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We are fascinated by the disruption underway in mobile applications.

Carriers seem to have lost their role as gatekeepers for applications as smartphone sales are rapidly ramping and "app stores" or direct downloads are the new distribution models. This is [...]

Union Square Ventures hosted an event called Hacking Education

That sparked conversations far beyond the day of the event, and did so in a way where we gave up control of the conversation and allowed it to spread. Steven Johnson [...]

Online casual games are a large and rapidly growing form of entertainment.

According to Comscore over 85 million people play casual games every month in the US alone and minutes spent playing grew a staggering 42% from 2008 to 2009. [...]

It has been two months since we hosted a great group of academics, entrepreneurs, educators, and administrators at our Union Square Sessions Event, Hacking Education.

Fred posted his initial thoughts immediately after the event and in a great example of [...]

Fred wrote a post earlier this week advocating for more "open spectrum".

Fred argues in his post that freeing up more open spectrum will have a much larger impact than spending $7.2B in stimulus money to run wires to rural [...]

Today we put on an event called Hacking Education

Which is about the intersection of education and technology. Thanks to all those who came out to the event today and to those who participated on the web. If you are interested in [...]