Quem anda de táxi em grandes cidades brasileiras assistiu a uma transformação no mercado nacional com o lançamento de aplicativos nos últimos três anos. Eles chegaram com a promessa de encontrar um carro rapidamente para os passageiros que pedisse…
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segunda-feira, 21 de abril de 2014
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5 American Entrepreneurs Doing Good Business Natalia Angulo,...
5 American Entrepreneurs Doing Good Business
Natalia Angulo, entrepreneur.comThese American entrepreneurs are merging business with compassion and heart to create jobs and provide communities across the globe a chance to earn a living wage. Here are their stories.
1. Nisolo Image credit:…
Brand During a Startup’s Infancy for Maximum Impact Stew...
Brand During a Startup’s Infancy for Maximum Impact
Stew Langille, entrepreneur.comOne of the most common questions entrepreneurs ask is how to build their brand. The short answer? Tell your brand’s story in a way that resonates with your audience.
A successful marketing strategy should answer three main questions…
A Guide to the Best Times to Post on Social Media...
A Guide to the Best Times to Post on Social Media (Infographic)
Kristin Piombino, entrepreneur.comDo you post social-media updates when your audience has the highest chance of seeing them, or just whenever you think of it or happen to have a free minute?
If you aren’t posting to a social media site when most of your audience members…
Why You Have to Generate Your Own Data Scott Anthony,...
Why You Have to Generate Your Own Data
Scott Anthony, hbr.orgThis is it. You’ve aligned calendars and will have all the right decision-makers in the room. It’s the moment when they either decide to give you resources to begin to turn your innovative idea into reality, or send you back to the drawing board. …
Domino’s Pizza will now let you pay with Google Wallet,...
Domino’s Pizza will now let you pay with Google Wallet, give you free chicken
Derek Kessler, androidcentral.comDomino’s pizza has been a vanguard of mobile pizza ordering, what with their Android app that lets you order on the go — and now they’re going even more mobile with Google Wallet support. Announced this morning, the app has been updated to support…
Apple looking to hire senior execs for mobile payment...
Apple looking to hire senior execs for mobile payment technology
electronista.comApple has been conducting interviews of senior payment industry executives in a bid to build up a mobile payment platform, sources say. The company is allegedly talking to candidates for two positions, one as head of product and another as head of…
How better Wi-Fi will help Burger King sell more burgers -...
How better Wi-Fi will help Burger King sell more burgers - Multichannel retail support
mobilecommercedaily.comBurger King dials up in-store mobile efforts
Burger King’s in-store Wi-Fi upgrade has big implications for how quick-service chains not only plan to better control mobile payments, but also cre …
Apple Continues Pursuing Mobile Payment Solution, Seeking to...
Apple Continues Pursuing Mobile Payment Solution, Seeking to Hire Industry Executives
MacRumors, aivanet.comApple is continuing with its plans to introduce a mobile payments service and has began interviewing senior payments industry executives to take on roles within the company, reports Re/code.
Apple is looking to fill two new positions,…
Rede social Daily Pet permite criar diário virtual dos bichos de estimação
Paulo Floro, uol.com.br
O amor dos donos por seus bichos é frequentemente expressado na web. Agora, o Daily Pet vai permitir que os animais tenham um perfil online além de seus donos. A rede social permite o registro das datas de vacinas, consultas … Continuar lendo →The…
Food Network delves into quantified eating by buying Food on the...
Food Network delves into quantified eating by buying Food on the Table
Kevin Fitchard, gigaom.comFood Network has slowly been evolving its digital strategy over the years, moving away from using the web and mobile to just tease its cable programming toward creating original content and apps. It looks like that strategy may ta…
sábado, 19 de abril de 2014
BB e Bradesco lançam empresa para facilitar compras online Da...
BB e Bradesco lançam empresa para facilitar compras online
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comO Banco do Brasil (BB) e o Bradesco, por meio da sua controlada Companhia Brasileira de Soluções e Serviços (CBSS), lançam hoje (16) a Stelo, empresa de meios eletrônicos de pagamentos que vai administrar, operar e explorar os segmentos de…
Aplicativo organiza fotos armazenadas em smartphones Da redação...
Aplicativo organiza fotos armazenadas em smartphones
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comO aplicativo foi lançado pela Covworks (Foto: Divulgação)Os álbuns de fotos nos smartphones estão cada vez mais comuns, mas a organização de todas essas imagens ainda deixa muita gente perdida. Para solucionar essa questão, a Covworks lançou um…
Entrepreneurs’ highs and lows By Tony Bonsignore Business...
Entrepreneurs’ highs and lows
By Tony Bonsignore Business reporter, BBC News, bbc.co.ukMillions of people dream of starting their own company, but only some are brave enough to take the leap.
Fewer still go on to great success.
Talking to BBC Radio 5 live’s On the Money, some of the UK’ …
Entrepreneurs’ highs and lows By Tony Bonsignore Business...
Entrepreneurs’ highs and lows
By Tony Bonsignore Business reporter, BBC News, bbc.co.ukMillions of people dream of starting their own company, but only some are brave enough to take the leap.
Fewer still go on to great success.
Talking to BBC Radio 5 live’s On the Money, some of the UK’ …
Boo, o cão que ensina a construir uma marca Da redação de...
Boo, o cão que ensina a construir uma marca
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comA vida de Boo inspirou até livro (Foto: Reprodução)Eu tenho cachorro. Provavelmente, você, leitor, ou alguém da sua família também tem um. O meu é lindo. Além do cão, tenho uma gata de 15 anos. Muito bonita também. Mas nunca me ocorreu fazer deles…
Novo marketplace de moda foca em estilistas nacionais Da redação...
Novo marketplace de moda foca em estilistas nacionais
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comRafael estava à procura de um negócio online para empreender (Foto: Divulgação)A cunhada de Rafael Guandalini é estilista. Ela tentou ter um e-commerce próprio para vender suas coleções, mas não conseguiu – e acabou pedindo a ajuda dele, formado e…
quinta-feira, 17 de abril de 2014
The App Developers Alliance Wants to Help You Build Smash-Hit Apps
Will Schmidt, tech.co
“The App Strategy Workshops are a no-brainer to attend,” says attendee Red Russak. “You come in and find all of the right people and all of the right resources in the same place. You can’t beat that.”The App Strategy Workshops are part of a 15-eve…
Inspiration Is Divine, But Totally Insufficient BY Ilan Mochari...
Inspiration Is Divine, But Totally Insufficient
BY Ilan Mochari @IlanMochari, inc.comOften, entrepreneurs are inspired to launch companies because they can’t find the products they’re looking for. But inspiration is only a first step. It’s what comes next that matters most.
In 1976, Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of App…
Hello Doctor Is An Easy Way To Save Medical Files Catherine Shu,...
Hello Doctor Is An Easy Way To Save Medical Files
Catherine Shu, techcrunch.comHello Doctor wants to rescue patients and caregivers from the nightmare of having to wrangle piles of medical paperwork. The free app, which won a fall 2013 DEMO God award, just launched on iPhone to complement its existing iPad…
Livefyre Takes A New Approach To Commenting With Web Annotation...
Livefyre Takes A New Approach To Commenting With Web Annotation Product Sidenotes
Anthony Ha, techcrunch.comOnline comments are usually cordoned off at the bottom of a page, but Livefyre is hoping to bring them into the content itself with the launch of a new product called Sidenotes.
Basically, it’s a product that allows visitors to…
Storefront, Airbnb for Retail Spaces, Raises $7.3 Million
By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com
Sometimes copying the concept of a start-up and changing the idea slightly can lead to astoundingly unoriginal companies.
But sometimes these variations can work. This is the case for Storefront, which is the equivalent of an…
App.io Turns iOS Apps Into Playable Mobile Ads Sarah Perez,...
App.io Turns iOS Apps Into Playable Mobile Ads
Sarah Perez, techcrunch.comApp.io, a startup offering tools that allow iOS applications to run in the browser for testing or demo purposes, has now taken the next logical step: it’s bringing its technology the world of mobile advertising. With the company’…
Amazon acquires Comixology, the world’s most popular digital...
Amazon acquires Comixology, the world’s most popular digital comics platform
Jacob Siegal, bgr.comAmazon announced on Thursday that it will acquire Comixology, the most popular digital comic platform on the market. Comixology shot up the download charts when it first hit the iPad, bringing comic books from all of the top publishers to screens…
Lending Startup Fundbox Raises $17.5M From Khosla To Help SMBs...
Lending Startup Fundbox Raises $17.5M From Khosla To Help SMBs Improve Cash Flow
Leena Rao, techcrunch.comFundbox, a startup that helps SMBs improve cash flow from clients, has raised $17.5 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures with SV Angel, Vikram Pandit, former CEO of Citigroup; Tom Glocer, former CEO of Thomson Reuters; Jay…
Big Bucks for Dinner Delivery Service Munchery: $28 Million Led...
Big Bucks for Dinner Delivery Service Munchery: $28 Million Led by Sherpa
Liz Gannes, recode.netMunchery, a dinner delivery service that has so far only launched in the San Francisco Bay Area, now has $28 million in Series B funding.
It’s the first venture investment from Sherpa Ventures, the new firm from former Menlo Ventur…
AppDirect’s app store for enterprise grabs $35M to grow, grow,...
AppDirect’s app store for enterprise grabs $35M to grow, grow, grow
John Koetsier, venturebeat.comInstalling software-as-a-service enterprise apps may never get as simple as installing an app on your personal smartphone, but it’s getting closer.
$35 million closer, in fact.
AppDirect, a cloud service marketplace that aggregat…
Dropbox: Ok, now we’re really serious about the...
Dropbox: Ok, now we’re really serious about the enterprise and collaboration
Barb Darrow, gigaom.comDropbox has rewritten its popular namesake file-share application to be more enterprise friendly. The goal here to reassure businesses that Dropbox for Business is indeed to be trusted with corporate content and, oh by the way, g…
Quora Wants To Stay Independent, Raises $80M Series C From Tiger...
Quora Wants To Stay Independent, Raises $80M Series C From Tiger Global At ~$900M Valuation
Josh Constine, techcrunch.comStartups get acquired and shut down. That threat could scare people out of writing deep answers on Quora’s Q&A site. So it’s just raised an $80 million Series C because “We specifically want to stay independent for the long-term,” Quora C…
Wattpad Raises $46M From OMERS Ventures And Others To Grow Its...
Wattpad Raises $46M From OMERS Ventures And Others To Grow Its Social Publishing Network
Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.comSocial writing platform and writer’s network Wattpad has been at it for a while now, and they’ve quietly amassed a massive user base that engages regularly with the site, posting their own stories and reading the stories of others, a…
Day Flow for iPhone is a simple time-tracker that helps you...
Day Flow for iPhone is a simple time-tracker that helps you visualize your efficiency
Paul Sawers, thenextweb.comWhile there’s no shortage of general productivity tools in the App Store, Day Flow has thrown its hat into the time-management ring with a nice little iPhone app to help track what you do with your days. Here’s how it works.
Things kick …
Following GrubHub IPO, Online Food Ordering Platform EatStreet...
Following GrubHub IPO, Online Food Ordering Platform EatStreet Raises $6 Million
Sarah Perez, techcrunch.comEatStreet, an online and mobile food ordering service which initially gained traction by targeting secondary markets across the U.S., has now raised an additional $6 million in Series B funding. The round included participation…
Waze CEO confirms Google paid $1.15B for the company, hints that...
Waze CEO confirms Google paid $1.15B for the company, hints that investors forced the deal
Jon Russell, thenextweb.comGoogle completed its acquisition of Waze last June, but only now has the price tag that it paid for the Israel-headquartered social mapping startup and a hint at why the company sold out been revealed.
A blog post on LinkedIn from Noam…
E-Learning Platform Lynda.com Buys Compilr To Add In-Browser...
E-Learning Platform Lynda.com Buys Compilr To Add In-Browser Coding Tools, Price Around $20M
Ingrid Lunden, techcrunch.comLynda.com, the online education platform that raised its first and only round of $103 million about a year ago, is today announcing an acquisition that will further Lynda.com’s reach with developers and expand the kinds of services it c…
Just Eat, a global GrubHub, IPOs at $2.45B Dylan Baker,...
Just Eat, a global GrubHub, IPOs at $2.45B
Dylan Baker, TechCityNews, venturebeat.comJUST EAT, an online food ordering/food delivery service comparable to GrubHub, saw its share price briefly rise more than 10 percent on its opening day of trading in the London Stock Exchange.
The IPO listed the shares at 260 pence,…
The Mobile Web Is Dead, It’s All About Apps Jay Yarow,...
The Mobile Web Is Dead, It’s All About Apps
Jay Yarow, businessinsider.comEveryone is freaking out about this chart from mobile analytics company Flurry on Twitter today. It shows people spend 86% of their time on iOS and Android devices in apps. The mobile browser only accounts for 14% of our time now. A year…
Appiterate Raises Seed Funding From SAIF Partners, Joins Growing...
Appiterate Raises Seed Funding From SAIF Partners, Joins Growing List Of A/B Testing Startups
Pankaj Mishra, techcrunch.comTesting design and content features on-the-go to identify what users want is nothing new — it’s over a decade old process used by Google (and now Facebook among several others) to tell which products are likely to succeed.
While bot…
Mobile app monetization: Freemium is king, but in-app ads are...
Mobile app monetization: Freemium is king, but in-app ads are growing fast
John Koetsier, venturebeat.comFreemium revenue for mobile apps was up 211 percent last year, according to a new report from mobile analytics company App Annie and IDC.
Clearly, free is working.
While a fairly strong majority — 83 percent of the top thousand…
Sprig Raises $10M From Greylock To Bring Healthy, Inexpensive...
Sprig Raises $10M From Greylock To Bring Healthy, Inexpensive Meals To Your Door
Leena Rao, techcrunch.comSprig, a food delivery service that brings healthy, inexpensive meals to San Francisco residents’ doors, has raised $10 million in Series A funding from Greylock Partners with Battery Ventures and Accel participating. As part of …
segunda-feira, 14 de abril de 2014
12 Very Useful Apps For Getting Stuff Done At Work Ryan Bushey,...
12 Very Useful Apps For Getting Stuff Done At Work
Ryan Bushey, businessinsider.comThere never seems to be enough time during the day to get everything done at work.
Projects keep piling up, phone calls never stop, and meetings never end.
Sometimes all you need is an app to keep you motivated.
We’ve rounded up the …
How Founder Control Holds Back Start-ups
Walter Frick, hbr.org
After enterprise tech start-up Box filed to go public last month, revealing founder Aaron Levie’s remaining stake to be just over 4% (plus stock options), commentators seemed compelled to note just how much control the 28-year-old founder had give…
London buses will go cashless on 6 July Kashmira Gander,...
London buses will go cashless on 6 July
Kashmira Gander, independent.co.ukTfL made the announcement after it held a consulation on the idea last year
From 6 July it will no longer be possible to hop on a London bus and pay with cash, the capital’s transport body has co …
Financial Inclusion: Is The Next Big Thing One Electronic Payment Away?
Amy Rosen, forbes.com
With world markets growing and technology and travel pulling us all closer together in an economic patchwork, too many people are sitting on the sidelines, idle. Most often, those on the sidelines are young people, women and…
Will Apple’s first maneuver in mobile payment checkmate...
Will Apple’s first maneuver in mobile payment checkmate competitors?
Daniela, mediabuzz.com.sgNo other company is as closely examined and observed as Apple. With all eyes on each move it takes, there is certainly room for all kinds of rumors and speculation that fuel again news and im …
Mobile Payment
Mobile payment service prepares to launch
Yorkshire Post
Similar mobile payment services already exist, but the Payments Council, which is overseeing the initiative, says this is the first …
Mobile Payment Systems | Edmonton Business Community, Startups...
Mobile Payment Systems | Edmonton Business Community, Startups & Entrepreneurs
Alpana Mandal, b2bconnectedmonton.comDesktops are already dying a brutal death at the hands of hand held devices and looks like laptops are next. The banking space has evolved from traditional banking practices to net banking a …
The Remarkable Story Of How Alibaba Defeated eBay In...
The Remarkable Story Of How Alibaba Defeated eBay In China
Jillian D’Onfro, businessinsider.comAlibaba, the enormous Chinese e-commerce company, is about to file for an IPO in the U.S.
But one of the most crucial time periods in the company’s history came in the early 2000s, when the still-new Alibaba battled out with the…
Startup cria frente de caixa feita com...
Startup cria frente de caixa feita com tablet
meioemensagem.com.brDe olho nos pequenos e médios varejos que não têm a frente de caixa automatizada, a pinGObox, startup criada por Felipe Lachowski, criou uma ferramenta também batizada como pinGObox. O produto contém tablet, caixa registradora, impressora fiscal e…
Facebook quer oferecer serviços financeiros on-line
O Facebook se prepara para oferecer serviços financeiros aos usuários da rede social, de acordo com o jornal Financial Times. A rede social mais popular do mundo aguarda a aprovação do Banco Central da Irlanda para lançar uma ferramenta que permit…
How to Act Like a Startup, Even When You’re Not BY EO...
How to Act Like a Startup, Even When You’re Not
BY EO @EntrepreneurOrg, inc.comJust because you’ve grown into a big company doesn’t mean you have to let go of your roots
Being an entrepreneur means never having to be corporate. But growing companies can be susceptible to changes in their environment. How do …
Empreendedor e investidor desde a primeira década da Internet...
Empreendedor e investidor desde a primeira década da Internet segue confiante no mercado brasileiro
Diego Remus, ig.com.brSergio Kulikovsky, atual CEO da empresa de cartões de crédito pré-pagos Acesso, já tem uma longa trajetória com computadores, Internet, investidores e empreendedorismo. Mais longa e mais diversa do que muitos da geração conseguem imaginar.Linha do…
Facebook prestes a se tornar um PayPal? Kaluan Bernardo,...
Facebook prestes a se tornar um PayPal?
Kaluan Bernardo, ig.com.brO Facebook estaria trabalhando para lançar um serviço onde os usuários podem armazenar e transferir dinheiro entre si. A informação é do Financial Times, que diz que a rede social está próxima de conquistar aprovação na Irlanda, onde várias das…
Aplicativos ajudam a combater fraudes em operação de crédito -...
Aplicativos ajudam a combater fraudes em operação de crédito - Tecnologia - O Dia
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Cruzamento de informações nas redes sociais permite a instituições financeiras identificar falsidade de dados
Rodrigo Carro rodrigo.carro@brasileco …
Empreendedorismo, Negócios e Inovação Endeavor Brasil,...
Empreendedorismo, Negócios e Inovação
Endeavor Brasil, endeavor.org.brArtigos
Estratégia & Crescimento
Um desabafo do empreendedor sobre a burocracia no Brasil.
Gente & Gestão
Toda organização, para ser duradoura, precisa tornar explícitas as crenças, os valores e as …
Dinheirama Entrevista: Benjamin Gleason e Thiago Alvarez, fundadores do GuiaBolso.com
Ricardo Pereira, dinheirama.com
Quem começa a levar em conta a importância da educação financeira percebe como é fundamental obedecer alguns mandamentos importantes: um deles diz respeito à necessidade de implementar, no dia a dia, alguns controles para conhecer melhor os gastos…
quinta-feira, 10 de abril de 2014
The decline of the mobile webnonchalantrepreneur.com People are...
The decline of the mobile web
nonchalantrepreneur.comPeople are spending more time on mobile vs desktop:And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web:This is a worrisome trend for the web. Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, wins the Internet. Right now, apps are winning and the web is…
Startup apresenta protótipo para recarregar bateria de celular...
Startup apresenta protótipo para recarregar bateria de celular em 30 segundos
Guilherme Felitti, globo.comA startup isaraelense StoreDot apresentou um produto que promete carregar totalmente a bateria de um smartphone em trinta segundos. A tecnologia, apresentada durante a conferência Think Next, da Microsoft, ainda é um protótipo. Em entrevista ao…
Atlassian, Now Worth $3.3 Billion, Is Helping Employees Pocket...
Atlassian, Now Worth $3.3 Billion, Is Helping Employees Pocket $150 Million
Julie Bort, businessinsider.comWhile the tech world wrings its hands over how much money an IPO-bound tech company can lose in the name of sales and marketing, enterprise software company Atlassian has grown into a profitable company valued at $3.3 billion.
Now …
Esta startup quer solucionar o maior problema dos...
Esta startup quer solucionar o maior problema dos wearables
Victor Caputo, de EXAME.com, abril.com.brA Ineda diz ter criado um processador que consome tão pouca energia que um relógio inteligente feito com ele funcionaria 30 dias sem recarga de bateria
São Paulo – Uma empresa quase desconhecida está prometendo revolucionar o mercado de tecnolog…