Startup News
Is This The Cigarette Of The Future, And Will The FDA Let You Buy It?
Forbes - 29 May 2014 20:39
Philip Morris International's next generation of cigarettes are designed to heat tobacco, not burn it, cutting down on harmful substances.
Digital Music Comes Full Circle
Forbes - 29 May 2014 23:43
Flash back to the year 2000. File sharing of digital tracks through Napster is all the rage for tech savvy music junkies. The record labels are annoyed but not yet distressed. After all they are just coming off of the be...
Salesforce and Microsoft throw grudges aside, form new partnership
Venture Beat - 29 May 2014 23:42
Microsoft and Salesforce.com chiefs say it's about giving customers what they want. But the moves should also pay off in greater usage and less frustration over a lack of interoperability.
Electronic Arts shuts down EA Mythic division
Venture Beat - 29 May 2014 22:40
The division that created Warhammer Online and Dungeon Keeper on mobile has shuttered.
GE joins Phillips in introducing LEDs that fast-blink coupons to your phone
Venture Beat - 29 May 2014 22:30
Get ready to shop in a store where the store lighting is telling your smartphone about coupons, specials, and product placement. Next week at the big Lightfair show in Las Vegas, GE will show a new generation of LED ligh...
NSA: Snowden never blew the whistle
Venture Beat - 29 May 2014 22:22
The NSA says they have only one copy of an email sent by Edward Snowden to his bosses inquiring about the legality of the agency's metadata collection efforts.
Video: Australia's Deputy PM Discounts MH370 Search Area
Forbes - 29 May 2014 22:03
Australia's deputy prime minister Warren Truss announces that the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has discounted the 330-square-mile search area in the Indian Ocean as the final destination for Malaysian Airlines flig...
The taxi industry heard Google & Uber's driverless car plans. They're not happy
Venture Beat - 29 May 2014 22:00
"Kalanick's comment displays the same lack of consideration for people that Uber has shown when it comes to public safety in its transportation business," says a taxi industry spokesperson.
Data 2 Device: The mobile data dilemma
Venture Beat - 29 May 2014 22:00
Sponsored Post: Data management for mobile applications is exactly what it sounds like: it's all about moving data around. It isn't an application design problem, yet so many people approach it at the API layer.
Qeexo and its touchscreen software spin out of Carnegie Mellon, land $2.3M
Venture Beat - 29 May 2014 22:00
San Jose-based Qeexo says they are revolutionizing the touch screen experience with a new software program called FingerSense.
Dave Camp's Great Bonus Depreciation Flip-Flop
Forbes - 29 May 2014 21:54
Sadly, the House Ways & Means Committee has turned on its head a proposal by its chairman, Dave Camp (R-MI) to repeal bonus depreciation for business capital investment. Instead of scrapping the measure, which Congress o...
This Entrepreneur Is Making The 'Holy Grail Of The Sweetener Industry' Sweeter For Investors
Forbes - 29 May 2014 21:53
Last month I connected with Robert Brooke, cofounder of Stevia First — a company that hopes to make stevia—a plant-derived, zero-calorie sweetener—into a viable alternative that’s sweeter, cheaper, and greener t...
How To Combat Inaction - Lessons From Iraq
Forbes - 29 May 2014 21:49
General Casey writes, "VUCA environments thus become invitations for inaction - people are befuddled by the turmoil and don't act. And to succeed, you must act!" In today's business world, inaction triggers the certain, ...
Augmented reality: Where's the venture capital?
Venture Beat - 29 May 2014 21:30
Guest Post: Augmented reality and cloud computing have had similar trajectories on Gartner's Hype Cycle, so why has AR struggled to attract capital investment to date while cloud investment is strong?
Will There Be LEDs In Your Lettuce's Future?
Forbes - 29 May 2014 21:22
One of the best-known names in consumer LED technology, Royal Philips, is teaming up with indoor farming company Green Sense Farms (GSF) to create one of the largest commercial farms yet to use LED grow lights – approx...
Netflix CEO brings his Comcast-bashing roadshow to Code Conference
Venture Beat - 29 May 2014 21:13
How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! There he g...
Why the Google Autonomous Car is Good for You
Forbes - 29 May 2014 21:09
Don’t get me wrong—I’m an exhaust-smoking, manual gearbox-shifting oil-stained wrench when it comes to enthusiasm for automobiles and driving them. Cars represent freedom: to travel, to tour, to just sit and listen...
London Ready To Go Tech-Crazy
Forbes - 29 May 2014 20:50
London is gearing up for a celebration of its technology credentials, organizing a vast collection of happenings and events to entertain and inspire players from all sectors of the techonomy.
London's 10 Best Secret Sights
Forbes - 29 May 2014 20:50
Startle.com chose ten of the best, off-the-beaten-path London attractions you'll want to visit on your next trip.
Five innovations that will transform ecommerce in the next 10 years
Forbes - 29 May 2014 20:43
I recently spoke to etail expert Michael Ross, chief scientist at eCommera, the software-as-a-service and big data company, about how ecommerce will evolve in the next decade. The changes will be subtle, but marked; here...
Here's How Apple's Smart Home Will Impact Others In Smart Home Space
Forbes - 29 May 2014 20:42
This weekend, news broke that Apple's entry into the smart home space could be imminent. As with any new market that Apple enters, the news caused some to speculate that an Apple smart home effort could hurt some of the...
Show Me The Money: A Women's Guide to Securing VC Backing
Forbes - 29 May 2014 20:41
A woman who has raised $200M in VC money offers tough talk - and solid advice - to female founders who are fundraising.