Is a picture really worth a thousand words? ImagePulse measures how consumers feel about brands based on photos in which the brand is included. It uses a mixture of text, sentiment and image analysis to measure if the image is …
In ancient China, doctors were paid to keep their patients well. If a patient fell ill, the doctor didn’t get paid until they got better. We have gotten used to being continuously connected, so why does healthcare still revolve around …
2011 seems to be the year that mobile payments go mainstream with everyone from the big mobile carriers and handset manufacturers to scrappy new startups scrambling on to the payments bandwagon.
sQuid and ACT, which together cover 85 percent of …
Tradeshift calls itself a social network for business but its main service is currently free, web-based invoicing. The company just landed $7M in funding from Notion Capital.
Notion Capital is the venture fund of the founders of MessageLabs, which was …
Tired of trekking to Ikea for funky tableware? Can’t find a mug that matches your iPhone? Consumer 3D printing shop Shapeways just took personalized manufacturing to a new level by being the first in the world to add glazed ceramic …
Henry Ford once said that a business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Impact investing takes that idea to a new level.
Impact investors look for businesses that have a positive social or environmental impact as well …
SoundCloud is a platform that lets people share the sounds they create, from professional musicians to public companies who want to post earnings calls. The company just unveiled SoundCloud Labs, a site dedicated to experimental projects and features built on …
Streaming music service Spotify just launched a new version of its desktop and mobile application that allows all users to synchronize tracks from their computer to iPods, iPhones and Android phones. Spotify Premium users could already synchronize Spotify playlists with …
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek today refuted the rumors (reported by TechCrunch and others) that the Swedish streaming music service had negotiated a number of deals with major movie studios to stream their content. On his Twitter stream Ek said, “Soon …
Most of the world should have been asleep when the British royal wedding took place today, but the event still took over the entire Internet.
In the UK, mobile carrier O2 rolled out additional base stations to deal with the …
SoundCloud may be the biggest music startup you’ve never heard of.
It’s a large-scale platform for people to share the sounds they create and has quietly conquered the professional music community, amassed 4 million users and expanded into all kinds …
As part of Google’s ongoing battle to conquer the mobile advertising market, the company commissioned research from Ipsos OTX to understand how smartphones are used in people’s daily lives. Mobile ad network InMobi also just released some data on consumer’s …
ComScore just released a social networking study that shows the highest Twitter and LinkedIn penetration in the world is in the Netherlands.
Twitter is used by 26.8 percent of Cloggies and LinkedIn by 26.1 percent. The U.S. in contrast doesn’t …
Every meal you eat is analysed by a nutritionist. Your workouts are monitored and progress tracked. When driving, an app checks you for alertness and let’s you know if you need to stop and take a rest.
Since you are …
Kiva, a site that enables person-to-person loans, has just added a new category of green loans to help borrowers move to cleaner and safer forms of energy, green agriculture, transport and recycling. Loans made through Kiva generally go to individuals …
Earlier this week we reported on how Apple has been recording the locations of iPhone and iPad users and storing that data in unencrypted form on the device.
New research from Nielsen (carried out before the Apple story broke) shows …
Just in time for Earth Day, OgilvyEarth has released a study on the gap between the intentions of U.S. consumers and their actions when it comes to green activities and products.
Proving that the road to hell is paved with …
Renzo Rosso, the founder of clothing company Diesel, has just taken a 20 percent stake in the startup incubator H-farm.
We’ve seen plenty of high-tech investors taking stakes in online fashion businesses, such as Atomico Ventures, the investment fund of …
Construction, in particular concrete, is a major contributor to Co2 emissions. Cutting down trees to use as lumber doesn’t help either.
So a California company has come up with a clever way to reuse non-biodegradeable plastic in biolumber, an alternative …
Outdated and decaying infrastructure, skeleton maintenance crews, minimal usage of IT and a general lack of innovation? Welcome to the water business.
Lux Research recently published a report on the state of water infrastructure worldwide, how data could be the …
