Unlike any mobile browser you may be familiar with, the Adrenaline Browser has opened the floodgates for new ideas, concepts, and designs to flourish on the smartphone. The Valkyrie Systems team seeks to separate their browser from the rest of the pack with a number of native features built in. Sam King, Shuo Tang, and Haohui…
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“Making the effort to be neat and organized is wasted unless you can easily find what you have organized,” CEO and cofounder of SafelyFiled Mark Snow explains. “After all, that’s the real purpose of organization.” Staying organized in real life is difficult, but trying to maintain control over a flood of documents on a cloud…
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One week after overindulging at Thanksgiving dinner – and then again on the leftovers – the gym has been calling us, but how many of us are answering? If you’re finding it particularly hard to get to the gym this holiday season, Fitsby may be the app for you. Fitsby motivates you to go to…
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I can remember my first bicycle quite vividly. It was a hand-me-down, cherry red and clunky (a bike is only as good as it’s rider). Because it was a single-speed, any route that involved hills, specifically the kind that slope upward, translated loosely to terror. Needless to say, my Super Nintendo often took priority over going for…
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What do you do after teaching in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for 32 years, publishing numerous articles, papers and books, and receiving 18 patents – with multiple patents pending? Oh, and you already founded 2 successful companies? You start another company, of course. Rich Masel, CEO and…
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What is the Internet? Ask a nerd, and you’ll likely get some elaborate answer about networks, protocols, and Al Gore. I believe the explanation can be boiled down to one word: information. The Internet is information. It’s everything you ever needed to know about anything, plus cat videos. So why then are we still taking…
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At Tuesday night’s Tech Cocktail Champaign Mixer event, we had the unique opportunity to showcase 5 startups that are so early stage they are still in either conceptual or research mode. Thanks to the University of Illinois’s focus on engineering and science at their Urbana-Champaign campus, 4 of these startups are very hard science-focused. Here…
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“We’ll figure it out later.” That’s how some startups, who might be breaking laws or regulations, decide to deal with it. We’re so tiny that no one will care, right? If you want to err on the side of caution, take a few minutes to sign up for TrakBill. Designed for lobbyists, this new service…
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Urbana, IL’s Zero Percent is tackling a problem that’s already been accepted as the norm: food waste. “As standard business practice, U.S. restaurants waste over $10 billion a year —Literally. When faced with the chore of trying to find use of excess fresh-food inventory, the easiest thing for a restaurant manager to do is just…
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We are excited to be back in Champaign, IL for our 2nd Tech Cocktail Champaign Mixer event. While all of our events are unique thanks to any one city’s unique community mix of academia, established startups, investors, and mentors, Champaign’s startup scene sets itself apart thanks to its proximity to the University of Illinois at…
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For many people, getting a tattoo is a way of expressing culture, membership or rebellion. In the near future, tattoos may be used to communicate, entertain and help us heal. Scientists at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, along with colleagues at other institutions in the U.S., Singapore and China, have developed technology that integrates the…
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Just a few hours ago in Chicago, over 100 of Illinois’s up-and-coming entrepreneurs gathered for the unveiling of the new Illinois Innovation Network. Among the announcements were the creation of Startup Illinois and the formation of the Illinois Innovation Network, both efforts to support and accelerate growth of Illinois’ high-growth entrepreneurs. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn…
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Whether you hate electronics shopping (guilty!) or are just super-crunched for time, Cazoodle’s recently launched local Shopping Search service can help you quickly find exactly what you are searching for at stores near you. And you’ll be able to find the best price from more than 2,000 merchants. Cazoodle provides real-time inventory information (somewhat reminiscent of Goodzer),…
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Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would be fun to do a quick poll. While Chicago has birthed a number of start-ups over the years from 37signals and Threadless and SitterCity to Feedburner and Groupon, we wanted…
Read MoreTech Cocktail is in Champaign, Illinois tonight, showcasing 6 awesome startups. The event is on the University of Illinois campus, just across the street from the research park and nearby an entire host of high tech companies. As we’ve mentioned before, Champaign is home to Wolfram Alpha and it also houses some of the fastest supercomputers the world….
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Everyday, people are posting social media messages, photos and videos, loading the Internet with their own personal “social breadcrumbs”. With all this data out there floating around, there’s a lot of interest in how it can be utilized. Products like PeopleBrowsr, Rapleaf and qwerly help brands, companies and marketers sift through the data. Radian6, also…
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