Startup News
From Basement to $15M: One Woman's Journey To The Top
Forbes - 30 Sep 2014 18:20
“Your net worth is determined by your network.” -- Entrepreneur Jeff Walker You’ve heard it before, but do you grasp its significance? Joy Taylor does. As Co-Founder and CEO of Taygan Point Consulting Group, her co...
FORBES Magazine's America's Most Promising Companies: Nominate Now
Forbes - 30 Sep 2014 20:17
It’s that time of year again and Forbes Magazine is building its annual list of America’s Most Promising Companies for 2015.
Why I'm clicking 'Like' on Facebook ads
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 05:00
Facebook ads aren't perfect. But, overall, it's been the best ad system for predicting products that I actually want to use.
Team email startup Front raises $3.1M for 'multi-player version of Gmail'
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 23:00
Front provides shared inbox features along with new ways of managing email, like adding collaboration and social features.
3 Ways For CMOs To Integrate SEO With Other Digital Marketing Teams
Forbes - 30 Sep 2014 23:00
In the past, things like content marketing, social marketing, PR, affiliate marketing, and advertising for a business have all operated independently of one another. As the world becomes more digital, though, one thing t...
Windows 10 is Microsoft's big fat apology for Windows 8
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 22:23
With Windows 10, it's almost as if Microsoft so desperately wanted to distance itself from Windows 8 that it skipped an entire version number.
For mobile marketer MobileROI, Apple Pay is the missing link
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 22:00
"We're the first mobile marketing automation platform to integrate Apple Pay, with a full view online and in-store, with beacons, of the customer journey," CEO and cofounder Puneet Mehta. He added that his company's plat...
The main reason you don't use a health wearable? You're apathetic and cheap.
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 21:30
Most people are fat, apathetic, and cheap. It's not just me saying that.
Crowdfunding Authors' Books Could Save Publishing
Forbes - 30 Sep 2014 21:28
Book publishers continue to struggle with taking their business model online, but is the answer to crowdfund authors' book ideas? Online publisher Unbound thinks so, successfully using the crowd to fund more than £1m...
Streamlining Restaurant Delivery While Boosting Wages And Safety
Forbes - 30 Sep 2014 21:02
Startup Homer Delivery has a platform automating and streamlining restaurant delivery--and improving the lives of the cyclists doing the deliveries.
Robocoin adds Bitcoin wallet, promising instant transactions at its ATMs
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 21:00
Robocoin, which makes Bitcoin ATMs, wants to be your bank some day. Today, in pursuit of that goal, the company is rolling out its digital wallet.
Feds charge four men for stealing $100 million in Xbox code and U.S. military secrets
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 20:53
Feds bust hacker ring who stole over $100 million in secrets from Xbox, leading game manufacturers and the Army.
Annual Security Expo Shows An Industry Evolving
Forbes - 30 Sep 2014 20:46
By Bill Daly
Pebble drops prices as smartwatch competition grows, adds new health and fitness features
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 20:26
The original Pebble watch price is dropping from $150 to $99, and the Pebble Steel is dropping from $249 to $199.
Act-On goes mobile -- and old-school -- hooking in phone calls to marketing automation
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 20:16
Marketing automation platform Act-On and IfByPhone announced a partnership today that integrates IfByPhone’s call tracking with Act-On’s technology, helping marketers add good old fashioned phone calls to their digit...
WunWun launches on-demand delivery in San Francisco -- on Postmates' home turf
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 20:00
Today on-demand delivery startup WunWun is launching in San Francisco, kicking off major expansion plans for the fledgling New York startup. WunWun first debuted in New York in early 2013 in private beta. After experimen...
Sorry, CompSci majors: Engineering degrees will out-earn you
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 19:50
Being an engineer pays, literally.
Microsoft's Windows Insider Program will let you test and shape Windows 10
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 19:50
Not satisfied with some of the changes in Windows 10, Microsoft's confusingly-named Windows 8 follow up? You'll soon have your chance to be heard.
Y Combinator president upvotes Reddit with $50M investment
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 19:31
Community news sharing site Reddit has raised a new $50 million round of funding, the company told VentureBeat today. The news ends months of rumors and speculation about the site’s investment activity and reveals more...
Apple seeds the final pre-release version of OS X Yosemite to developers
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 19:22
On the heels of Microsoft’s Windows 10 unveiling, Apple released the golden master (GM) version of OS X Yosemite to developers today. This release should be the final version of OS X Yosemite before its public launch �...
Microsoft unveils the new Windows: Windows 10
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 19:07
With Windows 10, the company is "stepping across into a new way of doing things," Microsoft executive Terry Myerson told the press today.
Bellabeat launches 3 new devices to help moms track their babies' health
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2014 19:00
Moms constantly worry about their kids’ health — but pregnancy and the first year of a baby’s life can be particularly nerve-wracking. Bellabeat, a company that got its start with a gadget for listening to and trac...