As the final leg of Adobe’s Create The Web Tour draws near, one question remains in the front of web designers’ minds around the world: is Flash dead? The answer is no, according to Adobe team, as the crowd snickered during the company’s last U.S. presentation before heading overseas.
Portland Seed Fund’s Demo Day and after party this week drew many startup fans away from their laptops for a few hours of celebration. After launching six startups on stage at the fund’s third demo day, the companies, their fans, and mentors converged at the after party at Base Camp Brewing Co.
Portland-based Vizify, a graphical bio tool for showing the best of you online, is partnering with BrandYourself, an online reputation management service, to make sure that your beautiful Vizify bio ranks higher than the embarrassing Florida mugshot of someone you unfortunately share the same name with.
If you want to test your hypothesis and develop customers before writing a single line of product code, you’ll have to get out of your workspace and in front of real people who have real problems that your startup could potentially solve.
Last night, Rick Turoczy of the Portland Incubator Experiment took that stage at Bright Lights: Discussions on the City to discuss the Portland startup scene. Turoczy has been living in Portland for 20 years.
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.
Portland-based personal data visualization startup Vizify rolled out real-time analytics and a redesigned mobile experience this week based on feedback from Vizify fans.
Portland-based Chirpify launched a new feature this week that allows people to monetize their Instagram feeds. Chirpify allows in-stream transactions by integrating with PayPal and taking 5% of each transaction.
Treehouse, and web-based platform that teaches users technology skills like web and mobile development, just doubled down on their $3 million scholarship giveaway. Now, the company is offering a total of $6 million to students who want to learn to code while enrolled in school.
Geographic information systems giant Esri announced this week that it has acquired Portland-based location-based services startup Geoloqi. The terms of the deal are not available to the public.
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