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This November 2011, Mark Zuckerberg recently gave a shout-out to Boston entrepreneurs by stating that Silicon Valley it’s not the only place to be and that if he was starting now, he would have just stayed in Boston. So what caused Zuckerberg to make such a statement are a bunch of new startups in Boston such as networking company, Greenhornet… Read more
In a world where “1 in 5 New Relationships Begin on an Online Dating Sites” (according to data from Match.com), it is not a surprise that there are several companies trying to capitalize on this trend.
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Looking for the sugar daddy… Read more
Founded by Nick Halstead back in 2008 in the U.K., Datasift is (as of the time this article was written) only one of the 2 companies in the world that Twitter has allowed to re-syndicate its content.
Nick is well known in social media circles because he founded TweetMeme, a leading platform in providing social news via Twitter available in 30… Read more
With the popularity of Facebook in the field of Social Media Service, it is an undeniable fact that many startup companies would try to venture and rival the services offered by Facebook. You should have known by now that the search giant itself – Google has established its own social networking site – the Google plus. And here’s something new… Read more
If you are a fan of OpenTable and you have dreamed about bringing the simplicity of its service to other fields, now you will be happy to learn about ZocDoc, a startup that is trying to ease the process of booking doctor appointments on the web.
Founded in September 2007, ZocDoc is the brainchild of Cyrus Massoumi while… Read more
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Japan’s average home size is half that of the U.S. This makes it a great market for any space-saving innovation that makes the best use of limited space. Therefore, it is not a surprise that the Japanese have welcomed the advent of tablet computers with open arms.
While companies such as Apple with its iPad and… Read more
Task managers, one would think this genre of development should be full, right? Well, not just yet. A unique take on the personal online task management/scrapbook, Moredays is not everyone’s idea of organizational perfection, but it will be for some.
Still cloaked in beta testing, Moredays was somewhat revealed at TechCrunch Disrupt, and a bit more in a teaser Mashable… Read more
While the latest wave of Internet services, ranging from Salesforce to Google Docs to Skype, has incremented the productivity of workers around the world, it has at the same time introduced new challenges for IT departments everywhere.
In the past, IT departments could rely on standard firewalls and harware tools to keep malicious hackers at bay, but the… Read more
Given the rise of smartphones and the further introduction of basic mobile phones into rural areas, there is a strong trend towards using mobiles to conduct financial transactions.
According to the Yankee Group, the worldwide transaction value of mobile payments will total $984 billion by 2014, up from $162 billion in 2010. Mobile payments is defined as transactions from mobile… Read more
As more and more people are using smartphones, hackers are becoming more interested in exploiting the security loopholes that companies fail to address. Fortunately, there is Lookout raising to the challenge of protecting your private data on any smartphone.
Lookout (formerly known as Flexilis) describes itself as a smartphone security company dedicated to making the mobile experience safe for… Read more
