Amazon launched 4 new devices today in New York, the Amazon Fire, Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G, and along with those announcements, the Amazon Chief Operating Officer also announced the launch of a new type of web browser built specifically for mobile computing. Amazon Silk is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and…
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Along with the launch of the Kindle Fire, a new color Android tablet, Amazon also launched a selection of traditional e-readers called the Kindle and the Kindle Touch. Both are similar to the previous Kindle devices, leveraging E-Ink and a similar form factor, but there are a few updates. The Kindle Amazon introduced a low…
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Today Amazon hosted an event in New York and unveiled the details of the much-speculated-about Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire will have a 7-inch color display and run the Android operating system. It is on sale for $199, which is significantly lower than the price of the Apple iPad. This is…
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Facebook announced Monday that it will be giving away up to $10 million in free advertisements – $50 for 200,000 businesses – starting in January 2012. “Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and we believe that Facebook can be a tremendous tool to fuel their growth and success,” said Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook…
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UPDATE! Apple Announces the iPhone 4S Available Oct 14th on Verizon, Sprint & AT&T Apple officially announced that its iPhone 5 launch event will be held on October 4th at 10:00 a.m. PST at Apple’s Cupertino, California campus. Apple’s event invitation included four iOS app icons (Calendar, Clock, Maps, and Phone) along with the quote:…
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CityPockets culled through the data from the ~200,000 deals stored in their daily deal wallet product to create this infographic illustrating some fun and interesting stats around the Daily Deal space. A few of the more interesting tidbits you’ll see in this infographic include: Within the top 10 daily deal providers, Groupon has over 85% user share….
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Consider, for a moment, all the roles that you play as an entrepreneur. Innovator, manager, marketer, enthusiast, salesman, strategist—the list goes on forever, but does it include farmer? If it doesn’t, it will by the time you finish reading Harvesting Intangible Assets. Entrepreneurs are a special kind of farmers—new agrarians, planning, planting, nurturing and cultivating,…
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Social TV applications are nothing new. With the birth of the “check-in” came an influx of social TV apps, allowing you to share what you’re watching on the tube with your various social networks. San Francisco-based startup Miso is going beyond the basic entertainment check-in, offering DirecTV customers a a synchronized TV-viewing experience that changes…
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Following recent updates to photos and a mysterious new stream, Facebook is launching more changes in structure and design in the coming weeks, which were announced at the f8 Developers Conference. Here they are: Timeline What it is: A new profile page with your most important updates (see pictures here) How it works: Facebook automatically…
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Silverback Labs has developed a new series of innovative bikes that do more than just get you from Point A to Point B. The newly-released Starke bike is equipped with a front hub that converts forward movement into power for your iPod. The full line of city bikes offers four models, but the Starke 1…
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Much has been written about Groupon and LivingSocial, especially Groupon’s rejection of Google’s $6B offer and LivingSocial’s $400M IPO. But what about relatively new entrants into the marketplace? Let’s take a look at AmazonLocal and Google Offers, and why I think they have the potential to crush Groupon and LivingSocial. AmazonLocal started in smaller markets…
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Startup incubator TechStars announced today that is has raised $24M from Foundry Group, IA Ventures, Avalon Ventures, DFJ Mercury, SoftBank Capital, SVB Financial Group, RRE Ventures, Right Side Capital Management, TechStars Alumni and several individuals. This new funding will be used to offer every new TechStars company an additional $100,000 in funding in the form…
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Customer service and social CRM provider Assistly announced today that it has been acquired by Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company that is leading the shift to the social enterprise. Assistly helps businesses wrangle customer conversations into a tidy list so support staff can respond quickly to improve customer service. The platform provides users with…
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Yesterday, the social networking platform Ning was acquired by Glam Media. This was interesting news as Ning was backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and took a boatload of funding, somewhere in the tune of close to $120 million. Ning was one of the first social platforms that offered APIs to roll out your own…
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Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal launched a standalone news product built entirely on Facebook. The new product, called WSJ Social, leverages the Facebook sharing to compile the most popular and relevant WSJ news based for you based on your social network. WSJ has decided to “fish where the fish are,” and leverage the popular social…
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Google Wallet, the web giant’s mobile payment system, launched yesterday on Sprint Nexus S 4G phones. Locked with a pin number, Google Wallet’s Android app pulls funds from your Citi MasterCard or Google Prepaid Card, which you can load with any credit card. Google plans to directly support Visa, Discover, and American Express in the…
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Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
We are excited to announce the participating startups for Tech Cocktail's South by Southwest (SXSW) event: #Startuplife Celebration presented by .CO. It was one of... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More