Regardless of how you participate, the important part is that you’re participating. Did you know, though, that there’s a way to do it all at once? Have you ever been to a Startup Week? I’m talking about the events hosted by Techstars, ever since they acquired UP Global and their programs. These incredibly potent events are made stronger by the Techstars name and the solid infrastructure UP Global has laid over the years....

Theranos rose to prominence thanks to its testing products that use only a fraction of the amount of blood normally required to test for diseases such as herpes. Its patented “Edison” testing device is the only machine capable of testing such samples, giving Theranos control over the market. However, thanks to several articles in high profile publications, many have called Theranos’s practices and reliability into question. A Wall Street Journal article in October 2015 accused Theranos of misleading the public about its ability to accurately test the samples it collects: The reports in The Wall Street Journal are “factually and scientifically erroneous and grounded in baseless assertions by inexperienced and disgruntled former employees and industry incumbents,” Theranos responded....

The list is part of a larger collection of 67 influential educators, which also includes influencers in education analysis, higher education, and K-12 education. Depending on whom you ask, the ed tech industry brought in $1-2 billion in VC investment in 2014. Just one segment of that industry – PreK-12, non-hardware ed tech – was worth $8.38 billion last year. Innovators have been trying to break into this space for years, and that trend won’t be changing anytime soon....

Build Culture from Day One Building a successful, supportive culture starts on day one. In fact, we believe that the first 90 days are an absolutely critical part of the employee journey. It’s during this time that you can either develop a proactive culture to help employees shine in their new positions or risk losing your new talent to poor onboarding procedures. At UrbanBound, we’re constantly working to refine our own onboarding practices to retain our new hires....

The second annual tech and music conference, MIA Music Summit, brought together entrepreneurs and musicians to talk about the latest tech innovation in the industry. Speakers included executives from Pandora, Atom Factory, and WahWah Networks, among many others. The common theme throughout the day was how technology is bringing music lovers together. From hardware devices that focus on sharing music to online platforms that enable musicians to connect with fans, the trend in the industry seems to be about creating unique experiences for users....

The South is known for a lot of things. Whether you love sweet tea, delicious barbecue, or friendly smiles, you’ll find what you’re looking for in the warmer part of the country. What you might not know is that the South has one of the most prolific ecosystems of budding startups, and we have some competing in the 2016 Startup of the Year competition at Innovate! and Celebrate next week!...

Cybersecurity Innovations Check out these cybersecurity innovations. Many startups might be able to find their niche mastering one of these technologies. Memex This is a search engine, developed by DARPA, that has the potential to allow companies to access the dark web to see if they have data that has been stolen and is for sale. Companies will be able to perform searches on a regular basis, and take action before sensitive information is sold to the highest bidder....

Services like Google Photos, Facebook Moments and Apple Photos enable everyone to easily edit and share photos. More than ever, pictures are being shared across all social media platforms and especially using the popular #TBT (ThrowbackThursday) searchable hashtag. Yet, even with the vast increase of photos shared online, estimated at more than 1.8 billion pictures each day, something is missing. There are two kinds of photos in this world: digital and analog....

There are many career paths available, covering many different areas, such as driving. Nowadays, several companies pay people who drive and perform a certain task. This article focuses on three of them, detailed below. Uber This one came to everyone’s mind, for sure. One of the world’s biggest companies, Uber completely dominates the rides market, and currently hires a huge number of drivers, with 50,000 more being hired every month....

The startup world is inherently competitive. While other startups are vying for the attention of your potential customer base, founders and employees alike are competing amongst each other to prove their worth in this dog-eat-dog world. At Innovate! and Celebrate there will be a little competition among peers as Tech.Co is holding the 4th annual Startup of the Year competition. Throughout 2016, Tech.Co held events and online competitions to find the top emerging startups around the world....

The update is expected to launch this fall, although the date hasn’t been specified; most analysts believe it will launch alongside iOS 9. This software upgrade will be free like the upgrades before this. Here’s the list of best features of Watch OS 2. Sensors and Controls The Digital Crown will include several functionalities beyond the zooming in and out attribute.Rotating the crown will let the user “Time Travel” revealing various events from the last 72 hours (or the future) on the watch face....

Knowledge.io will launch its initial coin offering (ICO) in January and its founders want to leverage the blockchain as well as testing protocol known as Knowledge Scores to see how much people truly know about a variety of topics. Those who achieve high scores can earn tokens as immediate rewards for their expertise, and the founders hope that these digital coins will eventually gain monetary value in a Knowledge marketplace....

That’s a quote from Elon University, from way back in 2006. Needless to say, the robot revolution hasn’t quite manifested. But you’d be hard pressed to tell that from a quick tour of CES 2020, where the future still seems as robotic as ever. Robots, and the artificial intelligence that powers them, have taken some great strides in the past few years (literal strides, in some cases). But the AI advancements that have the biggest impact tend to quietly insert themselves into your life....

With 8 out of the top 10 schools are planted on American soil, it’s likely that you’ll recognize a few of the entries. Even more impressive, 43 out of the top 100 universities are based in the US. For years, the US has dominated this study, which is an invitation-only opinion survey of 10,000 top scholars around the world. The remaining 2 schools in the top 10 were just across the pond in the UK....

The Top Fifteen High-Level Methodology This is the second year we have been a media partner for the startup accelerator ranking project, which was kicked off by Aziz Gilani from DFJ Mercury and executed in partnership with Kristen Kamath, a second-year MBA candidate at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University under the guidance of Professor Yael Hochberg of Kellogg and the National Bureau of Economic Research. The project’s goal was to help startups choose an accelerator and generate discussion about what makes a good accelerator....

Knowing that the national news would take some time to pick up the story, I turned to Twitter with a quick search: #earthquake. Sure enough, as the news reeled in, it was obvious that there had indeed been an earthquake. People started making jokes, or they were concerned about a possible tsunami, and a barrage of tweets from fellow Melbournians filled the stream. This is the beauty of Twitter. Its one flaw, however, is that you cannot see what is happening....

Working with the team at Keyhole, TechCo was able to analyze terms associated with both the inauguration and Women’s March using their hashtag analytics tool. To ensure the analysis contained a proper context, the data for each grouping started on the day of the event and the day following. Kicking off at 12:01 AM ET on January 20, the day of the inauguration, running through end-of-day on January 21, Keyhole identified 8....

For its Top Gun Rural Accelerator Network, MCED was awarded a 3-year grant of $390,000. They will use the new funds to expand the program. According to the official release, the Top Gun program has grown over the past six years to accelerate commercialization in the rural Maine economy. As part of the expansion efforts, the program will add new on-ramps and off-ramps, including two Lewiston-Auburn, and connections with USM, Biddeford, and immigrant entrepreneurs....

For starters, the US dollar had a narrow brush with destiny at the beginning of the year since its foreign exchange value suddenly lowered. In order to set the dollar back on track, the Obama administration announced new job openings in America alone, which quickly brought back the lost interest of investors in the dollar. Today, according to predictions by Daily Forex, the dollar might face a few hindrances further on, but it will not be unsure of the course businesses must take hereafter, since increasing jobs is the only way out to bring back stability....

That’s why Kirti Chitnis, Manish Chitnis, and Arthur Leung founded Digmybrand. It’s a 360-degree review platform where job candidates can provide insightful, well-rounded professional feedback from their network on their skills and values. This feedback is anonymous to allow you to be candid and get to the truth. They said, “We live in a world where we don’t pick a restaurant without checking reviews, so why not have something for people?...