It was a vote of confidence when Howard Schultz joined the Groupon board of directors — and it’s a sign of the start-up’s significant financial challenges that the Starbucks CEO is leaving before his term is up to make way for American Express CFO Daniel Henry. A second director, Accel Partners’ Kevin Efrusy, won’t stand [...]

Does your political ideology determine where you’re most likely to get your online news? That’s the conclusion of a report from comScore, which found a significant ideological split across the audiences of different news sites. According to ComScore, Democrats are more likely than their Republican brethren to read Talking Points Memo and The Daily Kos [...]

Comedy troupe Improv Everywhere has released a delightful new video that shows how a random couple was surprised in New York City’s Central Park with a romantic “instant date,” with the help of champagne, dinner service and a private serenade. An unsuspecting couple sitting on a bench near the Conversatory Water on Manhattan’s Upper East [...]

This past weekend, The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was the linchpin in a series of star-studded events bringing together politics, media, Hollywood and, especially in 2012, tech. Here’s a look inside this year’s extravaganza. Mayor of Nerdprom Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley and his girlfriend, stylist and fashion writer Chelsa Skees, lead the WHCD tech invasion at [...]

One of the big areas of focus for technology companies over the past year has been “big data” — in other words, the idea that there can be a lot of value in finding patterns in the massive quantities of user data and other information that a business generates. This has a corollary in journalism [...]

Got friends returning from a four-year stint on Mars, or elderly relatives who still don’t get why Facebook is such a big deal? Want to spark a discussion about whether the site is worth its $100 billion valuation? Then you could do a lot worse than simply screening this video. Made by online investment platform [...]

The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Monday’s selection includes one of the founders of Apple gushing about Windows Phone, a physicist explaining why Moore’s law will be defunct within a decade and a suggestion that Apple make two acquisitions.

The social web just kicked more sand in the face of traditional media, this time courtesy of golfing megastar Tiger Woods. Woods passed on a traditional question-and-answer session with reporters leading up to his next PGA Tour appearance, which comes this week at the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina. Instead, he answered a series [...]