Starting this spring, MIT will begin offering online courses to anyone, anywhere, for free – and this time, students can receive a certificate of completion. The platform, dubbed MITx, will include online labs, communication with other students, and individual assessment. But MIT is making sure to distinguish MITx from its traditional degree programs. The university…
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Love to tinker? Well the MIT grads at Supermechanical have a new toy for you. It’s called Twine, and it promises to connect anything to the web without a “nerd degree.” A 2.5″ square pizza-box shaped device, Twine reads from a bunch of sensors and then sends tweets or texts to alert you when those…
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There are currently 3.3 billion people living in cities – and that number is only growing. In the next five years, the urban population is expected to increase well beyond half the world’s total. Most of these urbanites are likely going to live in haphazardly-designed cities with a poor quality of life. But MIT’s new…
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In recent years, the international student population in the United States has hit record highs – and that number is only growing. With US colleges only accepting tuition payments in US Dollars, international students are forced to either pay via wire transfer or credit card, incurring fees and suffering unfavorable exchange rates. PeerTransfer, a new…
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Entrepreneur Cory Kidd finished a PhD at MIT, so Boston was an obvious choice for starting a company. He also thought about moving to Silicon Valley, but this Louisiana-born American decided to cross the globe to start up in Hong Kong – and he’s not the only one. “We took our company a lot further…
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Can saving money be just as enjoyable as spending it? ImpulseSave is trying to prove that it can – especially for the 53% of Americans who fear they won’t have enough money for retirement. “We’re attempting to redefine the meaning of saving from something that’s painful to something that’s actually fun – and tempting, even,”…
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As a full-time editor, I’m acutely aware that the world is in desperate need of editing, from typos on companies’ About pages and press releases, to hastily written term papers. Kibin, which recently survived demo day at 500 Startups, prides itself on its community of editors intent on correcting these pesky mistakes. “I view it…
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Two-hour flight delays are bad enough, but those eager to hop in a flying car have been waiting for decades. Moller International has been plodding forward since 1983 to develop vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, and its first test flight of the Moller Skycar is still in the future, scheduled for October 11. The Samson…
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Machines and technology are often seen as the enemies of real human connection, but the Denver-based job site Robot Recruit is trying to prove otherwise. A quirky combination of automation and personalization, Robot Recruit matches tech and startup jobs to candidates using an algorithm that learns over time. Job seekers simply post a resume and…
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Raise your hand if you’ve been in the audience with me when this has happened: There’s a CTO from a big company doing a presentation. He’s talking, you’re listening, the audience around you are all nodding their heads. This guy on the podium owns them. You keep listening and you keep wondering when the guy…
Read MorePeople have gathered together to play games like chess, checkers, jacks and mahjong, for pretty much forever. Classic games like these, based around real physical objects are the inspiration for Sifteo, a San Francisco-based company that has meshed this type of tactile, classic game fun along with full-color, motion-sensing technology.
Read MoreCompass Labs offers an innovative social advertising solution, allowing advertisers to reach highly targeted and “precise users” (e.g. users who are about to buy) on Facebook and other social applications. Traditional online ad networks do not have the ability to target specific user segments on social media. They have limited targeting information, and can only…
Read MoreTECH cocktail Boston 2 at Tequila Rain was a bit of a wet one as a summer storm sprung itself on the Boston area making it problematic for us to even get to Boston. Luckily we made it out and so did a couple hundred dedicated Boston TECH cocktailers. Thank you to everyone that made…
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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