London-based product development startup BERG introduced the Little Printer today, a new product that takes your digital news, puzzles and updates from friends and prints them out with a smile. It is definitely a step in the retro direction – the device prints those mini updates on what resembles cash register receipt paper. Little Printer…
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Online sharing via the “cloud” is becoming more and more commonplace, but Bloomington-based startup Squad is the first of its kind to create a streamlined collaboration tool just for coding. The web-based collaborative text editor makes it simple to open, edit and share code in real time. Created by Mike Trotzke as a “HomeSprout for…
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Dialawg |ˈdīəˌläg; -ˌlôg}| noun: A secure conversation, accessible from anywhere, where parties may exchange messages, share files, and collaborate on documents. Bloomington-based startup Dialawg is changing the way we collaborate on the cloud. Founded by Jeff Goens and Colin Mathews, the secure conversation platform aimed at professionals offers an extremely simple way to share, track, protect…
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First the purview of professionals, then available to the masses via the desktop – quality video editing can be added to the software services now available in the cloud thanks to WeVideo. WeVideo is a web-based, collaborative editing platform. It’s a fully-loaded video editor that allows users to craft a story with others, add effects,…
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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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This post originally appeared on facc-chicago by Ken Hafft. For anyone who doesn’t already know, the world of cloud computing is upon us. Cloud computing saves time and lots of money and creates efficiencies the likes of which have not been seen before. It is a form of file sharing with the conveniences of automatic…
Read MoreSmartling will change the way businesses of all sizes expand to the global web. Through cloud-based software model, they provide an entirely new, automated method to translate websites and web applications into multiple languages through human or machine translation. Translated websites are updated across all published languages as the English version of the site changes….
Read MoreEver try to search for a phone number, link, or coupon that was received by text? Until now, it was a lengthy, and frustrating, task. Uppidy, a Reston, VA-based startup, offers an app that organizes your texts for you. Just install the Uppidy app on your Android or Blackberry, and all SMS text conversations are safely stored in the cloud, where they…
Read MoreAlthough we tend to focus on the startup entrepreneur at Tech Cocktail, every once in a while we catch a corporate sales concept that we need to share. After all, sales are critical to even the smallest business. This week, Blackboard, a corporate learning solution based in DC, announced the development of a new application…
Read MoreLog management may not be the sexiest problem in IT today, but it sure is an important one – and Loggly wants to solve it. The company is building a cloud based logging service that takes the pain out of log collection, management, and processing and offers it on a subscription basis. The product is…
Read MoreMost of you probably haven’t heard of ifbyphone, a Chicago-area startup that offers cloud-based telephony services. But the company, founded by Irv Shapiro in 2005, has raised $8 million in funding since that time from a half dozen Illinois and Indiana-based VC firms. Needless to say, Midwest VC’s are really pulling for this one. The company…
Read MoreFedScoop, the local DC government media and marketing company headed up by Goldy Kamali, announced there next event coming up on March 9th, called FedScoop’s Roadmap to the Cloud. This event looks like another great one to attend. I was fortunate enough to be able to make their last event, Cloud Computing Shootout, that had…
Read MoreThis morning I was fortunate enough to have the time and a ticket to head downtown to the Newseum and watch a great event put on by Goldy Kamail and Fedscoop called Cloud Computing Shootout. So before we get on too far, just wanted to take a moment and tell you briefly about Fedscoop and…
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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