The History Tech.Co has been bringing together and showcasing early stage startups since 2006. In doing so, we have had the pleasure of meeting and helping to amplify the stories of some great companies like GrubHub, Groupon, LivingSocial, AddThis, and even Uber. Our mission is to discover and support the most promising and innovative startups in the world. Each year, Tech.Co reviews thousands of applications of startups looking to take the next step towards success....

Brinker identifies six marketing technology classes that make up this landscape including Internet services, infrastructures, marketing backbone platforms, marketing middleware, marketing experience, and marketing operations. More marketing technology startups are popping up weekly in these classes and categories. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be highlighting some of the top marketing technologies and startups that are making waves in the startup scene. As for marketing backbone platforms and marketing middleware, these two pillars are bringing structure to the landscape....

They Are Comfortable Using Metrics Metrics are crucial to know not only how to respond to certain results but to know what actions to take in the future. Being able to understand and use metrics makes all the difference between success and failure for a CMO. Some of the most important metrics include click-through rates, social media reach, blog views, traffic sources, cost per lead, ROI, etc. One of our client’s CMOs helped me to predict their success during our first meeting when he began discussing different key metrics and algorithms right off the bat, which to me was a sure sign of success....

On October 1, there will be another event in Baltimore specifically to celebrate all of the innovative thinkers, creators, and doers that are making it happen in their city. BetaCity, as it is being called, will be a one day event that will feature demos, live music, networking, and a pitch competition. It’s also a chance to get an exclusive look at City Garage, an old bus garage that Plank Industries has turned into a city for innovation....

As well as a jazzy cover and a two-year warranty, the Kindle packs in a bunch of kid-friendly features that are aimed at encouraging children to read more. The Importance of Reading So how important is reading? You don’t need to look too far to find numerous studies on the benefits, especially for young minds that are still developing. According to research by UK organisation The Reading Agency, children who often read books at the age of 10, and more than once a week at the age of 16, are shown to have higher results in math, and larger vocabularies than those who don’t....

Image Credit: Flickr/neilaalderney123 Biotech has helped us create synthetic insulin for treating diabetes and allows us to tailor drugs for individuals through pharmacogenomics. In agriculture it helps produce more environmentally-friendly food sources and fend off diseases that affect livestock. It also has its uses in plant breeding, controlling the nutritional value of crops, and eradicating plant diseases. The uses of biotech are increasingly diverse as the funding flows in and more time is spent understanding the biological possibilities....

It’s important to understand that no Twitter accounts are thought to be at immediate risk, and there hasn’t been a reported data breach. However, Twitter’s warning has particularly important ramifications for anyone (this author included) who’s guilty of re-using the same password on more than one account. We explain what you need to know about the Twitter password fiasco, plus how you can quickly secure your account. Related – How to Make Sure Your Password is Actually Protecting You...

Creating a hub means putting egos aside In order for people to collaborate, goals need to be established and egos put aside. Trey Bowles, founder of the Dallas Entrepreneur Center, explained that a major part of building Dallas’s startup community was dealing with large egos and finding commonalities. Members who want to be part of the entrepreneurial community need to be willing to participate and understand their roles in creating a sustainable ecosystem....

Prota Ventures, a VC firm based in Chicago, Seattle, and Jacksonville, has just launched Startup Rocket, a platform dedicated to turning the chaos of launching a startup into an easy to manage process. It provides an in-depth practical guide to solving all of the pre-launch problems that come your way. Startup Rocket will be unique in that it actually walks you through the process rather than just giving you tips....

Contactually’s already-popular social CRM tool helps individuals at companies to form, develop, and maintain professional relationships by automatically prompting them to follow-up on contacts. The new feature – called “Insights” – will provide teams with a greater level of transparency into their various shared relationships. With Insights, organizations can now get a wider view on all the individual engagements happening with key relationships and helps them to pinpoint areas of improvement....

There has been another brand of news story, however — one that appeared off and on in the odd little corner of the Internet, but which has failed to gather as much attention as the positive side of things… and small wonder. Cynical as modern society might be, we all still love to read about someone we can identify with suddenly realizing their dreams and making it big. We feel good for them....

Accelerators provide seed investment, mentorship, and the connections necessary for success. By the end of the program, companies that go through our accelerator for instance have found more value in the experience than the $50,000 we invested in them. One of our companies had begun building a platform to rate freelancers to improve the success rate of hiring part-time workers online. But after hearing about the staffing nightmares enterprises faced, it pivoted to serve this market....

If you go to the site, you’ll find a 1990’s looking list of shopping discounts organized by category. But despite the lackluster design, the engine behind it is an integral piece of today’s shopping puzzle. (Editor’s note: since this article was published, Spotzot.com has changed their website to be a promotional site for their platform with a much more updated design) Spotzot is the deal-targeting platform that powers Shopkick and ShopSavvy, along with many other shopping applications and web sites (eg, CardStar, Geodelic and others launching soon)....

Perhaps more importantly, drones must now only be operated within sight of the pilot. While the delivery drones of today can travel miles outside of the legal range, the new rules dictate that no pilot may operate a drone beyond the reasonable eyesight of someone wearing nothing more than prescription eyeglasses. In addition to the weight limit and the sight range set by The Small Unmanned Aircraft Regulations, drones may not be flown over 100 miles per hour and cannot be flown higher than 400 feet....

The 6,000 square foot space will be dubbed the BIG Innovation Center, and has a planned opening for this summer. The center will be home to the BIG Accelerator, which is a four-month long accelerator designed to mentor and grow new companies. It will also feature an internship program for student developers. For the team, success will come in the form of expanding the number of minority led startups. Digitalundivided has a goal of doubling the number of black and latina women led startups raising over a million dollars in revenue, or scaling their current companies to more than one million dollars in revenue in the next 5 years....

A tech conference is a place to mingle with big wigs, rub shoulders with entrepreneurs, and network with potential investors. It’s also a place to take in the sights and enjoy a little time out of the office. With Innovate! and Celebrate right around the corner, you must be getting pretty excited about the chance to enjoy notable speakers, informative panels, and parties in glass houses. While there should be more than enough to keep you entertained, having the right devices can go a long way in getting the most out of your conference-going experience....

The beauty of the 3D printer is that, as Dogru explains, humans are designing a product in one country, manufacturing it in another, and distributing it in yet another country. That is, anybody can design, refine, modify, or print a product now, and not just at one source but multiple sources. But it all boils back down to ease of use: users can’t do any of this if they don’t know what they’re doing in the first place....

Video Conferencing Thanks to constantly evolving tech, you no longer have to travel long distances to talk face-to-face with suppliers, customers and other members of an organization. Many video conferencing systems like Skype or Google Hangouts are free to use and efficient in helping with communication. These systems help you save time, money, and resources with cutting down communication costs, making it less of a hassle to chat with others in your business....

Since October 28th, the day the acquisition was made official, thousands of dismayed Twitter users have been searching in droves for alternatives to Twitter. Meanwhile, the news has been awash with stories about Mastodon and other rival networks. The reality is, however, that at present there is no true Twitter alternative – while at the same time, Twitter as we know it seems to be morphing into something much uglier than it used to be....

Here’s what Android fans should expect from the tablet device, as well as how it stacks up to the rest of the market. Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Features Round-Up First, the features at a glance: Price starts at $65010.5-inch, 2056 x 1600 Super AMOLED displaySnapdragon 835 processor7300 mAh batteryAndroid Oreo4GB RAM13MP, f/1.9 rear camera8MP front cameraStorage options: 64GB, 256GBIris-scanning and face recognitionMicroSD card slot Battery Power The battery power is increasing alongside that growth in display size, so it remains slightly unclear how much longer the battery life will last in practical terms....