‘Demo God’ awarded to 5 startups pushing boundaries of mobile technology

April 17, 2013 5:34 PM Rebecca Grant

The 5 winners of the coveted Demo God award are Kinsa, PanaCast, Volio, MakerSwarm, and Beer Hunt.
The Demo God award is given to the startups that are not only building innovative products, but also made compelling presentations and sold their products to the audience.

Jawbone’s grand design: Acquisitions all about the beauty of getting healthy

February 4, 2013 3:54 PM Christina Farr

Christina Farr

Jawbone, the wearable computing maker, today acquired MassiveHealth, a maker of apps to promote healthy eating, and Visere, the design firm behind the Unstuck life coach app for an undisclosed sum.

Amazon competitor ProfitBricks launches its foundation program for startups

December 14, 2012 1:57 PM Andy Meek

Guest Post ProfitBricks, a global cloud infrastructure provider, has big ambitions despite not yet having widespread name recognition. The Boston-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company this week announced the launch of a foundation program for the startup community.

Dynamics launches its ePlate battery-powered credit card to create ‘payment apps’

October 22, 2012 9:01 PM Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi

Dynamics is signing up scores of brands that will give you free stuff whenever you use your ePlate card.

Bootcamp Ventures hooks up 3 Israeli startups with $2.25M from U.S. and Russian firms

October 17, 2012 8:28 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Bootcamp Ventures has helped connect three young Israeli startups with $2.25 million in new funds, including promising mobile security company Zimperium.

Women of DEMO: Female founders give tech career advice

October 10, 2012 10:08 AM Julie Kantor

Guest Post Women founders were few at DEMO Fall in Santa Clara. Here's what they had to say about living, working, and competing in a "man's world."

DEMO Gods: Birds, brains, and the best products of the season

October 3, 2012 6:02 PM Meghan Kelly

Meghan Kelly

Out of the 77 companies that demonstrated their products at this week's DEMO conference, only five won the coveted DEMO God award.

Cheap booze wins over voters at Angel Alley

October 3, 2012 5:21 PM Rebecca Grant

Rebecca Grant

DrinkCity wins Angel Alley competition at DEMO.

Today, birdwatching. Tomorrow, saving the entire planet!

October 3, 2012 4:15 PM Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney

Birdeez is an iPhone app that makes it "ridiculously easy," in the words of cofounder Jeff Simeon, to identify birds and then share your sightings on Twitter.

How one researcher is using tech to make science & medicine better & faster

October 3, 2012 4:11 PM Jolie O'Dell

Jolie O'Dell

Scientist Robert Arauz is setting out to solve some of researchers' biggest problems -- not problems about funding or litigation, but the simpler challenges of communication.

LFE gathers experts so we can all learn from hands-on experience

October 3, 2012 4:05 PM Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi

The emphasis at LFE is on getting experts who use their hands or bodies for work, like carpenters.

Weekend warriors: Track your fitness with Novusport’s social mobile sports game

October 3, 2012 3:57 PM Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi

Novusport measures and ranks your activity. The more you play sports, the more you score.

Salesforce worried more about Dropbox than its direct competitors, says COO

October 3, 2012 3:56 PM Meghan Kelly

Meghan Kelly

Salesforce may have some huge competitors like Netsuite and Oracle, but it's not the big dogs that keep the customer-relationship manger on its toes.

Here’s tech that can diagnose Alzheimer’s 3-4 years before first symptoms occur

October 3, 2012 3:51 PM Jolie O'Dell

Jolie O'Dell

Editor's Pick Early detection of Alzheimer's means better, faster clinical trials -- and soon, life-saving drugs and treatments on the market. Here's what Neurotrack is doing to help.

Learn27 launches its social e-learning software for business

October 3, 2012 3:45 PM Christina Farr

Christina Farr

To keep their employees happy, companies are taking more of an active role in professional development and training.

Neuro-nerds from MIT say they can solve stress with a ‘magic’ watch

October 3, 2012 3:35 PM Jolie O'Dell

Jolie O'Dell

If you've ever felt strangled by stress, these brain scientists have just the ticket: a "magical" watch that can tell when you're tense and help you relax.