Startup News

In a previous post  I presented six of the 100 persons who Nikkei Business magazine in its October 29 issue profiled and identified as having the greatest influence on Japan’s future.

Autonomy founder Michael Lynch and HP, which acquired the company last year, are trading public statements over alleged financial improprieties at Autonomy that led HP to write off $8.8 billion recently.

Microsoft has sold 40 million copies of its still-fresh Windows 8 operating system in its first month of availability, executive Tami Reller said today.

Streaming music service Rdio launched a brand new version of its iOS app today that features a drastically revamped user interface with a much prettier design.

SodaStream, which earlier this year benefitted from the publicity it garnered for receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Coca-Cola’s South African subsidiary has caught another PR break: its new advertising camp...

With fresh funding and big-name backers, Lift is now exponentially more fit to help people keep their resolutions.

Guest Post Just like Goldilocks, enterprises are struggling to find the “just-right” solution for file collaboration, one that jointly meets their need for security, privacy and ease of use.

Last I checked 2013 was still 34 days away. But Bing is obviously an impressive piece of technology: it already knows the most-searched terms of 2012.

Our CloudBeat conference is happening this week, and if you want to learn about cloud technologies from people who are actually using them, this is the place you need to be.

Social startup At The Pool brings people together around shared interests to faciliate real-world interactions

SolarCity is gearing up for a big IPO -- but will the business be able to survive changing federal regulations?

Mihir Shah is out as CEO of the mobile ad network.

Open-source cloud software provider Red Hat has finally launched its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service for enterprise customers.

It's like NPR's Pledge Week: A necessary annoyance for the greater good.

Guest Post There are a lot of start up resources out there, but here are some of the most useful free ones.

Two weeks ago, I and several Ashoka colleagues attended the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the largest and most important Jewish gatherings o...

Fool me once, you're fired: Apple has reportedly canned the man in charge of Apple Maps.

Behind an unmarked door on the second floor of a new commercial park located just a few blocks north of the border from Ha Dong province is the Hanoi branch of VietGest, one of a thousand companies in Vietnam’s bu...

This guest post was written by Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures and a leading Silicon Valley clean tech investor.

If Steve Blank and Eric Reis, two of the Founding Fathers of the Lean Startup Movement formed a band, they would produce music like the Kingsmen's Louie, Louie.

I love writing about startups and their path and challenges. This post is about a Belgian startup, founded by an ex-collegue of mine at SWIFT. The startup is called INTIX,  and has a solution for a challenge spe...

“With nearly 86 million Americans now shopping on their smartphones, this pronounced shift in consumer behavior is simply too large for retailers to ignore, with the future of their business depending on how well t...