Startup

Chicago

By Frank Gruber | Jun 27, 2017 at 7:20 pm

Just over ten years ago, Mike Evans and Matt Maloney were trying to get their idea for a new startup off the ground to enable you to order food from your computer. That idea was GrubHub which took off with the launch of mobile…

Trends

By Sandeep Das | Jun 27, 2017 at 6:30 pm

Savvy marketers know that they need to keep up on the latest digital marketing trends within their industry, but outside of marketing circles there’s often a lack of awareness about how important it is to stay current with the marketing trends—digital marketing is changing…

Healthy Entrepreneur

By Brian Zeng | Jun 27, 2017 at 5:00 pm

Becoming an entrepreneur can be liberating. The freedom from pre-set deadlines and goals, the power to transform your vision the way you want to and set your own rules are highly emancipating factors. Yearning for a lifestyle that is not bound to the conventional…

Startups & Apps

By Conor Cawley | Jun 27, 2017 at 3:50 pm

Pope Francis is no stranger to innovative ideas. In addition to being a constant advocate for the combination of tech and faith, he also sent his social media guru to SXSW to discuss the importance of being open minded to new technologies in an…

Trends

Palo Alto

By Adam Rowe | Jun 27, 2017 at 2:30 pm

Last year’s biggest social media platform agenda was to push video. Large swaths of people are moving to internet video from TV, and video commercials make more money than text ads. But the actual opportunity was limited, and with every single service getting into…

Aeronautics

DC

By Tishin Donkersley | Jun 27, 2017 at 1:30 pm

There are more players in the race to deliver travelers from one destination to the next in supersonic speed. Boom, the supersonic aircraft company recently announced a Series A $33M investment as well as their partnership with Sir Richard Branson to complete development production…

Gear & Gadgets

Boston

By Elliot Volkman | Jun 27, 2017 at 12:20 pm

On December 15, 2009 MIT attended the United Nations Climate Conference and unveiled perhaps one of the most hyped pieces of tech to hit bicycles in ages: the Copenhagen Wheel. Now, nearly a decade later, the concept that went from viral success to the…

Gear & Gadgets

By Conor Cawley | Jun 27, 2017 at 11:30 am

While the world depends on it more than clean drinking water, the everyday user still knows almost nothing about their home WiFi. Even with routers in millions of homes around the world, people rarely take a vested interest in what their internet connectivity is…

Security

By Adam Rowe | Jun 27, 2017 at 10:50 am

The security sector is a male-dominated industry: Right now, just 11 percent of the world’s information security workforce are women, while at the same time, more than 200,000 U.S. security positions remain unfilled. Could boosting the profiles of current female security professionals help by changing…

Business

By Conor Cawley | Jun 27, 2017 at 9:20 am

In 2016, Uber was on top of the world. As the most valuable private company in anyone’s portfolio, the company that pushed ride-sharing into the mainstream was on everyone’s phone, raking in more money than you can count on ten billion hands. Their meteoric rise…

Tips & How To’s

Irvine

By Chip Espinoza | Jun 27, 2017 at 8:30 am

The growing development of social media, smartphones and big data analytics are changing the world of online retail. Companies must alternate between the quickly-changing habits of those in touch with technology trends, while also remaining accessible and functional to customers still relying on older…

Incubators

Baltimore

By Emma Peck | Jun 27, 2017 at 7:15 am

Darius Graham is the Director of the Social Innovation Lab (SIL) at Johns Hopkins University and a startup ecosystem builder in Baltimore, MD. His focus at SIL is to provide mentorship and coaching to startups to help them reach their milestones. This time for…

Productivity

By Nate Vickery | Jun 26, 2017 at 6:30 pm

A bit more than two decades ago, company owners or “bosses” used to have a lady as a secretary who answered landline phones all day and neatly wrote messages and appointments in her textbook. Nowadays, we have “traditional” virtual assistants (VA) that are actually…

Marketing

Seattle

By Timothy Carter | Jun 26, 2017 at 5:00 pm

Online authority is a powerful concept in the world of online marketing, both as a general idea and as a specific application in the field of search engine optimization (SEO). As a general concept, it should be pretty straightforward, the more “authority” you have…