Playing recruiter: This startup pays you to find your friends jobs

Many people, at some point in their lives, play match maker. You may set up a date, introduce friends, or connect potential business partners. Today, you're bound to have deep benches in your social networks, so why not use them to set up friends with jobs?

Turn your friends’ social updates into a gossip-soaked, personalized tabloid

Taploid is a service that attempts to solve the problem of noisy social network feeds, while allowing people to view social activity data to learn more about themselves and their friends.

Analytics for everybody! BellaDati spreads the love around your company

BellaDati gives everybody in a company access to cloud-based analytics for better business intelligence.

From Iceland with green: GreenQloud launches world’s first completely eco-friendly cloud computing center

According to a 2007 Gartner study, the IT industry produces as much greenhouse gas as the entire aviation industry. That's one of the reasons Eiki Hrafnsson and Tryggvi Lárusson created GreenQloud, the first public cloud fully powered by 100 percent renewable energy resources.

This startup is bringing ads into augmented reality. Too soon?

Cachetown is a mobile app technology that uses your smartphone's camera to turn the world into a video game via augmented reality -- with lots of advertising potential for brands.

AppEnsure provides big data intelligence for proactively managing enterprise apps

Enterprises that want peace of mind when it comes to applications running in cloud or virtual environments can outsource management to startup AppEnsure.

Cloud file-syncing heretic 4sync challenges the gospel of Dropbox

If you haven't already been lulled into Dropbox or SugarSync's grasps for cloud syncing, 4Sync wants to be your new best friend for backing up and accessing all of your files.

How your smartphone could give you a smart home, no extra smarts required

Wish home automation wasn't still a dream of the future? Ube does, too, and it's launching a Kickstarter today to bring you to a smarter home

Find your style brethren for online-shopping bliss with this Pinterest for fashion

What's your style? However you fill in that blank, ThreadMatcher wants to help you find more of what you love and buy it online, quickly and easily.

Cut through the legal fog with computer-generated summaries

eBrevia uses machine learning to automatically summarize contracts and other legal documents.

Online shoppers, this startup thinks you should be getting your goods faster

Gaxsys today released a consumer-facing application called GaxWallet that aims to simply and expedite the e-commerce experience for brands and their customers.

Here’s a friendly, cloud-based alternative to the debt collector

Throughout history, debt collectors have been been hated by their community. It's a deeply unpleasant and tough job. So why not let a computer do the work?

Two guys from Singapore changing the way we take out loans

When loan sharks bite, they bite hard and often leave a nasty scar. But when you need cash and the bank is shutting you out, there's often no other option.

Aidil Zulkifli, a lawyer in Singapore, and Izati Ngaliman, who heads up the marketing side, founded Singapore-based LoanGarage in 2012 to solve this problem. The two founders are building the business with the goal of making loan sharks more transparent.

The cloud isn’t as safe as you think; is end-to-end encryption the answer?

Ensafer is one approach to cloud security. It’s a product for end-to-end encryption — that means your stuff, whatever it is, stayed encrypted through transporting, sharing, storing, etc.

Professional investors with information overload have a new friend in BipSync

BipSync, a startup created by three Stanford graduate students, aims to simplify the process of gathering, retrieving, and analyzing information about investment opportunities.

Don’t like checking your mail? MailGapp may have your solution

MaillGapp is a small company that solves a small yet majorly annoying problem: coming away from your P.O. box empty handed.