OK. That’s an exaggeration. Odds are you can’t win every startup competition you enter. But you could win 92.59%. Candace Klein did. Klein is the founder and CEO of a new peer-to-peer lending platform called SoMoLend and she’s won 25 of the 27 startup competitions she’s (That’s a winning percentage of 92.59% – do...
Monthly Archives: August 2012
New Google+ Features Target Businesses
In an effort to boost adoption of its Google+ social network, Google this week announced a slew of new features aimed at enticing business customers to use the service and “go Google.” Citing the success other Web-based Google Apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Drive have found amongst employers and their...
Apple And Google Might Be Negotiating Patents
Apple reportedly is wasting no time in consolidating the market power it won in its patent case against Samsung. Citing an unnamed source “familiar with the dealings,” CNET is reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page have met at least once already to discuss potential infringements by Google on Apple patents. CNET...
Line links up with Japanese operator KDDI to boost visibility of its messaging app
Asia messaging service Line has boosted its visibility in Japan after it inked an agreement with KDDI which will see the app added to the operator’s “au Smart Pass” app promotion service, as analyst Serkan Toto notes. The Line service is hugely popular in Japan and across Asia — which is said to account for...
If Amazon sold 5 million Kindle Fires in 9 months, the Kindle Fire 2′s job could be a nightmare
Amazon this week announced its Kindle Fire tablet has “Sold Out” after first going on sale on November 15 in the US. The company also revealed the device was its most successful product launch in the history of the American retail website. Unsurprisingly, Amazon didn’t release sales figures, but it did note that the...
The battery performance deficit disorder
Batteries fail — as certainly as death and taxes. Rechargeable batteries at least offer the possibility of repeating the cycle, so are in this sense more like recurrent taxes than death. But alas, the story cannot repeat indefinitely. One cheerful thought after the other, yes? But wait, there’s more . . . Add to...
With $275M In Capital Deployed To Main Street Businesses, On Deck Raises $100M Of Its Own
We make a lot of noise about the venture capital and angel funding startups raise to help grow their businesses. But there are a lot of mom-and-pop shops out there — businesses that are equally important to the success of the economy, whether they be restaurants or small brick-and-mortar retailers — that don’t qualify...
The Weather Channel Is On The Cusp Of Something Big
Through a partnership with PlaceIQ, The Weather Channel is letting brands innovate with geo-targeted ads. Advertisers can essentially target specific locations where their ads will run on The Weather Channel mobile app. The Weather Channel global CRO Curt Hecht explains why geo-targeted ads is a gamechanger below. This interview was part of our Mobile...
Apple unsuccessful with Samsung patent lawsuit in Japan
Apple may have just landed a $1 billion plus blow on Samsung but the Cupertino-based company has been less successful in Japan, where a judge ruled against a patent lawsuit it took out against its Korean rival. Bloomberg reports that Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji ruled that Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and one of its tablet do...
Watsi Is Using Crowdfunding To Treat The 1B+ Worldwide Without Access To Medical Care
Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big, difficult problems. I mean the type of trenchant problems no one likes to talk about — the ones that are solved over years (if at all) and can affect...