Startup News
The $85 Asus Chromebit is a tiny HDMI stick running Chrome OS
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 11:03
Google today announced the Asus Chromebit, an $85 HDMI stick that allows users to plug into any screen and run Chrome OS straight out of the box — assuming they also link up a USB or bluetooth mouse and keyboard. The 7...
The 5 Strongest Emotions To Harness In Your Content
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 20:50
Try these five emotions in your next series of content and see how it affects shares, interactions, and engagement with your readers.
Reid Hoffman And The Hidden Reason Startups Fail To Scale
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 05:22
In the fall of 2011, I listened to Steve Blank present his lean startup ideas to an audience at Columbia University. Given his focus on achieving product/market fit, he glossed over the fourth step of customer developmen...
Google redesigns Google+ with focus on Communities and Collections
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 23:22
Google has redesigned its Google+ social network with more of a focus on Communities and Collections. The updated service has become more mobile-friendly and is situated around helping make “life easier for people.” ...
Personalization done right: what works, what doesn't (webinar)
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 23:04
VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar. Register here for free. Personalized messaging isn’t just for greeting cards. Marketers need to be aware that consumers today are sick and tired of the generic advertisements ...
Could Eating Healthy Be Good For Your Local Economy?
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 22:10
There’s a locally grown incentive program in Seattle that’s not only giving families access to healthier food, it's providing the farms growing the food a much-needed boost to their earnings.
FanDuel suspending all paid fantasy sports contests in New York
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 21:38
FanDuel has temporarily suspended paid contests on its site while it sorts out its legal problems in New York. The company is being investigated by the state’s Attorney General over allegations that what it and competi...
Google open-sources a tool for exporting Thunderbird emails to Gmail
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 21:31
Google today announced that it has open-sourced a new tool for pushing emails in Thunderbird up to Gmail, where it can be accessed on mobile devices. The tool doesn’t come with a simple one-click interface. “It is no...
Descartes Labs raises $5M to make agricultural predictions with deep learning
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 20:24
Descartes Labs, a startup with image recognition technology that can help companies answer questions related to agriculture, is announcing today a $5 million round of funding. The startup can work with satellite images t...
Atmotube tells you if the air you're breathing is toxic
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 20:06
Like you, I assume that the environment I am sitting in right now is pretty safe. I mean, I don’t see anything dangerous, feel uncomfortable, or smell anything that I should be worried about. Yet I may be filling my lu...
The Top 10 Ski Resorts In North America For 2016
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 20:03
Does skiing change year to year? Of course it does. So, too, do the best ski resort rankings in the world.
How Facebook's FbStart program helped MomentCam pass 300M downloads
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 20:00
In 2014, Facebook launched an initiative aimed at giving assistance to local developers to help them produce applications that would have a beneficial impact on their community and region. Since that time, the company ha...
The Top 5 Gear Pieces For Winter 2016
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 19:54
The top 5 pieces of ski gear for 2016,
Undressed: A Revealing Exhibition On Undies Through History At London's V&A
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 19:32
London's V&A will reveal everything in its 2016 exhibition tracing the history of the clothes under the clothes in A Brief History Of Underwear."
Leadership Wisdom From The Jedi
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 19:31
No mind tricks here; these lessons from a far away galaxy are useful for entrepreneurs, leaders and anyone who is looking to master their trade.
Chrome for Android and iOS passes 800M monthly active users, up from 400M a year ago
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 19:28
During its Chrome Dev Summit event, Google announced that its browser has passed 800 million monthly active users on mobile. Put another way, the number of Chrome for Android and iOS users has doubled from the 400 millio...
Mixpanel launches Predict to show what users will do next in mobile apps
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 19:00
Mobile analytics software startup Mixpanel is announcing today the launch of a new component called Predict, which will give companies the ability to make guesses about what users will do within mobile apps. Rather than ...
Web hosting firms win customers' hearts with live chat, but automotive is failing
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 19:00
EXCLUSIVE: Web chat service LiveChat has launched its annual Customer Service Efficiency Report, and the findings show a big change in some industries’ grasp of web-based customer service. While the company has an obvi...
Entrepreneur: Are You A Mad Genius?
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 18:40
An entrepreneur, it’s been said, isn’t someone who owns a business. It’s someone who makes things happen.
This Startup Accelerator Helps Social Entrepreneurs Increase Their Impact
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 18:38
An innovative program in Connecticut that supports and funds social enterprises is now accepting applications for its Impact Accelerator
Ecommerce merchant? What you need to know about contextual commerce
Venture Beat - 17 Nov 2015 18:10
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Braintree. For 15 years, ecommerce provided a good framework for how merchants could accept and securely process customer payments. But the advent of new tec...
Revolution 2.0: What 40 American Entrepreneurs Learned In Cuba
Forbes - 17 Nov 2015 18:07
"If you want to start a business in Cuba," the Americans were told, "you need three things: money, time and a good liver."