Startup News
China's Movie Industry: All That Glitters Isn't Gold
Forbes - 25 Aug 2014 03:04
The Chinese movie industry has never been so shocked as it's been by two 31-year-old Forbes celebrities: Guo Jingming and Han Han. Guo's Tiny Times 3 is the latest sequel of a film franchise adapted from his own novel of...
MIT study shows people would rather take orders from a robot than their boss
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 06:45
Research coming out of MIT confirms that in a two-human, one-robot team working toward a common goal, the humans would rather the robot be in charge. Not only do human participants prefer taking robo-orders when it comes...
Who Are Your Organization's Superheroes? Hint: Look Beyond The C-Suite
Forbes - 25 Aug 2014 23:48
In a world of increasing specialization, the people in your organization that blur the lines between functional areas are incredibley valuable.
HubSpot files to go public with a $100M IPO
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 22:23
Marketing automation company HubSpot today filed its S-1 document with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions, putting the company in line to go public and raise $100 million. HubSpot started in 2006. It recently r...
Amazon acquires Twitch: World's largest e-tailer buys largest gameplay-livestreaming site
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 22:07
Amazon is dropping $970 million for the game livestreaming site.
Sorry, kids: FTC is taking comments on startup's plan to verify your age
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 21:57
Start up AdCheq is getting serious about pushing its age verification software.
Facebook's new click bait rule will totally blow you away
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 21:32
Uh-oh, it's a bad Monday for Upworthy and other so-called viral sites.
Professors help startups teach real-world skills online without university bureaucracy
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 21:14
Coursera, Johns Hopkins, and Swiftkey team up for data science training.
156,000 reasons to learn to code: average San Francisco tech salaries up 19%
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 21:03
"Money, money, money, mon-ey, MON-AY!"
Confirmed: Amazon could steal Twitch acquisition from Google
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 19:54
A new rumor suggests that Amazon may be in late-stage talks to acquire the game livestreaming service.
Nuance sends its 3 billionth medical image through the cloud
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 19:50
Nuance says its Powershare cloud network has now enabled the sharing of 3 billion health images. The Nuance cloud enables health providers to send diagnostic images like X-rays and MRIs across health care systems that ar...
Whoa. VMware joins in on OpenStack, Docker, & Open Compute open-source projects
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 19:40
"We're going to offer more choice," VMware's Pat Gelsinger says. Today that means selling projects that carry the labels of headline-grabbing open-source projects.
Google launches slideshow app on iOS, updates Docs & Sheets with Office support
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 19:33
Google today announced a major update to its iOS productivity suite, introducing a new “Slides” slideshow app, and updating existing “Docs” document editing and “Sheets” spreadsheet apps with new editing feat...
Oops, our bad -- Facebook to fix automatic call flaw
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 19:09
After a security gap was found in the way iOS manages links to telephone numbers last week, Facebook is updating its messenger to prevent calls from being made automatically in app.
VMware whips up new hardware-software combos for its partners to sell
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 18:53
Altogether, the strategy could push adoption of VMware's virtualization software as well as the newer VMware products. Time will tell if the the strategy works.
Patent reveals how Twitter could protect users from malware on the mobile Web
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 18:27
Twitter has been granted a patent for detecting malware on mobile sites, according to a filing made public this month. According to the patent, filed back in 2012, Twitter could protect users from malware by crawling web...
People now spend most of their digital time on mobile apps
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 18:17
The app world has taken over the great digital attention span, with the U.S. population now spending 52 percent of its “digital time” on mobile apps, according to a Comscore report. Crossing the 50 percent threshold ...
PlayStation Network, League of Legends back online after a day of outages due to DDoS attacks
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 18:15
The FBI is looking into a hacker group that is taking credit for the attacks.
Tivo launches a $50 DVR with HD antenna in the wake of Aereo's death
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 17:32
Tivo is hoping to fill the major hole left by startup Aereo now that its over-the-air TV service has been shut down indefinitely. Today Tivo anounced a new $50 version of its DVR box, the Tivo Roamio OTA (over the air), ...
Yahoo pushes native-ad recommendation boxes to publishers
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 17:07
The recommendation boxes host content from around a publisher's site as well as native ads.
Not just for fitness geeks: health wearables will transform healthcare as we know it.
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 17:00
Sponsored Post: When it comes to the potential of wearables and health, it's not just about the quantified-self movement. It's about life-saving technology integrated seamlessly into our lives.
How app makers will trade Wi-Fi access for membership
Venture Beat - 25 Aug 2014 16:46
Guest Post: Expect to see plenty more Wi-Fi sponsorships over the next few years.