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Chicago Ideas Week Kicks Off October 8th With Variety Of Speakers

Chicago Ideas Week returns this October, transforming the Windy City into a global hub for new and innovative ideas from some of the biggest minds in business, science, arts, and technology.

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Exclusive: Fliksee Helps Connect Students, Plans For October 8 Launch On DePaul Campus

Instead of helping college students maintain the friendships they already have, Fliksee is looking to provide busy students with a new resource for meeting other people on campus.

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1:Face Offering Stylish Watches To Help Big Charitable Causes

Chicago agency Mirza Minds is set to launch a funding campaign on Indiegogo this week, pulling in support for its latest product that will help fight global epidemics such as starvation, cancer, aids, and more.

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Kuapay: Thinking Globally About Mobile Payments

In the wild west of mobile payments, Kuapay is building a mobile wallet that looks to tap the world’s many cash transactions and “commoditize electronic payments.”

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What Ever Happened To The Space Elevator?

What ever happened to the Space Elevator, every science fictionist’s guilty pleasure, and a once promising venue to bring the masses to space?

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Helios Unveiled As The Most Affordable Telepresence Device Yet

Tian Long Wang, an electric engineer working out of Princeton, New Jersey, set out to create the most affordable telepresence device so far — one that works with the smartphone everyone already has in their pocket.

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Teensy Techli Tweets: Cookies

Here is another episode of our animated series ‘Teensy Tweets’ by the creator of the hilarious “Goodnight Burbank” TV show, Hayden Black.

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Crowdfunding Service Unglue.it Brings Books to the Masses

The founder of Gluejar, a New Jersey-based startup, is promoting a rigorous campaign to “unglue” or “make a digital book free to read and use worldwide,” thus eliminating cost barriers still felt in many poor communities.

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Quidsi Launches E-Commerce Site Dedicated To Green Products

This week New Jersey-based Quidsi, Inc. has introduced its latest specialized e-commerce website, Vine.com, dedicated entirely to providing natural, organic, and sustainably-made products to online shoppers.

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TidePool: Discovering Personalities From Photos

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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