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Losing New Year’s resolve? Google wants to help

4 January, 2013

Original post by Doug Gross via CNN (CNN) — Are your New Year’s resolutions already losing some of their resolve? Google wants to help. The company on Thursday posted a list of tools designed to assist with some of the most common January 1 promises, along with an interactive map that lets users share their resolutions and see […]

Samsung increases lead as top US mobile device maker, Apple still gaining, everyone else flailing

4 January, 2013

Original post by TNW HTC, all of which continue to lose market share. The story is similar in the platform space: Google is first courtesy of Android, Apple is second with iOS, but the roles are slightly reversed as Android has grown more than iOS recently. Again, rounding out the top five are RIM, Microsoft, […]

Student Engineers: Apply to work at 170+ startups with one Common Application

22 December, 2012

Original post by Red Eye VC We’ve talked a lot recently about the amazing amount of talent that exists in universities across the country – and one of the main reasons we launched the Dorm Room Fund was to create a new and more efficient way for capital to flow onto campuses and into the best and brightest entrepreneurs. But […]

Hiring for a Startup Is Like Dating

22 December, 2012

Original post by DAVID COHEN via WSJ We all know that startups are about people. That’s got to be your real competitive advantage. Great people will figure out the market and crush it. So how do you attract great people to your team early on when the risks are high and the pay is low? How do you […]

Tech City: An Insider’s Introduction to the People of the Roundabout

21 December, 2012

Original post by Reuben Sagar via SAP The past couple of weeks have been big ones in this small, traffic junction heavy part of London. Silicon Roundabout has cemented its position as the centre of the UK’s tech industry. And, under the joint auspices of David Cameron and Boris Johnson, the area will soon get a £50 […]