Last month we announced GE’s use of Instagram to search for the next GE “Instagrapher.” After more than 3,000 Instagram photos were submitted relating to the 4 core themes (Moving, Curing, Powering and Building) of GE, the search is over. GE has announced the next Instagrapher is Adam Senatori, whose winning photo was selected by a group of…
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If you are a big fan of social games, you never want to miss out on the action, but every time you want to check your game status, you have to open your browser and log in to your Facebook account to continue playing. Imagine being just one click away from your favorite games and…
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Today GE launched a special search to find their next photographer who can share some of the groundbreaking research and technology that GE has been developing since the days of Edison. Previously, GE relied on renowned photographer Noah Kalina to share photos on Tumblr and Instagram. Now you can take your crack at the gig…
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Intel, a company that, as an innovator in the development of new technology, has propelled the computing industry forward, launched a new program, Intel Innovators, to help young innovators propel their big ideas. Staying true to its current slogan “sponsors of tomorrow,” the Intel Innovators program searches to find and reward the brightest ideas they…
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Mooter Media, a digital media shop based in Australia, has announced $15M in US funding from San Francisco-based La Jolla Cove Investors, Inc. According to the company, this financing may represent one of the largest technology and online media investments in Australian corporate history. But the funds are not staying in Australia. Aside from their service…
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Soundoff.fm, a new startup out of Chicago, is looking for musical beta testers – bands and musicians specifically. The general concept of the site is pretty simple: 1. Artists upload the best 20 seconds of their music. This 20 second clip is entered into a voting pool, by genre. 2. Voters select a genre, hear two…
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How’s this for a viral promotion? About.me, which we covered previously, as it was founded by Tony Conrad and then quickly acquired by AOL, has launched a campaign that could land your face on a billboard in Times Square. That’s right, the popular profile platform that enables users to create a simple yet classic online…
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If you ever dreamed of working in Hollywood, well, now you can – without even moving there. Director/writer Leone Marucci and star Q’orianka Kilcher (from Terrence Malick’s The New World) are inviting online audiences to determine the final cut of their new film, The Power of Few, with a digital editing contest, ‘Scene 64.’ Participants can view…
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On Tuesday, May 24th, Tech Cocktail will be hosting its first LA mixer event, sponsored by Sprint. In honor of this special occasion, we thought we’d kick things off with a little contest! The SWEET prize: A brand spankin new 4G-capable phone! Sprint’s iconic HTC EVO 4G is packed with fantastic features including a 4.3-inch display screen,…
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As we covered yesterday, President Barack Obama scheduled a somewhat top secret meeting with the Silicon Valley elite yesterday evening on the west coast. Today official White House photos taken by Pete Souza were released to confirm the meeting did indeed take place. One of the photos is a seated toast with the group while…
Read MoreThe Sundance Film Festival has teamed up with location-based social networking service Gowalla to help attendees find the ‘hot spots’ among the films, parties, concerts, panels, and other events that make up the Festival held in Park City, Utah. According to the Gowalla blog, “This is the first complete immersive experience any film festival has…
Read MoreA few days ago, USA TODAY, the nation’s top-selling print newspaper, kicked off a four-day Twitter hashtag campaign for the causes that are important to us all. The #AmericaWants contest encouraged the country to tell them which charity they thought was most deserving of a full-page, full color ad in USA TODAY. Well, they did,…
Read MoreBen’s Chili Bowl is a Washington, D.C. institution offering the best chili dogs in the nation’s capitol. Yesterday, they took a step forward in the digital age as they partnered with iStrategyLabs to make Digital Capital Week even bigger and tastier.. with Apps For Ben’s, a contest to develop the first Ben’s Chili Bowl App….
Read MoreThe United States Army is getting very serious about social Web technology these days. Last month, I got a preview of the new U.S. Army iPhone App as well as the launch of my.army.mil a personalized start page for the Web. Today, the Army has teamed up with DC-based iStrategyLabs to launch a developer contest…
Read MoreThank you to everyone that participated in the TECH cocktail Intel laptop giveaway! Now is the time you were all waiting for. The winner of the HP Envy Beat system is Jodi Gersh. Congrats to Jodi! Also thank you to Intel for giving away such a great laptop with the Intel Core i7 mobile processor…
Read MoreWe are excited to reveal a few more details about the much anticipated Intel laptop giveaway of the HP Envy Beat system with an Intel Core i7 mobile processor that kicked off at TECH cocktail DC 7 last night. This laptop has Intel’s Core i7 mobile process which is the fastest process or in the…
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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