Startup News
Three Steps To Turning Customers Into Brand Ambassadors
Forbes - 10 Feb 2015 14:41
Are your customers ready to jump ship or to become ambassadors of your brand? Here's the three stage process for turning customers into brand ambassadors.
Learning from the Latin American lending market in the U.S.
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 04:00
Guest:In the United States, the FICO score has become the standard measure of consumer credit risk. Yet FICO's methodology is incredibly simplistic, and often illogical. The story is completely different in Latin Americ...
Perfect storm: How Apple vacuumed up all of the profit in the smartphone business
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 02:30
Feature:Mobile executive? VB is hosting our 5th annual Mobile Summit on February 23-24 at the scenic Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, CA. See if you qualify here. That Apple scored an $18 billion profit last quarter �...
Appster Aims to Cut Mobile App Startup Starting Costs By Half
Forbes - 10 Feb 2015 00:55
Appster, an Australian based mobile app service company has established its presence in the world’s most competitive market, Silicon Valley. Founded by early twenty’s wunderkind duo Josiah Humphrey and Mark McDonald,...
comScore: Apple ends 2014 with 41.6% of U.S. smartphone share, Samsung hits 29.7%; Android still owns over half
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 00:36
In the U.S. smartphone race, Apple is beating Samsung, but Google's Android is still winning overall.
Minecraft is by far YouTube's most popular game
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 23:58
Nothing can touch Minecraft.
Photography... the Final Frontier?
Nibletz - 10 Feb 2015 23:44
Could there be a more unlikely path to creating a startup than from the International Space Station to pre-school photography? Probably not, but don't tell Melissa Tash. After earning a business degree from Auburn Univer...
Facebook reignites real-name controversy after suspending Native American author's account
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 23:22
Feature:Facebook has tried to clarify its real-names policy, but recent account suspensions -- though temporary -- have some people furious.
Apple building a $850M solar farm in California with First Solar
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 23:14
Mobile executive? VB is hosting our 5th annual Mobile Summit on February 23-24 at the scenic Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, CA. See if you qualify here. Apple CEO Tim Cook said today that his company will partner wit...
Instant Success For A Silicon Valley Style Startup...In Belgrade
Forbes - 10 Feb 2015 22:27
A Silicon Valley-Style Startup in Belgrade has had instant success with an online football simulator called Top Eleven. Serbian Branko Milutinovic and two friends founded Nordeus, a gaming development company, in 2010. T...
Google I/O 2015 dates announced: May 28-May 29, registration opens March 17
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 22:17
The company plans to stream the event online via I/O Live.
Fifty Shades of Sony: PlayStation 4 owners dig BDSM more than Xbox One folk
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 22:17
And Android owners are a bit kinkier than iOS fans, too.
Beats By Dre Inspires Kendall Jenner Garage Magazine Cover
Forbes - 10 Feb 2015 22:07
In its eighth issue to be released February 12th, Garage Magazine collaborated with Beats by Dr. Dre, Pat McGrath, Chaos Fashion and The Mill to create five animated covers.
Apple Pay will be used in 38% of large retailers by end of 2015 (research report)
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 20:51
According to the survey by Boston Retail Partners, 56 percent of large retailers also believe they'll be supporting Apple Pay by the end of 2017.
Nest's new Home Reports go beyond mere thermostats and smoke detectors
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 20:01
Google-owned Nest is branching out beyond energy usage reports with emails tracking energy, home temperature, and carbon monoxide presence.
Flipboard launches a full web version with design cues from Medium and Pinterest
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 20:00
Besides access to your magazines and the slick new interface, Flipboard 3.0 is also adding a finessed section for content discovery.
Google confirms it put $900M into SpaceX's $1B round
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 19:49
A recent SEC filing reveals just how much capital Google dropped on the deal.
RapidShare to shut down on March 31, 2015
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 19:42
The end of an era.
Facebook's For Sale groups get new Craigslist-like buying and selling tools
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 19:16
The new tools will give members of local groups better tools for buying and selling.
Box's new Enterprise Key Management service lets companies store their own encryption keys
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 19:00
The feature could help further distinguish Box from its rivals.
Eight use cases for connecting search marketing and CRM
Venture Beat - 10 Feb 2015 18:57
Guest:Marketers who align search and email CRM will benefit from a more holistic view of the customer that results in more targeted communications and messages -- and a higher rate of engagement.
Senate Finance Committee Review Of 1986 Act Smacks of Desperation
Forbes - 10 Feb 2015 18:55
The Senate Finance Committee will try to use history as a guide to break the logjam on tax reform.