Let the proliferation of vertically-themed startup accelerators continue! Today, a new accelerator focusing on the enterprise sector is launching in Washington D.C. Called “Acceleprise,” the program’s goal is to invest in 60 enterprise software companies over the next three years. Participating startups should be trying to solve problems facing large organizations, whether the Fortune 5000, large

Strange Bedfellows: Google, Paramount Ink Deal For New Digital Movie Rentals Good news, Godfather fans — Google has just recently announced on their official YouTube blog that they’ve inked a licensing deal with Viacom-owned Paramount to bring some 500 new titles to YouTube and the Google Play store over the coming weeks. Google first started toying with the notion of movie rentals via YouTube in

PhoneDeck Is A Game Changer For Small Businesses, Divorce Attorneys I sold mortgages over the phone in a previous life. That involved calling over 100 people a day using an archaic but functional web-based phone system. That system cost the company a fortune to implement and required a dedicated support staff. PhoneDeck does most of it for free. And it works directly with Android and S40 phones. T

Windows Phone Marketplace Growth Keeps Up The Pace, Tops 80,000 Apps Windows Phone 7 is an excellent new mobile operating system — there’s no doubt about that. But every rose has its thorn, and on Windows Phone it’s a lack of apps. Luckily, the Marketplace seems to be growing at a rapid pace, today topping 80,000 apps. The platform has been slowly but steadily picking up steam, topping 50,000 apps

Show Us What You Got, Virginia: Let’s Schedule A Quick Meeting Next Week As you may well know, we’re having a series of three mini-meetups in DC, Norfolk, and Richmond next week. You’ve probably already RSVPed, but I’d like to spend Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings visiting some cool companies in the area. I think I’m already full in Norfolk – someone is dragging us around – but DC and Rich

Startups Mogreet Nabs $4.1M For An Easy Way To Share Rich Media To Any Mobile Device Mogreet, a Los Angeles-based mobile video marketing startup, is today announcing that it has raised $4.1 million in strategic capital. The round was led by Black Diamond Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including DFJ Frontier, Ascend Ventures, Bryant Park Ventures, and Draper Associates. The n

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

What Took So Long? Germany’s Samwer Brothers Rumored to Launch a Square Clone Soon Square, the mobile payment startup founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is one of Silicon Valley’s hottest companies right now. It’s no surprise then, that German clone factory Rocket Internet, which is run by brothers Mac, Oliver and Alexander Samwer, is now rumored to be developing its own blatant Square clo

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

[読了時間: 1分] とある報道機関の記事で「ウルトラブックに電機メーカーが期待している」といった内容を見た。ウルトラブック? Windowsパソコンブランドに付けられそうな名前、一体何年前の話をしているか?と思ったらつい昨年(2011年)に提唱されたハードウェアの定義のことらしい。 提唱したのはプロセッサー大手の米インテル。「タブレット端末とすみ分けできる究極のノートPC」とのことで、起動は7秒以内、厚さ 1 インチ未満 (厚さ 21 mm 未満) 、バッテリーの持ち時間が長く設定され、ハードウェアのサイズや重量もタブレットに引けを取らない内容になっている。 既にAmazon.co.jpで検索してみると対象となる商品が沢山マッチする状態。ネットブックよりも高く、一般的なノートパソコンよりも若干安い。 ハードウェア特性だけが問題か? ただ、冷静に考えてみれば、(数値の差はともかく) 既にこ

Media & Entertainment The Interesting Part About Amazon’s In-App Payments Beta Is That Developers Have Pricing Control The most interesting part of Amazon’s move to provide an in-app payments flow is that they’re ceding pricing control to mobile developers. Amazon has been testing a new in-app payments system with several top-tier mobile developers for several months. It’s a big deal because there

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After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

Media & Entertainment With $25M From Benchmark And Larry Summers Advising, Can Minerva Build An Online Ivy? Well, we’ve said it before: Technology is changing education. It’s flipping the classroom, bringing instructional videos to the masses, and dragging online higher education into legitimacy. Investors have begun to hear the call, as was evidenced today when Benchmark Capital made its largest

[読了時間: 2分] スタートアップの動向をウォッチして課題に感じていたのが東京以外の地域の熱さ。特に関西では多数の優秀な企業や個人がいるにもかかわらず横のつながりが少なく、“場” としての活性化を切望しているようだった。今こそ関西にくすぶるスタートアップの萌芽をもたらすべきなのだ。 大阪のコワーキングスペース「 Osakan Space（オオサカンスペース）で4月13日に開催される「Shoot from Osaka(n) 」は、大阪近郊で作られているIT系のサービス・商品をメディアにアピールするイベントだ。第一回の開催となる今回、TechWave副編集チョ の maskinこと増田も参加しようと思っている。 大阪のIT系プロダクトを発信 イベント趣旨には「同じ場所に集まり、商品やサービスを発表することで、メディアへの情報発信力を高め、交流にもつながります」と書かれている。記者発表を集約す

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

From the perfect storefront to top-notch products and branding, allocating resources to your small business's tangible and visual aspects can seem natural. But less obvious factors, such as employee satisfaction, can be just as important to your success. These tips can help you create a strategy to boost employee happiness and increase the likelihood of keeping employees on staff long term. Why Is

In 2006, former Yahoo employee Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan was working for Facebook when he filed a patent for the news feed. Today in a sweet piece of irony, Facebook is using that same patent to sue Yahoo. Facebook claims that Yahoo’s Flickr Photostream and Activity Feeds infringe on “Generating a Feed of Stories Personalized for Members of a Social Network”. This U.S. Patent 7,827,208 for “

1990年代初頭から記者としてまた起業家としてITスタートアップ業界のハードウェアからソフトウェアの事業創出に関わる。シリコンバレーやEU等でのスタートアップを経験。日本ではネットエイジ等に所属、大手企業の新規事業創出に協力。ブログやSNS、LINEなどの誕生から普及成長までを最前線で見てきた生き字引として注目される。通信キャリアのニュースポータルの創業デスクとして数億PV事業に。世界最大IT系メディア（スペイン）の元日本編集長、World Innovation Lab(WiL)などを経て、現在、スタートアップ支援側の取り組みに注力中。 [読了時間: 1分] 大混雑の美術館ほど無意味なものはない。押し寿司状態、みくちゃになりながら流れ込むように絵画を…鑑賞どころかチラ見である。とはいえ欧米のように平日の夜に芸術文化に触れようにも日本ではどこも閉館だから仕方がない。パソコンの画面で絵画を見た

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has successfully launched its first sub-orbital test vehicle, powered…

Last year, Alexia covered a funny Chrome web browser extension called “Defaceable” that allowed you to comment anonymously on Facebook and on other websites using Facebook Comments. Instead of having to associate your comment with your real name and identity, the Defaceable extension let you once again post your troll-isms to friends’ walls and blogs like TechCrunch (which uses Facebook Comments)

There are some big challenges ahead for mobile advertising, as the industry faces increasing scrutiny from the federal regulators, and as Apple phases out the UDIDs used by advertisers and publishers to identify users. Now privacy company TRUSTe is offering a new way for advertisers to address some of these concerns. The program is called TRUSTe Mobile Ads, and it allows consumers to opt-out of bo

Media & Entertainment Opera Software Launches Yet Another UDID Alternative For Anonymous Mobile Ad-Tracking Just when iOS developers had thought they had heard of every UDID replacement mechanism out there, Opera Software had to go and launch its own, too. Today, the company, best known as the maker of the Opera web browser, is introducing something it’s calling “App-Tribute” – and yes, it’s yet a

Expedia and TripAdvisor have just filed complaints about Google’s travel search features as part of a larger antitrust probe the search giant is facing in the European Union. Altogether the European Commission has received 13 formal complaints, including the new complaints brought by the online travel companies, EC spokesman Antoine Colombani told press today. The commission’s probe of Google bega

YC, Rock Health-Backed Agile Diagnosis Launches To Help Doctors Better Treat Their Patients Though the health industry has, in many respects, been slow to adopt new web and mobile technologies, it seems we may finally have reached a tipping point. This is perhaps best demonstrated by Manhattan Research’s report, which found that 72 percent of physicians owned a smartphone in 2011, with adoption po

Ustream Integrates With Facebook Timeline For Sharing Live Videos With Friends Live video streaming website Ustream today is launching an integration with Facebook’s new Timeline user interface. This means that users will be able to share the live videos they’re watching on Ustream with their Facebook friends in real-time. The Ustream launch is one of the first video app integrations with Timeline