When we last covered Blue Bite, they were just starting to use near field communication (NFC) to deliver content in a highly targeted way. As Daniel Trigub, Blue Bite’s VP of Business Development, told me, the company is focused on bridging location and content – and they believe NFC is the wave of the mobile…
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Mayank Mehta, co-founder of Cooliris, stopped by our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour in March to chat with Frank Gruber. Mayank is kind of a startup old-timer at this point, since Cooliris was founded way back in 2006 when the Internet was evolving from a very tech-centric to a media-centric medium. Cooliris, if…
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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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Early this morning, it was officially announced that Remedy Health Media, a New York-based health information company, acquired Arlington, Virginia-based startup HealthCentral, an online service that offers information, tools, and community access to both patients and caregivers alike. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is now believed to give Remedy Health Medi,…
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A new year is like a fresh, clean slate. As you reflect back on the year behind you, do you find yourself thinking about new challenges or a change of scenery? While our economy is still struggling in many ways, there are jobs out there. In fact, in our sector, there are many great paying…
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Mike Jones, serial entrepreneur, investor and most recently, founder of the new LA technology studio, Science, joined us at the DCWEEK Opening Keynotes last week. Tech Cocktail’s own Jen Consalvo interviewed Jones, discussing his early entrepreneurial days, his success with Userplane which he sold to AOL, and his challenges with MySpace which was eventually sold to…
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A recent study by Pew tracked major media outlets on Twitter and found that most are using it to broadcast their content, not interact with readers. Examining a week’s worth of tweets from 13 sites like the Washington Post and the New York Times, the study found that – on the publications’ main feeds, which…
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Last fall, Colorado suffered a devastating wildfire. As the flames spread, they left a trail of tweets, Flickr photos, and collaborative Google maps – disconnected information that was constantly changing. This natural disaster was the inspiration for Crowdspoke, a news platform centered on topics where users vote stories up and down – and a useful…
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It use to be that he who controlled the message controlled the power. That rule hasn’t changed, but the he has. The former he was big media, dictators, governments, and big business. The new he (and she) is we. Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms have tipped the balance of power. We the people…
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If you are like most startups, you are working with a tight marketing budget. If you’ve been thinking about spending some of those dollars for online advertising, check out Boulder-based The Trade Desk. Their goals is to help you figure what is this impression, this user, and/or this website worth? Their data-driven marketing suite, which…
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DC-based Neustar announced yesterday that they are buying TARGUSinfo (also DC-based) for $650 million in cash to create a powerful information and analytics tool for those of us in communications, media, and marketing. TARGUSinfo processes more than 100 billion transactions every year by helping their customers read current customers and prospects. They are growing quickly…
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Lijit Networks, which provides advertising and analytics tools to publishers, announced Tuesday its acquisition by Federated Media Publishing for an undisclosed amount. “While the details of the transaction itself weren’t released, this acquisition ranks among the most significant outcomes for the region in the past 10 years,” said Seth Levine, managing director of Foundry Group,…
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With over 48 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, the content is becoming unwieldy. Speaking on a panel at Chicago’s TechWeek on Saturday, YouTube’s head of news and politics Steve Grove explained how YouTube is trying to organize the clutter–including YouTube Trends, which aggregates popular videos. “We think this could become the YouTube…
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Today is the day – popular European music service Spotify is now available in the US. While their mantra is “Any track, any time, anywhere. And it’s free,” they’ve done a nice job of creating demand by requiring you to sign up and wait for an invitation. What, you don’t want to wait for an…
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We have seen this coming for quite sometime. But now MySpace has been sold to Specific Media for $35 million in a sale that will be completed later today according to an early report and confirmed by a MySpace press release (shown below). MySpace was purchased by News Corp in 2005 for $580 million which…
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We are living in the connected era as people, cars, homes and even the refrigerator is getting connected to the Web in some way. So it was only a matter of time until we saw this trend take to the gym. Technogym is a company that has created Visioweb to offer the first treadmill connected…
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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