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Teen entrepreneurs from California have designed web-based software for educators to alert parents when their kids are skipping class. TruantToday has won innovation awards and support from start-up incubators, but can it beat the tough competition?…

Considering Cutting Class? TruantToday May Be Watching

While more adults are embracing social media, they don’t necessarily use Twitter, Facebook and other sites the same way as their kids. For instance, as people get older, social media becomes less an extension of daily relationships and more a place to reestablish old friendships. And when it comes to privacy, older social media users may be the ones to follow.…

Did My Mom Just ‘Friend’ Me? The Social Media Age Divide

On November 14, 2011, Google India announced the winner of its third annual Doodle 4 Google competition for students ages 7 to 15. While few businesses would readily let customers tinker with their corporate logos, Google sees the contest as an extension of its young, fun, quirky brand.…

The Google Doodle Reflects a Fun, Quirky Brand

Tori Molnar, 14, is the founder of Utoria, a Pittsburgh, Pa.-based direct-selling company for teenage girls that she started in September 2010. Molnar spoke to Knowledge@Wharton High School about the critical role that social media plays in Utoria’s business development, including a 30-day IndieGoGo campaign that she launched in November 2011 to raise money to fund the company’s growth.…

IndieGoGo and the Power of Social Media

Are you a subscriber to an online group-buying site? These sites offer deep discounts on all kinds of products and services. The latest news is that Groupon, the most prominent group-buying site, has just completed an initial public offering, which means it is selling its shares to the public. In this article, experts who watch the group-buying site industry consider the success of young, public companies like Groupon.…

Groupon Goes Public

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Foursquare – they are all part of your everyday life and part of the larger universe of social media. What exactly is social media, and how is this wide network of virtual interactions changing the world of information technology? …

What Is Social Media?

If you crave shows with originality, creativity and even a little cheese factor, chances are you have discovered web TV. The process of creating a web TV series is very different from that of network production. Here’s a look behind the scenes of shows made exclusively for online distribution.…

The Battle of the Alamo, an ‘Awkward Black Girl’ and the Rise of Web TV

In the summer of 2011, Luis Iván Cuende García, who is now 16, walked away with the top prize at HackNow, a competition for young European techies. His winning entry, Asturix On, is a distributed web-tech based desktop that shows great promise in the world of distributed personal computing. In basic terms, it is a desktop environment that is, as Cuende García puts it, “based on the latest and most rocking web technologies.” He talked with Knowledge@Wharton High School about his life and challenges as a teen tech entrepreneur.…

Luis Iván Cuende García: The Best Teen ‘Hacker’ in Europe

High school freshman and technology devotee Lane Sutton started KidCriticUSA.com when he was 12 and now, a mere two years later, he is building his rep as a social media strategist. In addition to running a consulting business, he speaks at schools and tech conferences about the social media revolution, privacy and online security and getting started on Twitter. Sutton’s latest strategy involves balancing business and school: “Homework and family time have always come first.”…

Social Media Strategist Lane Sutton: A ‘Digital Native’ on a Mission

Yago Arbeloa is a successful Spanish Internet entrepreneur, investing in such projects as Sync.es, Voila.tv and Twync.es, the first Twitter platform sponsored in Spanish. Arbeloa talked with Knowledge@Wharton High School (in more than 140 characters) about launching his online career, the importance of partnership agreements and why aspiring Internet business owners need to understand the concept of "scalable" if they hope to attract investors. …

Spanish Internet VIP Yago Arbeloa: ‘It Is Important to Take Advantage of the Moment’