Kerry Flynn

Journalist

New York City

Listening to the world's passions. Writing about innovation. Huffington Post. Forbes Media. Money Magazine. Hartford Courant. Harvard Class of 2014, Environmental Policy and Economics.

Kerry Flynn

Journalist

New York City

Listening to the world's passions. Writing about innovation. Huffington Post. Forbes Media. Money Magazine. Hartford Courant. Harvard Class of 2014, Environmental Policy and Economics.

3 Tricks That Will Help You Win Cyber Monday
If you plan to go online on Cyber Monday to score some deals for your holiday shopping, you're not alone. Last year, 131 million people shopped online during the Monday following Thanksgiving, according to USA Today, spending nearly $2.29 billion. For this year, we tested out some of the best online tools to make Cyber Monday a little less hectic for you.
The Huffington Post
Scientists Figure Out How To Scale Walls Like Spider-Man
If you're a big Spider-Man fan, you're going to love this: A team of researchers at Stanford has developed a way to scale glass walls using pads that attach to a person's hands. It's kind of like the webbed wonder, but a little less slick than this: The team is part of Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory, a research group that previously created vertically climbing robots.
The Huffington Post
Taylor Swift Releases Mobile Game For 'Blank Space' Music Video
Did you watch Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” video and think “Man, I wish I could be in that mansion?”. Well, now you can... virtually. The country-singer turned pop star launched a free app, for iOS and Android, Tuesday that gives fans a 360-degree experience of her music video. Called the “American Express Unstaged Taylor Swift Blank Space Experience,” the app has you follow the characters from the music video while the song plays in the background and the plot of the video unfolds.
The Huffington Post
Facebook Is Giving You More Control Over Your News Feed
Facebook on Friday unveiled new tools to help users control and understand their News Feed. The switch is part of an effort by Facebook to give its users more control over the site's mysterious News Feed algorithm. One key new feature: You’ll now be able to easily see who and what most frequently fills up your News Feed.
The Huffington Post
WhatsApp Now Tells You When Someone Has Read Your Message
Just a month after Facebook officially acquired WhatsApp, the messaging app is adding one of Facebook Messenger's most annoying features: read receipts. WhatsApp, which boasts over 600 million monthly active users, has been slowly rolling out the system overseas during the last few months. But it's now finally caught the wider attention of the media and people who use the app, after the company updated its FAQ page to explain the new feature.
The Huffington Post
Tinder To Start Offering Special Features For A Fee
Beginning in early November, Tinder, the wildly popular and sometimes controversial dating app, will offer users optional additional features for a price. The company's CEO and co-founder, Sean Rad, announced that the company would soon offer the new paid features on Monday, during the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia.
The Huffington Post
Business Tech
Spotify Introduces Shared Accounts So You Can Save Money With Friends
If you have any friends or family, you can now band together to save a couple bucks on Spotify. The company launched a new pricing plan on Monday that will allow groups of people to save some cash by creating a joint subscription under one bill. The plan will have all the benefits of Spotify Premium, including no ads and offline playlists.
The Huffington Post
Tech Business
Before Spotify Enters, Russian Streaming Music Service Closes $20M Series A
Hold up, Spotify. Russia already has a free, legal music streaming service, and now it has the funding to further support its ecosystem of apps, social media integrations and a growing network. Zvooq announced today that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Ulmart, Russia’s online electronic retailer that rivals Amazon, and private equity fund Essedel Capital.
Forbes
Tech Startups
Students Don't Have To Drop Out To Thrive As Social Entrepreneurs
For young social entrepreneurs, fellowships such as Thiel, Ashoka, and Echoing Green provide guidance and resources that can be essential for launching their projects without having a college affiliation. But what about those students who wish to pursue degrees and entrepreneurial ventures simultaneously?
Forbes
Startups Business
Drink Alcohol, Donate Clean Water: How Saucey Is Standing Out In 'Uber For X' Model
We need everything, and we need it now. Oh, and there better be an app for it. Whether it’s music, movies, transportation, cleaning services, or food delivery, industries are being transformed by a so-called “Uber for X” model. The latest market to be flooded by delivery apps: the liquor store. This summer we’ve seen alcohol delivery apps launch and gain increasing popularity in major cities.
Forbes
Tech Startups Environment
Socialist, An App For The List Obsessed To Create And Share Favorites
Millennials live and breathe lists. We spend hours every day on Buzzfeed reading about the best burger joints and cat videos, but the reality is we all have our own opinions, our own rankings. Now, there’s an easy and attractive way to share and act on them. Socialist (yes, the founder knows) is an app, built only for iOS 7 for now, that allows iPhone users to create and consume lists of places, movies, music, or anything really.
Forbes
Tech Startups
Square Merges Its Mobile Payments With Food Delivery By Acquiring Caviar
Yesterday during a startup conference within AlleyNYC focused on food industry innovators I was fascinated by an introduction to Caviar, a startup that delivers meals from high-end restaurants. Now consumers wishing to enjoy prepared dishes at home or in the office could choose gourmet as opposed to the quick delivery options.
Forbes
Startups Tech
How To Make A Standing Desk For Under $200: MIT Grads Go Digital
Sit still during your 9 to 5 and you’re shedding years off your life. Some companies have taken that advice to heart, pushing for stand-up meetings and offering standing desks, but if workers opt for a standing desk they could expect to spend $500 or more for quality products. introducing the Press Fit Standing Desk.
Forbes
Tech Startups
With Beacons And Audio, LISNR Uses Proximity Marketing To Amplify Listeners
We’re all consumers of the world around us — the music blasting in our headphones, the sounds and advertising on the streets, the stores and events we attend — and for many of us, our smartphones are with us each step of the way. Armed with audio-beacon and smart app engine technology, Cincinnati-based startup LISNR has capitalized on this extra limb by providing consumers with triggered content via their smartphone that aims to amplify (not distract from) listening experiences.
Forbes
Tech Startups
Unrestricted Funding, Famous Alums Fuel Coveted Fellowship For Social Entrepreneurs
Echoing Green. If you’re apt in poetry or if you just Googled the name, you’d know it was the title of a poem by William Blake that begins with “The sun does arise, And make happy the skies.”. That theme of embracing a better world translates to another Echoing Green — a nonprofit that empowers social entrepreneurs, in part by offering what have become prestigious fellowships.
Forbes
Environment Startups
Everything Is Not Awesome With LEGO and Shell, Says Greenpeace
This post has been updated to include new comment from Shell and added detail on the company’s work in the Arctic. Over the last half-century, children have been building and playing with toy tanker trucks and gas stations branded with the logo of Shell. Profits high or revenues low; investing in renewables or cleaning up oil spills — no matter where the oil giant stands, toymaker LEGO has been there to keep Shell in our minds.
Forbes
Environment

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A recent graduate of Harvard College with experience in print and digital media for newspapers and magazines, I am looking for opportunities to write about innovation and be a part of a team navigating the changing media industry. Most recently, I interned at Forbes where I covered startups with an eye to energy innovators, trends in mobile tech, and social entrepreneurship. Prior, I interned at Money magazine, and I've freelanced for The Day and The Hartford Courant.

The daughter of a salesman I've always had an interest storytelling, industries and communities. My journalism career started as an ambitious high schooler leading my school's newspaper and writing for my local paper. At Harvard, I spent the majority of my time working for The Harvard Crimson and had leadership roles in news and design. It was there that I fell in love with entrepreneurship, surrounded by the innovation within Cambridge and Boston.

I'm an avid runner, proud to have been a part of the 2014 Boston Marathon and a past participant of Disney's Goofy Challenge. I'm fascinated by environmental policy and disruptive technology. And I can play the French horn and the mellophone, previously donning a Crimson blazer for the Harvard Band.

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