Startup News
Tesla CEO Elon Musk visits China amid consumer complaints
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 07:00
Electric vehicle maker Tesla grabbed the attention of both Chinese media and car buyers since the very beginning of its entry to Chinese market. Elon Musk, founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley-headquartered company, is ...
11 Companies Considered Best For The Environment
Forbes - 22 Apr 2014 23:37
Seventh Generation, the Burlington, VT-based maker of environmentally friendly laundry detergent, trash bags and diapers, takes its name from an Iroquois law that says, “in our every deliberation we must consider the i...
Apple gets greener, lighting more stores and data centers with renewable power
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 03:20
Apple is moving more of its stores to renewable energy, and all its data centers are now in line with that guideline.
FBI warns Boston-area startups: Beware Russian spies posing as VCs
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 03:00
The FBI warned Boston-area businesses and academic institutions earlier this month of "scams involving malicious [Russian] venture capitalists."
Weebly races WordPress around the world, takes $35M
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 23:55
"The Internet is changing the future of business and entrepreneurship. Never before have people been so empowered to build global businesses with huge flexibility," said Tencent USA chairman David Wallerstein in a state...
AgeCheq hopes to save app developers and game companies from impending fed crackdown
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 23:15
The feds are set to begin slapping app developers and mobile game companies with hefty fines for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act starting any day. And software startup AgeCheq’s software soluti...
Apple now lets anyone try the latest beta of OS X for free
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 22:37
Before today, you had to be a developer to test out an early release of OS X. Now, a shift in policy permits anyone to try the latest beta of Apple’s desktop operating system, TechCrunch reports. This is a major ...
Getting Your First 100 Customers: Strategies That Work
Forbes - 22 Apr 2014 22:14
Ok I realize I usually and generally deal with and write about brands that are way beyond their first 100 customers. But, I figured with so many startups popping up plus the fact even the biggest of brands had to start s...
The 'new' news -- from Buzzfeed to 538 -- in one handy chart
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 21:57
We might be witnessing the future of news, or a failed attempt at trying to stay afloat on a data life raft in a sea with no rescuers looking for survivors. Happy Tuesday!
Mobile addicts launch apps 60 times a day
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 21:15
Are you a mobile addict? You probably are if you open apps more than 60 times a day. That’s how Flurry, the mobile marketing and analytics firm that monitors data from 500,000 apps across 1.3 billion devices, defines a...
Your new Twitter profile is ready. Here's how to get it now
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 21:04
Whether you like it or not, Twitter’s new Web profile design is now available to all. The new look is technically still rolling out, but Twitter permits users to skip the line by visiting this link. Twitter’s redesig...
Aereo is 'cautiously optimistic' about a Supreme Court victory
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 21:02
Aereo is confident that it’ll score a victory from Supreme Court justices that are currently deciding whether the ‘TV anywhere’ service infringes on copyrights owned by major TV broadcast stations like ABC. Aereo l...
Samsung Galaxy S5 sees monster adoption -- almost 1% of the Android market already
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 20:55
Samsung is king of the Android market — and its Galaxy S5 smartphone is helping solidify that position. After a single week on the market, the Samsung Galaxy S5 already makes up 0.7 percent of all active Android smartp...
5 Dating Apps To Help You Find Love
Forbes - 22 Apr 2014 20:21
As we spent more hours on handheld devices, these dating apps are hoping to help you find mobile love.
Birst's new CEO is building a 'data café' & promising crazy growth
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 20:03
Birst wants to open a data cafe at companies far and wide. It's bringing in a new chief executive to push that effort forward.
Fan TV will now let Time Warner subscribers ditch their crappy cable boxes
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 20:00
Time to ditch the 15-year-old TV box you're renting from your cable TV provider.
APX Labs nabs $10 million to get Google Glass ready for business
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 19:29
When is a battlefield like a factory floor? When you’re using enhanced reality headsets. A Herndon, Virginia-based company that has focused on military applications for augmented reality has scored $10 million to expan...
Is "Impact Investing" Just Bad Economics?
Forbes - 22 Apr 2014 19:28
There was an entertaining article in this Sunday's New York Times Style Section about a gang of rich kids who got to go on a field trip to the White House to “empower” them and let them schmooze about their charita...
Impact Sourcing: An Opportunity That Actually Needs To Have Impact
Forbes - 22 Apr 2014 18:59
Impact sourcing can be described as connecting the technology industry’s’ philanthropy with social entrepreneurs. Although less than a decade old, impact sourcing carries with it the hopes of the information techno...
Decisive launches to make mobile ads cheap, transparent, and real-time (for the little guy)
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 18:41
The company faces hundreds of competitors, but its extreme real-time reporting could help it stand out.
Look out, Europe: Data scientists are coming your way
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 18:31
This new program is planning to churn out 10 new data scientists every three months.
Brandcast's simple but powerful site management tech wins $1.5M from Benioff
Venture Beat - 22 Apr 2014 18:01
Brandcast fits somewhere between old-school on-premises software and template-oriented cloud services for publishing websites. And that position makes sense to Marc Benioff.