The 16-Year-Old Startup...
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2012/02/03/the-16-year-old-startup-ceo-and-the-hong-kong-billionaire-tctv/ We covered the launch of Summly an application that summarises text last year , but I recently caught up with Nick D’Aloisio, the16 year year-old programmer who came up with the...
Keen On… Sonic.net: W...
It’s always nice to see a small, plucky start-up take on the big guys and not only survive but also prosper. My excellent Santa Rosa based ISP Sonic.net is doing just that – laying its own fiber-to-the-premises network in Sebastopol for only $70 a month and signing up 30% of...
Visualizing Facebook’...
Just a little tidbit from everyone’s favorite reading material this week, the Facebook IPO filing : the company noted that it now stores over 100 petabytes of media (photos and videos) uploaded by its 845 million users. In case “100 petabytes” didn’t blow you...Swarming Robots Will Fl...
This video is making the nerd rounds today and it’s pretty amazing. It shows a set of quadrocopters first righting themselves after a catastrophic failure and returning to a certain point (the scientists throw the little guys into the air and they turn over and fly back to their...Microsoft Updates Kinec...
We’ve known for some time that Microsoft would be bringing official Kinect support to Windows this week, but one thing they kept quiet was the fact that they’d be debuting a new version of the hardware as well. It’s not tiny, as some hoped, or built into the bezel of a...
Stealth Startup Numecen...
Numecent , a stealth startup building a patented “cloudpaging” technology, just raised $2 million in Series A funding from undisclosed corporate investors. The $2 million tranche is a part of a larger $10 million funding round, and is in addition to the $7.5 million in seed...Wahooly Launches Its Cr...
There’s an interesting experiment afoot in the startup community, which poses the following questions to entrepreneurs: Would you be willing to trade equity in your startup in return for social media buzz, and customer feedback? How much, if any, would you fork over?...
The Birth Of An America...
Nothing is made in this country anymore. In terms of actual manufacturing, America is increasingly at a disadvantage. The logic of the global economy moves jobs overseas. Get used to it, we are told. Well, Bayard Winthrop thinks the conventional wisdom is wrong. He wants to bring...Videoplaza Secures $12 ...
With the huge rise in the consumption of online video it follows that services to monetize that video are becoming hot properties. To that end, today Videoplaza , a ‘sell side’ ad management platform for video, has secured a Series B round of $12million led by Qualcomm...