DreamIt Ventures Graduates 15 Startups in New York
Posted by admin on August 11, 2011 0 Comment
Tech Accelerator DreamIt Ventures is holding its Demo Day for its New York class of startups today. The 15 companies include students and alumni from top academic institutions like Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Carnegie Mellon University. Several of the founders also have past work experience at companies including Yahoo,...
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Three start-ups to watch: Take the Interview, Re-Vinyl, AppAddictive
Posted by admin on August 11, 2011 0 Comment
DreamIt Ventures, a Philadelphia-based accelerator program, graduated its first New York class yesterday, sending 14 new start-ups into the wild. I enjoyed the demo day and the investor pitches and I find it always inspiring to see entrepreneurs making a play for the big time. DreamIt’s class tackled education, e-commerce and app publishing and a few used video conferencing in interesting ways...
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LocalDirect Provides Mobile Marketing Solutions
Posted by admin on August 01, 2011 0 Comment
A new British company is hoping to take advantage of the smartphone boom. The recent press release “New Company Launches to Help Local Businesses Connect with the Mobile Generation” http://www.pr.com/press-release/336347 introduces LocalDirect Limited http://localdirect.me which is a mobile marketing company with a multitude of solutions. LocalDirect believes we are entering the second...
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Newest Social Network Related IPO Raises Pulses and a Few Questions
Posted by admin on August 01, 2011 0 Comment
Numerous outlets covered the announcement concerning Zynga’s registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the first of July. We felt “Zynga IPO: Social Gaming Company Files S-1 With The SEC” at Blogoholic.in delivered a rather straightforward account of this initial stage in the company’s path toward a public offering. Following other social media companies that have gone public...
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Can Customer Loyalty and Couponing Peacefully Coexist?
Posted by admin on July 29, 2011 0 Comment
Discounting and couponing are all the rage as businesses try to pry open consumers’ wallets. The AJC.com’s “This Deal’s for You – and Businesses” details SparkQuest.com’s efforts to combine the often mutually-exclusive couponing and customer loyalty trends. “(Catherine) Tabor, SparkQuest’s founder and CEO, wanted to create a different structure. SparkQuest’s approach — smaller but...
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As Mobile App Usage Increases, Stakes Are Raised for Companies
Posted by admin on July 29, 2011 0 Comment
Tired of the uncertainty of online search, the continual threat of malware and the unpredictable quality of any given site, people in the US are increasingly turning to mobile apps to get the information they need. Seattle pi’s “Choice of Mobile Over Web Benefits Companies Most” reveals the results of a study that examined search habits. “In June, consumers spent an average of 81...
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HP Application Lifecycle Management: Devil in the Details
Posted by admin on July 28, 2011 0 Comment
TWeb Business reports, “HP updates app lifecycle portfolio.” HP’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) portfolio is for businesses that work in the cloud. The article explains: “ALM provides a central application management platform and workflow that speeds the application development process by keeping track of all its moving parts. “It’s a technology of growing importance for...
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Facebook IPhone Update a Buggy Mess
Posted by admin on July 28, 2011 0 Comment
“Users of Facebook iPhone app irate over buggy update,” declares cnet Reviews. Members who access Facebook through their iPhone had been happy with the app since 2008. However, the latest update has many seeing red. According to the article: “Since its debut, the latest version has picked up almost 19,000 one-star reviews in Apple’s App Store, with users complaining of crashes, freezes,...
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Catch a Cresting Wave
Posted by admin on July 27, 2011 0 Comment
The marriage of the television and the Internet looks to be a done deal. So says CNBC’s “Half of TVs to Have Internet Connectivity by 2015,” which predicts that about 47 percent of total flat-panel televisions shipped in four years, approximately 138 million units, will be Internet-ready. “The rapid adoption of TVs with Internet access will further complicate the battle for the living...
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ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, … Google?
Posted by admin on July 27, 2011 0 Comment
Hungry for quality content, Google’s interest in Hulu, which is owned by Walt Disney Co., News Corp., and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal, is described in the Los Angeles Times piece “Google May Be Poised to Bid for Hulu.” “Google is the most intriguing of the prospective bidders because of its complicated — and often testy — relationship with Hollywood. Last year’s launch of Google TV,...
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