When you take into account the obvious fact that Twitter is a free treasure trove of information about what people are interested in, what tribes people align themselves to, and what people follow your competitors, it’s plain to see that this is exactly the type of data that marketing departments are constantly scrambling to master. Allred says that now that he has figured out the formula for hacking Twitter, he expects 50 sign-ups per day on Grasswire and at least 150 new active followers per day on Twitter....

Therefore, every startup needs to take the time to assess their highest local risk factors and develop a disaster recovery plan that will get them back online as quickly as possible. Adding business continuity into this plan may even make it possible to keep moving forward without any extended interruptions. Understand Your Needs If you’re uncertain on how to get started, it’s wise to begin by reviewing all your insurance policies....

A little competition is good for everyone. It gets the blood pumping, your heart racing, and brings out the best in serious competitors. When it comes to startups, the entire market is filled with intense competition for the top spot in their respective industries. With the Rise of the Rest tour, Steve Case and Revolution are hoping to inspire startups in the west to do what it takes to win....

These are just a few of the things that Ticketleap offers. Ticketleap CEO Tim Raybould says one of the company’s core values revolves around creating a memorable experience for users. According to its site, Ticketleap offers a number of features. Here are some of the things they offer: Event pages: “Your event page should be much more than just a credit card form. It is the expression of your event online,” reads an excerpt....

In October 2015, two women, both named Lauren (Lauren Zeien who is based in Dallas and Lauren Fritsch who is based in New York), whom had never met before, just happened to be presenting at Celebrate. They met in the hallway before their presentations and got to chatting. Out of this initial meeting, just a few months ago, sprung their new consulting company, Project Halcyon. Here’s how Zeien described it: Both Zeien and Fritsch have years of strategic consulting experience....

But what happens when life gets in the way and your systems aren’t fool-proof? What impact does missing a business call have on you? While the last thing you want to do is find out, being prepared can keep you from making things worse. Be sure you are familiar with the five stages of missing a business call so you can stay on top of the next one when it comes around....

I get this question a lot, and it often comes from a shell-shocked CEO or CIO who discovers his five-figure-budget project ends up being six or even seven figures. That’s crazy. The easiest explanation to the question is that apps are cheap-it’s the engineering and design talent that’s expensive. If you look in the App Store, you’ll see over a million different apps. These were all built by independent developers, yet the bulk of these apps will never earn a penny....

The car was built in three phases: Phase One: The car is 3D printed on a Cincinnati Incorporated Big Area Additive Manufacturing Machine (BAAM) over 44 hours.Phase Two: The process of Subtractive Manufacturing starts: one day of milling on a machine provided by Thermwood.Phase Three: Once complete, the final phase consists of rapid assembly. A team, led by Local Motors, puts the finishing touches on the world’s first 3D printed car....

Knowing that challenges will always arise, the company continues to look to the future. Rather than focusing on a daily deals concept, the company is really focused on how it can drive customers for merchants. “The focus is: how do we drive customers for merchants? That’s always been [LivingSocial’s] primary role. How do we do that efficiently [while, at the same time,] producing high customer satisfaction?” O’Shaughnessy says that there remains a huge opportunity in the local space categories....

Due to the inclusion of Bluetooth 5.0, tracMo will have an estimated range of 400 feet as opposed to the popular Tile trackers that have a range of 100 feet (the new Pro version is 200 feet). Few manufactures have yet integrated the technology into their devices, though it was only officially announced in December of 2016. According to the tracMo team, their patent-pending tech will also give the device a battery life of about 18 months, about 6 months longer than the competitors, and it is replaceable....

Specifically, two high school seniors in LA, Dillon Rosenblatt and Tyler Makhani, recently built out an app called Tutors, a platform for on demand tutoring. During the first marking period of their senior year this fall, the app officially went live so that students and parents might find a tutor at roughly 70 to 90 percent cheaper and faster than current offerings. Sure, there are a lot of outlets to find a quality tutor already....

It’s probably not a coincidence that technology gurus love video games. A recent study found that action games can positively influence cognitive performance, motor control, and general perception of gamers. Adding to this, a new study by Australian and Chinese researchers from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Macquarie University in Sydney suggests that not only does regularly playing action games increase the amount of grey matter in a person’s brain – the region responsible for muscle control and sensory perception skills such as seeing and hearing; memory function; and emotion, speech, decision formation – but it also promotes better connectivity in certain subregions of the brain associated with these functions....

The app, which only launched on Friday, lets users graft their own faces onto movie clips, essentially letting them cosplay as Leonard DiCaprio or Wolverine within seconds. It’s only available in China, where it’s a massive viral hit. Zao’s success has spurred plenty of concerns about privacy violations and the future of face-swapping technology, some of which carry more weight than others. Here’s more on why the app has taken off so quickly and why people are worried about it....

A move away from asynchronous verification processes is the suggested remedy for service providers, whereas users have been urged to implement two-factor authentication where they can. However, multi-factor authentication must be combined with a password manager if you want maximum protection from all the different types of identity theft out there. What is Account Pre-Hijacking? “Pre-Hijacking” is the catch-all term used for a contemporary class of cyberattacks that involve subsuming control of a victim’s account on a given website, which became the focus of a paper authored by security researchers Avinash Sudhodanan and Andrew Paverd....

Meta, which owns WhatsApp, has confirmed that it will be dropping support for any iPhone devices that cannot run iOS 12 or above. WhatsApp, which recently launched an in-app, end-to-end ecommerce service in India, has over 2 billion active users globally. Precisely how many of those users will be impacted by this news, however, remains unclear. WhatsApp Waves Goodbye to Old iOS Versions WhatsApp has confirmed that users of iOS 11 and older have until October 24, 2022 to upgrade their OS or face being blocked out of WhatsApp on their devices....

On January 28th, Challenge Cup will bring the excitement to São Paulo, where dozens of startups will battle for the four regional winners’ spots within their respective category. The winners from each of the 16 events (8 international, 8 within the US) will move onto the final round and with it, the chance to win the $150,00 grand prize. But we want to know what YOU think! Weigh in and let us know which of these startups from the event is the hottest by voting in the poll at the bottom of this post!...

On Monday June 1 at District Hall, come out to show support for these startups and mix and mingle with other thought leaders, founders, mentors, and community doers for Tech Cocktail’s Mixer & Startup Showcase. But even if you can’t be there, you can vote in the Reader’s Choice Poll to help one of these teams qualify for our Celebrate Startup of the Year competition in Las Vegas October 4-6....

On November 4th, Challenge Cup will bring the excitement to 1871 in Chicago, where more than thirty startups will battle for the four regional winners’ spots within their respective category. Startups: The Challenge Cup is also coming to Los Angeles, New York, and Boston. The winners from each of the 16 events (8 international, 8 within the US) will move onto the final round and with it, the chance to win the $150,00 grand prize....

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the name given to the web addresses we hold so near and dear to our hearts (and bookmark bars). Because the particulars are a bit complicated and far from necessary in this context, let’s just say URLs are pretty much how everyone gets around the internet. And, according to Google, they’re not entirely necessary when it comes to navigating the world wide web. This world-changing innovation is far from easy to understand....

But maybe it shouldn’t be that quick. All that breadth is meaningless without the depth needed to actually bring quality to one’s work. Full Stack Developer Isn’t an Entry Level Position Everyone wants to be cool, and coders are often self-taught, so why wouldn’t any newbie developer want to go for a full-stack position immediately? Because it takes decades to learn properly. Here’s Dan Kim, an android programmer at Basecamp, on the core problem he sees in plenty of developers’ job search strategies: Acknowledging that you have strengths and weaknesses isn’t a bad thing: Any smart hiring manager will expect you to have them, anyway, so being honest about them will earn you extra points....