TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012
I remember the unseasonal heat-wave that baked NYC last year at this time, and turned the Pier 94 hangar, the home to TechCrunch Disrupt, into …
Year: 2012
NJIT Pitch Event Attracts Startups on the Verge
I was at New Jersey Institute of Technology last Thursday for another round of Startupalooza. At this NJ-centric pitchathon, startups of a mostly medical or …
BetterCloud Gets Better with FlashPanel (and $2 million in seed money)
Earlier in the week, I chatted with BetterCloud‘s CEO, David Politis, to learn about their latest app. Called FlashPanel, it extends BetterCloud’s Google Apps portfolio–see …
Harvard Business Review Takes on Email
The HBR Blog Network is where we go to gain insights from our business elite. Their guest bloggers can be counted on to dispense advice …
Bloomberg TV Can Move into Comcast’s Nonexistent News Neigborhoods
Last summer, I wrote about the mind-numbingly tedious battle between Comcast and Bloomberg over whether Bloomberg’s news channel was being exiled to television Siberia in …
DevCamp Mobile NYC: Sphero Ball of Fun
One of the vendors who sponsored yesterday’s Mobile DevCamp NYC hackathon just happened to be Orbotix. They make a robotized plastic ball, known as Sphero, …
Yapp: Mobile App for Managing Events
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 …
AT&T-Verizon Infographic
Our friends at The Simple Dollar, a consumer-focused blog, have put together an infographic showing how AT&T and Verizon dominate the US wireless market. There’s …
David Lee of SV Angel Is a Theme Investor
I was at NYU’s Stern School last night to hear David Lee, founder of the super-angel investment company SV Angel. Together with Ron Conway, this …
FoundIt: Altruistic Entrepreneurs
Last week, I was lucky enough to stop by FoundIt’s table at NY Tech Day. FoundIt solves the problem of returning misplaced stuff–hats, scarves, mp3 …
Springtime for NY Tech Day
I was told by the organizers that NY Tech Day was initially expecting about 3000 visitors. But this “science fair” for (mostly) New York City-based …
ITP Shanghai to Begin in 2013
FYI: New York University’s ITP has moved back its plans to set up shop in Shanghai by a year. Midori Yasuda, ITP’s admission coordinator, said …
Mobile DevCamp NYC Deal for TvB Readers
We’re pleased to offer a special deal to students interested in Mobile DevCamp NYC. They can get a 20% discount off the ticket price. This …
NYC/NJ Hacker News
As a non-contributing member of the Hacker League, a community devoting to preserving those late night hacks for posterity, I get the benefit of receiving …
Mobile DevCamp NYC 2012 Accepting Campers
Our friends over at CodeFab run the annual Mobile DevCamp NYC hackathon. This year DevCamp Developers will gather during the weekend of April 28th to …
Back at the FCC: Maps and Meetups
I haven’t visited the FCC’s website in recent months. At least since the FCC’s Heimlich maneuver that forced AT&T to cough-up T-Mobile. While some in …
Hoboken As Startup Hub?
Could be. Our local technology press has lit up with a few announcements made at a conference held yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens …
NJ’s Answer to Groupon: PromoVerse’s Location-based Deal Finder
Can consumers keep straight another Groupon-clone in their short-term shopping memory? NJ-based PromoVerse has plans to enter the small business deal market with a geo-aware …
The Garbage Man of MIT
In Manhattan last Thursday night,I stopped by the NY Future Mobility Meetup at BMW’s iVentures HQ on Morton street. With Bavarian Motor Works the sponsor …