Startup News
Here's what we know about Tesla's mysterious 'D'
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 18:00
Last week, Tesla founder Elon Musk sent out a cryptic tweet about unveiling the ‘D’ on October 9. Since then, there’s been a flurry of speculation and hints about what Musk will unveil. Here’s a list of what we k...
Author With Longevity Secrets Seeks To Apply Lessons To Millions
Forbes - 9 Oct 2014 00:50
What if you could simultaneously reduce health care costs by 40 percent and increase a population's life expectancy? You'd say you'd found the Fountain of Youth!
Fedora lands $1M to help 'million dollar' teachers reach bigger audiences online
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 00:30
Young entrepreneur Ankur Nagpal is trying to help experts growth hack the online teaching system with better branding.
Dylan's Desk: The trolls always win. Is there any way to prevent that?
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 23:30
My theory: Any sufficiently popular conversation is eventually owned by those who value attention the most.
Uber gets an F from Better Business Bureau, but so does Lyft
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 23:00
Uber’s aggressive plan to take over private transit has it defending itself both from government regulators and its own protesting drivers. Peter Thiel, the billion investor in Uber’s competitor, Lyft, called Uber th...
Healthcare's most innovative cloud solutions revealed at HealthBeat 2014
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 22:00
Former Whitehouse CTO Chopra, Box's Levie, and Venrock's Kocher are ready to demystify cloud computing for healthcare and explore the enormous potential it holds.
Hipster net neutrality group's mysterious backer gets outed: It's the cable companies
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 21:34
As pressure on the Federal Communications Commission grows to make a final ruling on net neutrality, the big stakeholders in the issue have mobilized — sometimes in strange and deceptive ways. One group, called Onward ...
Lenovo's new Yoga lineup proves hybrid tablets are here to stay
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 21:30
Kutchovo has a new line up of tablet computers focused on media and style.
Swarm for iOS 8 gets a widget for easy check-ins
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 21:08
Today Foursquare’s unbundled check-in app Swarm will receive an update that enables users to share their location from Apple’s iOS notification center. The update is rolling out to iOS 8 users today. Swarm now takes ...
Silicon Valley Tech Leaders and Venture Capitalists Back BitFury
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 21:01
Press Release: BitFury Group, the leading Bitcoin infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, announced today that it has committed to spend $20 million sourced from external and internal sources to conti...
It's back to school for CMOs in first-of-its-kind IBM/Wharton School course
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 21:00
The new course is intended, the organizations said, to help "bridge the gap between traditional, digital, and data-driven marketing."
Amazon reportedly plans to open its first physical store
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 20:49
Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, is reportedly about to do the unthinkable: Open a physical store.
6 Things We Didn't Know A Month Ago: Lego, Software, Arnie, And More...
Forbes - 9 Oct 2014 20:33
In Case You Missed It, here's a roundup of last month's notable articles at Forbes NetAppVoice. Hold onto your headgear...
Chrome 39 beta arrives with new developer features, including JavaScript Generators and Web Animations control
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 20:25
Two days after releasing the stable version of Chrome 38, Google has pushed out Chrome 39 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux (though most improvements will also apply to Android and Chrome OS). This is mainly a developer r...
Give Culture A Place In Customer Service Week: Here's How In 2 (Difficult) Steps
Forbes - 9 Oct 2014 19:55
National Customer Service Week 2014 has just entered its fourth day of events and activities. (Signed into law by the first George Bush, Customer Service Week has at this point lasted as long as the gulf wars, albeit wit...
Nigerian Multi-Millionaire Oil Tycoon Igho Sanomi To Acquire $2.5 Billion Shell Asset
Forbes - 9 Oct 2014 19:51
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to sell a prolific Nigerian oil block, Oil Mining License 29, and an associated pipeline, for $2.5 billion to a consortium led by Taleveras Group, an oil trading firm founded and ow...
HealthBeat 2014 investor challenge: Back startups that help the sickest (and costliest) patients
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 19:37
The quantified-self movement, with massive investment and product development, gives the impression there's a lot of commitment to health tech. But where do sick people fit into that?
Which Megacorps Pay Mega Taxes
Forbes - 9 Oct 2014 19:25
The results will surprise you.
Teresa Giudice's Surprise Sentence And Possible Better Ways To Motivate Compliance
Forbes - 9 Oct 2014 19:25
I have not written about the tax troubles of Teresa and Joe Giudice, stars of Real Housewives of New Jersey, When I look at clips from the show, I find the title a little disturbing. I was raised by and delivered newsp...
Box is buying medical data startup MedXT
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 19:14
Box said today that it’s acquiring MedXT, a startup that developed technology to host and display medical images from a cloud. Clinical images are a core part of patient diagnostics, and the expertise of the MedXT team...
Fueled by Hong Kong protests, FireChat rolls out verified users
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 19:02
Two weeks ago we reported that mobile chat app FireChat would add verified users as well as encryption. Today, FireChat is starting to verify certain accounts.
Security startup Zenedge exits stealth mode with $3.5 million
Venture Beat - 9 Oct 2014 19:00
Zenedge is pro-active, meaning it isolates web applications, operating as a protective shield against an enemy that is constantly changing tactics.