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Read MoreWith the launch of the Windows Phone 7 last year (we hosted preview events in Chicago and DC) we are excited to be working with Microsoft at SXSW for the second straight year. Last night they hosted a Mobile App Smackdown developer competition at our Tech Cocktail SXSW event–think Iron Chef meets mobile development. Working in partnership…
Read MoreAre you a social media fanatic? Do you like to read? Look no further than Cool Blue Press, the upcoming publishing company primarily focused on social media marketing books launching this week at SXSW. Where better to launch a social media book publishing house than at the “primary” social media conference? This coming year, founder…
Read MoreToday is our SXSW Accelerator Kickoff in Austin, and we can’t wait. We will be showcasing 29 startups that we are extremely excited about, so come on over to meet the teams behind the companies see all the cool things happening in the tech community. In no specific order, here is a rundown on the…
Read MoreThese days you don’t need to be a programming expert who writes hundreds of hours of code to create a mobile app. In fact, anyone can create one using YAPPER, Your App Maker! YAPPER makes mobile app creation a breeze by offering a mobile publishing platform for media organizations, publishers and brands. You can mobilize…
Read MoreIn the past, communication with your elected officials could be a difficult and lengthy process that didn’t always result in a response. Votizen directly connects registered voters to their Congressperson automatically in real-time while validating their voting history—all from one text! By verifying that each voice belongs to a real voter in the real world,…
Read MoreStream media from your smart phone to your television (or any other connected device) with Metabeam. Metabeam adds value to digital media by featuring real-time communication between all screens within a connected network, from televisions to touch screens. It offers automated modules for common tasks, such as smart remote control, giving you the ability to…
Read MoreFlixlab, a social video sharing platform, is transforming how we create, remix, and share video with friends. In just a few clicks you can take your raw video footage from your smart phone and transform it into a beautiful and polished movie. You can select themes and add music, special effects and titles and invite…
Read MoreBecome a DJ with Roqbot, a new social media platform that allows users to browse, rate, and sync their favorite music right to their smart phone. Imagine being able to control and listen to the type of music you want to hear while at bars, restaurants, stores and other public venues? That is exactly what…
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 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 MoreTurning what people post on social media into compelling stories – that is the stated goal of Storify, a site that aims to aid the efforts of journalists and bloggers to curate the real-time web. Burt Herman is the founder of Storify. A self-described entrepreneurial journalist, he spent 12 years covering stories around the world…
Read MoreIf you combined RISK, Farmville, FourSquare, and Starcraft with a dash of WarGames, you’d get QONQR. This new MMO game brings together secret missions, geo-tagging, military strategy, and multi-player social coordination into the game play experience. All of this is wrapped up in a science fiction story line where the objective is none other than…
Read MoreNew York City-based Exfm is a social music discovery platform that makes it easy to find new music online, organize it into a library, and share it with friends. The Exfm browser plug-in for Chrome builds a music library from freely available music on the web.
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With South by Southwest (SXSW) kicking off this week and our huge Tech Cocktail SXSW event presented by LiveShare from Cooliris this Sunday evening, we are happy to be in Austin, Texas. We are also happy to announce Tech Cocktail has partnered with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Jenn Lim’s Delivering Happiness crew to produce…
Read MoreThere are more than 600 million users on Facebook, and many of them like to listen to music online, discover new bands, and share music with their friends. But most musicians are too busy writing songs and playing shows to build a custom music app for their fan page. To plug this gap, RootMusic built BandPage, a…
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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
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
We are excited to announce the participating startups for Tech Cocktail's South by Southwest (SXSW) event: #Startuplife Celebration presented by .CO. It was one of... 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