Crew’s Coffee+Power project lists the top coffee shops in several cities across the world and includes the Wi-Fi passwords for each respective coffee shop – this, in particular, makes it an ultimate resource for anyone hoping to get work done from a coffee shop. According to the company, the shops listed were recommended to them through their site by people from across the Internet, and were then vetted by the company itself....
Few people can resist a good Black Friday deal and millions will still be shopping, but reflecting on the excessive – and often ugly – nature of consumerism at this time of year is one way to guarantee you’ll make smart purchases, especially if you’re looking for business products that could be key to your company’s success. What’s Happening in Britain? Protests Planned Elsewhere Elsewhere in Europe, another trade union, FNV – which is based in the Netherlands – plans to stage a protest at the Alblasserdam shipyard in the municipality of South Holland, where Jeff Bezos’ mega-yacht is currently being built....
The power of blogging is crystal clear. From small businesses to mass media giants, blogs have become the cornerstone of how users discover new content and find products online. Likewise, blogging has ballooned into a multi-billion dollar industry that’s stood the test of time, supported by millions of sites across a seemingly endless sea of niches. However, the rapid rise of video marketing in recent years has both revolutionized and fractured the blogosphere....
According to Her Campus’s ranking of STEMinist colleges, Carnegie Mellon takes home top prize. In the past ten years, the university increased its percentage of female computer science students from 7 percent to over 40 percent. In a similar ranking of best colleges for females in STEM fields, CMU ranked second place. Also making the list: the one and only MIT – a college not only renowned for producing some of the brightest minds in STEM, but also for producing some of the world’s most recognized entrepreneurs....
The Mountain View based Carrier IQ, “the leading provider in Mobile Service Intelligence Solutions to the Wireless Industry,” currently has a major spotlight shining on their business practices, and not for the right reasons. The mobile software company is under a lot of heat for accusations that it’s software tracks mobile phone users’ keystrokes and incoming text messages. Most troubling of all, short of hacking your own phone or using an external tool, it’s almost impossible to know if Carrier IQ is on your device....
High Stakes in the Auto World One of the areas where connected technology shined at CES is in the auto world. Carmakers are scrambling to put new technologies, including everything from self-driving cars to onboard wireless entertainment, into the pipeline and into production. In fact, Colin Neagle of Network World reports that General Motors’ Gary Smyth, director of GM’s Powertrain Systems Research Lab, indicated the company’s goal was to have an autonomous driving car in production by 2017....
The company was founded in 2013 and until recently served local Chicago non-profits. They now have over 1 million charities on their site for which they can help raise awareness and funding. They have created, in a sense, a different category of social network. Public Good’s founders are Dan Ratner and Jason Kunesh. Ratner, along with his wife founded SitterCity, the largest site for matching parents with babysitters and Kunesh was in charge of UX for Obama for America in 2011-2012....
The new SocialRadar SDK will be offered as a free platform for mobile app developers interested in utilizing high-accuracy location-based services that can provide comprehensive consumer insights (such as determining what venues consumers frequent and observing their shopping habits) all while requiring minimal battery use (at a rate of 2.5 percent per hour compared to the 8 to 14 percent per hour rates by location-services apps on the market. Through an advanced location manager, SocialRadar’s SDK enables highly accurate location information with a 2-meter precision compared to existing location smartphone technology that can only provide 10-meter or even 100-meter precision....
This was the topic of discussion during the fireside chat with Mike Duggan, the mayor of Detroit, and Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO at JPMorgan Chase & Co. They spoke candidly about the recovery progress of the city, their burgeoning partnership that is working to rebuild Detroit and the best ways to grow the Motor City into the gem it once was. During the fireside chat, three key points focused on how entrepreneurs can contribute to the rebuilding of Detroit....
Allegedly, these microchips would give the Chinese military a backdoor to some of the most sensitive information on servers worldwide. If true, this would constitute a security breach of mammoth proportions. It’s a strange tale of high stakes international drama. Indeed, the companies, the Chinese government and even the US government all strongly deny that any of this took place. Bloomberg’s version of events, has already been hotly contested. So, how did this happen?...
Much like Craft Coffee, the specialty coffee subscription service that sends members members custom beans every month, District Beans offers a similar service, but on a hyper-local level. Rather than sourcing beans from roasters around the world and delivering to consumers across the country, the company sources its beans from local D.C. roasters and delivering to those in the region (although, people from faraway cities like NYC or L.A. are open to subscribe)....
In 1996, California, home of Silicon Valley and arguably the most significant tech hub in America, legalized medical marijuana usage. They then legalized recreational marijuana usage in 2016, meaning that the state is already well acquainted with the drug. For non-tech companies, however, this might lead to substantial developments in their acceptance of recreational drugs. Many blue collar jobs, specifically in retail, service, and warehouse positions, have strict drug rules, banning those who partake in marijuana usage....
Wondering how to get in on the fun? Here’s how this year’s competition is going to work:
One of the best ways to do this is to instill an entrepreneurial spirit in all of your employees. Create a company culture that brings employees together and makes them excited to come to work. Developing a unique work environment doesn’t have to cost extra money; it just requires a strong dedication to the cause. 81 percent of people believe a company lacking a great, productive culture will never be more than mediocre....
What does it mean to grow your business? The answers vary from person to person, but Advaion, an independent consulting firm, applies their global expertise specifically to help entrepreneurs and businesses through growth, scaling, and similar situations. One of the most important things to remember about scaling your business, according to Advaion’s Pavan Satyaketu, is that it’s not a guarantee. Rather, you have to explicitly build a plan of attack to ensure you grow profitably....
A new report from Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center is out, and it has some answers. They ran a survey past 1,233 technology experts in order to figure out the best guesses as to the next ten years of online trust, and the predictions were mixed. The short answer is that about 48 percent think trust will be strengthened, 28 percent think it will remain the same, and 24 percent think trust will be diminished over the next decade....
In a recent conversation with Thomson, he shared his thoughts on current trends in the tech and Internet industries, and opined on the next big things that we should be expecting in the next few years. Among these them, he talked about the untapped market potential in the Baby Boomer generation: While Boomers certainly didn’t grow up in the Internet age, they’ve aged alongside it. This brings about an awareness that technology can and will enable them to live their retirement years in ways much different from previous generations....
In tandem with the announcement of the cloud platform launch, Geenio also made public that they have raised a successful $2 million seed round from several individual private investors. All of the funding will be used to continue to build their internal team and strengthen their product-market fit. Most modern organizations are already using some form of e-learning technology for employee onboarding, training, performance, and assessment initiatives. According to Andreev, much of the learning tech ecosystem has not kept pace with the needs of instructors, learners, or purchasing managers....
What I like in Gesturely is that it is a gesture-only keyboard. So how do you use a gesture-only keyboard? Well, it’s pretty easy. After creating your account, you can start adding gestures to your gesture library and assign a specific phrase to each. You may think of only a few at first, but believe me, you’ll be tempted to add more and more as time goes by, because Gesture can speed up your daily workflow....
The update, called video framing, is activated when a participant first joins. Their video camera will zoom in to focus on their face, cutting out unneeded background visuals and ensuring the user’s face will be clear to others on the call. It’s an automated process, and it only happens once — so no one will be distracted by a constantly shifting and refocusing camera. How to Set Up Video Framing Unlike how the Admin-specific feature controls work, any Google Meet users with the video framing tool will be able to turn it on by themselves from their Meet view....
