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Yapp was a mobile app I came across during one of my circumnavigations of the NY Tech Day show floor last week. This blog has a fondness for simple, effective software that can be mastered by small-biz types. Yapp fits … Continue reading →

One of the apps that got my attention at General Assembly’s Demo Night yesterday falls under the small business productivity tool category. It’s a genre we focus on here, so when Knack was introduced as “like Microsoft Access but on … Continue reading →

Can just about anyone develop a capable mobile app without any programming skills?. That is the question–or in pitch-speak, the real-world problem to solve–that several startups are currently exploring. Joining ShoutEm, EachScape, Mobile Roadie, and a few others, there’s now … Continue reading →

With Startup Weekend NYC Mobile rolling into town this weekend, I took advantage of a free demo from one of this event’s sponsors. Yesterday EachScape’s CEO Ludovic Collin proved to a room of coders, business types, and at least one … Continue reading →

I haven’t thought about Google’s App Inventor since it was thrown off Sergey and Larry’s bus this past summer. Yes, it does live on as an open source project at MIT’s Media Labs, but certainly the orphaning of AI has … Continue reading →

At a recent pitch event sponsored by The Hatchery, I thought one of the entrepreneurial pitchers received short shrift from the some of the judges. It ain’t easy having to explain what your company is about, and in the case … Continue reading →

Summer is here and the time is right for another Technoverse list of our favorite business apps. Our files are stuffed with notes from the last few months of attending trade shows and meetups, quizzing CEOs, and testing software in … Continue reading →

One eyebrow-raising moment at last night’s Hoboken Tech Meetup was when former Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau said that in his new gig at Lerer Ventures, he funds one company per week. It is a good time to be a … Continue reading →