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Cortina Names Ex-NVIDIA Executive Michael Hara as Vice President of Investor Relations and Communications Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:56AMCortina Systems, Inc. , delivering innovative technologies that link people and networks worldwide, today announced that Michael Hara, formerly senior vice president of NVIDIA Corporation, has joined Cortina as vice president of investor relations and communications, reporting to Cortina president and CEO, Amir Nayyerhabibi.
She taught dad to read and write, he taught her the tow truck business Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:32AMTammy Maltba was 9 years old when her dad put her in a wrecker, propped a pillow behind her so she could reach the clutch and started teaching his little girl to drive. Her father, Tommy’s Wrecker founder Tommy Morgan, would point out a junk car...
Google releases official Google+ app for iOS Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:30AMGoogle+ has hit the App Store with its official dedicated app.
Seriously, Samsung: Where is the Galaxy S II? Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:30AMSamsung announced the Galaxy S II in February. This is July. Where is the phone?
As rents rise, these neighborhoods lead the pack Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:23AMHere are the four most expensive Boston/Cambridge neighborhoods for renters:Kendall Square - average asking price of $2,760.East Cambridge - average...
NuStar Logistics and Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. Transporting Eagle Ford Crude to Corpus Christi Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:20AMWICHITA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As part of an agreement with Koch Pipeline Company, L.P., NuStar Logistics has reactivated its Pettus South Pipeline to transport Eagle Ford Shale crude oil to Corpus Christi, Texas. “With the startup of this new capacity with NuStar, we are continuing to bring quick transportation solutions to Eagle Ford producers and to our customers in South Texas,” said Kim ...
SV Angel, True Ventures And Others Put $1 Million Into Interest-Based Connections App One Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:17AM19-year-old entrepreneur Cory Levy is trying to solve a problem. He believes that we miss millions of opportunities to meet like-minded people because we don't have any knowledge of the people around us. There could be people within feet of you at a coffee shop, office building or bar who share friends, interests and professional connections, but we may never realize this in the physical world ...
Hearst's Groupon Clone Could Be A Huge Business Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:01AMHearst plans to launch a daily deals service later this summer, starting with offerings targeting the subscribers of Road & Track and Car and Driver . By the end of the year, the company plans to be selling group deals for all its magazine brands.
Angel Investing Secrets Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:45AMEarlier this year, I wrote a relatively thorough blog post on how my partner Jose Marin and I make angel investments: A SuperAngel’s Investment Guide . While revisiting the topic, I realized a few elements were worth clarifying.
This Email Got One Stanford Student A Huge Job At Foursquare Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:46PMTwo years ago, a Stanford business school student named Tristan Walker sent Foursquare cofounders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai an email out of the blue, asking for a job. Today, Tristan is Foursquare's director...
KoolSpan Connects with $4M in Funding - cbl Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:45PMBy Brian Wolak BETHESDA, Md. -- KoolSpan Inc. has completed a $4 million offering of series XX conve...
Cardagin Networks Grabs $4.25 Million For Mobile Loyalty Platform Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:17PMCardagin Networks , the creators of a mobile loyalty and advertising platform, announced today that it has raised a $4.25 million series A-1 round of funding. The round was led by private and angel investors from New York, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. The startup raised a $1 million series A back in March of 2010, bringing total investment to $5.25 million. Cardagin will use its new ...
First Friday arts festival to take two-month hiatus Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:14PMFirst Friday Las Vegas, downtown’s monthly art festival, has apparently grown too successful for its own good. Organizers announced that the festival will take a two-month hiatus this summer to “evaluate and address rising costs.”
Coffee & Capital Connects Entrepreneurs with Investors Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:09PMPHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Entrepreneurs will have a chance to sit down with an investor over coffee and get their questions answered as the Coffee & Capital program debuts July 20 in the Quorum space at the Science Center.
It's All About Who You Know: Realtor.com Acquires SocialBios Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:06PMReal estate service provider Move, owner of Realtor.com and related sites, announced this morning that it has acquired SocialBios , a startup named the most promising new technology at the prominent annual Inman real estate industry event this year. SocialBios is a service that aggregates a realtor's social profiles from around the web, displays their updates, finds out which friends or ...
iPad tweak adds support for multiple users Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:51PMCan’t avoid sharing your iPad? The latest iPad mod may have your solution.
VITAband puts your MasterCard and medical record on your wrist Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:50PMU.S. Bank is testing a wearable e-wallet that combines a MasterCard Pay Pass chip with access to your medical record and emergency contacts, which could be useful to everyone from gym rats to...
Capriza Raising $10.5 Million From Andreessen Horowitz To Bring Corporate IT To Mobile Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:47PMA group of former Mercury Interactive executives are behind a new Israeli-based startup called Capriza , which is still in stealth mode. But the company is in the process of raising $10.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz and another investor to bring corporate IT onto smartphones and tablets (with $2.5 million of that still outstanding). The founding team consists of CEO Yuval Scarlat (former ...
How A Startup No One Would Touch Crushed Silicon Valley Moguls And Became A Giant Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:44PMMost people don't know it, but online genealogy is big business on the Internet. One of the leaders, Ancestry.com, has a market cap approaching $2 billion. But the company in the space everyone is scared of is Israel-based MyHeritage.
Jackson Laboratory provides cutting-edge research Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:35PMBAR HARBOR -- Time stands still for 3,707,613 cryopreserved mice embryos at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor.
Manufacturers Turn to 3-D Printing Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:08PMGrowing interest in "additive manufacturing" is leading to new business models and new ways to think about designing products. Hobbyists may have provided the first demand for 3-D printing, but while DIY enthusiasts were creating online communities to make their own action figures and knickknacks out of plastic, industrial manufacturers were discovering how new materials and techniques in 3-D ...
SeaMicro ups Atom-based server ante: 6 dual core servers in 5 x 11 space Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:05PMSeaMicro is launching its second Atom-based server, the SM10000-64-HD, as it ups the ante on power sipping performance.The startup server vendor made a splash with its SM10000, which is powered...
Electronics recycler may hire 200 in Badin Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:00PMAn electronics recycling company in Badin was talking Saturday to applicants for jobs at a facility that could employ as many as 200 people.
Google: The one trick pony learns a second trick Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:54PMIt sells ads. And it clones other people's products Open...and Shut Google has a nasty habit of cannibalizing others' businesses based on its own seemingly unassailable lead in search and online advertising. The problem is that each time this involves giving away free software and services to undermine competitors at the expense of growing its own. Or can Google make a business from giving ...
Austin startup raises $10 million to roll out retail software Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:40PMAustin startup raises $10 million to roll out retail software
Citrix Systems making a run at the cloud Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:11PMMany telecommuters know Citrix Systems for its programs that let them access their office applications from home. That arcane bit of software represents steady, profitable sales that investors love; the company's stock...
French moguls to open school for Web entrepreneurs Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:11PMBurdensome regulations and risk-averse lenders make France a place that is, at best, challenging for tech entrepreneurs. The country's biggest tech companies, such as Alcatel-Lucent and Vivendi, trace their roots back...
Agricultural incubator is set to open Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 1:04AMMatthew Roybal doesn't have a signature dish, but if there's a food he's known for it's his pickles.
Candidates take their marks Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 1:04AMThe field is set for Chapel Hill's municipal elections this fall, and it's a crowded one.
New paper products plant a big deal in North Carolina Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 1:00AMThey called it Project SHARK.
Economy in North Dakota tops in nation Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 12:48AMSidney Herald It may be surprising to learn Montana had one of the slowest growing economies in 2010. But whatâs not so shocking? Its easterly neighbor had the fastest.
City of Redding offers millions for Southwest Paper jobs, Stillwater Business Park tenant Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:48PMMost of Redding's elected leaders are willing to stake millions of public dollars on a startup paper products company in exchange for a few hundred manufacturing jobs.
Southwest Paper seen as risk; startup's prospects rely on 79-year-old founder Leonard Sugarman Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:47PMThe Southwest Paper USA plant proposed at Stillwater Business Park would be Shasta County's biggest economic development coup since Knauf Insulation.
News in brief: Pullman Plaza Internet service upgraded Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:14PMHUNTINGTON -- The Pullman Plaza Hotel now offers guests upgraded wireless internet service throughout the 202-room downtown Huntington facility.
Yummy ripple effect Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:00PMAn opportunity for Samantha "Sam" Chesterman, owner of Norvell's Bakery in downtown Hutchinson, has ...
TaskRabbit Turns Grunt Work Into a Game Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:37PMGenius, as Thomas Edison famously declared, may owe far more to perspiration than to inspiration, but Leah Busque’s revolutionary startup was born in a moment of profound laziness.
Microsoft announces embedded dev winners in global student competition Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 1:03PMLast month, we covered Microsoft's announcement of three winners in its embeddedSPARK 2011 challenge , which asked academics, hobbyists, or developers to come up with interesting Windows Embedded Compact 7 devices.
Local startup Smarteys.com helps users keep bills, debt in line Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 10:30AMAyanna Johnson moved into a less-costly apartment and switched the timing of her monthly rent payment in order to meet her savings goal.Johnson, 32, director of community life at Chicago Theological Seminary, wants to save enough to make a down payment on a home.“I realized I could not save an appreciably larger amount of money in a reasonable period of time without making a move,” she said. “I ...
Mark Cuban Joins ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:38AMBillionaire entrepreneur and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, is slated to be a series regular on ABC’s Shark Tank when the critically-acclaimed show returns for its third season this fall. Cuban, 52, stole the spotlight during a trio of guest appearances on the business-based reality series last season, prompting the show’s executive [...] Mark Cuban Joins ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ is ...
Entrepreneurs Need to Be Leaders, Not Pushers Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 8:44AMTrue leaders realize that, by definition, the word "leader" places one at the front and not the rear. Yet many, many executives try to lead through fear and intimidation. This isn’t really leading at all. It’s pushing. Those of you with time in the military probably understand this concept well.
Mercury News interview: John Roos, United States Ambassador to Japan Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 7:15AMRoos eased way for U.S., Japan to work hand in hand after the quake
The Swedish Invasion Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 7:12AMFor U.S. music fans, Spotify's cruel, years-long tease is drawing to a close. The European music platform is finally coming to the United States. For the unhip, Spotify is a platform for streaming music. It was launched in 2008 and now claims 10 million users, 1.6 million of whom are paying members. It comes from Sweden, but it definitely plays much more than just ABBA and death metal back to ...
Speakers Set For S.D. MarketPlace Conference In Huron Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 5:30AMLYONS, Neb. — The first South Dakota MarketPlace conference, co-presented by the Center for Rural Affairs and South Dakota Farmers Union, is expected to bring together as many as 400 entrepreneurs, business owners, farmers and ranchers from South Dakota and surrounding states. The conference will take place July 26-27 in Huron.
Anita Wadhwani: Business, political elite climb aboard music train Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 3:37AMNashville has long been known as Music City, but its claim to fame hasn't always united disparate economic and political interests in the city.
Oracle targets Larry Page in Google patent lawsuit Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 3:04AMOracle is asking a US judge to order Google co-founder Larry Page to undergo questioning in a patent suit pitting the business software titan against the Internet giant.
UNE Summer Intern Program Mixes Medicine, Research and Entrepreneurship Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 1:22AMA unique summer internship program under way at the University of New England (UNE) introduces seven bright Maine students to the connection between medicine, research and entrepreneurship. Biddeford, ME (PRWEB) July 15, 2011 Working alongside UNE undergraduate mentors and faculty in the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences (CEN), a select group of two high school and five college students ...
Development: El Paso City reps examine REDCo funding Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 1:19AMEl Paso Regional Economic Development Corp.'s website doesn't mention it, but the agency receives more than $400,000 a year in public money.
Harbor National has solid quarter Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:56AMThe fog of the last recession is lifting at Harbor National Bank. The youngest startup community bank based in the Charleston area — it turned five years old a few months ago — said Friday it posted a $318,000 second-quarter profit, bringing its total for the year to $525,000.
More delayed aid to schools helps plug Minnesota's budget gap Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:19AMMinnesota is turning to schools to help balance the books - again.
Peanut vending venture sparks class action suit Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 11:13PM— The letter promised earnings of $300 to $2,400 per week with no set hours and no direct selling.