Flashback 2017: Spectre of shutdowns continues to haunt VC-backed startups – Startup failures rarely make headlines. In fact, most startups don’t even announce shutting down. But one shutdown this year came as a reality check, pointing to the other end of entrepreneurship—the less-celebrated, dark side that most startup founders fail […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 24th December News you can use MyDigitalStartup.org announces the release of the report “Top 10 technology trends to watch in 2018” – Digital-disruptors continued to reshape businesses and industries, a trend likely to accelerate in 2017. Digitization […]
Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 31st December
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This week, we see news of two startups from around the world -CapriCoast and Mattermark – being acquired and shut down. Mattermark is shutting down its own business after selling to FullContact Mattermark, the site for startup and company data, is shutting down its own business after selling to FullContact. […]
Two Startups -CapriCoast and Mattermark – shut after being ...
Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 24th December News you can use MyDigitalStartup.org announces the release of the report “Top 10 technology trends to watch in 2018” – Digital-disruptors continued to reshape businesses and industries, a trend likely to accelerate in 2017. Digitization […]
Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 24th December
Lumoid, a startup founded to help Best Buy offer gadget rentals has shut down after four-and-a-half years. The startup graduated from the Y Combinator incubator program in 2013 and went on to raise a few million dollars in venture capital. The business model was interesting: Best Buy would provide Lumoid […]
Best Buy’s digital partner for gadget rental, Lumoid, shuts down
MyDigitalStartup.org announces the release of the report “Top 10 technology trends to watch in 2018” December 18th 2017 Greensboro, NC – MyDigitalStartup.org announces the release of technology review “Top 10 technology trends to watch in 2018” Digital-disruptors continued to reshape businesses and industries, a trend likely to accelerate in 2017. […]
MyDigitalStartup.org announces the release of the report “Top 10 technology ...
Roads and traffic management pose unique challenges for researchers and many are testing the technology capabilities of latest techniques to solve urban traffic problems. A few weeks ago, I blogged about Indian Roads: the final frontier for Autonomous and Self-Driving Cars This week came news that researchers at Texas Advanced […]
Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers to Help Alleviate Urban Traffic Problems
Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 10th December News you can use Alexa for Business service brings Voice services to your office – Thus far, voice based technologies like Alexa, Siri and Cortana were consumer novelties, and the response has been overwhelming. At […]
Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 10th December
This week, the user-generated video hosting service, Vid.me announced it was shutting down. Vidme confirmed it was shutting down because it can’t see a way to make money in the face of internet giants Google and Facebook. The company said that new signups and uploads to the Vidme site and […]
Video hosting service, Vid.me shuts down
Tech giant Google announced that it was taking a small stake in a Bengaluru-based daily task management app called Dunzo. This is the first direct investment in an Indian startup by Google. Dunzo is receiving the $12 investment as a part of Google’s Next Billion Users (NBU) commitment. Dunzo had […]