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Path 2.1 Update Encourages Deeper Sharing And Engagement

Mobile social life streaming app Path has had a rocky rise to the top of the app store. First, the half baked Path 1.0 was lukewarmly received by users. Path.

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Tether Relaunches For iPhone After iOS App Removed From App Store

Only 20 hours after Tether’s iOS app was live in the app store last November, Apple pulled the plug on the app. Called iTether, the app was pulled according to.

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American Psycho Author Feverishly Tweets Sequel Notes, Talks Killer Technology

Between 1 and 5 am on Saturday morning in Los Angeles, Bret Easton Ellis, author of the controversial 1991 bestseller American Psycho, began tweeting notes on a new sequel to.

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Heavy Rain Developer Pushing Facial Capture Tech Forward

At the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco this week, studio Quantic Dream showed off an eight minute long clip highlighting their new facial capture technology. The demo titled Kara.

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Dining Dialog Wins $50,000 MillerCoors Grant

Dining Dialog, a startup based in Bolingbrook, IL, recently won the 2012 MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneur Series grant of $50,000. The grant has been awarded each year since 1999 “to help.

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Chicago Techweek Gets New Executive Director; Pasky Out

Arabella Santiago has been appointed the new Executive Director of Chicago tech conference Techweek.  The Board of Directors at Techweek asked the former Executive Director, Jon Pasky, to step down.

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SXSW: Gawker VP Talks About The Next Generation of Publishing

“A lot of the stuff you see a few days later in mainstream media, you got from us first.  That makes it very personal for the readership – there’s a.

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Instagram May Soon Be Valued At $500 Million

Instagram, the mobile image sharing app, is rumored to soon secure $40 million in financing. The new round of investors would bring the company to a total value of $500.

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Foursquare Hours – The Yelp Killer?

Foursquare announced a new feature for merchants this week just in time for SXSW: hours. This comes two months after the release of menus for merchants, which allows users to.

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SXSW: “Don’t Cut Your Toenails During a Pitch,” And Other Advice by Oren Jacob

As an ex-“entrepreneur in residence” with August Capital, and the current CEO of  ToyTalk, Oren Jacob knows more than a thing or two about how startups get funded.  Having sat on.

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