I’m a native New Yorker, so I am pretty psyched that the Giants are playing in the Super Bowl today. Still, I have to admit – I watch the Super Bowl for the commercials – but I really look forward to the game because it’s a great excuse to cook some awesome food and open…
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Today is the beta launch of Voucheres, a web app for finding nearby discounts in Malaysia. Partnering with brands like the Body Shop, Converse, and San Francisco Coffee, it is launching in a “megamall” called Mid Valley in Kuala Lumpur. Cofounder Fadzli Shah Anuar began his entrepreneurial journey on a mountaintop in Venezuela. Instead of…
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If you’re not creatively marketing your company on social media with photos and videos, you might as well not be using Facebook or Twitter at all. Make it a lot easier on yourself using a very interesting photo advertising tool developed by 3 former Sony employees. In a nutshell, PhotoTouch lets you take a photo…
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Instant video creator Shakr Media, one of the finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing, launched yesterday. “We’re going to power video for the little guy – people that don’t have access to expensive video editing software or the appropriate training, like a local newspaper,” says founder David Lee, who is based in Korea. Lee has a…
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Alice Zhang used the word “relatable” over and over to describe her gallery’s art, and it’s also one of the best ways to describe her. Wearing a stylish, loose white shirt and tan heels for our interview, she digressed about Beijing and food in Hong Kong. But mostly, she chatted enthusiastically about creating a hip…
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Education startups are popping up everywhere, but education is still a slow-moving, tradition-heavy space. Boston startup iCreate to Educate, which produces movie-making software for the classroom, has experienced this firsthand. “The education market is so difficult to penetrate, particularly when you’re bootstrapping,” says founder Melissa Pickering, who previously managed operations at the Tufts Center for…
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I love love love sitting down on the couch with a glass of wine in one hand and a stack of catalogs next to me and just flipping through them for ideas and inspiration. Google has decided to make it a more engaging, social and creative endeavor – because heaven forbid something not be social…
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Ever wish there were traffic cameras everywhere so you could find out what the scene is like at your favorite bar, restaurant or hangout? One San Francisco-based startup is looking to help solve that problem with its latest creation, the Crowdmug application. Crowdmug just launched for iPhone – it enables people to put a bounty…
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If you are really into photography, chances are pretty good that you heard about Sony’s launch last summer of the small, powerful NEX-3 and NEX-5 cameras that use groundbreaking Alpha Translucent Mirror Technology. This technology allows you to shoot at high speeds with super fast auto-focus capabilities that work for both still photos and video. Yesterday…
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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 MoreIf you haven’t joined the gaming revolution to make your site fun and interactive, now is the time. TwoChop offers a Gamification platform that enables partner publishers to turn any content-driven site into a fun site using text, pictures, music, video and data. TwoChop’s contextual microgaming platform pushes relevant, quick-engagement games to users multiple times…
Read MoreSince hooking up a Google TV to my television, I have enjoyed watching streaming videos from YouTube, Amazon Video on Demand and Netflix but just a couple of weeks ago Amazon made a huge improvement to its Video on Demand service. It made all video rentals free for Amazon Prime members. Since the announcement, I’ve…
Read MoreLast week, we had the pleasure of hosting a TECH cocktail Boston Startup Breakfast at the hip, contemporary and green office of SCVNGR in Cambridge. We were excited to hear more about SCVNGR’s recent launch of rewards as well as meet some of the team. We also saw presentations from eight of the fourteen startups…
Read MoreIt’s been a few weeks since the Digital Capital Week festival and we are still digging out and catching up. In case you missed it, we hosted our 9th TECH cocktail startup and entrepreneurial mixer event in Washington, D.C. on June 17th. The event was well attended and showcased 9 of the local D.C. startups….
Read MoreWith the curtain coming down on 2009, it is a time to look back at the best of the year. In the world of online videos YouTube currently reins as the online viral video king. So it only seems fitting that YouTube just released a list of the top videos of 2009. Earlier this year…
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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