• Vator
  • Competitions
  • VatorNews
  • Become a contributor »
  • Register
  • Sign in
 
  • Newsroom
  • Innovation series
  • Interviews
  • Lessons learned
  • Trends & news
  • Contributors
9292

Tesla's Model X brings eco to the soccer...

The all electric three-row SUV is expected out in 2014 at a base price of $50,000

by Krystal Peak - February 10, 2012
Technology trends and news

Featured Trends & news

All | Financial | Technology

Pew: Online news sites struggle to get advertising

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 13, 2012 | Comments

9299

Most news sites use in-house display ads; Yahoo News top site in offering targeted ads

As an owner of a news site, I can tell you that it's true: A lot of our ads in our newsroom promote our own services. If we're not promoting our events, we're promoting the ability to find your friends' start-up in our business network or we're promoting a competition. Apparently, we're not alone. The top news sites in the U.S. ...
Read more »

Gogo partners with HotelTonight for inflight booking

by Nathan Pensky, February 10, 2012 | Comments

120210132642896

Inflight Web provider Gogo teams with hotel booking app HotelTonight to help last minute travelers

Inflight Web company Gogo upped their game on Friday by announcing a partnership with hotel-booking mobile app HotelTonight, which enables the company to offer their users last minute hotel booking capabilities from their inflight platform. The service will be available to passengers flying to over 30 different US destinations, including New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. Free ...
Read more »

TaskRabbit opens its API to app developers

by Krystal Peak, February 10, 2012 | Comments

9295

Companies organizing projects, hiring short-term labor flock to TaskRabbit API for infrastructure

Companies that want to get into the outsourcing business can now build their applications on the TaskRabbit API, which was released Friday. This will allow third-party developers to integrate TaskRabbit features, of sourcing out tasks to the public and paying virtually, directly into their own apps and Web sites. TaskRabbit has been gaining a lot of momentum lately, most recently ...
Read more »

Satellite partnerships can help with emergency tweets

by Krystal Peak, February 10, 2012 | Comments

9289

Twitter partners with Iridium, Thuraya to bring tweet-capability to even more people

Have you even been lacking an Internet connection and still wanted to get that tweet out? Well as of this week, Twitter has launched its satellite service that can be utilized in emergencies or in countries where Wi-Fi and broadband aren't as reliable. Twitter announced in its blog, that it has partnered with two of the world’s largest satellite communications ...
Read more »

Facebook to turn more actions into advertisements

by Krystal Peak, February 10, 2012 | Comments

9288

Frictionless sharing on the Facebook Open Graph could start to resemble Twitter's promoted tweets

Since the f8 conference in September, Facebook has been reinventing the profile newsfeed and finding new ways for brands to create consumer to consumer advertising opportunities.  These changes started when Spotify integrated its player into Facebook so that songs listened to could be broadcast on the activity feed so that people could discover songs and gain awareness about the Spotify ...
Read more »

Americans watched 43.5B videos in 2011, up 44%

by Nathan Pensky, February 9, 2012 | Comments

9285

Study projecting future tech trends show "Interest Graph" to be the next step in social networking

Six years after YouTube made watching video online cool, online video is starting to really take off. And, eight years after Facebook was founded, about 17% of all time spent online is on social networks. How the world has changed. All these findings come from the latest report from comScore, focusing on the digital future.   First, findings showed that social ...
Read more »

America's living room: More Internet, less wired cable

by Krystal Peak, February 9, 2012 | Comments

9282

People are supplementing broadband Internet streaming with free broadcast TV rather than pay cable

  As the video viewing options trend more toward broadband support and on-demand viewing, the use of wired cable and satellite is seeing serious slumps. The number of U.S. homes that have broadband Internet, but only free, broadcast TV, is rapidly growing in popularity, according to a Nielsen report out Thursday. Even though the percentage of the market that has ...
Read more »

Teens more likely to have bad experience on SNS

by Nathan Pensky, February 9, 2012 | Comments

9281

New study shows most social networking is positive, but teens have a worse experience than adults

At its core, social networking is about allowing users to interact more freely. And according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the vast majority of that interaction is positive and personally rewarding. However, the study also found some negative social effects, with a higher percentage of negativity centered around teens. According to Pew, the ...
Read more »

Apple's iPad 3 expected to debut March 9

by Krystal Peak, February 9, 2012 | Comments

9280

The highly-anticipated next generation iPad could be announced in just one month

The next Apple event has been set for one month from today and many are betting that the iPad 3 will be the the guest of honor. Apple consumers have been pleading to know when the next generation of the iPad would hit the market almost since the iPad 2 launched March 10 of last year -- and one year ...
Read more »

Nivio nabs $21 million for affordable cloud computing

by Krystal Peak, February 9, 2012 | Comments

9279

Videocon, AEC Partners invest in the newest player up against Dropbox, Box.net, Evernote

  One cloud computing company, that wants to make accessing and visualizing data easier for anyone, has just announced a $21 million Series A funding round Thursday. Nivio gained this funding from Videocon (& Group Companies) and AEC Partners just days after announcing the company launch at MacWorld last month. Nivio allows users to store up to 10GB of their ...
Read more »

Glam Media serves up social site: Foodie

by Krystal Peak, February 9, 2012 | Comments

9278

With consumers looking to the Internet for food ideas, Foodie builds a virtual kitchen to share

There might not be a more descriptive yet disparaged word in the culinary word than foodie -- it evokes a passion for the luxurious but also a distain for the common. After purchasing the domain Foodie.com nearly nine months ago for $100,000, Glam Media finally launched a social food site called Foodie. Glam Media is known for launching sites that ...
Read more »

MeUndies launches comfortable undies for delivery

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 9, 2012 | Comments

120208212151458

Online underwear retailer emerges out of LA-based incubator Science

Online shopping and home delivery of groceries have truly made me lazy. But once you know the brands you like, it's so much more efficient to have necessities, like toilet paper, sparkling water and cleaning supplies delivered on a consistent basis. In like vein, why not just have a regular shipment of underwear, undershirts and socks delivered every six months ...
Read more »

Mobile apps that work for the enterprise - Core Mobile

by Michael Harries, February 8, 2012 | Comments

120208121539322

Originally posted: http://blogs.citrix.com/author/michaelha/

Last night’s IIT Alumni event at Google was a coming-out party for the Core Mobile technology - one-touch instant access to the most relevant information. In large part, the company is the culmination of two previous IIT events exploring how the mobile device could be more effectively used. This is a grand vindication of these types of meetups with real, ...
Read more »

Two US startups break records for solar efficiency

by Nathan Pensky, February 8, 2012 | Comments

9275

Alta Devices and Semprium each break record for different kinds of solar energy efficiency

Here's some good news for the environmentally conscious. Two startup companies, Alta Devices and Semprius, have each broken records in their creation of highly efficient solar energy initiatives. Each company make different kinds of solar panels, but both of them have posted record solar energy efficiency rates in the past few days. Alta Devices, based in Santa Clara, CA, announced ...
Read more »
1 2 3 4 5 … 263 264   Next › Last »

Vator Videos Top Picks

  • The dead zone in the venture landscape
    by Bambi Francisco Roizen
    9053
  • How Kaggle plans on making money
    by Bambi Francisco Roizen
    8704
  • Lessons from Turntable.fm's pivot away from StickyBits
    by Bambi Francisco Roizen
    8582
  • Angel investor Bill Lee interview with Bambi Francisco
    by Bambi Francisco Roizen
    8993
  • Top 10 Lessons Learned videos on VatorNews in 2011
    by Kristin Karaoglu
    8974
  • The next big idea: social TV
    by Reena A Jadhav
    7260
  • Betterworks' Paige Craig interview with Bambi Francisco
    by Bambi Francisco Roizen
    8863
  • Top 10 reasons raising capital is optimal right now
    by Bambi Francisco Roizen
    8780
Advertise on Vator

Featured news

  • America's living room: More Internet, less wired cable
    by Krystal Peak
    9282
  • Apple's iPad 3 expected to debut March 9
    by Krystal Peak
    9280
  • Should you buy Facebook?
    by Kevin Cimring
    120206174525843
  • How do you replicate Silicon Valley entrepreneurship?
    by Ezra Roizen
    9249
  • E-commerce hits record $161.5B in 2011
    by Nathan Pensky
    9253
  • Super Bowl ads tackle social media
    by Krystal Peak
    9244
© 2012 Vator, Inc.
Events Your network About Faq Contact Resources Directory Terms of Use Privacy Policy