Patisco, a new service by Taipei-based Xinosys, aims to make companies more efficient by letting them form private social networks with their clients, associates, suppliers, and anyone else involved in their business.
By making communication between the many different parts …
The new startup Get helps people make smarter shopping decisions by asking questions to a community of consumers. Essentially, its a Formspring.me for purchasing items you don’t know anything about.
Get founder (and former CEO of Stickam) Steven Fruchter said …
Conferize aims to help you discover conferences, see who is involved with them and follow the conversations that unfold around them. The company launched an alpha version of its service today at DEMO in Silicon Valley.
“We have platforms and …
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LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman might be one of the most successful entrepreneurs to emerge from the post-dot-com era, and today he shared some of the secrets to his success.
Hoffman started LinkedIn on May 5, 2003 and took the company …
Open-source hardware has one big stumbling block: How do you get distributed teams from around the world working together on the same prototype?
Open-source software communities have myriad tools for writing code together and sharing it all over the place. But creating and sharing hardware together has been a bit more problematic.
Enter Upverter, which handily makes hardware design free, open, web-based and collaborative.
Many small businesses don’t have the funds to hire an HR employee or professional recruiter. Enter Unrabble, an online service dedicated to saving businesses money by analyzing and tracking potential job candidates.
“Making a bad hire can be an expensive …
It’s easy to see why smaller companies ditched popular office software suite products like Microsoft Office in favor of cloud-based solutions as provided by Google Apps. However, for larger companies, neither option is ideal.
LiveLoop aims to change that by …
EmmaActive is helping brands make money from images. The technology uses crowd sourcing to tag products in images on participating websites and then get more information on the products from retailers’ websites. The goal is to get consumers buying the …
Iconfinder is a search engine that lets you find icons on the web. These are the sorts of digital art files — icons, logos and fonts — that designers need to create content or web pages.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based …
Hookflash, a peer-to-peer communications and file sharing service, wants to improve conversations in the workplace. Today at DEMO Fall 2011, the company is launching its first product, Hookflash for iPad.
The product, available as an iPad app at launch, combines …
When it comes to customer service, waiting on hold to speak with a real person can be a source of great frustration. Hold-Free Networks, a company that aims to eliminate this annoyance, is launching at the public today at DEMO …
Angelsoft has been around for quite some time, and today at DEMO, the company is relaunching its global platform for deal flow management. The product is now known as Gust.
“As a serial investor who has founded half a dozen …
Froomerce, a startup that lets you take full advantage of marketing products through a Facebook storefront, launched at the DEMO conference today.
Froomerce is fairly simple to set up. The company has created a dashboard from which people can create …
Raise you hand if you love writing resumes! Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Writing resumes may be relegated to the land of dinosaurs with Whodini, a Los Altos-based startup that helps people automatically generate a detailed professional profile. Whodini profiles include expertise, …
Just in time for the Fall television lineup, today Fav.Tv launched an interactive television guide that lets people discuss, follow and get notified about their favorite shows.
I’m not a big TV watcher, so I’m not the best test case …
One of the biggest problems independent musicians, photographers, and filmmakers face is finding ways to sell their art. Without a company behind you, you can only do so much. DailyDigital wants to help solve that problem by providing an easy …
Cloud marketing startup BringShare launched the public beta of its data service on Tuesday at the DEMO Fall 2011 conference.
BringShare’s purpose is to make marketers’ lives easier when it comes to managing their data and making their workflow faster …
Smaller businesses often can’t afford a traditional enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) tool, nor do they have the in-house IT staff to administer and query it. We are Cloud is launching Bime 3.0, a cloud-based business intelligence tool specifically for these …
1calendar says that all you need is one calendar, not multiple ones, to keep track of your busy schedule. That makes sense, but it’s not always easy to accomplish.
1calendar is unveiling its solution, Celcat 1calendar Exchange, at the DEMO …
Here’s the list of presenting companies at the Demo Fall 2011. This year’s class of scores of companies will present on stage on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Santa Clara, Calif. The company names are listed, …
