By Mike Muhney As the co-inventor of ACT! contact management software, the product credited as the catalyst for the Customer Relationship Management industry, I’m surprisingly not a champion of the concept of “managing relationships” at all. I don’t think entering data, scheduling activities, or even communicating with someone amounts to “management” in a meaningful way. [...]
One of the more interesting Bitcoin exhibits we saw was that of KryptoKit. One of the largest problems with Bitcoin - and one of the largest barriers for skeptics - lies in the structure and utility of the various wallet systems/software. They are often clunky, and making or receiving a payment often takes an awful lot of copying and pasting. No more.
On paper, 2013 has not been able to match the pace set in 2012 for venture capital-backed companies looking to find an exit, though it has by no means been a slow year. The number of VC-backed exits was down almost 14% from 2012 and capital exited lagged by a whopping 46%. However, it is important to note that 2012’s exit volume was bolstered by the massive $16 billion IPO of Facebook, and an unusually large final quarter, which was likely inflated due to the impending increase in the capital gains tax, which took effect on Jan 1st.
Duvamis is an interesting new take on social media. The main belief of the founders is that the greatest amount of sharing - of thoughts, ideas, content, and more - takes place in pure anonymity. In pursuit of this, they created a purely anonymous social network. One of the founders, who wished to remain anonymous (go figure) answered a few of our questions:
Parrot Parrot brings the Internet to your garden with Parrot Flower Power, the first smart wireless sensor equipped with Bluetooth Smart technology that connects to your mobile device and accompanies you in the maintenance of your plants. In a pot or in open ground, Parrot Flower Power monitors and analyzes 4 criteria that are crucial to plant growth: soil moisture, fertilizer, ambient temperature and light intensity.
As smartphones and tables are becoming more powerful at an exponential rate, we are on the precipice of a major technological breakthrough. Samsung and Panasonic (and others) have devoted large amounts of resources towards building and improving the smart TV, but the rise of SlimPort my completely destroy the market for these TVs before they even begin to approach widespread adoption.
Bucquistador is a social networking and crowdfunding website centered on user bucket lists. users create a listing of their life goals, the system matches their goals to those of their friends, and then allows them to schedule events and even collect group payments or crowdfund particular bucket list items.
We just came across this interesting infographic from Finance Degree Center. The infographic takes a very detailed look at the volatility of Facebook stock, and some of the factors behind said volatility. Think about it, FB stock has been as low as $17.73 a share, and as high as $57.96 a share. Further, at the time of Facebook's IPO, the company was valued in excess - perhaps overvalued - $104 billion.
Phil Zimmerman, an authority on privacy is the creator of PrettyGood Privacy (PGP) email encryption software. He is also the co-founder of SilentCircle a privacy and encryption firm. He has teamed up with the people at Geeksphone to produce the world's first NSA proof smartphone. The Blackphone is a customized Android smartphone that has the [...]
Apple recently settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) again, for charges to consumers iTunes accounts that stemmed from purchases that their kids may have made doing in app purchases. For the ease of the user, when you make an in-app purchase with Apple's iTunes app store on your iOS device it asks for your [...]
