The next-generation of lithium ion batteries aren’t just here to power the first wave of electric cars and remake the power grid, they’ll be providing better energy storage for our gadgets and computers, too. On Monday, venture capital-backed lithium ion battery player Leyden Energy (formerly called Mobius Power) is launching a replacement lithium ion...
QA platform for video VYou is announcing today $3 million in Series A funding, lead by RRE Ventures and Highland Capital Partners and followed on by High Peaks Ventures, Broadway Video Ventures, Kevin Wall, David Tish and Rick Web. Gunning for a media play, the New York-based VYou recently partnered up with Hearst Newspapers,...
We constantly hear about Facebook wanting to enter China, but how about the possibility of Chinese social networks opening up to the rest of the world? Just to make things clear, Chinese social networks are NOT blocked, banned or censored outside of the country. They are simply not available in English, which is an...
Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week’s most important tech news and insights for small- and medium-sized businesses. Facebook has begun to roll out some of the features available with Facebook Places for owners of Pages, according to a...
A 5:45 this morning, a man told another man to walk into traffic blindfolded. Using an iPhone app connected to their service, joysti.cc, Jarod Reyes moved Jon Gottfried trough light traffic in what amounted to a real-life game of Frogger. While I often think that we’d be better off if most start-up founders went...
If you think that checking your Facebook account once a day and following Lady Gaga’s latest musings on Twitter makes you a social media geek, think again. We’re now entering an era where quite literally everything we do has the potential to be social - from running a mobile phone network, to buying a...
Three friends, including a 17-year-old high schooler, who met at New Work City, a co-working space, built Dispach.io to solve the problem of disperse information. The product, as it exists currently, is a Chrome extension that allows you to grab Word files and PDFs and automatically place them into Google Docs or Dropbox. Future...
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Former DoubleClick CEO, Kevin Ryan led the company through a period of explosive growth in the late ’90′s. He took the ad-targeting company from a handful of employees to more than 2,000 in just 4 years before selling to Google for $3 billion. However, as Ryan discusses in this episode of Founder Stories with Chris Dixon, the dot.com bust...
Did you know that the majority of Brazilians who work for Microsoft in Redmond come from the city of Recife, in Northeast Brazil? You won’t be surprised anymore once you find out more about Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems, better known under the Portuguese acronym C.E.S.A.R. C.E.S.A.R, which just turned 15, is...