Omate: iWatch competition?
It’s late summer, I’ve been mostly focusing on a fast-approaching vacation, and on my other channel, I’ve been ringing the church bells over privacy issues …
Brief note on StarSnap: You Oughta Be in Pictures
A little summer fun comes by way of an iPhone app that finds close enough matches of your selfie amongst celebrity photos. By the way, …
Brief Note on Anonymizer: Simple Secure Browsing
I’ve been busy working on my other channel where with each post I’ve become despairing of IT security. For your personal computing, you can take …
Talent Garden: Send Your Startup to Italy
We just heard from our friends at Talent Garden, the Italian co-working network, about some interesting news. Let’s say you’re part of a US-based startup …
TvB’s Favorite Summer Travel Apps: Paris Edition
Right about now the blog takes a break from its usual duties– scouring the sprawling TvB contact network to find the next “yo”–to focus on …
Waiting on Lima: Ups and Downs of Watching a Kickstarter Project
Almost a year ago I wrote about a Kickstarter project formerly known as Plug. They debuted just as the Snowden revelations about Prism were making …
CE Week 2014 Snapshot
I swooped into CE Week on Wednesday, and it was satisfying to see the show continue to evolve away from its A/V box roots. This …
CE Week NYC 2014
Blogging has been a light this month because I was slogging through some other assignments. We’ll be back at it again with CE Week returning …
The New Photojournalism: Brief Chat with Fresco’s John Meyer
Lord knows journalism needs help. Sure there’re promising green shoots: data-oriented journalism, the open data movement, and crowd-sourced reporting and analysis to name a few. …
Still More Tales from Startup Alley: Chat with Kloudless’s Elliot Sun
I wrote briefly about Kloudless’s service to rationalize the cloud for the biz world. I was still a little unclear about what they were doing …
Still More Tales From Startup Alley: Mailjet
In the last year, I’ve been seeing really high-quality work done by French and Belgium startups. Here’s another to add to that list. They’re called …
Pop-up Coworking Space in Newark
Newark may have lost the Bears (and are still paying the debt on the stadium), but as one proverbial door closes, another one opens. Brick …
Tales From Startup Alley: Klappo and Big Food Data
My Startup Alley blogging is a little delayed this year. My apologies to those who are still interested in the TechCrunch Disrupt event from two …
Tales from Startup Alley: Enigmedia
Enigmedia got my attention while I was wandering the aisle of Startup Alley. I spoke briefly wiht this Spanish company’s founder, Gerard Vidal. It’s his …
Tales from Startup Alley: Kloudless and Cloud Security
I was in email correspondence with Kloudless CEO Elliot Sun yesterday after he announced the official launch of their APIs from the Battlefield stage. What …
Tales from Startup Alley: MyMD
It looks like we’re in a mini-boomlet for webified patient information apps. Doctors can’t ignore the fact that their customers would prefer to communicate by …
Tales from Startup Alley: AirSig
AirSig gave one of my favoritest demos of the past several TechCrunch Disrupts. I met with the team behind this Taiwanese startup on Monday to …
Mana Health: Analog Health Records Turned into Digital Dashboards
For years we’ve been hearing about the promise of electronic health records. I for one look forward to the day when I don’t have to …
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014
Spring is in the air, and TC Disrupt will be back in town May 5 – May 7. Pre-event hackathon, battlefields, and Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer …
Shifu Gets Noticed
We heard some good news from our friends behind Shifu. They’re being featured in a world-wide promotional effort by the folks over at Google Play. …