From the art of the pitch to a smooth sale and everything in between, these seven tenets come straight from the annals of successful startups. Last week, Vancouver’s GROW 2012 conference convened some all-stars of the startup scene, stirring together corporate leads from Indiegogo, Eventbrite, Zite, Paypal, Cheezburger Inc. and more with infamous super angel Dave...
In the Whack-a-Mole game of online reputation management, it’s not so much about completely erasing all the bad things that are being said about you on the Internet: it’s about replacing the stuff you don’t want people to see with things that you do want them to notice. The Internet has a memory, and...
Moving beyond its smartphone and tablet offerings, LG has today unveiled its new Game World portal for its 3D Smart TV lineup, offering a selection of 2D and 3D titles that can be played with either the company’s Magic Remote or any third-party gamepad. Already offering apps via its Smart World portal (more specifically, its...
Samsung has announced details of its latest media player, the Galaxy Player 5.8, an Android-based device that boasts a 5.8-inch screen, as you can gather from the name. The Player is powered by Ice Cream Sandwich (aka Android 4.0) with Samsung’s own WhizTouch interface atop, and it also includes a long-life 2,500 mAh capacity battery,...
Social proof is the meanest mofo in the Valley. Second tier VCs want to be in the same rounds as first tier VCs and third tier VCs want to get in on the deals offered to 2nd tier VCs. It’s all very high school if you think about it on any sort of anthropological...
App.net, the in-development pay-to-use social network that’s been making waves recently, has got its first third-party client app in the form of Hooha, which is now available on Google Play. Australian developer The Modern Ink released the app, which was formerly named Jive, into the wild over the weekend. Like App.net itself, Hooha is...