When I started formulating the idea for my current startup, Roamz, the vision for the company was serendipitous discovery of the things happening around you. I imagined that we’d say to people “Want serendipity? Great download our app” and they’d respond “Yeah sure I was just looking for some serendipity”. I quickly realized (the hard way) that you don’t leave your house in the morning hoping that
How big is the search engine optimization industry? [infographic] Search engine optimization, or SEO, is big business. Big enough to get a mention on close to 900 million websites, and to be the focus of 164,000 YouTube videos. Spain-based internet marketing company BlueCaribu recently did a review of SEO resources online. And some of the results are astonishing. India, for example, is the nation
500 Startups Backs First Middle Eastern Startup, Jeeran, A Yelp For The Arab World Earlier this year, young venture capital fund and startup accelerator 500 Startups announced some changes that indicated its intent to move beyond adolescence into adulthood, and expand its scope beyond the U.S. The firm raised a new, bigger fund, added new partners, and increase its focus on identifying and investi
OS In The Enterprise And The Component Revolution — What Startups Need To Know Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jason van Zyl. van Zyl is the founder of the Apache Maven project, the Plexus IoC framework and the Apache Velocity project and helped establish Codehaus, a well-respected incubation facility for open-source community projects. He currently serves on the board of the Eclip
Given that we are in the middle of summer, it is not a surprise that many writers are actually taking the opportunity to step away from the computer. As a result, I had to look at sources deeper and further to find the stories that might be worth your time. So here goes. The Future of Play: The Olympics are around the corner. Baseball season in full swing — an appropriate time to think about the f
Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It’s Probably Toast When I learned this morning, via Twitter, that the small company behind Mac/iOS e-mail app Sparrow was being bought by Google, I almost didn’t need to read the startup’s announcement to know the upshot. Google and Facebook buy itty-bitty web companies all the time. And the acquired businesses typically convey what’s happ
Mobile Health Developer Azumio Acquires SkyHealth, Makers Of Top-Ranked Fitness App As smartphone adoption increases and mobile technology becomes more powerful, it’s changing the way in which people interact with health information. The popularity of health and medical apps has begun to explode, and the amount of health data along with it, much of it thanks to those increasingly wearable and user
Former Twitter Chief Scientist Abdur Chowdhury Raises $1.35M For Super-Stealthy Startup Pushd Former Twitter Chief Scientist Abdur Chowdhury is working on a new, super-stealthy project called Pushd. Details are scarce, but here’s what we know: According to an SEC filing, he’s teamed up with Summize co-founder Eric Jensen and the two have raised $1.35 million for the venture, which is based in New
Palo Alto Networks shares climbed 26% in its first day of trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares closed at $53, up from its $42 offering price.The company offered 6.3 million shares in trading. The price of the share were originally offered at range of $34 to $37. It was increased to a range of $38 to $40 earlier in the week. Palo Alto Networks has a proprietary hardware and softwar
A dress shop committed an act of unfathomable stupidity today when it tweeted that references to “Aurora,” site of the horrific theatre massacre in Colorado, were “clearly about our Kim K inspired #Aurora dress.” The insensitive tweet, which wasn’t the only one of the day, has trigged a rightful cascade of contempt that could stain the company. At the same time, the fallout from the tweet shows ho
Fox (s NEWS) has reached terms with HBO (z TWX) to relax rules in the studio’s pay TV contract limiting its distribution to cloud-based services such as Apple’s iCloud (s AAPL) and UltraViolet. Also read: Is Fox facing a blackout on iCloud and UltraViolet? A studio representative confirmed an agreement with Apple to make its films available for iTunes users to re-download previous purchases of Fox
It’s that time of year when the weather gets crazy in the U.S., with drought, flash floods, tornadoes and hurricanes. And as many consumers are discovering, there’s a new tool hitting mobile devices that lets you know when a weather emergency is in your area. In the coming months you will soon start receiving unsolicited text messages when storms hit or other natural disasters are anticipated. Her
The guys at Chubby Brain have graciously allowed Founder’s Block to repost this compendium, originally published October 3rd, of some of the best startup post-mortems from the web. We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). We want to hear about, learn from and even re
Earlier this week, online education startup Coursera said it added twelve new university partners and raised an additional $6 million. When I spoke with co-founder Andrew Ng, he mentioned that possible revenue models could involve matching students with potential employers or charging students for certificates from partner universities. But a contract between Coursera and the University of Michiga
Google Acquires Sparrow, Team To Focus on 'New Projects' “We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience,” Dom Leca, CEO of Sparrow, said in a statement on the company’s website. “Now we're joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google.” In the not
Remember when there were just two or three cloud computing platforms to choose from, and just about as many cloud databases? Well, as clouds have proliferated, so have the database services built on top of them. In fact, it’s getting hard to keep up with what’s actually available. Here’s a primer highlighting the available services (note, we’re talking managed database services, not database insta
No News Is Good News? Dropbox Says No Intrusions Found, Investigation Continues Dropbox says it hasn’t found intrusions into its internal systems or any cases of unauthorized activity in user accounts. Earlier this week, the company appeared to be suffering from what looked like a security breach. Users, mainly those based in Europe, were being sent unsolicited spam emails related to European casi
Only a few days ago, we were writing about how users of Twitter and Reddit used those networks to tell a compelling story about a mass shooting in Toronto, and now the same phenomenon is playing out in real-time during another horrific incident: a shooting at a movie theater in Colorado that has killed at least a dozen people and wounded more than 50. Although local TV news channels and CNN have b
Google Acquires iOS/Mac Email Client Sparrow, Apps To Remain Available But Development Stopped Google just acquired Sparrow, the company behind the popular iOS and OS X email client. The company’s team, says Sparrow CEO Dom Leca, will be joining Google’s Gmail team “to accomplish a bigger vision – one that we think we can better achieve with Google.” Sparrow raised a small seed round of funding fr
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
While we recommend you turn to reliable blogs and media outlets for social media marketing advice, sometimes it's best to target the source itself. That's why we've collected five official Facebook marketing tools created by the company. They'll guide your business in its quest for marketing tips, news and case studies. Who knows? You may even become inspired enough to create a completely innovati
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More After a long delay, travel search site Kayak finally started trading on the NASDAQ this morning and saw its stock jump 14 percent to $30.10. Kayak last night priced its IPO at $26, above its prior range of $23 to $25, Bloomberg reports. Trading this morning reached a high
To keep tabs on clients and competitors, many businesses rely on a handful of Google (s goog) alerts and Twitter feeds. But this is becoming harder as the digital din — in the form of social media, blogs and news sites — grows ever louder. This has led to the emergence of “listening platforms” such as Radian6 which allow companies to plug into a wealth of social media analytics to spot trends and
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