Another Crowdfunding Pl...
This may not have been the U.S. government’s exact intention when when it passed the crowdfunding-friendly JOBS Act, but you have to wonder if it has also jumpstarted the number of crowdfunding sites out there competing for entrepreneurs’ and consumers’ attention. The...
With A New Educational ...
You may know TED , not as the guy from marketing, but as the nonprofit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” — or as the set of global conferences, Talks, and videos that touch on the many heady, relevant issues surrounding Technology, Entertainment, and...
Data-Focused Locu Raise...
Locu , the data-focused startup launched out of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s lab at MIT to provide structure to the world’s information, has just announced a $4 million Series A round led by General Catalyst Partners . Also participating in the round were Chris Sacca’s...Nokia’s New Series 40...
Nokia just rolled out a new browser for Series 40, Asha devices. Browser 2.0 as it’s called features numerous improvements and enhancements, but its cloud-based compression is arguably the most important. Nokia claims that it condenses data by up to 90% making pages load three...Sins Of The Cloud...
Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital . Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip . In the beginning there was the cloud. And it was good. But over time it can also be...
How Technology Can Solv...
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Mike Sha, who is the CEO of SigFig , a free online investment management service. Prior to SigFig, Sha held various key positions at Amazon, including running product at Amazon Payments. To say Wall Street currently suffers from a...Firebase Aims To Reinve...
Firebase is one of those startups with an almost crazily big vision — it wants to simplify the development of powerful, real-time apps, to the point where, as co-founder James Tamplin put it, it’s “jettisoning the whole notion of a server even existing.” The company,...