Megan Quinn, partner at Kleiner Perkins, recently spoke with TechCrunch about Ecommerce the upcoming trends that she see’s in the mobile space. Quinn is new to Venture Capital but not foreign to tech industry as previous employment includes Square and Google.

Leaked from a NBC interview with Brian Williams, Tim Cook (Apple CEO) announced a $100M investment in the American manufacturing of Mac computers. This is great news for the national economy but overall global manufacturing impact should be minimal. Apple will lose some advantage of cheap labor (Foxconn), but also gain skilled labor that can leverage production advantages only found in America.

Below is a awesome interview with the co-founders of Reddit, the front page of the internet. Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian discuss their venture from Freshman year in college to start-up success. The site reached 47 million visitors last month alone.

Google has been working on a project called Glass (see video) with the goal to bring augmented reality to the masses. The retail price is currently $1,500 and should be available by 2014, but our friends at Optical Express have put together a graphic to illustrate what they expect to happen with the technology in coming years.

Apple has rolled out promo’s since the company first started, but here is a throwback of Jony Ive (SVP of design) breaking down the 20th Anniversary Macintosh. It’s mind blowing how far technology has advanced in the last fifteen years.

Foster and Partners recently won the competition to design the next innovative and sustainable skyscraper at 425 Park Avenue. The firm has been in the bidding process for the last six months and put together an awesome design that will compliment the buildings surroundings very nicely. It will rise 687 feet (41 stories) and is expected to be completed by 2017.

As a submission to the LA Design Challenge, Mercedes-Benz constructed the Ener-G-Force as a futuristic offroad police car. Much like the military influenced G-Wagon, the Ener-G-Force boasts all tools necessary to tackle any off road challenge in a super efficient low emission form.

Studio Roosegaarde and Heijmans just won a Dutch innovation award for designing a highway of the future. The road would be sustainable, safer, and move traffic more efficiently when the plans come to fruition. Some features are a dynamic paint and interactive lighting that adapts to conditions (wind, snow, etc). The smart highway is to be implemented in the Netherlands starting mid-2013.

Apple stock fell below a $500B market cap for the first time since May. The company is also set to distribute its second $2.5B in dividend payout today, the first was on August 16, 2012. Apple announced its dividend payment plan in March 2012 and is set to distribute $45B in total over three years.