Netflix gets it: Arrested Development’s 10 new episodes to premiere at the same time

Arrested Development fans have another reason to love Netflix. Actually, they have about 10 reasons, to be exact.

Netflix first won fans over back in November when it announced it was producing 10 new Arrested Development episodes for its streaming …

New app for wait staff & diners takes restaurants into the future

Imagine a soup-to-nuts app that would let you find a good restaurant nearby, make a reservation, order, and pay all in a few clicks and swipes — and imagine the restauranteurs in your area have the same level of sophistication …

Click here if you think conference calls suck (hint: we have a solution)

Conference calls tend to suck the life and soul out of an otherwise productive workday, and it’s not just the content. In fact, sometimes, we all have struggled to simply hear the content over a constant hiss of snaps, crackles, …

Agiliron’s cloud-connected e-commerce tools will help you ‘catch ‘em all’

Agiliron could easily be the name of some crazy Pokemon, and funny enough, the cloud-connected e-commerce startup’s mission, like Pokemon, is to help you catch ‘em all — customers, that is.

Agiliron’s goal to provide an “integrated SaaS platform for …

Chicago Tribune talks to Groupon chairman Lefkofsky; asks the wrong questions

In the midst of all the turmoil of Groupon, which is now trading at a market cap below $8 billion and broke below the $12 mark in trading today, the company's hometown newspaper had a sitdown with Groupon chairman Eric Lefkofsky. As a former journalist who once aspired to work at the Tribune, I'm embarrassed for them.

NetSuite chief spells out the opportunity in the social, mobile and cloud-based enterprise

NetSuite was founded as a cloud-based enterprise company way back in 1998. But Zach Nelson (pictured left), chief executive of the company, has plenty of advice for startups in the enterprise market, where social, mobile, and cloud technologies are all …

Paperhater wrangles paper clutter with the snap of a smartphone camera

Startup Paperhater is hoping to cut down on the amount of paper and business cards you’ve got piled on your desk. Using an iPhone camera, the company’s app takes pictures of paper and deciphers the text from the image.

Any …

HD Trade Services puts the brakes on trade fraud

Most consumers are likely oblivious to the issues of international trade fraud, but for businesses that rely on overseas suppliers, it’s becoming an increasingly large problem. The issue stems from the lack of communication between businesses, which makes it easy …

ApplyApp.ly wants to find you a job, with science!

Finding a job is hard. You grabbed a sales job after college, but you’re terrified of phone calls and your eyes glaze over while looking at sales figures. It’s all because you’re truly an introvert, an abstract thinker, and better …

BizSlate offers cloud-based supply-chain management tool for small companies

BizSlate unveiled a supply-chain management tool for small medium-sized businesses today.

Until recently, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has been an expensive, complicated proposition, offered by the likes of SAP, Oracle, and Sage to large companies that can afford multi-hundred-thousand-dollar …

Ford’s first all-electric car, the Focus Electric, gives a taste of the future (video)

Ford is in the process of making big changes to its overall strategy, and its first all-electric car, the Focus Electric, helps show how the company is evolving.

The company’s new direction offers “the power of choice” to consumers by …

How to stop mobile malware before it happens to you

As consumers venture out of walled-garden app stores, mobile malware is bound to pop up, and as it does, consumers (and businesses) frequently begin to ask how they should be protecting themselves and their devices. Is a mobile antivirus the …

Like a Highlight for salespeople, Serendipity creates “chance” business encounters

Serendipity, the latest product from business app developer Taptera, helps Salesforce.com customers view potential sales leads around them on their iPhones.

The app is taking a similar approach to Highlight and Sonar, both apps that help find people near you …

Tech industry is well represented on Time’s ’100 Most Influential’ list

Leaders in the tech industry account for a sizable chunk of the names in Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people list, which the publication released today.

Each year, the magazine sets up a readers’ poll on its website that contains …

RingCentral re-imagines cloud-based phone systems with Cloud-Touch

Cloud communications company RingCentral has launched its brand new Cloud-Touch service, the first of its kind to help businesses manage and access their office phone system from smartphones.

“With Cloud-Touch, you could setup multiple phones for your businesses while you …

App builder iGenApps builds apps for your phone, on your phone

You can’t control when the inspiration to build a mobile app will hit. You might be far away from your computer and have no measurable coding skills, but that won’t stop you from whipping up the next farting app. iGenApps …

TrustGo’s antivirus app adds a deeper level of security to your Android device

During the next few years, mobile security will become an even bigger issue than it is today. Smartphones are basically tiny PCs, and as such, we have to worry about how safe our data is on smart devices.

Mobile security …

How to find the best meme videos before all your friends

Were you the last kid on your block to see Rebecca Black’s Friday video? Did it burn a bit when your friends said, “Yeah, man, that’s been out for, like, years” when you tried to show them Bed Intruder?…

MyGeoTrex: A collaborative museum tour for any location

I have an unhealthy obsession with museums, and I particularly love nerding out by renting those badly narrated audio tours that offer background information for every exhibit.

MyGeoTrex, a new startup launching today at the DEMO Spring 2012 conference in …