#TheVinylmint

Our world has rapidly gone from being connected to interconnected to interdependent. When the world is tied together this intimately, everyone’s values and behavior matter more than ever, because our actions affect more people than ever and in ways they never have.

Such was the case when one banker exposed his company’s culture in the New York Times and as a direct result his bank reportedly lost $2.15 billion overnight in market value and a debate erupted on social media over banking industry practices.

Today,”how” we do what we do — our behavior individually and organizationally — not only matters more than ever, it matters in ways it never has before
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We met Ernst at Tech Crunch Disrupt in NY on Wednesday and had an interesting conversation about ReWire and their newly launched application called Rack Extensions.  I was impressed by this product and while doing research, I stumbled across an interview Ernst gave with Rounik Sethi on macprovideo.com.

The Presidential Innovation Fellows will pair top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, or academia with federal government employees to collaborate on game-changing solutions that aim to deliver significant business results in just six months. Each team of innovators will work together in-person in Washington, DC on focused sprints while being supported by a broader community of interested citizens throughout the country. What makes this initiative unique is its focus on unleashing the ingenuity and know-how of Americans from all sectors.

Vinylmint is a Norfolk-based startup that aims to assist musicians in creating their music. It’s essentially a recording studio in the cloud. You record uncompressed audio right into the computer, the service uploads it to the cloud, and then you can listen to and edit tunes in your browser. Think of it as a mixing board with microphones all over the world.

Keeping up with Apple‘s growth is like sneezing with your eyes open — it’s nearly impossible. That’s why every so often we like to bring you an update of the latest Apple news, numbers and trends.

The infographic below was designed by Sortable. It shares the latest Apple profits, revenues and cash-in-hand, along with the company’s reach — 30% of smartphone users in the U.S. have an iPhone.

Check us out at 3:45pm during the Disrupting Collaboration session at Tech Crunch Disrupt NYC.  

If you’re not on Twitter, then you don’t know what’s happening in the tech world.

It’s the best place to find smart, short analysis, as well as the stories everyone is talking about.

But who is worth following and who can you ignore?

Live Nation has established the LN Labs Fundfocusing on equity funding of early stage start-ups building consumer products that enhance the live music experience before, during and after the performance. Creation of The LN Labs Fund follows theacquisitions of data platform BigChampagne and live music community site Setlist.fm.

Yauch leaves behind the massive musical legacy of the Beastie Boys, of course, but he has had a profound creative influence across disciplines and industries.

In 1994, Yauch founded the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit dedicated to supporting Tibetans subjected to Chinese oppression; in 1996 the group produced the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco, attended by 100,000 people.