Jack Dorsey is putting up a bunch of interesting pictures on his Twitter stream today. The reason: it’s his 35th birthday, and he wants everybody to donate to a charity that provides clean drinking water for children in developing countries. The coolest so far is probably this pen drawing of Kurt Cobain. Dorsey drew...
The Real London Tech Startups How to Handle Your Payment Terms Short on Cash For Your Business? London has over 600 tech, digital, and creative companies, but how many are real tech startups? We’ve defined tech startups as companies less than ten years old that are product focused or data / development driven. On...
NYC-based startup Dispatch, which just graduated from the latest batch of TechStars NYC, has raised a $965,000 seed funding round. The round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, and a number of angel investors including Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci (who founded GroupMe together), TechStars founder David Cohen,...
Shervin Pishevar and Matt Galligan have just formally announced the beta launch of their new organization 1% of Nothing. It’s aimed at inspiring early-stage companies to donate 1% of their equity to a cause of their choice. The idea is that startups pledge 1% when that equity may be worth nothing, but if they’re acquired, that...
While connected devices and their apps are rapidly gaining popularity, they don’t fully enable the mobile, multimedia and social lifestyle that people want. Instead of today’s fractured and frustrating experience, people need intuitive, personalized and integrated apps and services for their netbooks, e-books, tablets and other connected devices. Service providers can capitalize on their...
Earlier today we shared our tech routine. We thought it would be interesting to see what our readers did each and every morning to catch up on the news that’s happened while they slept. What’s your morning tech routine? We asked and culled your responses from Facebook, Google+, Twitter and the the original post...
Art deco happens to be one of my favorite styles of visual modeling. It first began as a purely decorative form of architecture and interior design that heavily influenced the 1930′s world, representing all that was glamorous and modern at the time. Even today, art deco can be seen in beautifully stylized video games...
Thailand’s Ministry of Education is preparing the first pilot of its $130 million (400 billion baht) initiative to give primary school children in the country a tablet computer, according to a report from the Bangkok Post. The pilot is focused on analysing the educational benefit of the tablet devices for young students with 500...
WordPress now hosts more than 60 million blogs, CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed Thursday. The online publishing platform is now fielding in excess of 300 million unique visitors per month. But according to him, this is just the beginning: WordPress’ developments on the social and mobile fronts are on track to drive even bigger growth...
With 45 million users, Dropbox is a hugely popular cloud storage service. Consumers use it to store photos, documents and other material so they can access it from their PCs, phones, or other devices. But it’s much more than that, said Drew Houston, founder and CEO of the company. Businesses can — and do...