Startup News
Think your annual bonus is pretty good? This Chinese startup is giving its employees Teslas
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 08:30
Chinese companies traditionally give bonuses around the Lunar New Year. But what if the incentive for this year takes the form of a car -- specifically, a Tesla?
OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia of maps, now offers A-to-B directions on its site to solicit more edits
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 16:25
OpenStreetMap has introduced what could be construed as its first direct user-focused feature. Through the main OpenStreetMap.com website, you can now search for directions from-and-to anywhere in the world.
IRS Expected To Issue Hundreds Of Deficiency Notices TO USVI Residents
Forbes - 17 Feb 2015 04:06
IRS is expected to issue SNDs to United States Virgin Island residents in the next few months - Will the Estate of Sanders opinion stop the IRS? Don't be surprised if the IRS tries, once again, to link fraud to claims of...
Innovation Act 2.0 gets it all wrong -- will destroy startup IP value
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 03:00
Guest:History often has a habit of repeating itself, and after the defeat of the Innovation Act last year in the Senate, a Republican led Congress is trying to push through the same exact patent reform act again this ye...
Amazon's Drone Delivery Plans Grounded -- Should Investors Care?
Forbes - 17 Feb 2015 00:22
On-line retailer Amazon.com had its drone delivery plans grounded, following TheFederal Aviation Administration's (FAA) proposed safety rules for small commercial drones flying as unmanned aerial vehicles. Though the com...
Twitter breaks analytics tool Answers out of its suite of developer tools
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 22:37
Answers, which tracks app downloads attributed to Twitter, now becomes available to people who don't need the whole Crashlytics dashboard.
Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 21:53
Get all the tech funding news of the day delivered straight to your mailbox! Sign up for Funding Daily and never miss a deal. Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you ...
Outlook for Android and iOS gets PIN lock, faster remote wipe, IMAP support, and more
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 21:38
Outlook for Android and iOS just got its first update.
Apptimize raises $4M for app deployment and testing platform
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 21:27
The startup's software-as-a-service platform lets developers make changes to native apps in real time without having to push out an update or notify the app stores.
The mobile technology stack for the Collaborative Economy
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 20:30
Guest:If you've used Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, oDesk, Kickstarter, or Lending Club, you've participated in the Collaborative Economy.
Facebook's Product ads let marketers dynamically promote all their products
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 20:00
The new ad unit is designed to help marketers spotlight their product line in any way they want.
Mode's nifty data analysis tool tacks on support for Hadoop tools like Hive and Impala
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 19:57
No longer will engineers be limited to command-line interface queries.
Mobile Summit hits next week: apply today for the last few spots
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 19:50
VB Event:Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile. It all takes place at our 5th annual Mobile Summit at the scenic Caval...
5 Tactics To Refresh A Stale SEO Campaign
Forbes - 17 Feb 2015 19:41
SEO strategies can get stale, just like a content strategy. The landscape of SEO is always changing with Google algorithm updates and search changes, and consumer trends are always changing with new technologies and new ...
How Health Warrior Is Marketing Chia As The Superfood Of The 21st Century
Forbes - 17 Feb 2015 19:31
I recently spoke with Shane Emmett, the CEO of Health Warrior, about the marketing of a successful helath food startup. The short answerL an influential book on nutrition, three determined former college athletes, and an...
Twitter launches TweetDeck Teams to let you share account access without sharing passwords
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 19:24
The new tool allows an administrator to give access to as many people as they like and revoke that access as necessary.
7 Leading Accelerators For Overseas Startups Coming To Silicon Valley
Forbes - 17 Feb 2015 19:18
Silicon Valley has become the epicenter of the startup universe, and with that comes a virtual tsunami of startups from all parts of the globe. These young companies are flocking to the home of Uber, Snapchat and Airbn...
Marketing: Building a Customer Centric Marketing Eco-System
Forbes - 17 Feb 2015 18:25
Throughout last year, I’ve talked a lot about one-to-one marketing and how with the rising tide of customer power marketers need to focus more on this personalized and empathetic approach. While it’s true that market...
V12 Group unveils its latest Launchpad, a marketing cloud for the masses
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 18:16
The vast majority of marketing cloud solutions are big, integrated systems for big companies. Today, V12 Group's upgraded Launchpad scales that concept for small and medium-size businesses.
Firefly Games raises $8M to bring top Asian mobile games to the West
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 18:15
The Los Angeles startup says it will publish four games in the West in 2015.
The mobile market in 2015 will focus on these 4 trends
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 18:10
Guest:2014 was the year that mobile stopped being the next big thing and became THE BIG THING. In 2015, we can identify four types of apps, each with their own characteristics and challenges.
Pivotal moves to open-source its Hadoop distribution, GemFire and Greenplum databases
Venture Beat - 17 Feb 2015 18:08
Pivotal, a spinoff of EMC and VMware, said today that it would make several pieces of its big data software open source, a move that should shake up the big data market.