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Marissa Mayer, Evan Williams among the Big Thinkers Taking the Stage at the 2013 WIRED Business Conf

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Marissa Mayer, Evan Williams among the Big Thinkers Taking the Stage at the 2013 WIRED Business Conference


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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– This year’s WIRED Business Conference, in partnership with MDC Partners, is thinking bigger. The full-day symposium returns to New York City on May 7, 2013, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage with new faces, fresh takes, and big, big ideas. Registration is limited for the exclusive one-day executive event and is now open at www.wiredbusinessconference.com.

“Breakthroughs and big ideas rarely happen incrementally,” says WIRED Editor in Chief Scott Dadich. “If you want to succeed in this time of constant change, you need to be continually rethinking and reinventing your business, not just improving by 5 or 10 percent. This year’s speaker lineup underscores that theme of ‘think bigger’ by celebrating leaders with the vision and courage to deliver the products, innovations, and ideas that inspire the rest of us and move us forward.”

This year’s event will feature Yahoo’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer, and Twitter cofounder Evan Williams, as well asintrepid upstarts like Warby Parker’s Neil Blumenthal and Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti. TheNew York TimesJill Abramson, Microsoft Windows VP Julie Larson-Green, and Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs are also among this year’s main stage speakers. Additional speakers will be added to the fifth-annual event, which engages today’s thought leaders in unscripted conversations with WIRED editors.

“The WIRED Business Conference provides extraordinary access to what motivates today’s leaders in a way that only WIRED could,” says WIRED VP and publisher Howard Mittman. “Our unique perspective on where the future of business is heading and the leaders charting its path is reflected in the amazing line up of speakers as well as our partners, who appreciate the need to think bigger.”

“Truly disruptive business transformation simply can’t occur without leaders who are driven to think big and make a cultural and structural investment in innovation,” says Miles Nadal, founder and CEO of MDC Partners. “As an organization that fuels the ambitions of today’s most talented entrepreneurs in order to create that successful transformation on behalf of marketers, MDC Partners is thrilled to partner with WIRED for the fourth consecutive year to provide access to these game changers. It is these discussions, at the …read more
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Facebook Just Dethroned Apple

By Evan Niu, CFA, The Motley Fool

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While Apple and Facebook are partners in many ways and don’t directly compete on any fronts, the social networker has just dethroned the Mac maker in an important way: CEO approval ratings.

Career site Glassdoor has just released its annual survey of employee approval ratings of major companies, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has shot up to claim the No. 1 spot. Zuckerberg earned a whopping 99% approval rating among professional Facebookers. Apple’s Tim Cook earned a 93% approval rating, down from 97% last year.

Other notable tech mentions in the 2013 rankings were Qualcomm‘s Paul Jacobs and Google‘s Larry Page, both of whom got thumbs up ratings from 95% of respondents. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wasn’t far behind, with 94% of employees backing him.

CEO / Company

2012 Approval Rating

2012 Rank

2013 Approval Rating

2013 Rank

Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook

N/A

N/A

99%

1

Paul Jacobs / Qualcomm

95%

3

95%

8

Larry Page / Google

94%

5

95%

11

Jen-Hsun Huang / NVIDIA

N/A

N/A

94%

15

Tim Cook / Apple

97%

1

93%

18

Source: Glassdoor. N/A = not available because CEO did not rank in top 25 for 2012.

The rankings have tightened as employee approval ratings climbed. Even though Larry Page earned a higher rating in 2013, Google’s overall ranking fell from No. 5 to No. 11 this year. The same is true for Paul Jacobs, since Qualcomm’s ranking also fell even though the CEO kept the same approval rating.

Neither Facebook nor NVIDIA ranked within the top 25 last year, but now the CEOs of both companies have jumped to earn respectable 2013 rankings. NVIDIA has increased its competitive pressure on Qualcomm over the past year, and employees seem to support Huang’s strategic advances. Tim Cook appears to be losing support from employees, even though investors should still believe in him.

Cook aside, is Apple still a buy? The Motley Fool’s senior technology analyst and managing bureau chief, Eric Bleeker, is prepared to fill you in on both reasons to buy and reasons to sell Apple, and what opportunities are left for the company (and your portfolio) going forward. To get instant access to his latest thinking on Apple, simply click here now.

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