Africa’s Mobile Payment Movement Empowers Populations Long Ignored by Traditional Banks
Christopher Smith, iphonelife.comI was recently involved in a spirited discussion with a couple of people online. The subject? The perception that African countries are somehow lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of technological innovation. I argued…
Android Is Top Dog in Mobile Ad Traffic
connectedworldmag.comAndroid Is Top Dog in Mobile Ad Traffic
5/12/2014Shakeups are exciting. In sports, we often root for the underdog. In politics, a change of order can mean forward progress. In business, it mea …
WEARABLE APPS: Inside The Race To Create A New App Ecosystem
Tony Danova, businessinsider.comAnd without apps, there’s little reason to buy wearables.
For developers, the wearables landscape is far too fragmented, and this means dealing with a different software development kit (SDKs) or API (application programming…
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…
Amazon Dash Lets You Scan or Speak to Order Groceries From Home
Lisa Raphael, brit.coThis may look like a simple little gadget, but it’s about to turn all of your G-rated, supermarket-related fantasies into blissful realities. Yes, the ones you had when you were little and liked to “play” grocery store at home and …
Cooper Smith, businessinsider.com
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Good news for Texas startups: LiveOak closes $109M fund
Tom Cheredar, venturebeat.comTexas is busting at the seams with new startups and a growing pool of tech talent. And today, those Texans have another firm to pitch when raising money.
Austin, Texas-based venture firm LiveOak Venture Partners closed a new $109 mill…
Saiba o que as incubadoras podem fazer pelo seu negócio
globo.comSaiba o que as incubadoras podem fazer pelo seu negócio
O que incubadoras e aceleradoras podem fazer pelo seu negócio? Qual momento de alçar voo sozinho e encarar até uma bolsa de valores? Quais erros que estas empresas que tentam se…
Product Development Tips and Tools
21212.comAt 21212, our product development department team works closely with our startups, focusing on designing new and innovative products with visual impact and powerful user experience. We divide product development into four parts: Analysis, Branding…
21212 on Exame and Mundo S/A this week
admin, 21212.com21212 and some of its startups were featured this week on Revista Exame – one of the most prominent Brazilian magazines that specializes in economics and business – and Mundo S/A – Globonews’ TV show focused on business. Both stories are focused o…
Lyndsey Gilpin, zdnet.com
From interactive drink menus to innovative payment systems, companies are always experimenting with fresh uses for tablets. Here are some of the most interesting examples.
How we’re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup
joel.isI think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years since I started Buffer as a very simple Minimum Viable Produ…
REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann, abril.com.br
A marca representa também um crescimento de 51% em relação a abril de 2013, ou 51 milhões de novas conexões nos últimos 12 meses
São Paulo - Graças ao crescimento das redes 3G e 4G, a banda larga no Brasil ultrapassou os 150 milhões de…
Don’t Let Your Big Personality Stand in the Way of the Startup’s Success
Tom Sult, entrepreneur.comThere’s the old saying that you hand a man a fish, he eats for one day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. Entrepreneurs are very good at doing all the fishing themselves but often fail miserably at teaching the art of fishi…
How Tech Companies Tricked A Generation Into Working For Free
Michael Thomsen, forbes.comLast month Apple announced it would open beta testing access for its soon-to-be-revealed version of OS X to anyone with a compatible computer. Once a process reserved for a limited number of developers operating under non-disclosure…
Don’t Let Your Big Personality Stand in the Way of the Startup’s Success
Tom Sult, entrepreneur.comThere’s the old saying that you hand a man a fish, he eats for one day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. Entrepreneurs are very good at doing all the fishing themselves but often fail miserably at teaching the art of fishi…
How Tech Companies Tricked A Generation Into Working For Free
Michael Thomsen, forbes.comLast month Apple announced it would open beta testing access for its soon-to-be-revealed version of OS X to anyone with a compatible computer. Once a process reserved for a limited number of developers operating under non-disclosure…
Motivação e bom relacionamento são importantes para sucesso da empresa
globo.comBom relacionamento e reconhecimento são fatores que motivam no trabalho. As empresas estão apostando em novos tipos de gestões, sem o chefe, com um time autogerenciável.
94 Percent of People Think Buying From Small Businesses is Important
Joshua Sophy, smallbiztrends.comYou may be happy to know that the majority of people think it’s important to frequent and buy from small businesses.An annual survey conducted by The UPS Store found that 94 percent of Americans believe shopping at small businesses is important. A…
Inside Jobs: What It Takes To Be The PR Lead At A Startup
Colleen Taylor, techcrunch.comSo it was a big pleasure to sit down with Johnny Brackett, the PR lead at TaskRabbit, and have him step into the spotlight for a little while to find out what his day to day work life is like for this week’s episode of Inside Jobs.
I…
Inside Jobs: What It Takes To Be The PR Lead At A Startup
Colleen Taylor, techcrunch.comSo it was a big pleasure to sit down with Johnny Brackett, the PR lead at TaskRabbit, and have him step into the spotlight for a little while to find out what his day to day work life is like for this week’s episode of Inside Jobs.
I…
Inside Jobs: What It Takes To Be The PR Lead At A Startup
Colleen Taylor, techcrunch.comSo it was a big pleasure to sit down with Johnny Brackett, the PR lead at TaskRabbit, and have him step into the spotlight for a little while to find out what his day to day work life is like for this week’s episode of Inside Jobs.
I…
Inside Jobs: What It Takes To Be The PR Lead At A Startup
Colleen Taylor, techcrunch.comSo it was a big pleasure to sit down with Johnny Brackett, the PR lead at TaskRabbit, and have him step into the spotlight for a little while to find out what his day to day work life is like for this week’s episode of Inside Jobs.
I…
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 - MundoBit - O blog de Tecnologia do Portal NE10
uol.com.brO 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 dat …
Forget the Strategy PowerPoint
John P. Kotter, hbr.orgI have for decades watched CEOs and other executives try to explain a corporate strategy to a small group of senior managers or to a much larger group of staff. For the most part, it has not been a pretty sight. In the case of senior managers, I…
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…
Andrew Winston, hbr.org
George Carlin always called people on their BS. He once railed against the idea of “saving the earth,” pointing out that the Earth will be fine with or without us. “The planet isn’t going anywhere. We are! … The planet’ll shake us off like …
New Payments Startups Face An Uphill Battle To Disrupt The Credit Card Processing Industry
The credit card industry processes a massive volume of transactions — about $4 trillion this y …
Delivery Hero Gobbles Another $85M To Fuel A Price War With Just-Eat
Ingrid Lunden, techcrunch.comOn the heels of online food delivery company Just-Eat’s successful IPO in London earlier this month, its big, still-private rival Delivery Hero has raised another mammoth round of funding: a Series F of $85 million, led by a “6 billi…
`Syndicate`, uma forma de compartilhar o risco ao investir em startups
João Kepler Braga, ig.com.brO crowdfunding já não é novidade no Brasil e muitos projetos tem conseguido apoio através dessa modalidade. Nessa mesma linha de raciocínio de funding coletivo, o financiamento Syndicate ou Co-Investimento começa a despontar no Brasil como …
5 Crazy Payment Practices We Accept as Totally Normal
Alex Detmering, ripple.comMobile payment technology in 2014. Photo: Mike YingHumans are a curious lot, with our incredible ability to adapt to nearly any situation—good or bad. It’s a useful trait most of the time—such as when you have a mysterious stench emanating from yo…
“Se você acredita no bem que faz, sua empresa tem mais chances de durar”
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comCom 16 anos, Chris Arnold decidiu que queria mudar o mundo. E agora ele o faz empreendendo (Foto: Fernando Conrado)Aos 16 anos, o britânico Chris Arnold parecia estar fadado a se tornar mais um jovem problemático e sem perspectivas de sucesso para…
O futuro das franquias brasileiras está nas cidades pequenas e no exterior
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comCongresso Internacional de Franchising ABF discute rumos do setor (Foto: Divulgacão)O futuro do mercado de franquias é a expansão para o interior do Brasil e para grandes cidades de outros países. Essa foi a conclusão da mesa que discutiu o panora…
BNDES tem R$ 8,8 bilhões para inovação, diz Coutinho
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comSegundo o presidente do BNDES, é importante a ação do banco no sentido de financiar as empresas com juros adequados com o prazo de produção (Foto: shutterstock)O presidente do BNDES, Luciano Coutinho, disse nesta quinta-feira, 25, durante inaugura…
E-commerce de perfumes conquista aporte para montar loja física
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comKatia Beauchamp e Hayley Barna, co-fundadoras da da Birchbox (Foto: Divulgação)A popular loja online de produtos de beleza Birchbox, dos Estados Unidos, anunciou a conquista de um aporte de US$ 60 milhões. O recurso, liderado pela Viking Global…
"Máquina" transforma jornal velho em papel de presente em Hong Kong
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comA transformação do jornal é feita por pessoas, que trabalham dentro do Instant Newspaper Recycler (Foto: Divulgação)Surgiu uma festa surpresa. Na correria, você comprou uma lembrancinha e confiou que haveria papel em casa para embrulhar o presente…
Alto-falante memoriza gosto do usuário para oferecer músicas
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comO equipamento tem um design simples, com um botão no meio que serve para dar play e pausar as músicas (Foto: Divulgação)Uma nova geração de alto-falante oferece uma música diferente cada vez que é girado pelo usuário e ainda usa algoritmos para…
Aplicativo de caronas brasileiro vai funcionar em cidades da Copa
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comA equipe da Zaznu do Rio de Janeiro: Daniel Endebo, Aline Viriato, Sagiv Ofek, Mariana Castilho e Yuri Faber (acima) (Foto: Divulgação)Com menos de um mês de vida, a Zaznu recebe cerca de mil visitantes por dia em seu site e ficou duas vezes entre…
Brasileiro é escolhido “Empreendedor do Ano em Publicações Digitais”
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comRicardo Almeida, vencedor do Young Creative Entrepreneur (YCE) de 2014 (Foto: Divulgação)Ricardo Almeida, cofundador e diretor-presidente da plataforma brasileira de autopublicação gratuita de livros Clube de Autores, foi o vencedor do Young Creat…
Loja online de roupas propõe devolução imediata de peças que não serviram
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comO serviço de troca custa 9,95 euros e é gratuito para pedidos acima de 250 euros (Foto: Divulgação)Para os consumidores, uma das coisas mais chatas de comprar roupas online é encarar a decepção de que a peça não serviu como se imaginava. A empresa…
4 cuidados que empreendedores devem tomar com a Copa do Mundo
Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.comNegociar estoque consignado com fornecedores é uma das alternativas (Foto: Wiki Commons)Donos de negócios já começaram a contagem regressiva para a Copa do Mundo no Brasil, que será realizada em junho. Empreendedores de todas as áreas, principalme…
Big Changes to AdWords: What You NEED to Know
Internet Marketing Software - WordStream, slideshare.netFor more information, visit http://ift.tt/1g9gFg9 made big announcement on Tuesday April 22, 2014 announcing 10+ new AdWords products, features, and research studies that they have been working on over the past year.In this free webin…
Como fazer Marketing para startups com baixo orçamento (Terceiro Turno #08)
Terceiro Turno, ig.com.brNo terceiro episódio de 2014, discutimos no Terceiro Turno sobre como fazer um bom trabalho de Marketing com pouca grana. Quando começamos uma startup, uma das maiores dificuldades é ter dinheiro para investir em Marketing. Conheça algumas dicas e…
Food Ordering Site Delivery.com Expands To Hong Kong
Catherine Shu, techcrunch.comDelivery.com is launching outside the U.S. for the first time with a new site in Hong Kong that provides online food ordering and delivery to corporate consumers. The company is backed with an undisclosed amount of venture capital fr…
Data Doesn’t Speak for Itself
Thomas C. Redman, hbr.orgI trained as a statistician and first joined Bell Labs in the network performance group. A year or two after I started, it was time for my first big presentation at AT&T Headquarters. I completed my prep well in advance and rehearsed carefully. Th…
9 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Validated Their Business Idea
Anand Srinivasan, entrepreneur.comPaul Graham wrote a pretty comprehensive essay on business idea generation two years ago. He emphasized the dangers of coming up with an idea for a business that nobody wants.
“Why do so many founders build things no one wants?” he…
MIT divulgou quem são os 10 jovens brasileiros mais inovadores
Baixaki Downloads, tecmundo.com.brPara entrar nessa lista, é necessário ter menos de 35 anos e ter projetos promissores na sua própria área de atuação
The 7 Stages of Business Travel Stress
Scott Berinato, hbr.orgHow stressful is business travel? Very. Especially if you’re a female vice president. We know this because Michael Segalla and Dominique Rouziès of HEC Paris teamed up with Catalin Ciobanu and Vincent Lebunetel of Carlson Wagonlit Travel to survey…
Michael Schrage, hbr.org
Running a truly innovative company means constantly improving your innovation culture and process. Running a successful innovation ecosystem, however, demands more. Successful innovation ecosystems make people outside the company measurably smarte…
Linette Lopez, businessinsider.com
In 1997 Michael Pascucci sold the car leasing business he founded in the 1970s for $650 million.
The business, Oxford Resources, was one of the first of its kind and helped to make Pascucci a millionaire. Since then, he’s started mor…
Consumer Physics’ $150 smartphone spectrometer can tell the number of calories in your food
Kif Leswing, gigaom.comWould you like to be able to look up the calorie content of the specific apple you’re eating? You could take it to a lab and run it through a spectrometer, but accurate spectrometers are huge, expensive machines that are often only ow…
Kira M. Newman, tech.co
At the Facebook Developers Conference f8 today, Facebook announced the launch of a support program for mobile startups called FbStart.Startups building iOS and Android apps can apply to the program, which includes thousands of dollars of tools and…
6 Great Business Models to Consider for a Startup
Peter S. Cohan, entrepreneur.comPeople often throw around the term business model in discussing startups.
But just what is a business model? Which ones work best and why? How do you know if your startup has the right one?
A business model explains which consumer pain…
App Analytics And Personalisation Platform, Liquid, Raises $1M And Opens Public Beta
Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.comLiquid, a startup with an app analytics platform that lets developers dynamically serve different versions of their app based on whose eyeballs are looking, has closed a $1 million seed round, with investment coming from Faber…
How Teens Are Making Money Off Novelty Twitter Accounts
vice.comPhoto: Shutterstock
At first glance, the Twitter account @MyTurnOns looks like it belongs to a stereotypical teenage girl.
“Why do parents always ruin your day and then act like they didn’t ruin your day and wonder why you’re in a bad…
Domino’s Taps Google Wallet For More Dough
May 3, 2014, cruxialcio.comDomino’s is trying to entice people to use its “Buy with Google” button by tossing in a free order of its “Specialty Chicken,” a baked concoction of chicken, sauces and cheese, with a purch …
Why Payment Innovation Is Not Enough For Retail
story-tail.comBy Dax Dasilva Once a key differentiator, mobile payments are fast becoming a commodity and are widely used by retailers. Yankee Group found that 61 percent of large merchants already u …
