venturebeat — If only Duke Nukem could see this BFG. The new TrackingPoint sniper rifle doesn’t fire when you pull the trigger. Rather, it fires when it knows it will hit the target you’re aiming at. And then streams video to the included iPad mini to allow you to share your hunting...
entrepreneur — These tools can enhance your mobile experience and make your iPhone more useful.
venturebeat — Tumblr wants more. The popular and fast-growing blog service is mulling a $1.1 billion acquisition offer from Yahoo. But while the massive blogging powerhouse only pulled in $13 million in revenue in 2012, and raised $125 million at a lower $800 million valuation, Tumblr CEO David Karp feels $1.1 billion...
venturebeat — Two days ago Google announced it would finally support the most popular computing language on the planet, PHP, in its platform-as-a-service offering, Google App Engine. That means that yes, at some point you’ll be able to run your little WordPress-powered blog on the biggest server farms on the planet. But...
venturebeat — July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Nonprofits are waking up to the benefits of having a mobile and social media strategy. Cure.org is on a mission to raise money for children in need, and is experimenting with a suite of mobile apps to...
venturebeat — Yahoo invited press today to a product event in New York saying only that it will “share something special” soon after reports that the company is going to buy blog platform Tumblr. It seems Yahoo has been very product-focused in the months since Marissa Mayer both took the chief executive...
entrepreneur — Meet the entrepreneurs who lined up to pitch to casting directors of the ABC reality TV show.
venturebeat — July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Bang With Friends’ newborn iPhone app no longer appears in the Apple App Store, leaving “down to bang” iPhone users wondering why. The company’s chief executive Colin Hodge told Valleywag that the app recently passed over...
continuations — I first met Shai Reshef, the indefatigable force behind University of the People, at DLD in 2009. Since then I have come to know Shai as someone who cares deeply about using education to empower people all around the world. He is taking quite a different approach from the MOOCs by scaling...
venturebeat — This is a guest post by Tutorspree CEO Aaron Harris Thanks to technology, we’re watching a revolution happen in education right now. From the explosion in popularity of language learning apps like Mindsnacks to the media furor about the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), companies are being built around...
entrepreneur — An app that helps you pick out high heels. An online service that sends you trendy socks. These tech startups aim to give the fashion industry a digital upgrade.
entrepreneur — Let's face it, Silicon Valley is still the mecca for startups, and every other city is playing catch up.
venturebeat — Simeon Simeonov is founder of Swoop. The coverage of Google I/O 2013 developer conference has focused on Google’s plans for world domination through an increasingly more interrelated and stickier set of consumer services. What’s gone unnoticed is Google’s radical developer ecosystem management strategy. The company has made a fateful...
venturebeat — July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Windows Phone may be slowly climbing the mobile operating system ranks, but Nokia’s Lumia phones have always been some of the best smartphones around. Nokia’s latest device, the Lumia 928, is no different. The Lumia 928 is...
entrepreneur — Starting your own business often means thankless hours, measly pay and the stress of being at the helm. Yet entrepreneurs report greater job satisfaction than their employed counterparts. Here's why.
entrepreneur — In a letter to chief executive Larry Page, lawmakers demand answers on how the tech giant plans to protect citizens' private data.
venturebeat — A year ago today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg “rang the bell” to open trading in one of the most hotly-anticipated initial public offerings in history as Facebook hit the stock market. And promptly went splat. Today, not that much has changed. After debuting close to $40 and cratering to just under $18...
entrepreneur — Read the best tips of the week from Entrepreneur.com, from why you should build a prototype early to why you need a team of "front stabbers."
venturebeat — Two months ago we reported that the U.S. Department of Defense had ordered as many as 650,000 iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches from Apple. Now, after passing Pentagon tests, the devices are actually approved for use. Before authorizing any devices for use in security-conscious military environments, the military requires a...
venturebeat — July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Samsung’s Galaxy S4 may be tasteless and unrefined, but that’s not stopping lots of people from buying it. After a month on the market, the Galaxy S IV will hit 10 million in sales next week, according...
feld — At this year’s NVCA meeting, my partner Jason Mendelson (who was the chair of the event) interviewed Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter. Dick is an awesome CEO, awesome human, and awesome interviewee. Among other things, he’s hilarious, and PandoDaily wrote a fun summary of the interview in their post What...
entrepreneur — Health Reform's complexities have spurred some brokers to re-boot their approach to clients.
