Forbes Media pairs tech, tastes for wine club
Forbes Media is joining the wine club. In the now venerable tradition of publishers extending their brand into non-publishing businesses, Forbes has joined The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,...
View ArticleSulia Now Has 10 Million Visitors And Another ~$5 Million In The Bank
Sulia, a New York-based startup building a publishing platform that could be described as a more-organized, slightly longer-form version of Twitter, has raised another $4 million to $5 million in...
View ArticleSEO Technology Leader Conductor Closes Record First Half of 2013
Conductor, the first choice in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technology, continues to reign as the market leader in SEO platforms, closing a record first half of the year marked by a 126 percent...
View ArticleLumosity shows what success is for an iOS app
What does success look like for an iPhone app? Check out Lumosity. from Lumos Labs. It’s currently the No. 1 app in the education category of the U.S. iTunes App Store and has garnered more than 25,000...
View ArticleShopify Acquires Toronto-Based Design Firm Jet Cooper To Help It Remake...
Toronto based startup success story Shopify has acquired Jet Cooper, a Toronto-based design agency founded in 2009, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition brings together the Ottawa-based Shopify,...
View ArticleTubular Labs Launches Audience Analytics Platform For YouTubers Into Public Beta
YouTubers need tools to better understand and grow their audiences, and Tubular Labs has built out a SaaS-based platform for just that. Once only available in private beta, Tubular’s dashboard is now...
View ArticlePasswords Won’t Die. Should They?
Let’s go back for a minute to 1994, when an external floppy disk drive cost you $500 and a 2MB digital camera the size of a textbook set you back $5,000. To sign in to your Prodigy account, you simply...
View ArticleLumosity demonstrates how to get your app to the top of the App Store
Lumosity CEO Kunal Sarkar made a risky move in relaunching — and not just incrementally updating — his popular educational iPhone app, and early results show that the gambit was a good one. Lumosity’s...
View ArticleAereo expands south and west: TV streaming service announces new launch dates
Aereo, the controversial start-up that lets subscribers watch and record over-the-air TV signals on computers and mobile devices, is ramping up its expansion plans and will be live in at least five new...
View ArticleDisconnect, The Anti-Ad Tracking Startup, Now Has A Privacy App Specifically...
More than 1 million people are using apps and browser extensions each week by Disconnect, the anti-tracking, anti-ad targeting startup to block how third-party sites track your online movements and...
View ArticleShopify Debuts Fully Integrated Credit Card Payment Processing For Its...
Canadian startup and Ottawa-based company Shopify announced a big change to its business model today, with the integration of Shopify Payments to its online storefront platform. Traditionally, as with...
View ArticleThe family firm at the forefront of selling via Facebook
As a family-run company with just 160 employees and a funny name, US children’s clothing manufacturer Lolly Wolly Doodle (LWD) does not immediately seem like a trendsetter. Yet the North Carolina firm...
View ArticleEsquire Review of Tommy John’s Undershirt: “It’s Worth It”
We’ve already extolled the virtues of the $90 T-shirt (and then watched many of you turn your backs on us on Twitter; no hard feelings), so clearly, we stand behind shelling out a little extra for the...
View ArticleTapad Reports Record Revenues For First-Half 2013: Up Nearly 300% Over Same...
Unified, cross-device marketing tech firm Tapad Inc. has just closed the books on its record first-half 2013 results (Jan – Jun), reporting 286 percent revenue growth compared to the first half 2012....
View ArticleThe New J.Crew Catalog Is a Pinterest Page
J.Crew, which built its business via glossy mailings, just took a crack at catalog 2.0. It posted its entire fall line on its Pinterest page yesterday, giving its nearly 65,000 Pinterest followers and...
View ArticleShopify Launches Point-Of-Sale System To Unify Online And Brick-And-Mortar...
Ottawa-based Shopify, the online storefront provider that helps around 65,000 retailers reach their customers on the web, including Tesla, Crossfit and others, today announced a new retail...
View ArticleWith Playnomics, data science predicts which players will quit a game in the...
Playnomics knows which gamers are likely to quit a game in the next 30 days and what a game developer can do to stop that from happening. Playnomics is advancing the science of running a profitable...
View ArticlePinterest entices huge brands in special Fashion Week pages
Those with a sartorial eye will get even more pleasure out of Pinterest during Fashion Week. The company is creating pages dedicated to that special time of year when clothes become art and bringing in...
View ArticlePearson Expands Online Adaptive Learning To Science, Business
Pearson will offer more than 400,000 college students taking first-year courses in the sciences and business this fall access to online homework and tutorial software powered by Knewton’s adaptive...
View ArticleZipments Closes $2.25 Million Seed Round To Speed Up Same-Day Deliveries
New York based Zipments, a same-day delivery marketplace that connects retailers with couriers, has closed a $2.25 million seed round to further build out its product and expand to new cities. It’s...
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