The thing that people have is not a difference in amount of time it is the number of tasks that they have to conduct. For instance many working parents have to grapple with dropping their children off at school and picking them up. There is the part where they have to prepare them for school while at the same time trying to organize their day’s tasks over the phone. It is a really busy life for a majority of people....

Fast forward a few months later, and Drone World got hold of the Phantom 4 to modify and refine it even further. Dubbed the Falcon, it can now fly even further due to the FireBridge Technology remote while packaging it with almost every accessory under the sun. Between Drone World’s modifications and DJI’s already great offering for the Phantom 4, we had a sneaking suspicious that the Falcon Kit would not only be perfect for consumers, but an investment for those looking to use drones for film and video....

Well, there’s a startup equivalent to that: working 9- or 10- or 11-hour days and then feeling lazy for stopping because all your peers seem to be hustle, hustle, hustle. Because for every founder tweeting about their 3 am coding marathon, you feel like you should be doing more. For every profile about long hours and late nights and no sleep, your efforts seem ordinary in comparison. I wrote an article last year about entrepreneurs’ work hours and there was huge variety – everything from your exhausting 12+ hour days to what I’d call a “normal day....

Why, though? Why didn’t it last for months, or stick around for an entire calendar year? Jason Neubauer thinks it has something to do with the fact that social media is disconnected and doesn’t offer a central hub for challenges to call home. According to him, it turns what should be the main event into a fleeting moment, but that’s why he started Challenged. The platform was officially launched for iOS today and was built to be the hub Neubauer saw as absent on social media....

How did you get involved in the e-commerce industry?I have been involved in the web industry since the mid 1990’s. My first digital agency focused more closely on backend technology and transactional web development. When I started Ai in 2002, I brought this transactional expertise to the company. The other Ai co-founder, Josh Levine, Chief Experience Officer, comes from the user experience and graphic design side of the business. The combination of our personal talents–my focus on transactional development and Josh’s on user experience design–quickly compelled a very natural service offering for e-commerce companies....

The whole focus of Home is to put your friends as the center of your mobile experience, an experience that until recently was only done on mobile devices through Facebook apps and the mobile web. Home is not an app or an operating system but more like a plugin that is a hybrid of the two. It is more ever-present than an application and sits on top of your operating system to give you more instant access to your Facebook feed, of which Facebook is calling Cover....

To date Fashion Metric has raised a total of $1.4 million featuring previous investments by both Mark Cuban and Techstars. However, the current bout of funding will be used to build the Austin, Texas based team while continuing the development of their product lineup. The big data SaaS platform for apparel retailers and brands helps gather intelligence about customers so that the shopping experience both online and in-store might be personalized....

Mature a little, though, and both kids and startups start to understand. Teenagers get growing pains, sure, but so too do fast-growing, young companies. By racing too fast out of the starting gate, startups can run the risk of running out of cash. Some find that high growth is just too expensive. Big bets on economy-of-scale improvements to cost-efficiency may turn out to be busts. A check of the finances might uncover slim chances of raising more capital – and a high chance of diving into the red....

The new rules were announced alongside other pledges to expand internet access to rural areas of the US, where citizens only have access to poor broadband coverage at present. The changes will affect millions of consumers, but businesses who’ve gone remote, and now rely on data-intensive tools such as web conferencing services for their livelihoods, will also welcome the modifications to the law. What Will the Proposals Force ISPs to do?...

Well, today the final verdict came in, and it’s official: Uber gets to stay. Finally, after an incredibly time consuming and energy draining battle, Uber has set up shop in Las Vegas and will begin serving their users immediately. The team released the news in a blog post today, telling us that it will work the exact same way it would in any other city that has Uber. They also detailed some estimates of what different fares around the city might look like:...

That’s where WellBe comes in. While technology exists to track your heart rate and other medical signals of stress, there’s never been a comprehensive way to determine when, where and how. But with the WellBe device, you can change that. The small electronic wearable attaches to your wrist and tracks your heart rate throughout the day and connects with your location, your schedule, and your calendar (with your permission, of course)....

Reasons Certain startups have gained a reputation for being a boy’s club, especially those in the tech sector. Harassment of any kind shouldn’t be tolerated especially if it is sexual/gender harassment, as it can be a nightmarish scenario for an employee and could result in a drop in productivity. Apart from financial reasons, the morale of the company as a whole will decrease, especially if a certain group is being harassed whether it is the men or the women....

You must pay attention to some essentials in order to accomplish that task. Have a persuasive landing page. Write a compelling sales copy. Organize a smooth checkout process. This last one is especially important — carrying your customers from first to the last step without them clicking away is no easy task. However, many business owners tend to overlook checkout process, deciding to pay more attention to the first two marketing pillars....

In other words, Twitter prioritizes engagement solely for engagement’s sake, above the actual value or impact of that engagement. It’s a flaw, and one that the massive social platform Facebook dives headfirst into as well. The tech solutions are obvious, but unless the higher-ups are forced to reshape their platforms, we’ll keep promoting reactionaries beyond the atttention they’d otherwise receive, and far beyond what they deserve. Anger Boosts Engagement The new New York University study took a look at “ratioed” tweets, a term for when the direct retweets of a tweet (affirming the sentiment of the tweet) are outnumbered by the comments and quote-tweets (typically opposing that sentiment)....

Google Meet is already one of the most widely used web conferencing services on the market, but this new feature could make it an even more attractive proposition to bosses who suspect staff might be faking technical glitches to get out of meetings. Google’s Bandwidth Tracker From now, Google Workspace admins will be able to track the bandwidth of all meeting participants from when they join the call to when they hang up....

The update also lets meeting hosts monitor call attendance by checking the RSVP status of attendees through their meeting screen — leaving little wiggle room for tardy or absent workers. With Google Meet releasing a ‘bandwidth tracker‘ earlier in the year, which lets admins see if participants are faking a bad connection, it’s clear the web conferencing solution is taking employee accountability seriously. Below we break down everything you need to know about Google’s new call feature....

Has Microsoft delivered? For some of the products, it’s a definite yes. The Surface Pro X and Laptop 3 feel like truly desirable products that you’d love to have on your desk. The Surface Pro 7? Well, it’s fine – but it’s barely a departure from the rest of the series. Sadly, Microsoft’s more radical upcoming products – the double screen Neo and Duo phone and tablet – weren’t on display....

Mr. Ek was born on this day in 1983 in Sweden, and he got his entrepreneurial start at the young age of 14 in 1997. To Ek, there were a lot of interesting problems all over the world that needed solving and he felt that he had to do it himself. Some of his earlier ventures include Advertigo, a company that was bought by TradeDoubler, as well as the Nordic auction company Tradera which was later acquired by Ebay....

Reed is the former CTO of Obama for America. When putting together his team for the campaign, he knew that it was important for him to bring in only the most talented people. “In 2012…we [knew we] had to build these big, great [technology tools and platforms]…we had to have real technologists do real technology,” said Reed. He brought on 40 engineers and over 120 tech staff – ten times as many as those in 2008 – and it obviously paid off handsomely for the campaign (I mean…Obama’s in his second term)....

And for New York City, where entrepreneurs have access to a plethora of startup support systems and programs, it’s vital that they are able to find ones that cater to their specific needs. Grand Cental Tech, a New York City-based accelerator, is looking to change the way that New York City startups and entrepreneurs get the support they need to push them to success. Instead of giving investments to rising startups, Grand Central Tech focuses on providing free space in their coworking offices for a year, including other networking elements....