Original post by MICHELLE GREENLEE via Dice Last week’s Google I/O 2012 offered entertainment and technology in a big way — even beyond the live skydive broadcast over Google Hangouts On Air and the preview version of Android 4.1, which packs powerful API level functions and other features. Here’s a comprehensive recap of the event: Android 4.1 Jelly […]
Original post by BBC Tech city, an area around Old Street in east London which is home to number of technology firms, has more businesses and employs more people than previously thought. Previously Chancellor George Osborne, the boss of Google and others had thought the number of IT firms based in the area, also known […]
Original post by RICHARD FLORIDA via The Atlantic Cities When the 2012 Olympics kick off at the end of this month, the bulk of the action will take place in East London. The area is virtually “unrecognizable from seven years ago when London celebrated its winning bid,” according to yesterday’s Boston Globe and is rapidly becoming “a new metropolitan center.” While […]
Original post by Daniel Brunt via Yammer Following a customer meeting in New York City on December 7th, 2011, I learned that Yammer was going to establish a New York office. In Yammer years, that was an eon or two ago. At that time, I was based at headquarters in San Francisco and worked primarily with Northeast […]
Original post by BBC A runner up in television series The Apprentice has secured funding for his food website after being turned down by Lord Sugar. Nick Holzherr has secured £170,000 to launchWhisk, a service that creates online shopping lists based on recipes. In the TV series, Lord Sugar told the entrepreneur that he was […]
Original post by JEFF SLOBOTSKI via Silicon Prairienews I participated Monday in a Chicago TechWeek panel titled “Stories from the Silicon Prairie: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Outside of the Valley.” I was joined by Naithan Jones of AgLocal, Thad Langford of Open Air Equity Partners, Ben Milne of Dwolla and Greg Kratofil of Polsinelli Shughart, who served as our panel’s moderator. This was the first time that most of us had presented on the same […]
New York Silicon Alley Weekly Newsletter 29 June 2012
London Silicon Roundabout Weekly Newsletter 29-June-2012
Original post by TechCityuk After moving to London from Spain four months ago, David Guerra Terol, ofMotion4Startups, provides foreign entrepreneurs with 3 key tips for settling in to London. I still remember how people were astonished that on my first day in London I attended an event in TechHub to meet some people and start […]
Original post by Daniel Hunter via fresh business thinking Kaltura, the US firm that developed the first open-source online video platform and the company behind the fast-growing London Video Meetup, has opened its European HQ in London. Kaltura, a successful growth-stage company, is backed by a number of prominent investors including Intel Capital. “Kaltura started exploring the UK […]
Original post by i360institute Last month was an exciting time for entrepreneurs in the UAE. TwoStartup Weekend events – one in Dubai and one in Abu Dhabi – brought together nearly 500 people to hear more than 100 ideas for technology startups. As an organizer and sponsor of these events, it’s very fulfilling for me to hear […]
