However, a problem arises when people wanted to view this popular content on something larger than their tiny smartphones. While Chromecast and AirPlay have provided a means of connecting with televisions, a more comprehensive means of streaming your favorite content is necessary to bridge the gap. SRFR makes all that mass-produced consumer content easy watch on large screens, by developing an app, available for iOS and Android, that makes the connection between mobile devices and smart TVs as seamless as possible....

Digg was at the front of the social media curve, gaining mass-audience before either Facebook or Twitter were prominent, helping build new media sites like TechCrunch and Mashable by driving traffic and creating a new model for social news sharing. Digg had huge social capital, traffic and funding. At the time, Digg had options to sell, and as a venture backed company, that is the route they would need to eventually go, unless they were planning to IPO....

Any early-stage founders looking for the data, tools, and services that can help their entrepreneurial journey should comb through the site, which they can find here. The site can be broken down into three sections: Tools, Best Practices, and Community. The bottom of each page offers similar pages, allowing you to leapfrog through a series of informative posts. Featured items include Google Hire, a recruiting application that “helps organizations efficiently identify, evaluate, and employ the best candidates,” and Playbook for Developers, a “business app for Android that delivers valuable tips and strategies for succeeding on Google Play....

At Speek, where we’re making the conference call fast and easy, we see press placements as part of a broader content strategy. And like all things in the land of startups, our approach is data-driven: we judge each source based on how many users it generates. We can tell you exactly how many registrations, active users, and conversions to paid/loyal users every single article has generated for us, whether we wrote it or it was written about us....

With the main goal of “increas[ing] access to opportunities, enabling more people to unleash their full potential”, Salaberry is hoping to launch MentorDay later this month. Though this initiative differs from the work he’s doing with immigration reform over at StartupVisa, Salaberry hopes that it supports the overall mission. Launching April 15th, MentorDay is a platform to give one-on-one mentorship from community leaders to upcoming “innovators, entrepreneurs, and changemakers”. It embraces pay-it-forward culture, taking place in different venues across the city every third Friday of the month....

According to a recent study from Comparably, which surveyed more 46,000 employees, millennials care more about work life balance than they do about career advancement. Granted, they’re quite close, at 34 percent for work life balance and 32 percent for career advancement, but still, these numbers reflect a shifting trend in the professional world: work life balance is very important to millennial workers. When you break down the generation even more, you notice a trend, mainly that the younger the millennial, the more concerned they are with career advancement....

Remote work is certainly having its moment in the sun right now. With the global pandemic forcing employees to stay home, companies around the world have adopted work from home policies. It has allowed parents to better manage out-of-school children, employees to facilitate safer work environments, and everyone to experiment with wearing pajamas during meetings. Unfortunately, one study has found that remote work could seriously open the floodgates of security breaches given the distracting nature of working from home....

Need more funding news? You can get the Tech.Co deals roundup send directly to your inbox by subscribing here. Funding RoomKey Closes $1M Seed Round from 500 Startups, Others RoomKey, the company that enables hotels offer their guests mobile guest services – from mobile check-in and phone-based room keys, announced today that it has closed $1 million in a seed round led by 500 Startups, 500 Mobile Collective, and Horizon Partners....

Need more funding news? You can get the Tech.Co Deals Roundup sent directly to your inbox by subscribing here. Funding Austin’s Aceable Brings $4.7M Seed Funding for Online Driver’s Ed Courses Aceable, the Austin, TX-based educations startup that offers people the opportunity to take driver’s ed courses through the Web and mobile apps, announced this morning that it has received $4.7 million in seed funding. The investment was led by Silverton Partners with participation from Floodgate Ventures, NextGen Angels, and Capital Factory....

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If you’re like any of the other online bloggers I know, you also spend a lot of time in coffee shops, using public WiFi, and generally going places well outside of your home WiFi station. Freedom to work in a wide variety of places is great, some of the people you could meet along the way…not so great. With these thoughts we’re going to look at what you can do to during your web experience to increase your security....

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When you take a look at your own marketing pie, these eight pieces are integral in creating success. Each one on their own is great, but when you put them all together, the results will expand your bottom line immensely. Web Presence Your website is your first marketing opportunity for new customers. Make sure your website is attractive, presents what you do and who you are, and provides social proof of success....

Madonna was probably thinking about live music when she sang the words “Music makes the people come together.” But as we all know, today it’s about the apps. And more and more, apps are bringing people together. When it comes to sites and apps, music isn’t a trend like food apps or daily deals. It’s a pillar on which other trends are created. Portability, social features, recommendations, management, games, creation – music provides a sea of opportunity that inspires hardware and software alike, including a recent explosion of online and mobile apps to satisfy anyone’s desires....

Throughout the five-day conference, we saw many exciting announcements from some of the industry’s most famous and unknown names alike. This year was most certainly the year of virtual reality, serving as a main focal point of the show with several headsets competing for superiority. Be that as it may, there were still plenty of other jaw-dropping announcements for those who don’t care much for VR. From the powerful hardware reveals to the exhilarating new software and game demos, this year’s GDC was jam-packed with enough treats to leave gamers salivating for months....

As Sullivan points out in the press release, the city that is eventually chosen will be privileged to some pretty sweet perks. From the projected 50,000 high-paying jobs the move will create to the expected $5 billion investment in the chosen city, HQ2 could completely transform whichever city they chose to lay their roots in. Atlanta, GA Austin, TX Boston, MA Boston has become one of the fastest rising tech hubs in the US, often topping lists as the most innovative city in the country....

The GOPRO Karma ships with its own expressly designed backpack with little slots for the copter’s arms. The DJI Mavic folds down to (without bringing in decimal points) 3 by 8 inches. More and more people are able to utilize the technology because they’re easier to carry around. It’s as simple as that. Ultimate Portability Portability, including carrying cases and/or hands-free transportation, is very practical and valuable for that reason....

Who should read this: “Whether you are thinking of starting a business, celebrating your first year in business, or approaching ten years in business, you’ll find tremendous value in reading this book,” Johnson writes. In other words, any entrepreneur looking for a mentor will find helpful tips here. Elevator pitch: Entrepreneurship can be taught, and Kevin D. Johnson wants to teach it. This book includes 100 easily digestible lessons in strategy, people, finance, marketing and leadership, including lots of anecdotes from his own experience....