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Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are working on a new form of electronics encased in a stretchy, bendable casing that allows you to wrap leads around body parts and even sense strain and stress in buildings, airplanes, and other vehicles. The produce of the Department of Defense’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation… Read More... →

One of the most frustrating things about living in an urban high-rise building is the close quarters you are forced to share with neighbors. However, one startup is trying to turn this annoyance into a benefit by letting you utilize your network of neighbors to acquire services and goods. Founded in NYC, Tenant King believes that by connecting a user with neighbors in high-rise buildings,… Read More... →

As we approach the New Age, a thousand portents churn on the horizon. Dogs and cats begin living together. A man has found something he mislaid months before in a place he has already looked. And, as was written in days of old, the Laptop Butler would rise to hold our drinks to our laptops. But what is the Laptop Butler? It is a drink holder that attaches to your laptop. Why? So you can put… Read More... →

GUEST: I don’t know if I broke a law of computing or committed heresy.  But I installed Windows 10 on my Macbook Pro. I had feared that this would condemn me to computing hell.  But it has been an incredibly positive experience: My favorite Microsoft Office applications — Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint — work faster than […]... →

It’s all about taking care of the customer. That theme resonated through two onstage chats Monday afternoon at VentureBeat’s GrowthBeat 2015 conference in San Francisco. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) chief customer officer Laurie Giammona proudly told of all the customer-oriented efforts undertaken by her utility company. It sounded more like an anxious-to-please new age […]... →

Posted by David-MihmThose of you who have logged into your Moz Local dashboard recently may have noticed a few updates this week! I thought I’d post a quick announcement to highlight them. New distribution partners: Bing, Citysearch, and Insider PagesLong-time users of Moz Local know that we’ve been helping you examine listing accuracy on two of these sites (Bing Local and Citysearch) since the earliest days of the former GetListed product.Today we’re excited to announce that, in addition to monitoring, we’... →

A new patent granted to Google explains how high authority images are chosen for Knowledge Panels. The post New Patent Explains How Google Chooses Images for Knowledge Panels by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

One in four transgender people delay seeking healthcare due to discrimination, according to the National Center of Transgender Equality. A startup called MyTransHealth aims to address this with a website designed to help trans people access safe healthcare. The service, which will be free to use, was fully funded on Kickstarter, raising $30K, and will launch this fall in New York City, Miami… Read More... →

Facebook is testing the idea of turning its current Notes product into a long-form content platform. The post Facebook is Testing Its Own Medium-Like Content Platform by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

“Man, I sure hope I get to see a video of a massive robot stomping around a hiking trail today!” Your wish is my command, my friend. Read More... →

A relatively small group of people from underwriting banks on Wall Street define the market’s appetite for the year’s IPOs. And right now, sources say, those people are thinking happy thoughts about digital health and other health-related IPOs. Why now? The quick answer is that the most recent handful of health IPOs have been strong performers. Fitbit […]... →

Everyone wants to be free and standalone. Remember when Facebook Messenger got its own site that maybe people use but we’re not sure because they don’t talk about it? Google Hangouts wanted some of that action, too. Starting today you can go to http://hangouts.google.com to make a phone call or ping a friend: Interestingly enough, the product hasn’t broken away from the… Read More... →

The biggest problem with disrupting an industry is that you start an earthquake. And the after-shocks can bring you down as well. That was the subtext to the three opening onstage chats at VentureBeat’s GrowthBeat conference, which opened today in San Francisco. Appropriately enough, a moderate, early morning earthquake preceded the opening of the conference. […]... →

On the heels of our gallery looking into the best performing technology IPOs of the last twelve months, here is the other side of the spectrum, with help from CrunchBase data. Read More... →

If you convince all your friends to go to a concert, shouldn’t the promoter give you a discount? Now they can with The Ticket Fairy, a full-stack events marketing and analytics suite coming out of stealth from Y Combinator today. The Ticket Fairy’s goal is to make sure all its clients’ events sell out. Promoters let The Ticket Fairy sell their tickets, run their analytics,… Read More... →

The number one online travel marketplace, Priceline.com, has evolved its thinking about A/B testing to the point that the practice is more a state of mind than a periodic function. “We have a tendency to look at A/B testing as function,” Priceline.com’s chief product officer John Caine said at GrowthBeat Monday. “A/B is actually a discipline; […]... →

Директор по инвестициям фонда «ВЭБ Инновации» Анна Ненахова запустила центр корпоративных инноваций Next Capital. Согласно данным ЕГРЮЛ, компания зарегистрирована в ноябре 2014 года. Next Capital является оператором трека Power and Energy акселератора GeneratoinS, который был запущен при участии Российской Венчурной Компании (РВК). Как указано на сайте, задача Next Capital – оказать «комплексную поддержку специалистам, отвечающим в компаниях за инновационное развитие: от методик и подходов к организации и у... →

Need something to spark a bit of creativity this week? How about a super clever hack for Amazon’s $5, single-purpose Dash buttons? Originally meant to serve as a quick way to re-order household goods you order often (Order a lot of laundry detergent? Stick a Dash button on your washing machine, press it when you’re running low. Bam. Ordered.), Cloudstitch CTO Ted Benson has found… Read More... →

Индийский сервис продажи, аренды жилья и недвижимости Housing, инвестором которого является Юрий Мильнер, купил стартап HomeBuy360 за $2 млн. HomeBuy360 (Бангалор) предоставляет своим клиентам платформу для совершения сделок в сфере недвижимости. По собственным данным, компания сотрудничает с 70 застройщиками в семи городах Индии.   Housing планирует расширить и улучшить HomeBuy360 – и достичь за счет этого сотрудничества с 20 000 застройщиками. Компания также планирует обеспечить свое присутствие на террит... →

EXCLUSIVE: Startups need marketing as well as tech chops and cash. To help with the former, marketing automation platform Real Magnet is announcing a special program this week at VentureBeat’s GrowthBeat conference. Called Real Magnet for Startups, it provides several startup-optimized campaign templates as well as the platform’s regular tools at 50 percent off, plus a […]... →