Qualcomm, Urban Airship, HotelTonight, & Mondelēz International to talk ‘Mobile Experience’ next month
Join us in July and hear from these guys on how they're building and maintaining a fully integrated Mobile Experience.
Tech, entertainment, & fashion collide at Silicon Beach Fest
Sponsored Post Los Angeles has long been associated with the iconic Hollywood sign that overlooks the expansive city, and a kitschy style that lights fire to fashion and glossy entertainment trends worldwide.
Foundersuite debuts tool collection to help you start your company
June 18, 2013 2:38 PM
Max A. Cherney
Recently soft-launched Foundersuite offers entrepreneurs a set of tools and templates to lessen the burden of starting a company.
Smart Scaling: How to get actionable advice from your board to kickstart growth
Sponsored Post Advisory boards can be invaluable. They can also be unbearable. But either way, you can leverage their networks and knowledge to grow your business.
Latest trends: Creative branding with a .Me domain name
Sponsored Post If Shakespeare were alive in 2013 and worked in the Silicon Valley, he’d probably be wondering, “What’s in a domain name?” After the dot-com boom in the late ‘90s, good .com real estate is getting increasingly difficult to find.
Samsung’s CSO Young Sohn will open MobileBeat 2013
June 13, 2013 8:55 AM
Matt Marshall
MobileBeat 2013 will be the occasion for Sohn to share some of the Korean giant's visions on the role of smartphones over the next five and 10 years.
How tiny commuting app Transit is beating Google Maps in Canada
June 5, 2013 8:23 PM
John Koetsier
Sometimes it pays, in wars between giants, to align with one side.
The ultimate guide to startup pre-launch marketing in 5 simple steps
Guest Post We’d all like to believe that we’re past the stage where marketing matters. If your product is good enough, shouldn’t the blog reviews and viral attention take care of itself?
Unfortunately, no.
Apple Campus 2′s impact: 7K employees, $32M in property tax, 9K construction jobs, $66M in public improvements
June 4, 2013 11:38 AM
John Koetsier
Apple is putting significant pressure on local communities, particularly Cupertino, to approve its construction requests.
Over $1 billion in big-brand budgets on stage at MobileBeat 2013
It's becoming more and more evident to the mobile ecosystem at large that the big money is coming from established brands looking to connect, engage, and sell like never before.
SAP Startup Focus. Our technology. Your imagination.
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OttoCat makes Apple’s app store useable again for indie developers — and app buyers
May 27, 2013 2:36 PM
John Koetsier
In the good old days, Apple's app store had a few thousand apps, and you could probably browse all of them to find what you wanted. That lasted about 30 seconds.
LoyalBlocks makes rewarding customers easier with a $9M first round
May 23, 2013 3:26 PM
Jack Wagner
LoyalBlocks, a loyalty marketing solutions provider for small and medium sized businesses with physical locations announced today that it had raised $9 million in its first round of funding. The company plans on using the capital injection to expand US operations and continue developing its platform.
5 ways the booming crowdfunding ecosystem is changing in 2013
Guest Post If you think that participating in crowdfunding simply means investing in smaller companies that launch games and devices on Kickstarter, think again. With crowdfunding volumes reaching $2.7 billion in 2012, it has emerged as a viable, scalable alternative to public and private finance across the globe.
How to join the virtual march on Washington for immigration reform
May 22, 2013 4:37 PM
John Koetsier
There are two key problems that require immediate remediation in Congress, according to the coalition of companies, politicians, and nonprofits: jobs, and fairness.
SAP Startup Focus. Our technology. Your imagination.
Sponsored Post We provide technology, support, resources and community to Big Data, Predictive or Real-time Analytics startups to jumpstart development and accelerate market traction.
Smell-o-vision at last! Domino’s releasing DVDs that smell like pizza
May 17, 2013 7:53 AM
John Koetsier
Pizza and a movie go together like love and marriage, a horse and carriage, right? So Domino's Brazil has hit on a genius marketing campaign: DVDs that smell like pizza.
Why didn’t I think of that?!
Sponsored Post If you’re starting the next big thing, building a business or looking for your next venture, likely you could use all the networking opportunities you can get.
Smart Scaling: 5 questions you should ask every prospective hire (and 5 questions you shouldn’t)
Sponsored Post Here are 5 questions you should ask (and 5 more you definitely shouldn’t) that will help you zero in on the most likely, most compatible candidates.
Kabbage expands its loans business, now supports Quickbooks
May 14, 2013 4:00 PM
Christina Farr
Kabbage announced today that it will provide loans to both online and offline businesses, and will make a decision in minutes.
