We have covered a lot of food sites over the past 6 months, both restaurant and recipe-related, and all with their own unique twist. While Foodily’s emphasis is on sharing with friends, here is how the other recipe sites are trying to differentiate themselves: KeepRecipes lets you store the best recipes from friends, family, celebrities, and chefs in one spot. Gojee is like a Google for food blogger recipes; the Gojee team handpicks recipes from food blogs and aggregates them in one spot....

Whilst executives are keen to get back to the office and overwhelmingly see themselves as transparent leaders, “their overly rosy view of in-office work” could be exacerbating turnover. The report strongly indicates that flexible working situations are more inclusive, fair, and ultimately preferred by the majority of employees — which means equipping your staff team with web conferencing software so they can easily work from anywhere is now paramount. This tacked closely to figures from other countries like the UK (59%) and Australia (60%), suggesting the phenomenon is global in scale — just like the virus that kickstarted it....

Zuckerberg’s note also explained that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp would be moving to the same privacy-focused mantra, with end-to-end encryption becoming the focal point of the platforms. This sounds like a step in the right direction from the embattled social media giant. However, there’s a lot more to Zuck’s 3,000-word ‘note’ than meets the eye. Here are the key things you need to know about Facebook’s apparent privacy U-turn....

Back in 2012, President Obama and the US Congress passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which brought a set of new laws promising to allow startups and other SMEs to start raising money online from regular investors, via crowdfunding or, more specifically, Investment Crowdfunding, also known as Equity Crowdfunding. This was something that US financial rules previously forbade as in Investment Crowdfunding, instead of buying the product, backers are actually buying an equity piece of a company, just like it is done on the stock market....

Case in point, WeDeliver won the best pitch at our 2013 Chicago Mixer not long before they applied, were accepted, and graduated from Techstars Chicago. And now, continuing their trend of success, WeDeliver was today officially acquired by a fellow same day delivery company Deliv. Deliv is looking to deepen their stake in the same day delivery space as they continue to expand nationally, and WeDeliver was the perfect choice for them....

InMotion, Jaguar Land Rover’s mobility services business, is no stranger to investing in mobility and transportation sector, and today they announced a $25m (£19m) investment in Lyft, the fastest-growing rideshare company in the U.S. This collaboration and investment will allow Lyft to step up to the plate and begin to develop and test their version of mobility services, including autonomous vehicles. According to The State of Autonomous Vehicles, by Brian Solis, Principal Analyst at Altimeter, we are in the mist of a “transportation renaissance that will effect every industry....

One non-tech entrepreneur I have great admiration for is my friend Jim Kostro, the Founder and General Manager of A Fast Courier Service, a shipping and logistics company that is just about a year old with 100 people already on the payroll and a projected annual revenue of $1.5 million. I’ve been following Jim’s journey over the years and I’ve learned a lot from him, but more than anything I’ve been energized by his enthusiasm for entrepreneurship....

While Lenovo’s business laptop range is nothing to sniff at, we’ll be focusing just on the new models most relevant to consumers, from laptops to PCs to their one interesting phone/tablet hybrid release. More on this – the Best and Worst Tech from MWC 2019 Lenovo IdeaPad S540 This new consumer laptop model boasts an all-aluminum chassis, and it’s available in both 14-inch and 15-inch sizes. It’s a slim build, but the battery is claimed to last up to 12 hours, making it a solid option for anyone in the market for a portable but reliable laptop....

Now, how many times have you said “What can my Facebook friends do for me?” Okay, maybe not that many times, since you’re probably not an inherently selfish or narcissistic person, but hear me out. I’m about to tell you about a way for you to help your network help you by helping them. I’m sure you followed that. Boon is a startup out of Culver City, CA that pays people for successful hires within their networks....

Local Listing – List your business in local classified ads. When people are looking for something nearby, they are going to use local search tools. If you are listed in the local classifieds with attractive content, industry keywords, and proper contact information then it will be easier for customers to find it local. Make sure you are listing business on Google Places too with the proper address & mapping location....

From question to idea to product, Locotext grew into a geo-communications app that lets users communicate using the native GPS in their smartphones. Nguyen has taken SMS and GPS and mashed them together to give the world a whole new way to send messages. The idea here is to make it quick and easy to create a geo-SMS message. Users input any recipient, regardless of whether they use Locotext or not, and compose a message....

That’s right, low-pay sectors are seeing huge increases in their respective industries across the board. The larger paychecks are likely a result of a wide range of factors, including the tensions between political parties, state-mandated minimum wage hikes, and the shockingly difficult job market millennials have experienced in their working years. Fortunately, the numbers really do speak for themselves. While these numbers are substantial in comparison to recent years, they do not represent enough of a big enough change to make a difference....

What we know Magic Leap is that it’s creating augmented reality system that will create 3D objects and overlay them onto a standard scene. Tech Giant Microsoft recently unveiled a device with similar functions called HoloLens. Abovitz pointed out that Magic Lead is “safer” than Microsoft’s HoloLens. He said: When asked on his thoughts on user’s adaptability, Abovitz admitted that there would be a “transition period.” He added that Magic Leap is building a product platform to enable developers, as well as a the global creative community, “to build the coolest stuff ever on it....

Doctor Strange, the next installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is poised to completely revamp the 3D film experience. As one of the most uniquely magical characters in the Marvel comic books, the storyline will provide the perfect environment for a wide range of 3D effects that will have moviegoers drooling by the end of the opening credits. Much like Avatar, this movie will be using 3D technology to enhance the plot rather than distract from it....

The Innovation Panel for the event was held at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado on April 5, 2017, and featured a mix of innovators, experts, and industry leaders who came together to determine which of a host of white-paper entries would take home a prize. On May 4th, they announced the winners. The top ten finalists will be announced on June 10 and present their ideas to NASA’s chief technologists, space industry leaders and potential investors at the 2017 NASA iTech Forum during NASA Langley Research Center’s Centennial celebrations in July....

Since 2012, the Microsoft Accelerator has accelerated 129 startups through five cohorts. These companies have gone on to do wonderful things, proving that Microsoft’s model is clearly working. Their 11th cohort, which is focusing on global B2B startups, is innovating everything from hotel management to blockchain technology. The goal of the accelerator is to boost enterprise readiness and go-to-market activities. If you’re interested in what kind of companies join the Microsoft Accelerator, take a look at their descriptions below and follow their website links to really delve deeper into what it takes to be accepted to a corporate accelerator:...

Before his untimely death, Prince funded a green tech accelerator/incubator program with $250,000 he presumably had just lying around somewhere. With help from Van Jones, a CNN commentator and California human rights advocate, Prince effectively invested in dozens of startups working towards a more renewable future. With a grant from Prince serving as capital for loans that would help several small businesses go solar, Jones brought in Billy Parish, founder and chief executive officer of Mosaic, then a crowdfunding loan provider....

The sell-off was spurred by Meta’s gloomy third quarter report, which included data points such as a 52% drop in net income year over year, while headcount had risen 28% during the same period. This loss of investors isn’t the worst day Meta has seen this year, but it’s another indication that current tech innovations have lost a lot of clout while future innovations like the metaverse aren’t arriving fast enough....

Microsoft is pretty good about keeping its services intact. While Internet Explorer has indeed been discontinued after 27 long years, other services like Teams, Outlook, and others have been stalwarts of the productivity software landscape. Unfortunately, everyone has bad days, as the tech giant is experiencing some serious outages this morning that are making it hard to get work done on its many platforms. As for exactly what kind of problems you can expect this morning from Microsoft 365, users are reportedly experiencing significant delays, log-in failures, and general problems logging in to their accounts....

Since January, researchers say, Microsoft Teams‘ 270 million users risked an attack in the form of a malicious executable trojan file attached to a conversation on the collaboration platform. Once clicked, the file “will eventually take over the user’s computer,” according to the researchers, who have seen thousands of attacks. It’s a particularly large concern given how many users feel they can let their guard down while using Teams. The lesson here: When it comes to cybersecurity, no one’s completely safe....