Elise Hu

Working from home: The end of productivity, or the future of work?

Elise Hu — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:28:27 +0000

In its bid to reshape itself for the future, Yahoo is returning to a workplace culture of the tech industry's past. The Internet giant has reportedly notified its employees they'll no longer be allowed to work from home.

Cash-Strapped Postal Service To Launch A New Clothing Line

Elise Hu — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:07:27 +0000

The U.S. Postal Service is getting creative in its search for new revenue after last year's $15.9 billion budget shortfall. The agency says it will debut a new clothing and accessories line called Rain Heat & Snow, inspired by its unofficial motto: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

The line will not feature the navy blue shorts, safari hats and other uniform staples of your mail carrier.

Pop-Up Politics: Beyond The Speeches

Elise Hu — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:02:53 +0000

If you want a little background and perspective to what the presidential candidates are saying — as they're saying it — then our "Pop-Up Politics" videos are for you. As VH1 did with music videos, we've added pop-up bubbles and animation to stump speeches to give context to the candidates' statements on the war in Afghanistan, energy and the economy.

Click an image below to launch an animated video. We've included links under the videos to sources, where you can further explore statements and candidate positions. (We recommend Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer 9.

11 takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg's first post-Facebook IPO interview

Elise Hu — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:40:54 +0000
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his first public interview after his tech company's rocky IPO and the disappointing stock performance that followed. Facebook's share price is now worth about $19 — half as much as it was priced back in May when its stock first went on the market.
Zuckerberg took questions from Michael Arrington at TechCrunch Disrupt, a San Francisco conference for startups.

'Seventeen' magazine takes no-photoshop pledge after 8th-grader's campaign

Elise Hu — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:16:08 +0000
Somewhere between school and her extracurricular activities, eighth-grader Julia Bluhm found time to launch a crusade against airbrushed images in one of the country's top teen magazines.
And this week, she won: Seventeen magazine pledged not to digitally alter body sizes or face shapes of young women featured in its editorial pages, largely in response to the online petition Julia started this spring.
"We should focus on people's personalities, not just how they look,"