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Year: 2014
In “Startupland”, Startup Life Is Full of Risk, but the Entrepreneurial Dream Is Possible
Creating and running a startup isn’t all glamour and glitz, although emerging technologies have made starting a business somewhat easier. But it’s not like it was straight out of a fictional Hollywood movie where there’s a happy ending involved — in most cases, this isn’t the case with companies in the real world. Many often […]
10 Interesting Startups To Watch In 2015
As we wrap up another year on this planet, people have begun reminiscing on what has gone on in the past twelve months and whether they should look back at it with longing regret or praise over their accomplishments. The same could be said about the world of technology and startups. For the past couple of years, […]
Uber’s Controversies Highlight A Growing Transformation of Its Utopian Vision To One of Chaos
The word “disruption” has been thrown around in the tech industry rather nonchalantly over the past few years. The dictionary defines it as: “a disturbance or problems that interrupt an event, activity, or process.” And one company that has come up time and time again as the epitome of this phenomenon is Uber, the private […]
Revel Systems Teams With Intuit On New Point-of-Sale With QuickBooks Online Support, Coming In 2015
Fresh off its $100 million Series C fundraising round, Revel Systems has announced a new partnership. At a soiree in San Francisco on Monday, the point-of-sale (POS) maker company’s co-founders disclosed that it is now partnering with Intuit and unveiled its new online iPad POS solution called QuickBooks Point of Sale powered by Revel Systems. It won’t be […]
Throwing Out The Script: How Relationships Can Help Marketers Shape The Digital Age
Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Email, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Tumblr, WordPress, and YouTube … all tools belonging to the world of social media. For marketers and those in the communication space, these are services that we’re looking out for because it’s going to help spread our message to as many people as possible. But for a few marketers, […]
“The Burned-Out Blogger’s Guide” Is A Must-Read For PR Pros & Journalists To Create Good News
In my short, but rather busy life as a reporter for The Next Web, I’ve had many encounters with people involved in the public relations game. And while there were certainly good ones, sadly there were a small group that wasn’t up to par. Now, I’ll admit that I’m not a seasoned veteran like many […]
Echo’s New DIY Studio Service Aims To Enable Users To Create Branded Social Media ‘Experiences’
Social media engagement is certainly a program many brands and publishers have included in their marketing and public relations arsenal. However, for some, finding the right balance to create a proper environment that is seamless and native can be rather difficult. Does a business seek out developers to find ways to bring in feeds from […]
In A Post-Alibaba IPO World, Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Honeymoon Is Definitely Over
We’re on the eve of what many could describe as the biggest IPO in history. Chinese e-commerce service Alibaba is gearing up to go public and it’s expected to on Friday in a move that analysts predict will see the company raising $24.3 billion. That amount alone propels Alibaba to the upper echelons of the public […]
Transforming the Box: Aaron Levie’s Mission to Show It’s More Than Storing Files in the Cloud
The world of cloud storage has certainly heated up over the past couple of years, let alone months. Nary, a day goes by when we’re probably reading news about the latest service to increase storage capacity. Just this summer, Microsoft did that with its OneDrive service, giving free account holders 15GB of storage and 1TB […]
An Amazon Ad Platform Could Threaten Google’s Dominance
Just a little more than a decade ago, an entrepreneur named Jeff Bezos started a company called Cadabra. It quickly became rebranded as Amazon focused on Web commerce. For the past few years, though, it’s been slowly evolving to a point where it’s becoming more media-focused and today is showing signs that it’s ready to […]
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