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As FAKEGRIMLOCK has so eloquently said, using the giant SXSW conference as a platform for marketing and publicity is hard. Really hard. Millions of startups (well at least hundreds) hit Austin (gently, with love) at the same time (almost) trying desperately to get our attention (tough task) and eventually yours (even harder). To help, we’re [...]
Non-profits take on lots of different forms, and so, too, can the way you help them raise money. That’s the idea behind social impact startup ProBueno, which has so far raised $340,000 to offer more ways for people to support their favorite non-profits. Founded by a bunch of MIT alums, ProBueno allows users to trade their [...]
Microsoft has open-sourced some of the code for Kinect for Windows, its motion-sensing gestural control device for the desktop. A total of 22 code samples have been posted to CodePlex, a.k.a. “Not GitHub.” Baby steps, baby steps! Samples are available in C++, VisualBasic, and C# and include such elements as face tracking, depth of field, [...]
So what’s LinkedIn going to do with Pulse now that it has bought the newsreader? Maybe Jeff Weiner will keep heading down the path Pulse was headed: Trying to figure out how to create mobile magazines filled with other peoples’ content, and how to sell ads against the eyeballs that stuff collects. And LinkedIn already [...]
Facebook users’ patterns of “Likes” on the social-networking site can unintentionally expose political and religious views, drug use, divorce and sexual orientation, researchers said Monday. A study of 58,000 U.S. Facebook users, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, arises from an emerging discipline in which experts sift through extremely large digital [...]
It was something of a black eye for BlackBerry when it came out that Sprint wouldn’t be carrying the all-touch Z10 BB10 smartphone. A huge relaunch, integral to the company’s future success, and one of the four major U.S. carriers was taking a pass on the first hardware. But the carrier is going to sell [...]
I’m not sure this is what they meant when they said design is now mobile first. Google has taken the widely-loved new look in its iPhone and iPad app straight to the web — the mobile web, that is. The new look is clean and simple, and much more usable — in my humble opinion — [...]
What will the payments industry look like over the next few years? A new report from the Payments Innovation Jury, an anonymous group of industry leaders, aims to answer just that. Among their findings, 60 percent of the group believed near-field communication (NFC) payments wouldn’t live up to its hype, and most thought Asia will [...]
What will the payments industry look like over the next few years? A new report from the Payments Innovation Jury, an anonymous group of industry leaders, aims to answer just that. Among their findings, 60 percent of the group believed near-field communication (NFC) payments wouldn’t live up to its hype, and most thought Asia will [...]
New York City-based mobile ad startup Dobleas has emerged out of stealth with a $5.4 million investment from FreakOut, a Japanese digital marketing company. Dobleas offers a “real-time mobile demand-side platform (DSP) provider with real-time data.” Ideally, its service will offer better data sources and more transparency to ad buyers and sellers who want to [...]