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Bloomberg reports that the US Department of Justice has filed an anti-trust complaint against the AT&T-T-Mobile merger at the US District Court, District of Columbia.

Share With 911 was hatched earlier this month at NYC Startup Weekend. This crew is on a mission to capture and filter social media for any content related to an emergency or natural disaster, and then distribute it to first … Continue reading →

Where do all the geo-based startups gather to learn, mingle, and make presentations to each other? That would be the NYC Location-Based Apps Meetup, which held an event last night at the AOL HQ on lower Broadway. I came to … Continue reading →

Taking a break from a hard-to-start assignment, I scanned my Google Reader looking for a diversion. And then this improbable subject line appeared: “Federal Agencies to Improve Customer Service”. We’re no longer citizens, I thought for a second, but customers … Continue reading →

One of the remarkable things I learned talking to Yaron Samid, co-founder and CEO of BillGuard, is the level of credit card fraud that’s publicly reported on the Web. Currently in beta, BillGuard has a mission to catch both unwanted … Continue reading →

With everyone on vacation or preparing for vacation, the FCC released letters from our Congressional representatives regarding their feelings on the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile. None of the opinions express should come as a surprise to anyone following this debate. … Continue reading →

We are marginally approaching zero cost to launch a startup. Just to give a concrete example: FourSquare got to 100,000 active users on $20,000.

You should never pass up an opportunity to listen to Union Square Venture’s supremely confident Albert Wenger. Mine came last night when I attended an Entrepreneur’s Roundtable event in Manhattan. The ER group is a collection of mentoring entrepreneurs and investors … Continue reading →

Skanz is based on the proposition that QR-codes are more convenient than phone numbers and emails as a way to initially reveal contact information to strangers, business or social. I was introduced to the Skanz approach to human interactions at … Continue reading →

The Taap.it crew has been busy this month reaching out to the artist community in the NYC area. This Manhattan startup has a geo-aware mobile app—one of our small biz favorites—that brings together local buyers and sellers. Besides all the usual … Continue reading →