Did you correctly predict Hubdub’s round of funding?

Did you correctly predict Hubdub’s round of funding?

Predictions are all the rage right now. Obviously, since it’s the beginning of a new year, everyone wants to forecast the year ahead, but also with a weakened global economy, everyone is looking for answers for when things will turn around. Hubdub, a site that… Continue Reading

Hubdub partners with Reuters for news predictions

Hubdub partners with Reuters for news predictions

Hubdub runs a news prediction game site where users can place bets with virtual money on how certain news stories will turn out. Based on current betting, for instance, people believe that Monday’s Gallup presidential poll will favor Barack Obama.

Now the Scottish company is announcing… Continue Reading

Roundup: Google tests a new social network-esque homepage, Apple ups iPhone orders and more

Roundup: Google tests a new social network-esque homepage, Apple ups iPhone orders and more

Here’s the latest action:

Google tests out a new, more functional iGoogle (with a friend update stream) — The company’s personalized homepage service is looking more and more like a — dare I say? — social network. The latest version has side tabs that can contain elements… Continue Reading

PunditWatch: Interesting, fun, but slightly flawed

PunditWatch: Interesting, fun, but slightly flawed

We’ve been noticing a lot of trackbacks (links coming back to our stories from other sites) recently from a site called PunditWatch. As most of the stories with these trackbacks are mine, I’ve been checking it out fairly regularly.

Here’s what it does. Whenever we write… Continue Reading

Britain’s best and brightest startups hit Silicon Valley next week for funding

Britain’s best and brightest startups hit Silicon Valley next week for funding

If you’ve never heard of Dragon’s Den, it’s a popular British TV reality series, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to get funding from business experts — the “Dragons”. One of those Dragons, Doug Richard, a UK-based Californian and founder of investment research firm Library House… Continue Reading

DEMO: A roundup of companies launching

DEMO: A roundup of companies launching

There are 78 companies presenting at the DEMO conference this week. We’ll be covering some of the more notable ones in separate posts.

First, we’ve picked out 16 of them here for brief overview: Yoics, Acesis, Asankya, Atlaspost, Bitgravity, Cozimo, Healthpricer, Hubdub, Huddle, Squidcast, Standoutjobs, ,… Continue Reading