There seems to be a lingering amount of conflict between traditional business practices and emerging technologies. Before, your company could run a television ad, use the Nielsen Ratings to target your demographic, and compare the change in sales to the control data, either an ad-free market or a period of time. Or maybe you’d include…
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According to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters, Q3 was a big ouchie for venture capital firms. In fact, only 5 venture-backed companies provided liquidity via IPO exits last quarter. This was down 77% from the 22 companies going public in Q2. The last quarter was a heart breaker for venture capital managers who were counting on the robust bull cycle that started…
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Farmeron, an app that helps farmers manage their businesses. There’s a lot of potential for technology to enhance processes in the agriculture industry, and we featured another startup in this space at our Tech Cocktail Mixer in Minneapolis on Tuesday. TelemetryWeb is a cloud-based software platform for building…
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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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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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Last week, 45,000 Salesforce users, developers, administrators, and C-level visionaries met at the Moscone Conference Center in San Francisco to swap information and learn about the latest Salesforce offerings and apps available on its platforms. Welcome to Dreamforce 2011. The conference was packed with keynote discussions about the computing past (primarily the PC era) 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…
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The world of computing is opening up, and Fairfax, VA – based Ohava Computers delivers open source solutions for both hardware and software, from laptops, desktops, and servers to business tools and web design. Their clients range from businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions; it seems there is nothing this company can’t do. And, I mean…
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Developers, now there is a place to distribute APIs to your audience. Mashape is the new marketplace where developers can distribute, manage, and consume APIs. Individual developers and service providers can instantly make an API available and get traction from day one, while third party developers can consume any API listed on Mashape through a…
Read MoreWhether or not you realize it, your organization stores data in the cloud on platforms such as Salesforce, Google apps, social media, and elsewhere. For large organizations, retaining and aggregating all of that data, spread out in multiple places, is not easy. Zeeland, MI-based Downstream has created an app that combines a private infrastructure with…
Read MoreThe cloud meets curriculum could be another way to describe Common Curriculum’s platform that allows K-12 publishers to create and sell their curriculum on the web. Here’s the situation: small curricula publishers don’t have the resources to create a web-based version of their materials. Common Curriculum lets them compete with the big players in the…
Read MoreSingleHop, the Chicago-based IT infrastructure and web hosting provider, announced earlier this week the launch of its new cloud hosting platform, Cascade. The new platform completes SingleHop’s unique strategy of bringing the benefits from traditional dedicated server hosting and cloud computing advancements together into a new and better system. Cascade combines the flexibility of cloud…
Read More‘Tis the season for top 10 lists, yet not all are cheery and bright. In light of the hacking of Gawker Media’s servers that lead to a confirmed attack at Twitter, it’s worth looking at predictions regarding security trends in 2011. Panda Security, a Cloud Security Company located in Orlando, FL, has predicted several ‘radical…
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