Whether you hate electronics shopping (guilty!) or are just super-crunched for time, Cazoodle’s recently launched local Shopping Search service can help you quickly find exactly what you are searching for at stores near you. And you’ll be able to find the best price from more than 2,000 merchants. Cazoodle provides real-time inventory information (somewhat reminiscent of Goodzer),…
Read MoreTech Cocktail is in Champaign, Illinois tonight, showcasing 6 awesome startups. The event is on the University of Illinois campus, just across the street from the research park and nearby an entire host of high tech companies. As we’ve mentioned before, Champaign is home to Wolfram Alpha and it also houses some of the fastest supercomputers the world….
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Everyday, people are posting social media messages, photos and videos, loading the Internet with their own personal “social breadcrumbs”. With all this data out there floating around, there’s a lot of interest in how it can be utilized. Products like PeopleBrowsr, Rapleaf and qwerly help brands, companies and marketers sift through the data. Radian6, also…
Read MoreContinuing our focus on Champaign, IL startups, today we’re looking at ZingZag!, a software download that enables anyone to create a rich media Facebook Fan page (or other sites). The majority of Fan pages out there don’t take full advantage of the opportunity (we’re including ourselves in that bucket), using the standard options that Facebook…
Read MoreChicago-based mobile game startup The App House has just announced the upcoming launch of “Confidence: the Game,” a family-friendly trivia game show app for the iPhone, iPad, and iTouch. Play Confidence: the Game against a friend on the same device, over Game Center, or challenge one of eight distinct computer opponents, each with his, her,…
Read MoreSigning up for a mailing list while at an event is usually a clunky process. It’s either super old school—you write your email address on a piece of paper—or just regular old school—enter your name and email address on an iPad or in an Excel spreadsheet on someone’s laptop. Ditch the iPad, laptop, pen and…
Read MoreBye-bye, PowerPoint presentations. So long, WebEx. See you later, grainy video conferences. Hello Nuvixa! If you have been looking for a way to add excitement and a high level of engagement to your presentations, you’ll want to check out this Champaign, IL-based startup. They have brought a revolutionary approach to video communications by uses 3D…
Read MoreUntil now, looking for an apartment on or close to your campus has been a hectic and difficult process. Every college student knows that location is everything when it comes to your experience, so you definitely want to make sure you choose the right spot for you. Save yourself time and aggravation by using College Apartment…
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We’re starting to see signs of spring and with the birds chirping, we feel drawn to celebrate with our friends in Champaign-Urbana, where innovation thrives. Aside from the university, the region is full of big tech and active startups and investors. So we’re looking forward to partnering with the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation, our…
Read MoreWe are in Champaign, Illinois today, home to the University of Illinois, to rally together the local tech community. Champaign is currently home to Wolfram Alpha and it also houses some of the fastest supercomputers the world. Legendary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Mosaic which turned into Netscape, is a University of Illinois alum along…
Read MoreI have spent many hours on end in corporate telesuites communicating with development teams across the world. This experience is not a bad one but the one flaw of these earlier technologies is that in order to do it you have to invest in expensive camera technology. While Skype and other video chat products do…
Read MoreEnergy efficient products ensure that our future is foreseeable. With lighting, we have LED and CFL light bulbs. Still, these bulbs burn out and waste space. How about a ultra-thin and longer lasting light source? Thanks to Eden Park Illumination, we now have Microplasma Lighting – a new product that consists of micro scale devices…
Read MoreWe are living in a new age of “transparency”, yet, the only way we seem to know what’s going on with our favorite artists in the music industry is if they communicate something through their fanclub or (if they are big enough) something gets leaked on Access Hollywood. But at some point you’ve probably wanted…
Read MoreHow many times have you noticed that even a printer-friendly version of a web page wastes tons of paper? It can be thoroughly frustrating when you try to conserve resources yet still end up with stacks of paper, much of it ending up in the trash. Fortunately, PrintEco, an Illinois-based startup which will present at TECH…
Read MoreWe are excited to be headed back to Champaign, Illinois to host another TECH cocktail startup and entrepreneurial mixer event on Tuesday, September 7, 2010. The event is being hosted in partnership with the Champaign County Economic Development Corportation and is being supported by Illinois Ventures, Serra Ventures, the Technology Entrepreneurial Center at University of…
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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
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
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
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More