Year: 2022

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News This year wasn’t a good year for tech, but it was a momentous one. The tech-heavy Nasdaq, as of Wednesday, declined about 31% for […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Listen to “Sharing your legacy and animating your ancestors” on Spreaker. Larry speaks with GoodTrust cofounder, Daniel Sieberg. Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, but […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News If you’re like most people, you’re thinking about scooping up some of those bargains we hear about between Thanksgiving and the end of the […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News It’s relatively rare to get new research on teens, parents and social media but three surveys dropped this week. One was from Pew Research, another […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News One of the most common complaints I get from readers and friends is that their home internet is slow or unreliable.  Like a chain, […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News If you’ve ever seen me in a Zoom call or on TV from my home office, you may have noticed that my backdrop includes […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Fitbit, which is now owned by Google, recently released its long awaited successor to its popular Sense and Versa 3 fitness watches, just as […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Late last year, the company formerly known as Facebook changed its name to Meta. It was a signal that the world’s largest social media […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Elon Musk’s on again/off again attempts to purchase Twitter appear to be back on track. On Tuesday, the world’s wealthiest person, reversed himself and […]

By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News OK, I admit it. I’m a baby boomer whose ideas of what is and isn’t cool and useful are, to some extent, oh-so-late 20th […]