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MinBox To Your Inbox
BY: Justin Gerock
One of the biggest issues many of us face regarding our email accounts is the inability to quickly and easily send a large file. Thankfully the folks at MinBox heard our cries and are here to rescue us! Minbox is a new file sharing service providing lightning fast speed and super easy functionality. It was [...]
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SMCSTL Shared Valuable Business Insight At Its Social Media Workshop
BY: Caryn Tomer
How many times have you heard that social media for business is all about being transparent, empowering individuals, being adaptable, and so on? While these are all nice traits to have in business, it doesn’t begin to tell you how to accomplish those traits. This is just one idea that was discussed last Friday when [...]
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What Is The Technology Scene In Melbourne Like? Booming!
BY: Carlo Pandian
Melbourne is one of the few places in the world, outside of the United States, where Microsoft has a software development group – That in and of itself is a big indicator of just how much the technology scene in Melbourne has come on in the last few years. With a solid technological infrastructure, the [...]
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Edison awards highlight innovation across American industry titans
BY: Sonali Basak
Co-authored by: Lauryn Schroeder, Medill News Service It starts with something simple. For 12-year-old Quincy Lyons, it started with the first bite of an orange. An orange that he believed to be ripe, only to discover that it was rotten inside. This one experience led him and a team of middle-schoolers from Tuscon’s Sonoran Science [...]
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10 Questions to Ask When Looking for a Managed Hosting Provider
BY: Edward Domain
Choosing a Hosting Provider can be a daunting task. You’ve made the decision that you don’t want to be in the “server” business and have embarked on the research process. Here are some questions that can help you qualify hosting providers you will be talking to. Like we say at Connectria Hosting, at the end [...]
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CEO Sundays: Why Simplicity Sells Today’s Tech Products
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In today’s crowded tech landscape, ease of use is what separates an “okay” product from an outstanding one. Developers know that if their creations aren’t user-friendly and intuitive, they have a much greater chance of failure. People don’t want to pick up a training manual to figure out a new app or piece of software. [...]
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7 Tools to Document Internal Processes in Your Startup
BY: The Young Entrepreneur Council
What’s your favorite platform for creating a custom wiki to document FAQs or internal processes, and why? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps [...]
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Plotter Takes Top Prize at SXSW Accelerator Interactive
BY: Annie Zaleski
Imagine you’re visiting an unfamiliar city. Your first order of business is to seek out delicious places to eat and drink, as well as unique sightseeing attractions. To find these local gems, you might check Foursquare and Yelp for tips, browse TripAdvisor or ask friends for suggestions. But how do you organize these recommendations—and find [...]
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Why is Facebook Subject to Such a High Corporate Tax Rate?
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Facebook, the successful social media platform that has changed the way we interact with each other and share news and photos, is subject to a very high corporate tax rate. In the third quarter of 2012, its non-GAAP tax rate was 40%. Compared to the US corporate tax rate, which is only 35%, Facebook’s rate [...]
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Michelle From Houston: How To Explain Startups To An Outsider
BY: Michelle Lenzen
I found the startup community at the University of Illinois and never looked back. When I moved out of the thriving Chicago ecosystem and two-stepped down to Houston, Texas, I tried explaining the significance of a strong entrepreneurial environment to a Texan friend. “I just don’t get the point of co-working spaces. If you’re all [...]
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TUESDAY: Wute.vc Invites St. Louis Startup Community to Digital Q&A with Union Square Ventures
BY: Edward Domain
wute.vc started as a student group at Washington University in St. Louis with the goal of connecting students with venture capitalists and seasoned entrepreneurs. At their most recent event, a remote Hangout with VC and author Brad Feld, the St. Louis startup community was invited to attend, and the response was quite positive – to [...]
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8 Simple Tools to Automate Your Social Marketing
BY: The Young Entrepreneur Council
What is your favorite tool for automating social marketing today and why? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start [...]
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Hostirian: Data Center Backing St. Louis Tech Companies Since 2001
BY: Corey Cummings
Since 2001, Hostirian has grown to 30,000 square feet of data center space, providing data services for both Fortune 500 companies and promising startups alike.
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Seedcon Fast-Pitch Winners Take Home More Than $100k In Prizes
BY: Corey Cummings
Intelligent Loop, DigitalGroundup, and Infrared Solutions were this year’s top winners, bringing home more than $100,000 in valuable business services.
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Appistry Partners With Genome Institute Of Singapore
BY: Corey Cummings
This week Appistry, a big data analytics company operating out of St. Louis, announced that it has secured a new partnership with the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS).
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Microsoft Makes Email Sexy With New Outlook.com
BY: Edward Domain
Presented by Outlook.com. Outlook.com is a preview of modern email from Microsoft. It has a fresh and intuitive design, it connects your email to useful information from Facebook and Twitter, and it gives you a smarter inbox with the power of Office and SkyDrive. Visit Outlookpreview.com to learn more and connect with us at @outlook [...]
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13 Low-Cost Web Tools That Make Video Creation a Breeze
BY: The Young Entrepreneur Council
What low or no-cost service do you use to make editing/creating quality video for your business easier? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that [...]
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CollabNet And UC4 Software Partner To Automate Enterprise DevOps At Scale
BY: Kathryn Hough
CollabNet a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM, and UC4 Software, the leader in IT Process Automation, are announcing a partnership today that will help IT organizations achieve enterprise DevOps at scale.
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Arch Grants Ups The Ante To $1 Million For Next Batch Of Grants
BY: Kathryn Hough
Arch Grants is a non-profit organization that issues grants based on The Arch Grants Business Plan Competition, but the only catch is that the startups selected to receive the grants must stay (or relocate) to downtown St. Louis.
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Oregon Venture Activity Down A Whopping 55 Percent
BY: Kathryn Hough
2012 has been a bad year for venture activity in the city of Portland, which is just starting to step out of the shadows of northwest technology behemoths San Francisco and Seattle. Venture funding was down statewide in Oregon 55% so far in 2012.
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Vantiv Sidesteps NFC Through New Mobile Payment Platform
BY: Corey Cummings
Cincinnati company Vantiv has just released Vantiv Mobile Wallet, a payment platform utilizing Paydiant that is looking to circumvent the compatibility limitations of near field communication in modern smartphones.
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TidePool: Discovering Personalities From Photos
BY: Jesse Bouman
Recent San Francisco transplant TidePool is taking this statement to the next level to bring meaning to your photo preferences. The former Amplify.LA company is combining one founder’s youthful exuberance with the other’s years of scientific brilliance to create their exciting Hunch-like startup.
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Think Big Partners Announces Inaugural Accelerator Class
BY: Kathryn Hough
Kansas City, Missouri-based Think Big Partners has accepted six startups into its inaugural accelerator class. The program, called Think Big Accelerator, is a twenty-two week program that will start on September 25.
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TagMyDoc Integrates Cloud Services, Microsoft Office Into Mobile Doc Sharing Platform
BY: Corey Cummings
TagMyDoc allows anyone to embed a QR code onto a physical document, enabling anyone who would like a digital copy to retrieve it on a mobile device without having to ask to have it sent to them.
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Amazon Offers More Winning Categories In Sixth Annual Startup Challenge
BY: Corey Cummings
This week Amazon Web Services announced that it has officially opened its annual Start-Up Challenge with four categories for grand prize winners.
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