Matt Haggman believes that this is true. The Knight Foundation project manager, sat down with Tech Cocktail’s co-founder and author of Startup Mixology Frank Gruber to talk about all the elements that make Miami the ideal city for entrepreneurs. He also pointed out the fact that Miami is becoming more of an urbanized city, a key component to building a startup ecosystem. This is why Haggman saw an opportunity to help build the community, not by investing in the entrepreneurs directly but by investing in creating a system....

Here are the prices, specs and release dates you need to know. According to Microsoft, that all adds up to as high as 50% more performance than the Surface Book 2 has to offer, at least for the 15-inch model, which offers 17.5 hours of battery life. Surface Book 3 Specs Here are the main specs to know about the new Surface Book 3. 13.5″ Display: 3000 x 2000 (267 PPI) resolution15″ Display: 3240 x 2160 (260 PPI) resolutionProcessor: Intel 10th Gen Core i5 / Core i7Graphics: Iris Plus (13....

Microsoft products are always evolving to meet the needs of its users. From its frequently updated Teams platform to newly second place Edge browser, the Washinton-based tech giant keeps making improvements to its many, many services. Now, one of its most prominent platforms appears to be getting a facelift, which will come as welcome news to its many, many users. — FireCube (@FireCubeStudios) May 6, 2022 The roadmap shows that, in addition to this all-in-one view, which consolidates Microsoft tools like email, calendars, and to-do lists into a single hub, you’ll also get a number of advanced integrations that will make the platform that much better for employees and employers alike....

The G30 borrows some features from higher-end phones, such as a 90Hz refresh rate, while keeping the price well below $250. The G10, meanwhile, is cheaper still, at under $180, while managing to offer four rear cameras. Here’s everything you need to know about the new Motorola phones. Motorola G30 The G30 takes some of our favorite features from more expensive phones and brings them to a much lower price point — £159, or around $220 US....

I always imagined that the George Glass archetype, the non-existent significant other archetype, was a figment purely of Hollywood’s imagination. But apparently there are people who have legitimately needed, wanted, or enjoyed having a fake significant other (SO). Better, there’s a group of entrepreneurs operating out of St. Louis poised to capitalize on all of our relationship insecurities by inventing invisible SOs for us. Currently they’re only in beta testing, but in effect they’re giving on-demand significant others to anybody who wants one....

For Patel, data is essential to growth hacking; if you want to take your company to a new level, you first need to determine where your business is lacking and where it’s succeeding, and looking at the data enables you to do that. You can determine, for instance, which marketing channels to pursue based on how certain numbers look on certain elements. Essentially, if you’re making decisions for your business without even taking a look at the data available to you, you’re not utilizing the most out of your resources....

The bill — LD 1324, An Act to Support Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Maine’s Economic Future — would explicitly proffer certain powers onto the organization, including the ability to administer and support business incubators, assist the University of Maine System and nonprofit research labs with technology transfer and commercialization, and create a program to replace the now-defunct Maine Patent Program. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Martin Grohman (D-Biddeford), co-authored it with Catherine Renault, a consultant and former director of the Maine Office of Innovation....

The News The Wall Street Journal has the news on Nintendo’s big move. How big a hit is the two-year-old Honor of Kings title in the Chinese gaming market? It was the country’s highest grossing app in the second quarter of 2017, averaging $87 million a month on iOS. Interestingly, about 40 percent of the game’s users in China are female, according to QuestMobile. Here’s what took Nintendo so long to swoop in, as the article goes on to explain....

While in town, I got a chance to catch up with Jeff Slobotski from Router Ventures and the founder of Big Omaha, an event that put the area on the map to the startup community over the past seven years. You can watch my interview with Jeff Slobotski below: If you have a chance to get on the ground in Nebraska, you’ll quickly realize that the region has a lot to offer startups....

AddThis entered the market in 2004 with a simple widget that allowed content consumers to easily share what they’ve read across other platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and later refocused their efforts to include enterprise level audience intelligence across 15 million sites. The company will be joining Oracle’s Data Cloud lineup, which also consists of two acquisitions from 2014, BlueKai and Datalogix. In a letter released by Omar Tawakol, Oracle Data Cloud Senior Vice President and General Manager, he alluded to AddThis’s future: With a large pool of third-party data, consisting of two billion people, with more than one trillion page views, AddThis will further power their DaaS business area....

The announcement, made at the Innovate Celebrate conference held by TechCo in partnership with CTA, came following a three-day event attended by 100 startup semifinalists, and eventually narrowed down to five finalist startups today. Of all contestants at the wide-sweeping startup competition, Oska Wellness has officially risen to the top. As the first-place winner, Oska Wellness will receive a prize package worth potentially $150,000 and from a list of companies including Start Co....

The Paris-located incubator is funded by French entrepreneur Xavier Niel, whose 7-billion-dollar net worth was built on the back of a low-cost internet broadband service that proved revolutionary to the country’s internet standards. Once fully operational, the incubator aims to house 1,000 startups simultaneously. President Emmanuel Macron himself was present for the facility’s Thursday inauguration. It’s just the latest step in Paris’ move to be recognized as Europe’s tech capital....

Moonfrye was founded by Soleil Moon Frye, of Eighties sitcom “Punky Brewster” fame, along with Kara Nortman, formerly of IAC. Little app users can decorate the photos they take by placing them onto creative backgrounds or adhering stickers to the images. Think of it as a digital scrapbbooking app for photos that’s geared to children’s creative tastes. For example, kids can turn themselves into paper dolls and decorate their image-rendered worlds with characters like mermaids and pirates....

According to Gabriele Oettingen, a professor at psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg, the more positively people daydream about their futures, the less likely they are at achieving their specific goals in the long-run. In the most recent episode of the Inquiring Minds podcast, Oettingen challenges our traditional notions of positive thinking, bringing up points that she includes in her new book, Rethinking Positive Thinking. The important take-away from the podcast, though, is that one shouldn’t not engage in positive thinking; rather, they should engage in a different kind of positive thinking....

It’s no walk in the park, that’s for sure, but the PowerInbox platform this week launched their Performance Ad Network inside email to help out. Even though email is the best channel, it has still lagged behind the web in certain, fundamental ways: it’s static. PowerInbox’s RevenueStripe, Performance Ads in Email product, builds on the company’s technology to match the right content to the right user inside email. Recognizing that over 50 percent of email is now opened on a mobile device, PowerInbox Ad solution is focused on native ads and mobile install ads, two rapidly growing areas in ad tech....

To that end they officially launched their iOS app, Preggie, to help women on their path to giving birth. The team knows that road is incredibly exciting, but it’s also confusing, intimidating, and full of unexpected twists and turns. But that’s why, according to them, it’s so important for pregnant women to socialize and trade tips, tricks, knowledge, encouragement, and experiences with each other. It can be difficult for expectant mothers to tap existing social networks, like Facebook, to find a sufficient groups or resources that can help them on their journey....

Quartz publisher and co-president Jay Lauf recently spoke about the organization’s revenues and approach to media. Interestingly, he’s not a fan of the startup approach, and cited two reasons why. Quartz Doesn’t Want to Scale Primarily Since Quartz avoids ad formats that are swamping the marketplace and driving down prices, they don’t need to court scale in order to turn a profit. Why does Lauf think that this model has been able to work?...

One startup company is addressing this increase of injectable drugs and helping patients track their usage is digital healthcare company QuiO (that’s pronounced kwee-oh). QuiO is working to develop the first real-time monitoring solution for injectable therapies. It’s another example of the medical benefits that tech advancements can provide. Today the company announced they closed a $1.05 million seed round. The round, according to a press release, was “led by undisclosed investors with expertise in the health insurance, pharmaceutical and clinical research industries....

Create Compelling Content No matter what you may think, one great article can easily increase site traffic more than hundreds that are of low quality. As a site owner you need to always think about the quality of everything that you offer. This includes services, products and your content. All site content has to be interesting, compelling and unique. Combine that with good web design and traffic will naturally increase. This oftentimes happens without you even realizing it, all in a natural way....

To say that Salesforce is one of the most popular business software providers would be a staggering understatement. It’s been the number one CRM platform for five years in a run, with its market share more than double its closest competitor. Plus, with reviews regularly singing its praises, there’s no denying the brand has a firm hold on the CRM market. Now, by partnering with Microsoft, Salesforce will further establish itself as the go-to CRM for pretty much any business looking for a boost....