Capitan is a smart shopping app developed by Artur Kiulian and his team that tracks your location and shopping habits to learn more about you and suggest items – via notification sent to iPhone or Apple Watch – you usually buy (and are on your shopping list) when you are near a store. The shopping list is at the core of Capitan: It needs your input to make it work, but it’s very easy, thanks to a nice, user-friendly UI....

The image of India has changed from being a center of outsourced business processes to driving growth and progress through entrepreneurship. When I lived in India a few decades ago, the dream job for people (and their parents) was to get a government job or become a doctor or engineer. Today, it seems more and people are looking at startup entrepreneurship as a pathway to their success. I met several entrepreneurs at the Toozio-Insight talk I gave on July 9th in Bangalore on “Entrepreneurs – Network Your Way to Success....

Ubo is a Beijing based valet parking app that is trying to help drivers who need to park in the city. They recently raised $900K to put towards their efforts. This funding round was led by HGDS Capital and will be used to expand Ubo’s operations to include all of downtown Beijing, as well as all hospitals and airports that service the city. The Ubo app, which is available for both iOS and Android, will first direct you to an Ubo service station....

Jason Saltzman – the cofounder of Alley – created the co-working space to give entrepreneurs both the tech and mentorship support needed to build a successful venture. “It is not just networking, it is focusing on meaningful relationships. The biggest value proposition to being part of this type of community is the support you get from the people within the community,” says Saltzman. “Coffee shops do not focus on that, they focus on coffee....

In accordance with this model, large corporations will often bring in talent from outside IT contracting agencies in order to perform datacenter administration build outs and management tasks. When you perform your job as a contractor in a corporate datacenter, it is important to adhere to best practices taught by leading IT training programs while following some of the more basic service level agreements that are generally accepted as being the industry normal....

“Facebook is for friends, LinkedIn for business relationships, and Couple St. supports the most important relationship of your life,” said CEO Kamel Zeroual in a news release. “Couple St. is about sharing with your partner. Your couple is not like any other relationship, and as such it deserves a special means of communication.” Couple St.’s private space allows couples to let loose and share anything they want with their partner in a secure way....

Let’s say you’re ready to create your first crowdfunding project. You’ve already got an active following on social networks, and your website traffic is buzzing. Why not host a crowdfunding effort on your website? Actually, there are several disadvantages to hosting your crowdfunding efforts in your own digital space. And they can all keep your first project from getting the exposure and financial support it needs. Leading the Crowd As an entrepreneur, you’re used to doing things your way — and doing them well....

Two startups, CUJO and In & Motion came away victorious after showcasing their innovative technologies in downtown Las Vegas for entrepreneurs, investors, and CES attendees. These two companies, while focusing on the importance of protection, have taken very different approaches to keeping people safe in their pursuit of startup success. CUJO and In&motion are now the first two startups to be entered in Tech.Co’s Startup of the Year competition, which culminates at Innovate!...

In a recent 2014 survey conducted by the Acquity Group, 69 percent of consumers plan to buy an in-home Internet of Things device (whether that be a smart thermostat, security camera system, or otherwise) sometime in the next five years. As immediately as next year (2015), it’s estimated that approximately 13 percent of consumers in the United States will own at least one such device in their homes; however, based on the more than 2,000 consumers surveyed for the study, it’s estimated that only a mere 4 percent of consumers currently own an IoT device in their home....

Utilizing social networks with geo-location data (including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, and Google+), the SocialRadar app enables users to discover whether someone within their network is nearby and provides information on how you’re connected and whether you have any shared interests. While location-based social discovery isn’t a new concept (think Highlight or Sonar), Chasen claims that SocialRadar offers something that other apps in this market have failed to provide: real-time updates on only the people most relevant to you and people with whom you would have an interest in interacting based on your current network (whether that be work colleagues, college buddies, or friends of friends)....

Headquartered in the Crystal Tech Fund, the Arlington, VA-based company has disrupted the conference call experience by creating a visual conference platform that utilizes customized URLs (e.g., speek.com/ronaldiscool) as opposed to having to deal with dialing in and putting in a PIN number. From anywhere in the world and from any device, people can join in on any call by simply clicking on the URL. The addition of screen sharing capability allows Speek to compete against companies like WebEx which offers similar features, but currently charges $50 per month, per user; Speek for Business costs organizations less than half of that amount at $19 per month, per user....

And when Facebook cited those two facts in a recent blog post, it was to highlight their latest feature, which connects marketers to influencers through the social media giant. It might be surprising, then, to hear that some fear this move could be more harmful to micro-influencers than it is helpful. What harm could result from connecting marketers to Facebook’s over-two-billion-users-strong social network? I’m glad you asked. What Do These New Features Mean?...

The actual number is a massive 59.7 percent, and that’s just the ones that admitted to it in a recent study. That wasn’t the only surprising fact in a recent Insurance Quotes survey of 900 employees across 12 industries: It turns out that the technology sector topped the list of industries that are most likely to find office romances perfectly acceptable. But to some who have followed the tech industry’s lengthy and slow-paced grapple with sexual harassment and discrimination, that fact might be a little less surprising....

But as a retailer or ecommerce business owner, you probably don’t get as excited. Sure, launching promos and special deals can bring you more traffic, but is the dip in your profit margins really worth it? Plus, an over-reliance on sales and deals could negatively impact your brand by exclusively attracting shoppers who are never willing to pay full price. If you want to avoid these ecommerce pitfalls, give the next four approaches some thought before launching your next big sale....

Movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Terminator have done more than enough to make everyday citizens wary of artificial intelligence. But if you’re actually worried about what it’s capable of in the modern age, I’ve got some news for you: calm down; artificial intelligence is still pretty stupid. A Knack for Language As we found out earlier this year, the phrase, “computers are creating their own language” strikes fear into the hearts of technophobes around the globe....

The Vegas Tech Fund is a seed stage investment fund focused on investing in founders and startups solving huge problems – who are also committed to building a vibrant, connected tech community in downtown Las Vegas. The fund is lead by Andy White, who moved to Vegas to lead the fund after successfully anchoring the BoomStartup accelerator in Salt Lake City (BoomStartup was ranked in last year’s accelerator rankings). Rather then creating yet another accelerator program, the fund looks to create a city and community that can act as an incubator and also invest in companies who share that vision and want to build on it....

Dubbed the Ehang 184, this four-propellor drone looks like a much larger version of the personal UAVs that have become so popular in recent years. It will be able to transport one person and a small carry-on bag weighing a total of up to 220 pounds, according to Ehang. The electric-powered vehicle will be able to travel for 23 minutes at sea-level, but for only 10 minutes at higher heights....

Social media has been free since its inception, which has helped the innovative medium to gain billions of followers around the world. But now, it would appear the tides are officially turning, as Twitter is poised to launch its first paid-for plan in its more-than-a-decade-long history. Here’s everything we know about the premium service from Twitter so far. There’s no two ways about it; this move is obviously so Twitter can make money....

But it has spurred backlash as well, thanks to three troubling facts: FaceApp’s policy offers little data privacy, the company is based in Russia, and it captures its users’ photos in the cloud. The writer of one tweet that kickstarted the uproar has already apologized for a misleading claim that the app harvested your details without explicit permission. The app doesn’t upload every single photo on users’ phones; Just the ones that they select and allow....

“Just like all 17 year olds, I enjoyed partying and staying in the loop of what was going on but was often overwhelmed by the amount of information out there. Nothing is personalized and current platforms don’t know you,” says Gomez, of when he moved to San Francisco as a teenager to intern at a venture capital firm and first came up with the idea for Fever. He saw this gap in the market as the opportunity to create a platform that curated content for users and their friends....