In 2015, Silicon Valley experienced a job growth bump of 4.3 percent, its highest since 2000, just one year before the bursting of the dot-com bubble. The Bay Area isn’t just a haven for tech’s most experienced and creative minds, it also provides fertile ground for startup founders to build a support system. Experience Silicon’s Peaks and Valleys Despite its success, Silicon Valley can be rough on new entrepreneurs choosing to dive in headfirst....
It reflects positively on your company. A strong company brand is critical for attracting new millennial customers. Millennials don’t just look at what your product does, they look at who you are as a company, and whether you are respected. Social good and philanthropy are powerful tools for building your company’s brand. The same goes if you have an organization or university. If alumni or prospective customers see that you are expending effort towards social good, they will feel more inclined to connect with you....
When Tomasz Mieczkowski, founded IADB this was the precise pain point he wanted to tackle. Specifically, he wanted to handle it as it relates to professionals in the film and TV industry in Los Angeles. He effectively reverse-engineered social media to build a website in as fast as 90 seconds in most cases. His technology collects all the information about a person from their social media pages and other pages around the internet before aggregating it on one website, which is then automatically populated....
Mobile apps are no longer just a branding exercise for businesses Many customers now expect a business or brand to have a mobile app. And if you don’t, what are you doing? Why Must Businesses Develop Mobile Apps? In last few years, the cost of developing custom mobile apps has decreased substantially. The growth in innovative software development kits has streamlined the app development process. Using latest tools even non-programmers can create a fully functional app with ease....
The new and improved A19 and BR30 lightbulbs offer improved Bluetooth Smart mesh wireless connectivity which will allow users to connect up to 50 bulbs wirelessly across a potential range of over 150 feet. In light of their recent announcement, we had the opportunity to ask the ilumi founders some questions about their journey thus far. What was the most surprising challenge, or what has been the most gratifying win, on your startup journey so far?...
Funding from the Series E round will also go towards improving upon InContext Solutions’ VR product portfolio. InContext Media is the leading provider of scalable, web-based VR shopping and retail solutions, which allows retailers and manufactures to simulate real in-store shopping experiences. Beyond gaming and entertainment, companies like InContext Solutions are creating truly business driven applications for virtual reality. Rather than the lengthy and expensive process associated with placing new items on retail store shelves, VR allows brands to cut costs and save time by simulating the experience....
Besides implementing a ban on VPNs, Government employees have also been blocked from using non-governmental cloud platforms like Google Drive and DropBox. This directive comes just days after popular VPN providers ExpressVPN, Surf Shark, and NordVPN threatened to pull their servers from India in response to the new set of restrictions laid out by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, Cert-In. While these new rules aim to improve the “security posture” of the government, this news comes as a worrying forecast for the 20% of the Indians that use the tools to browse safely and securely....
With social media becoming such a big part of the business picture, influencers have become a staple of any good marketing team’s strategy. Influencer marketing is now one of the most effective and highly sought after methods of attracting customers since billboards, and it’s changing the way business is done. Now, what do you get when you combine perhaps the fastest growing social media platform in the world with an innovative, powerful means of attracting new customers?...
Ed Szofer, Chief Executive Officer of SenecaGlobal, a global information technology consulting company, sure thinks so. Here’s his take on the skills crisis facing IT today — why the shortage of soft skills holds teams back and what actionable moves you can use to develop them on your own team. The key missing skills are the ability to listen carefully and fully to the user requirements. IT teams are often very excited to show the users what they can do, that they often race ahead and try to get something done — but it is not the right solution....
This could be good news for retail and hospitality businesses with an online presence, as well as physical stores and restaurants, particularly in the context of advertising within Apple Maps. Apple hopes the move will push its ad revenue from a modest $4 billion into the double digits, reports suggest. Ads in Apple Maps? Bloomberg reports that Apple is considering placing advertising inside Apple Maps. The move, which has already been tested internally, would bring the company in line with Google Maps, which already shows ads....
The Major Constrain for VR Gaming Industry Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take Two, has verbalized one of the major problems with VR gaming in his talk at the 44th Annual Technology, Media & Telecom Conference: Talking from a consumer’s perspective Zelnick is right. Currently a lot of gamers admit that the price tag for setting up a complete VR environment at home is high indeed. Buying a VR device is just part of the overall expenses....
The cars in question, dubbed Renew Sports Cars or, more colloquially, Cannabis Cars, was made by Bruce Dietzen in his garage last year. As a retired Dell computer salesman, Dietzen wanted to do more with this entrepreneurial spirit than just sell computers. And clearly, his drive has paid off in spades. If you want one of these hemp cars, you’ll have to get in line. Dietzen told the Miami Herald that he would be taking custom orders for as low as $40,000 to as high as $197,000, depending on the requested horse power....
Before you know it, you’re spending all of your free time checking the status of bench players, scouring websites for updates and sweating over analyst picks that feel like hunches at best. Kansas City-based insights platform Edge Up Sports is ready to bring the fun back. Built with big data computation and other advanced technologies, including IBM’s Watson, Edge Up wants to be a manager’s one-stop shop for everything that plays into the decision making process....
Finney attempted to set production company iTV and casting agency WaterCooler straight by advising them that: Through Finney’s organization, Digital Undivided, she is able to find and develop bold entrepreneurs in marginalized community groups, which include diverse identities such as female and black, but also those people who fall into a variety of ‘other’ categories. So she knows the numbers, and the fact is that only .1% of all venture capital over the last five years has gone to black women....
The trial took place on December 17 and 18 in Leicester Square, Picadilly Circus and Soho. But, in an unusual twist, individuals could apparently ‘opt-out’ of the trial, with the understanding that they wouldn’t be treated with suspicion if this was requested. This isn’t the first facial recognition trial in London. Similar operations have taken place at consecutive Notting Hill Carnivals, Remembrance Day services in 2017 and near Stratford in June and July of this year....
That problem he calls the “pixelization” of entrepreneurship. All the startups seeking Series A funding are like a massive image, and the venture funds don’t have enough processing power to handle them all. The startups left behind are simply dissolved, including great teams who didn’t quite figure out their product. For Edwards, an angel investor and board member of Startup Visa Canada, that opportunity is LX Ventures. He cofounded the incubator/foundry last year in Vancouver with Keir Reynolds, in the style of Science Inc....
The Nepalese government specifically targeted the mobile version of the game, claiming that it is “addictive to children and teenagers.” The Indian state of Gujarat has also banned the mobile game, citing similar reasons and has even arrested teenagers for playing the game. These mobile-specific bans are certainly unprecedented, but video game bans have a long and storied history. The video games banned around the world As you can see, video game bans certainly aren’t ubiquitous and not all of the same games get banned around the world....
Silkroad Images is a Shutterstock for the Middle East, offering stock photography and digital content for anyone to download and use. Founded in 2011, they boast over 85,000 images from 400 photographers. “The current digital images that are available do not represent the real beauty and livelihood of the Arab World,” Mahafzah says. In other words, images of Western people practicing Western religions against a backdrop of Western cities just don’t cut it when Middle Eastern media and advertisers need to create content....
What if we could do the same with music? Music stills remains one of those haloed professions in which success is largely determined by natural talent and luck. Creating music is still a rare skill possessed by a select few. Meludia is here to change that. Meludia is a web app that allows you to train your musical ear so you too can play and create music. It uses our natural ability to recognize patterns and imitate them – which is how we naturally learnt language as babies – to learn the language of music....
The 1,550-square-foot Meta store will sell and demo Quest 2 headsets, accessories, and Portal video chat devices, as well as their smart glasses, Ray-Ban Stories. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is betting big on the metaverse as an immersive virtual reality space that users can live and work within. Selling VR headsets is a big pillar in that plan. The Meta Store The store opening in May will include a “special demo area” specifically for trying the Portal device, as well as another demo area, an “interactive Quest 2 display wall” that lets visitors try games including Beat Saber, GOLF+, Real VR Fishing, or Supernatural....
