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InnovateVMS startups report $43 million in 2012 revenue
Phyllis Ellison, executive director, Innovate Venture Mentoring Service Innovate Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS) last night celebrated its sixth birthday and released an annual report that tracks the progress of the companies the organization has mentored. The mentor group is part of the non-profit Innovate St. Louis and has actively mentored 187 companies since its inception. The event last ...
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10 things Martha Stewart taught me about business
We also found out at Tuesday's Face 2 Face event that Martha Stewart is a bit of techie but knows its limits. Read more here. Earlier this week as part of the ABJs Face 2 Face event series, I spent an hour with Martha Stewart talking almost exclusively about business. This is an entrepreneur who has amassed a reported net worth of $638 million as she has built one of the worlds most ...
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Twitter Rolls Out Account Security
has announced a two-factor authentication system it says will protect users' accounts from being hacked even if someone has obtained their password. Under the system, Twitters users will need both their password and a verification code sent to them as a text message on their mobile phone, SlashGear reported Wednesday. Users will need to enable the feature by going into their Account ...
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Internet Explorer uses its ongoing Vine series to tease future WebGL support
Windows 8.1 provided a pretty strong clue that Microsoft intends to support WebGL in Internet Explorer 11, but so far the software giant has stayed silent on such matters. However, a new Vine clip -- part of an on-going series titled "Not your Father's Browser" -- drops a pretty big hint that WebGL (Web Graphics Library) support is definitely on its ...
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In battle against hackers like the Syrian Electronic Army Twitter introduces extra security measures
With the microblogging site's new "two-factor authentication," users can choose heightened security. It will send users who opt in a text message when they try to sign in, containing a code which they will then submit, confirming that they are the rightful users of the account.The changes were announced on the site's official blog, and come after a series of high-profile ...
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GameStops mobile digital sales rise earnings drop
GameStop reported an increase in digital and mobile sales but a decrease in earnings during its first quarter. GameStop Corp. reported a jump mobile and digital sales during its first quarter, but the companys earnings and sales of new software and hardware are still on the decline. The Grapevine-based gaming company reported a 290 percent increase in mobile sales of $46.8 million during its ...
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The Myth of Content Marketing the New SEO Penguin 2.0
"What Should Lead Your Online Marketing Strategy: SEO or Content". "Why Content Marketing is the New SEO". "Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO?" "Content Marketing is the New SEO " These are actual titles from article in the top search results for [content marketing and ...
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Kim Dotcom threatens to sue Twitter others over patent
The controversial MegaUpload founder claims he holds the patent for two-factor authentication and all he wants from the tech companies is money for his ...
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Amazon expands Kindle Fire sales to 170 countries
Amazon.com Inc. said its Kindle Fire tablets are now available for preorder in more than 170 countries, with its app store online in nearly 200, PCWorld reports. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping the lower-priced tablets, the strongest challenge yet ...
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Forerun teams up with BIDMC to remedy patient chart chaos
Forerun founders include, from left, Dr. Larry Nathanson, informatics director in the emergency room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Dr. Jason Tracy, an emergency room supervisor; and Mark Chalek, technology ventures officer at the hospital. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has been working with engineers at Forerun Inc. to find a way to make the flow of patient charts more ...
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Patels firm acquires Novel Infosolutions
Tanveer Patel's company Concert Care has acquired an Indian company called Novel Infosolutions. A small and still relatively new Birmingham firm created to help more modest-sized medical practices improve operations will significantly grow its team and services this year with the acquisition of another firm from Chennai, India. Entrepreneur Tanveer Patel, the CEO of Concert Care, told me ...
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Apple Amazon Google targeted in European tax probe
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., testifies at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in Washington. European leaders on Wednesday met to discuss how global firms such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have managed to pay nearly no taxes on sales revenue generated on the continent, the Mercury News reports. The meeting took place as the U.S. Senate this week looked ...
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NoWait unveils digital restaurant floor map
NoWait raised $2 million in 2012, led by local venture capital firm Birchmere Ventures. Now the company is branching out with a digital floor map for restaurants. Uptown startup NoWait is reaching further into restaurant management beyond its marquee wait list tool. The company unveiled NoWait Floor Map, a free app that allows restaurants to track how many people have been in the restaurant and ...
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The bright new world of electric paint
>London (CNN) -- Imagine if you could paint a working light switch directly onto your wall, without any need for sockets, cables or wiring. A group of students from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London has made that possible by creating electrically conductive paint. The paint acts as a form of liquid wiring. Unlike conventional wires, it can be applied to almost any surface, including ...
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Rumor Apples iWatch pushed back to 2014
Apple Inc.'s smart watch won't launch until the second half of 2014 because of both hardware and software issues, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. New rumors today about Apple's supposed smart watch. An analyst with KGI Securities says he believes the device won't launch until the second half of 2014 because of both hardware and software issues. In a note, ...
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Facebooks identity problem Teens hate a permanent record
Video: If your life is Facebook, then you'll love the new Facebook 'phone' Given that rightly or wrongly we often associate social media with youth, it sounds strange. But far from being counterintuitive, these new signs of a teen exodus from the social network make a lot of sense. Certainly, there is growing concern about privacy, "drama" or the distraction of such a ...
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Report Facebook threat prompts cops to remove Seminole student from school bus
Winter Springs High student was taken off his school bus Thursday after making a threat on Facebook, wesh.com is reporting. The teenager posted some type of threat about students at his school with a picture of a gun on his social media account, the television station said. Details surrounding the threat are not yet known, but a gun was not found on the bus, wesh.com ...
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Using Multipliers Effectively in AdWords
Since the switch to enhanced campaigns AdWords has become a system of overlapping targets and multipliers. When Google announced Enhanced Campaigns they said that mobile device bids would now be controlled by a multiplier on the base bid. Leaving aside the argument of which level (campaign, ad group or keyword) this multiplier should be set at, it hints at a major shift in AdWords and how ...
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Netflix brings back the Bluths in new Arrested Development season
With that moment of dizzy romance, the fourth season of cult television comedy "Arrested Development" begins its comeback on Internet video streaming service Netflix on Sunday, some seven years after getting the axe on broadcast ...
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Heres the 5-year-old whose pitch won over 20 VCs
This is 5-year-old Rhett, who is being treated for acute leukemia and made a special pitch that convinced more than 20 VCs to auction themselves for a lunch to benefit the Bay Area Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Click here to watch his video, "Dear Mr. VC." Your average Silicon Valley VC probably hears hundreds of pitches a month but none more effective than this one made by a ...
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“Facebook Phone” HTC First Won’t Be Sold In The UK Rumor
Mobile News reports that pre-orders for the HTC First in the UK have been canceled. Those who were hoping to get ahold of a ';Facebook Phone'; will now have to settle for one of the preexisting Android devices that support Home. Interestingly enough, it seems that the decision to cancel the HTC First launch in the UK was made by Facebook. An anonymous source speaking to Mobile News ...
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Kim Dotcom mulls suing Twitter Google Facebook
Facebook for infringing copyright on a security measure he invented. Dotcom, who is on bail in New Zealand as US authorities seek his extradition in the world's biggest copyright case, said he invented "two-factor authentication", which many major sites have adopted as a security ...
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BizNext 7 things you need to know 05.23.13
Your cellphone provider is selling everything they know about you, including your locations, where your travel and your Web-browsing habits. Startup America is merging with Startup Weekend to promote entrepreneurship. The combined organizations will be known as Up Global and is being funded by the Case Foundation, Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and others. Twitter has finally rolled out its ...
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Rental startup Flightcar lands in Boston eyes more airports
Flightcar, co-founded by CEO Rujul Zaparde, is opening its second car-sharing location at Boston's Logan International Airport in time for Memorial Day weekend. Vehicle-sharing startup Flightcar is opening its second location, Boston, just in time for Memorial Day weekend and plans to be at up to five airports by year's end. But CEO Rujul Zaparde told me this week that he and teen ...
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Coming up 3D printing for Bootstrappers
The Bootstrapper's Breakfast happens on the fourth Friday of every month in Mountain View. The talk at the monthly Bootstrappers Breakfast Meetup in Mountain View this week is about how to leverage 3D printing for startup and small businesses. Paul Spann of Spann Enterprises, a longtime mechanical engineer at various Silicon Valley tech companies, is making the presentation. He believes that ...
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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