The Next Web was at the Springboard Investor Day in Cambridge, England, and we were privy to ten startups pitching and demoing their way to funding from the investors in attendance. Springboard is an intensive 13-week programme based at the ideaSpace, which is part of Cambridge University’s state-of-the-art Hauser Forum. The purpose of the...
At the end of June 2011, Skype added the ability to make one-to-one video calls over both WiFi and 3G connections to its Android application. However, very few handsets were supported at the time, but now the company has released an update that brings two-way video calling to 17 more smartphones, including the HTC...
Today, seed fund and accelerator, TechStars, will be hosting its “Demo Day” in Boulder, where it will showcase its 12 newest startups. The accelerator expects over 500 people to be on hand, including investors and venture funds, who will be on hand to vet the young founding teams and potentially take out those checkbooks....
Image: Screenshot LivingSocial’s Groupon Now-killer, LivingSocial Instant, appears to now have an ad unit that promotes specific deals (see right). This is pretty interesting, as it adds a new layer to how daily deals can be promoted or sold. Foursquare head of business development Tristan Walker spotted the apparent new feature and tweeted about...
If there’s one space that feels over-saturated right now, it’s photography apps. Just take a look at the market and you’ll see a parade of popular names: Hipstamatic, Photosynth, Snapseed and many, many more. Just yesterday, one of the leaders, Instagram was blowing its own trumpet because it passed the milestone of 150 million...
There are currently eight people with Google Plus profiles under the name Blake Ross, but the Blake Ross that cofounded Firefox years ago and is now the Director of Product at Facebook is no longer one of them. That Blake Ross has been kicked off of Google’s social network because “After reviewing your profile,...
According to research from McKinsey that we looked at yesterday, young people are using online media significantly more than older generations. When it comes to online video consumption, the difference is particularly stark: 84% of “Digital-media junkies” (whose average age is 28) consume online video, compared to 18% of “Traditionalists” (average age 48). With...
Image: indieflikr via Flickr Facebook product director Blake Ross tweeted that he was banned from Google+, ostensibly because of his name. Google tries to keep fake names off Google+ (not very successfully, judging by the people who add us to their circles), but Blake Ross isn’t exactly a name that breathes “fake.” Ross speculates...
Image: Screenshot JP Morgan Cazeneuve has a note out today on the Russian internet and its two biggest companies, Yandex and Mail.ru Group. The rating is “overweight” on both. Yandex is the “Russian Google”, a search engine with two-thirds marketshare in Russia and strong marketshare in other former Soviet Union countries. Mail.ru is a...
Amazon Web Services today announced a trio of features designed to lure in enterprise users, including dedicated connections to its cloud data centers and a larger Virtual Private Cloud footprint. As AWS strives to bring in more enterprise business, it’s doing everything possible to make its services as flexible, reliable and secure as possible....