If you develop apps, do you know who your customers are? Unless you do, you might end up developing apps that the market isn’t all that interested in. CrowdSavvy is a developer tool for native (iPhone and Android) mobile app developers that allows developers to proactively engage their customers via survey methods. The idea for…
Read MoreEveryone has their own way to get news. Some may just use Twitter, Facebook or manage lists. Some may even still use a feed reader like Google Reader, while others may use Flipboard, Flud or Pulse to sort through the daily news feeds. News recommendations are something that I’ve spent a lot of time thinking…
Read MoreAfter a week of polling, Austin-based startup Hurricane Party came out on top of our 2011 Hottest Startup at SXSW poll. Though group texting/chat was a hot trend at SXSW 2011, it seems that the real battle was between geo-location services that help connect people either in real-life or anonymously. Hurricane Party and Localmind battled…
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 MoreMajor League Baseball pitchers and catchers reported to spring training in Florida and Arizona earlier this week and with it baseball has started to become top of mind. For example, as a lifetime Chicago Cubs fan I am gaining optimism that this could (once again) be the year the curse is broken and the Cubs…
Read MoreThe sun.. for me it’s a love hate relationship. On one hand we need it for warmth and I love being in the sun, but on the other hand it is a giant fire ball that spews radiation towards Earth. Today, NASA reported that the sun had the largest solar flare in four years that…
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LG made a big splash this week in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress as they unveiled the Optimus 3D, a 4.3-inch sleek smartphone with WVGA resolution and dual lens 5MP camera that offers the ability to both watch and record 3D videos. The smartphone runs a 1GHz OMAP4 processor and the display can show the…
Read MoreThe new fan management and engagement platform FanGager has the potential to take your social media engagement efforts to the next level by unlocking the potential of your company’s fans. Let’s face it: measuring social media engagement and ROI is extremely difficult and elusive for most of it. FanGager makes it easy. Part engagement tool,…
Read MoreAs the explosion of social media has proven, the way we consume news and interact online has changed forever. Layers.com is about to change it even more. The Google Chrome™ app allows you to create a personalized social channel that brings together Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds in one spot. Imagine: No more jumping from…
Read MoreThis past month at the Consumer Electronic Show the future of TV was a main focus as I walked around the hundreds of flashing monitors. The buzzword was “SmartTV” as many televisions where connected to the Internet. TV’s seemed to not only be smarter but also more portable by leveraging a number of different screens…
Read MoreToday as part of President Obama’s national strategy to stimulate economic growth and the creation of quality jobs, the White House announced the launch of the Startup America Partnership. Lead by chairman Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL, CEO of Revolution LLC and chairman of the Case Foundation, the partnership will receive launch funding from…
Read MoreThe Washington Post, New York Times, and Gannett have launched a subscription-based online news service called Ongo. The personal news service based in Cupertino, Calif. was launched with $12 million in funding from the big three news publishers. Ongo will feature full news coverage from The Washington Post, USA Today and the Associated Press; select…
Read MoreToday we covered Lady Gaga and her participation as the “Creative Director” of Polaroid, so it only makes sense to share that today Intel announced that Will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas is Intel’s new Director of Creative Innovation. I’d call this the beginning of a tech company trend. What’s next? Taylor Swift as Director…
Read MoreJust in time to take advantage of the recovering job market, Austin-based tech startup Entreave announced that have secured seed funding from angel investors. Their match-making platform will do for job seekers and companies what eHarmony has done for singles: quickly and efficiently screen and match talent with companies and recruiters. Gone are broad keyword…
Read MoreLinkedIn, the professional networking site, has released a new feature in the labs called LinkedIn InMaps which creates colorful visualization of all your professional connections. You can then examine your map more closely, label all the various color as specific networks and share it with the world. Check out my network map. Of course, LinkedIn…
Read MoreFacebook today announced it has raised U.S.$1.5 billion at a valuation of approximately $50 billion. This is not all news to us as we had reported the first signs of this deal earlier this month, but Facebook had not confirmed. The details of the deal are as follows: “Goldman Sachs completed an oversubscribed offering to…
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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