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99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall…and 5 Presentations Make for a Great Drinks and Demo Evening

25 January, 2013

Last week, we had a very successful Drinks and Demo night at Techspace London! Cheers to Ifyouwanna, Ginicam, Spottinstyle, Time², Someday I Want, and Challenger Sudoku for presenting their startups. You can find out more about them here. There was a very positive turnout in attendees. In fact, there was so much demand that we […]

Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital

25 January, 2013

Original post by Sir Ronald Cohen and William A. Sahlman via HBR  During the past century, governments and charitable organizations have mounted massive efforts to address social problems such as poverty, lack of education, and disease. Governments around the world are straining to fund their commitments to solve these problems and are limited by old ways […]

The story behind DIAL: How Netflix and YouTube want to take on AirPlay

25 January, 2013

Original post by Janko Roettgers via GIGAOM  Netflix and YouTube have teamed up to launch DIAL, a protocol that helps developers of second-screen apps to discover and launch applications on smart TVs and connected devices. The effort is already getting support from a number of notable players, including Samsung, Sony, Hulu and the BBC. DIAL could become a […]

Twitter’s 6-Second Video Sharing App, Vine, Goes Live In The App Store

25 January, 2013

Original post by JORDAN CROOK via TC Twitter has officially launched its Vine video sharing app in theApp Store, as announced on the company blog. With Instagram taking the world by storm, and subsequentlyselling to Facebook for $1 billion, the question on everyone’s minds has been who will be able to do the same thing with video? Twitter’s been thinking […]

Google Grants $3.7 Million to Civic Innovation and Open Data Projects

18 January, 2013

Original post by Zoe Fox via Mashable Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, announced it’s funding two new tech projects on Wednesday, one to encourage civic innovation and the other to open government data. The larger of the two grants, a $2.1 million gift, was given to the Sunlight Foundation. The Foundation will use the money to grow […]