Search and browse simultaneously with Slikk

What if your search engine doubled as a web browser? Would you flit about the web and quench your queries in record speed? That’s the theory startup Slikk is testing with a two-for-one search engine that includes embedded browsing features.…

Web companies are ignoring the lucrative 50+ demographic

If you found that 60 to 80 percent of your customers belonged to a particular demographic, you’d probably retarget your marketing and product development efforts to focus on that market.

Yet many internet companies are failing to do just that.…

Senate passes bill requiring “Black Boxes” for cars, but you may already have one

The U.S. Senate just passed a bill requiring all new cars in America to come equipped with a black box-like data recording device starting in 2015, InfoWars reports. Similar to the tell-all black boxes on airplanes, event data recorders (EDR) …

It’s like fantasy football, but for politics junkies

Fantasy football is a huge and very lucrative multibillion-dollar industry in the United States. Politics are equally competitive and ruthless, and its fans just as passionate, but it lacks the fun as well as obvious way to profit (you know, …

Welcome to Yogurtistan, a 3D shopping universe inside Facebook

The popularity of open-ended 3D worlds peaked with Second Life around 2007. But for e-commerce companies, the dream of virtually replicating the experience of going to a mall lives on.

Yogurtistan is a 3D world aimed at simulating real-world retail …

DealAngel finds hotel steals, protects you from rip-off rates

When was the last time you were 100 percent confident that the price you paid for a hotel stay was a steal? Just-launched hotel search-engine and aggregator DealAngel eliminates the guesswork with an at-a-glance look at the quality of the …

Humanizing online travel search, Eva allows for Siri-style queries

Looking for a three-day cruise to Mexico in mid-July? Startup Evature aims to help ease the pain of searching for said vacation via web or mobile.

Evature, a business-to-business search service provider for online travel companies, today launched a version …

Want to get acquired by Google? Google VP explains how to go big

David Lawee is Google’s vice president of corporate development, the latest in his string of high-profile positions at the search giant. As the company’s M&A leader over the past several years, he has been responsible for some of the company’s …

Health tracking app NeedToEat keeps your waistline in check

Diet and exercise tracking service NeedToEat helps you stay on top of what you eat and when. It uses real-life factors such as mood, habits, and preferences to track your health and keep you on a healthy eating regimen.

NeedToEat …

Splunk ends incredible IPO day with 109% jump in share price

Enterprise data software company Splunk ended its first day on the stock market with an amazing 108.7 percent bump in price from its $17-per-share IPO.

The San Francisco-based company offers businesses software to better analyze and interpret “big data.” The …

AMD beats expectations but accounting write-off leads to a huge $590M net loss

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices reported today that its first quarter results beat expectations, but the company had a big loss of $590 million. While AMD is very competitive with its product line-up, the results show that it’s not easy …

Path gets hipsteriffic photo filters for Android

Were your Path pics looking a tad less cool than they could have? Have no fear, Android user; filters are here.

Today, the social/mobile startup is announcing Lenses, a series of filters you can add to your Path pictures to …

Hulu adds four more original series to its lineup

After announcing record growth earlier this week, Hulu shed some details about the slate of original series heading to the streaming video service.

Hulu’s current lineup of original programing includes scripted comedy Battleground, Morgan Spurlock’s A Day in the 

Microsoft hits record $17.4B revenue, $5.1B net income for fiscal third quarter

Microsoft reported record quarterly revenue for its fiscal third quarter, generating $17.41 billion in revenue and $5.11 billion in net income, it announced today.

Quarterly revenue of $17.41 billion was a 6 percent increase from the year-ago period. Operating income …

Evernote grabs fresh $100M round at $1B valuation, says report

Note-taking startup Evernote has raised a massive new $100 million round at a $1 billion valuation, according to a report by Business Insider.

The new round was reportedly led by Meritech Capital Partners. A contrary report from TechCrunch says the …

Robot vacuum maker Neato Robotics sucks up $12.2M

Vroom, vroom. Neato Robotics has just snagged $12.2 million in fourth round funding for its robot vacuum cleaner.

We all thought the future would be full of robots doing our house work for us. Well in the case of vacuuming, …

Cisco invests $100M in networking startup Insieme, has option to buy it for $750M

Cisco has invested $100 million in a networking startup called Insieme that was started by three Cisco employees. Interestingly enough, the company also has the option to pony up $750 million more to buy the company, according to a memo …

Verifeyed uses a camera’s ‘mathematical fingerprint’ to find manipulated images

Every time I try searching Google for images marked with Creative Commons licensing, I can’t help but feel like there’s plenty of stuff that’s incorrectly listed. This isn’t something that’s specific to Google, as most sites don’t always keep the …

Psst: ZigMail turns emails worth spreading into fast status updates

For deals too good to keep to yourself, email service ZigMail has created a simple sharing tool designed to help you pass inbox offers on to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ friends.

ZigMail, as a refresher, is the Chicago-based startup that …