While startups in the US, especially in the Valley, tend to be able to find funding at different stages of their life-cycle, there remains significant funding gaps remains in Europe, a disparate market of multiple countries. While the seed stage is gradually being addressed by programmes like Seedcamp, SpringBoard, StartupBootcamp and others, the stage...
Image: Steve Kovach See Also: Here’s Everything Amazon Announced Today Check Out “Silk,” Amazon’s Killer Web Browser The New Kindles Are So Cheap Because They Come Loaded With Ads If you remember the first generation of the Kindle, then you remember an expensive, clunky white device. That’s a far cry from the sleek, finished...
The Games team at Google+ is continuing to roll out updates as the heated feature-war between the rising platform and social networking super giant Facebook ensues. You may have already seen my piece on why I’ll be doing my social gaming on Google+ and not Facebook, and with these new features, my mind has...
You’re more than likely familiar with media sharing apps like Instagram, Viddy, Path and others. You take a picture or video, upload it and let the app’s community and your friends comment and favorite what you’ve shared. Yiip, the app for iOS, thinks the same thing will work for 10 second voice notes. The...
It’s been out for a while, but hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. Facebook released Phabricator earlier this summer, an open source collaboration tool for development teams. It’s an early release, but already in use by more than 500 engineers at Facebook for normal review, development and sharing of code. Development of Phabricator is...
As the cheerleaders of our brands, we’re accustomed to loudly shouting our messages through TV, radio, print ads, and website banners because we see good ROI by getting as many eyeballs as possible on an ad at once. But effective social media doesn’t work that way: It’s a friendly conversation, not a soap box....
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At its highly anticipated Kindle Fire launch, Amazon also took the wraps off its own browser, Amazon Silk, which relies both on the Kindle Fire endpoint and Amazon’s EC2 cloud to promise a much faster user experience. What Amazon can bring to the party is its huge Amazon Web Services infrastructure to do the the heavy...
With all of the talk and excitement about Amazon’s new “Kindle Fire“, the company has dropped the price of the original Kindle Keyboard edition to $139, or $99 with ‘special offers’. This was a popular option for purists who don’t like doing things on touch screens. Tactile keyboards still have a place in technology,...
If Amazon’s new slew of keyboard-less Kindles leaves you feeling frightened and confused, you’ve still got time to pick up one of their soon-to-be classic models. The 3rd generation Kindle (which has been retroactively renamed the “Kindle Keyboard”) is enjoying a bit of a price drop on Amazon.com as we speak. The Kindle Keyboard...