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 …
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Meddle Lowers the Bar for Corporate Content
According to the sages at Business Insider, social media doesn’t have a traditional ROI metric. This should surprise absolutely nobody. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t …
Open Garden and Google Glass
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to stop by and chat with Open Garden at TechCrunch Disrupt two weeks ago. They had interesting news about an enterprise …
And Still More from Startup Alley: make.tv’s Studio in the Cloud
Sure legacy network television may soon be wheeled off to an independent living facility. But internet TV is barely out of its crib as TV …
Still More Tales from Startup Alley: TouchToPay and Fingerprint Matching Technology
Over on another channel, I’ve occasionally written about biometric identification as it relates to privacy issues. Facial recognition matching software is an example of Minority …
More Tales from Startup Alley: phriz.be & occupy.here advocate ultra-local privacy
One of the micro themes in this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt was the emergence of privacy as a central part of an app’s value proposition. Sgrouples …
Tales from Hardware Alley: Extreme Fliers Launches Micro Drone 2.0
Unfortunately, TvB wasn’t able to visit TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday to witness teeny drones buzzing around Extreme Fliers‘ booth. This London-based company is completely focused …
Tales from Startup Alley: Privacy Reboot from Sgrouples
Some have said that privacy is dead in the era of social media. But privacy has not been completely tossed away. In recent years, the …
Tales from Startup Alley: Mention Shakes Up Content Monitoring
Mention answers the most important question of the moment: “what’s a good alternative to Google Alerts?” There are a bunch of possibilities here, but I’d …
Tales from Startup Alley: AppsBuilder, Bellissimo
There was a small, but significant Italian presence at TechCrunch Disrupt NY this year. I had a chance to meet with Luigi Giglio, CTO and …
Tales from Startup Alley: WebKite
I would have almost passed by WebKite had it not been for Eric Silver’s advanced tech-event floor skills: WebKite’s founder cleverly got my attention by …
Tales from Startup Alley: Glide
Will Glide bring casual mobile video messaging to the masses? This Jerusalem based– I know, I did a double-take when I heard that as well—startup …