Startup News
Stocks to Watch: Salesforce.com, Gap, Ross are stocks to watch
Market Watch - 28 Feb 2014 01:54
Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday's session are Salesforce.com, Gap, and Ross Stores.
5 of the oldest U.S. tech companies -- and their unusual histories
Venture Beat - 28 Feb 2014 01:42
Guest Post: Sometimes you don't know your household brands as well as you think.
Man On Fire: Aubrey McClendon Raises Billions To Finance His Redemption
Forbes - 28 Feb 2014 00:46
Here's hoping McClendon can stay out of jail, pay off his debts, and even make it back onto the Forbes 400 list one of these days.
Physical storage in 'the cloud'? MakeSpace launches Air service
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 23:44
Storage startup MakeSpace promises to be "your closet in the cloud."
Look, ma, I'm Googling with no hands in Chrome's latest Beta
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 23:02
The latest version of Google Chrome Beta includes the ability to search without using your hands or your mouse.
Crime-fighting robot maker Knightscope scores million-dollar seed round
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 22:26
Acting like RoboCop's little brother and looking like R2-D2's cousin, the K5 crime-fighting robot could be the first in a new wave of Robots-as-a-Service.
Why this Dutch carrier is the first to sell the Blackphone -- the ultimate secure smartphone
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 22:00
Dutch carrier KPN is understandably concerned about security. And when it comes to security, it all starts with Jaya Baloo, KPN’s Chief Information Security Officer, a former fraud and security expert at Verizon and Fr...
Find 10 Hidden Hours A Week That You're Missing
Forbes - 27 Feb 2014 21:37
No matter how hard you try, your enemy is the same as everyone else’s: the 24-hour ceiling. You have the same number of hours in a day as anyone else, but why do some people seem to get so much more done? How do they c...
Divining The Future: The Always-On Consumer
Forbes - 27 Feb 2014 21:32
This article is by Erich Joachimsthaler, CEO of Vivaldi Partners Group.
Murdered: Soul Suspect turns a ghost story into a fascinating, original video game (hands-on preview)
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 21:00
You're dead. And your investigative task as the player is to solve your own murder.
Smule's Open Mic uploads your karaoke songs from the Web (exclusive)
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 21:00
Smule Open Mic uploads your song recordings from apps or the Web.
Selling Your Company During the Recruiting Process
Forbes - 27 Feb 2014 20:45
In business, the companies that hire the best employees are the companies that win. Though the concept sounds simplistic, executing on it is an entirely different story. Despite the advent of job boards and increasin...
J.C. Penney's Problem: Right Stores Wrong Focus
Forbes - 27 Feb 2014 20:43
For years, American retailers J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP) and Macy’s had something in common: they were serving the middle class working American consumer with quality merchandise at reasonable prices. Macy’s catered more...
The Challenges Of Starting A Business In Midlife
Forbes - 27 Feb 2014 20:42
These three entrepreneurs dealt with obstacles to launch successful firms.
Citing privacy concerns, U.S. government won't share NSA reform proposals
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 20:27
The Obama administration may have acknowledged that the National Security Agency’s phone data program went overboard, but it isn’t about to let you see any of the public proposals for how to reform it. The reason? Pr...
7 Career Lessons From HSN's Mindy Grossman
Forbes - 27 Feb 2014 20:24
Mindy Grossman has made a career out of surprising people with boldly unexpected decisions, perhaps most famously in 2008, when she left the global powerhouse brand Nike for what was effectively a “start up” CEO posi...
Formspring creator launches Loop, an app for sharing animated GIFs with friends
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 20:00
Ade Olonoh, the founder of the anonymous Q&A site Formspring, is setting his sights on animated GIFs. Loop is an iOS app for sending text updates to all of your friends at once -- la Twitter -- but each ...
Dining payments startup Dash raises $1.2M to expand in NY & launch in Chicago
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 20:00
Tired of waiting for the check when dining out? NYC-based Dash just raised $1.2 million to make that a thing of the past. Now two years old with a total of $1.9 million in funding, Dash’s app enables you to ... ...
How to Engineer Some Serendipity at SXSW
Nibletz - 27 Feb 2014 19:55
SXSW takes a little work, a little hustle and a little "luck," but you can get the whole ROI of your trip in one night.
Google aims for a basic $50 modular phone next year, dishes more on Project Ara
Venture Beat - 27 Feb 2014 19:46
Surprisingly, Google doesn’t see its ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone as something just for geeks. In a lengthy profile by Time’s Harry McCracken, Google shined a light on its plans for Ara. And while the com...
The $1 Million-A-Month Business Behind Your Favorite Twitter Accounts
Forbes - 27 Feb 2014 19:45
If you’re one of the 1.14 million followers of the @HistoryInPics Twitter account, which posts delightfully obscure pictures of historical subjects and events, you may have asked yourself, “Are they making any money ...
Franchise Development Marketing Strategies To Use 2014
Forbes - 27 Feb 2014 19:19
Ok I realize this is not my normal "cup of tea" insomuch as I don't usually write about this kind of topic but hey, I'm a renaissance man — at least I like to think I am. And as such I am always looking to spread my p...