Startup News
The 'Transfer Of Wealth' Trap: Why Causes Should Probably Ignore The Big Numbers
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 23:23
This is my second "transfer of wealth" cycle.
Look Out Main Street, Alibaba Is Moving In
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 23:28
China’s Alibaba Group has been gathering attention in the US for some time. Its impending Initial Public Offering (IPO) is expected to potentially be the biggest in history, even if, as was reported in Bloomberg, it ...
Facebook overhauls Embedded Posts with killer new features
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 23:01
Facebook upgrades Embedded Posts with slick new features while giving a nod to reporters with FB Newswire.
Why negativity in your startup is a good thing
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 22:34
Negatism is “the act of learning from negative outcomes or behaviors” — and boy, will we petition heavily to officially add this word to the dictionary. However, if “negatism” can’t be a real word yet, it sur...
Mozilla gears up to launch $25 Firefox OS smartphones in India, Indonesia
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 22:17
After releasing $99 smartphones in Europe earlier this year, Mozilla plans to launch super-low-cost smartphones in India and Indonesia in the second half of 2014, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mozilla hinged the succe...
Exclusive: Zynga affirms its support of LGBT people & their rights after launching Duck Dynasty slots game
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 21:56
Zynga's experienced a host of problems over the last couple of years. You might want to add a public-relations kerfuffle to that list now.
South African entrepreneurs create a solar-powered Android tablet
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 21:48
With Google working on Project Loon, its Internet-delivering balloons, and Facebook’s Connectivity Labs also working to bring Internet connections to remote and developing areas, accessible, Internet-enabled devices ar...
Why A Small, Maryland Money-Transfer Biz Got The Attention Of IFC's Investment Arm
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 21:26
The IFC's investment arm acquired a $6 million equity stake in Viamericas Corporation.
Lytro hopes its new portable file format will become as common as jpeg
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 21:24
The magic of Lytro is that it lets you play with the focus and perspective of an image after you’ve shot it. This opens up a whole creative process after the fact. Now Lytro wants to make this creative process ...
NASA's new 'IXS Enterprise' is a spaceship worthy of James T. Kirk
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 21:06
NASA scientist Harold White unveiled a new concept design for a spaceship with a faster-than-light-speed warp drive engine yesterday that most sci-fi fans will probably describe as gorgeous. It also features the most fam...
An Evening Of Passion
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 20:41
The moment of epiphany occurred in a bar with friends. Twenty-five-year-old Isabel Campanelli, had recently broken up with her boyfriend and was considering a career change. “I am living through it and it is not so pre...
Insight Venture Partners acquires majority interest in security intelligence company FireMon
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 20:37
Venture Capitalist firm Insight Venture Partners is taking a majority interest in cyber security purveyor FireMon, which has seen a massive 120 percent growth since Q1 of last year. FireMon specializes in software packag...
GoPro prices its IPO: $21-24 per share
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 20:34
The initial public offering on Nasdaq could give GoPro as much as $427 million, with the company angling for a valuation as high as $3 billion, Bloomberg is reporting.
TweetDeck was hacked, spread malicious code, & is still buggy (Update: it's back)
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 20:01
The popular Twitter client, TweetDeck, suffered a massive security breach.
Is Six Sigma Killing Your Company's Future?
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 19:55
Six Sigma and other efficiency seeking approaches can dramatically reduce variance and inefficiency in an organization. But if you’re not careful, innovation and growth may be swept away in the process.
Pinterest on the Web will read your mind now as it finally rolls out Guided Search
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 19:49
It’s finally on the Web: Pinterest’s Guided Search feature, which helps you figure out what you’d like to find when you’re not even sure what you’re looking for to begin with. Pinterest, a social network on whi...
Health Integrated takes another million in venture debt financing
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 19:37
Health-focused big data company Health Integrated has borrowed another million from its backer, Western Technology Investment (WTI). Health insurance companies and risk-bearing health providers use Health Integrated’s ...
iSpermicide: This study says cell phone radiation can damage sperm
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 19:11
Is that a bulge in your pocket or are you just trying to avoid fatherhood?
Google makes impulse shopping easier on iOS with Google Wallet 'Instant Buy'
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 19:06
Last month, Google released its Google Wallet “Instant Buy” API for Android apps. Now the technology is available on iOS. Google says 97 percent of online shoppers abandon their carts once they have to enter their pe...
This Is Huge: How To Brand Your Startup
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 19:05
A Q&A with Huge on how startups can make their early forays into a crowded marketplace more successful with world-class design, branding, and magic.
As gaming evolves, Activision zeroes in on its Destiny, Call of Duty, and Skylanders (interview)
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 19:00
Activision publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg takes on the big topics of E3, including his upcoming blockbuster games.
Sean Parker's civic startup buys Sean Parker's other civic startups
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 18:59
Tech entrepreneur Sean Parker wants to re-energize American democracy through increased civic engagement, so he's directed Brigade Media to buy online campaigning platform Causes and its voter network subsidiary Votizen ...