Tag Archives : New York City

Ask yourself-How is the current product too complicated? What simple little thing could you do to just make it simpler. Ask again-why it doesn’t work better and how to resolve [...]

As part of the Social Good Summit, Mashable will host the inaugural Startups for Good Challenge, a special event to showcase startups that are striving to improve the world. Startups [...]

Tagwhat helps uncover fun facts about places using augmented reality, Paintapic turns digital photos into physical art projects and TripLingo is a pocket language guide for world travel. Discover great [...]

Foursquare is a location-based social networking website based on hardware for mobile devices. The service is available to users with GPS-enabled mobile devices such as smartphones. Users “check-in” at venues [...]

Today, Densebrain, Inc., a New York-based digital ideas agency, in an exclusive partnership with Mobile Transit Solutions (MTS), is introducing an update to its NYCMate application that provides New Yorkers [...]

BillGuard wants to monitor your credit cards for ‘spam’. BillGuard is antivirus for your bills. BillGuard monitors your credit card and debit card bills and alerts you when they contain [...]

Stephanie Tilenius, Google’s VP of Commerce, took the stage at Google’s massive New York City HQ to announce Google Wallet and Google Offers. Tilenius made it clear that the platform [...]

Rent the Runway, an online destination for dress, accessory and bridesmaid dress rentals, has raised $15 million in venture capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). At only eighteen [...]

Hackathon is a Techcrunch event where hackers learn, code and launch all in 24 hours. Fueled by pizza, beer and RedBull, the hackathon event begun on Saturday afternoon through Sunday [...]

New York-based Gilt, which has raised $83 million in venture funding over the past three years has raised a new $138 million funding, led by Softbank, which took nearly half [...]

TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program. It is a three-month long program in Boston (MA), Boulder (CO), New York City (NY) and Seattle (WA) once each year. Each [...]

Fred Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures ($125 million in capital under management), New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, [...]

“ StartupBus is a resource to help future entrepreneurs,” explains StartupBus founder Elias Bizannes , who also believes the six-city effort will help raise the profile of less recognized technology [...]

“ StartupBus is a resource to help future entrepreneurs,” explains StartupBus founder Elias Bizannes , who also believes the six-city effort will help raise the profile of less recognized technology [...]

The New York startups scene has seen massive growth over the years. NYC’s start-up center “Silicon Alley,” has produced billiant ideas and startups and its as vibrant as California’s Silicon [...]