It’s because technology is at its best right now and every entrepreneur – no matter how small the business is – can look and feel just as big as any of the business behemoths out there. Given the quantum of information available and the incredible power of the medium that the Internet is, you’ve got to spend a lot of time just to come up with excuses for not using what you have at your disposal....
The report also found that malicious actors take advantage of cloud misconfigurations, with security breaches on the network increasing 50% year-on-year. Fortunately, cybercrime doesn’t appear to be growing across all critical areas. But as the cyber underworld continues to level up their strategies, business owners need to do what they can to protect their data and button down their digital hatches. Phishing Attacks Are More Rampant Than Ever According to Trend Micro’s Annual Report, if there is one thing cybercriminals are good at, it’s being opportunistic....
I’d like to share some of the expert opinions I encountered that focused on the importance of funding, the relationship between funders and founders, how a founder should exist in their company and the value of business plans when funding is sparse: Do You Need to Raise Funds from VCs? Jason Fried, founder and CEO of Basecamp Vinod Khosla, founder and CEO of Khosla Ventures Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist at Canva Ryan Smith, founder and CEO of Qualtrics...
Stop Smoking ASAP When I say to stop smoking ASAP, you might think of it as an impossible thing. But yes, leaving your smoking habit will help you gain a more active mind. A study conducted by University of Michigan researchers revealed that smokers have lower IQ levels compared to non-smoker participants. It may appear a stylish act to hold a cigarette in your hand while you talk to your friends but it slows down your ability to think the way you can be....
9 Tasty New Cocktail Recipes for the Office! Alcoholic drinks are named after many themes, from certain beach activities to strange old hoaxes. But underrepresented in the cocktail world are office-themed drinks. And while there is a church (work) and state (everywhere else) libation division, the occasional office party needs its cocktail canon clarified. Here to fix the problem are nine office-appropriate original cocktail and shot recipes. The “Blue Screen of Death”A sharp, pungent, and unwelcome cocktail traditionally served spontaneously and in totally inappropriate situations....
This new form of online advertising, referred to as activity advertising, focuses on what the user’s activity is, rather than where they are performing this action. In the old model, an ad was dependent upon the website the user was visiting. This new iteration takes specific action into account. For example, an ad related to a user’s status update; the exchange of virtual goods, contests and polls; completing a level in a social game; visiting a friend or sending a message within a game; and after he/she “Likes” something new....
As Innovate Celebrate 2017 ramps up, take a few minutes to scrub through what exactly happened last year at the 2016 edition of our Tech.Co and Consumer Technology Association (CTA) sponsored event. Talk AI With a Stanford Professor Kicking off the event, Fei Fei Li, the director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University, took the stage at Innovate Celebrate 2016 to offer up a keynote discussion of artificial intelligence....
The 2018 Paperwhite model isn’t an entirely new Kindle. It’s more of an iteration on the previous model, adding extra features including water resistance and Audible compatibility. Click the gallery below for more images of the Kindle Paperwhite However, the new additions for the 2018 model make it a lot closer to the premium Oasis model than it has been before, implementing some of the features that had, up until now, been exclusive to the most expensive Kindle....
I was waiting to go on stage to pitch my startup, and became quite aware of my heart rate. My Fitbit registered 145 beats per minute, an unusually high rate for me akin to when I go jogging. I felt my body was betraying me, amping up my adrenaline when I didn’t want it to. To make things worse, today’s pitch wasn’t even that important. In that moment, I decided to get in shape for public speaking, particularly startup pitching....
If forced to choose who won SXSW 2012, however, undoubtedly Highlight would have to be the answer. And in sitting down with the social discovery app’s founder and CEO, Paul Davison, the answer for how this two man operation became the darling of this year’s interactive in less than two months since their launch (January 24th) became a lot more clear. Davison’s energy and passion for this new emerging space was both palpable and infectious....
A new report claims that the tech giant is developing an Apple TV with an integrated HomePod speaker and a Facetime-capable video camera for video calls from your living room. Other smart home features from the same device include typical Apple functionality — Playing video and music, gaming, and the Siri voice assistant. There’s a second smart home device, too Apple is also working on a smart display. It would combine functionality from an iPad and a HomePod both....
That’s big talk, but the new iPads represent probably the biggest departure from the original iPad unveiled by Steve Jobs almost 10 years ago. The tapered edges, home button and Lightning port are all gone. The new iPad Pros certainly present the biggest change to the iPad range so far. But could they also inadvertently compete with Apple’s MacBook models? See more on all the new launches from Apple’s latest event...
In 2014, around $48.3 billion was invested into startup companies in the United States alone. Software and biotech companies received a big bulk of this amount. It’s an all-time high but there are apprehensions over this rapid growth. Some are describing this boom as having reached scary new heights,resulting in some pessimism over the success of startups that get funding. While we don’t aim to dampen interest in tech startups, the goal here is to present ideas on how these companies – tech startups in particular – can become successful in the midst of ruthless competition and the quickly changing preferences of customers or new investors....
LAUNCH.co’s annual event brought in 50 different companies to launch their venture on stage in front of over 5,000 people. And the grand jury, a faction of seasoned entrepreneurs, stood by for three days to judge them all. All of the awards and investments given by LAUNCH are in the spirit of celebrating and inspiring entrepreneurship. The overall winner of the competition won a $200,000 investment from the LAUNCH Fund while the other winners got the guarantee of a future investment....
Word Search Puzzle Game This game is all about finding a set of given words from the puzzle of letters presented in the form of a grid, within a specific time limit in order to move onto the next stage. The game is divided into three levels so it’s easier to be played by all ages. Wordament Players have to make as many words as possible given a jumbled set of sixteen letters displayed in the grid form within a certain time limit....
Davies – whose most widely-known as one of the first five hires for the now-education giant Blackboard – founded the company after the success of his previous company Presidium, a customer service platform for colleges that was purchased by Blackboard for $23 million back in 2011. With Full Measure Education, Davis is once again targeting the higher-education market through its offering of a communications platform aimed at ensuring student success in college....
Internet scammers have seen these posts as well. And, true to form, they’ve found a way to make a buck off of it with a particularly insidious scheme: Impersonating the original poster within minutes in order to substitute their own payment account for that of the person who really deserves the money. Here’s how it works, and what to look for to spot the Twitter bot impersonation scam. Instant Account Cloning The key to this scam is that it’s not tied to the original poster mentioning they have money problems....
The popular social sharing startup Buffer had a difficult Saturday today when it got hacked and spam relating to weight loss was posted from user accounts. The Buffer team swung into action pretty quickly and, in a well-executed crisis management playbook, executed a best practice plan for handling the crisis. I discovered the hack at 2:38 pm when Heather Dopson, social media manager of Infusionsoft, alerted me that I had a spam status update on my Facebook wall...
HTML5 now provides access to device-specific hardware and also embeds HTML5 code inside a native WebView on the device. This uses a foreign function interface to access the native resources of the device. Native plug-ins can be integrated through JavaScript with the HTML5 pages. Some basic plug-ins that are accessible through PhoneGap are Accelerometer, Camera, Compass, Microphone, and Speaker. Some believe that PhoneGap is not as good as the native counterparts, but the convenience offered by PhoneGap is welcomed by most....
Bernhard Niesner, from Austria, and Adrian Hilti, from Switzerland, met back in 2007 when both were pursuing their MBA in Madrid. Together, they wrote the final project for their Master’s – a project that would become the biggest social network in the world to learn languages, with over 50 million registered users coming from over 200 countries. Niesner’s obsession was to simplify the way people learn a new language, and Busuu came as a result of that....
