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Wearable Solar’s Prototype Dress Combines Fashion With Phone-Charging Capabilities
Here’s an unusual way to keep your smartphone charged — with a solar-powered dress.
That’s what fashion designer Pauline van Dongen is developing with her startup Wearable Solar. She brought a prototype dress to Brooklyn’s Northside Festival last month, where I had a chance to see the dress in action. Read More
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StepUp Lets You Easily Chop YouTube Videos Into Bite-Size Chunks
Step forward UK startup StepUp which has built a platform for turning existing video content into shorter snippets that can be looped for repeat viewing, or watched in sequence — one segment after another, as tasty bite-sized chunks. Israeli High Tech Gets Aggressive
Israel has always taken a disproportionate share of global media attention. This has long held true in international politics, where Israel would prefer a little less attention, but also in high tech where the media attention on start-up success has often been overstated and anecdotal. Read More
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Meet The Winner Of PragueCrunch III: Cloudfender
This man is very happy. He’s Tomas Soukup, one of the contestants in last night’s PragueCrunch pitch-off and a proud drinker of fine Czech beer. He is just one of the cool people we met in Prague last night. The pitch-off, judged by Yao Huang of the Hatchery, our own Natasha Lomas, and Andrej Kiska of Credo Ventures, also made this man very happy. We listened to eight startup… Read More
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Rovio Owner Backs Teller, A Startup Aiming To Make Email Work Better When You Check It Less Often
If you’re in the U.S., you’re probably taking a well-deserved break from work and all the accompanying email today for the July 4th holiday. But when you return, your inbox is going to be a nightmare. An unsorted, unfiltered, unorganized mess. A new startup called Teller wants to help with that. The company also has a small round of funding as one of the first investments from… Read More
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A Drone Over PragueCrunch
When I held the first PragueCrunch in 2008 I didn’t expect much. I loved the city but I wasn’t sure what sort of start-up ecosystem it had. But, in those strange days when live streaming was still a clever trick (don’t try finding those streams. Technology changed so fast that they essentially evaporated) and money was contracting, I found everything about the Czech… Read More
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Everyone Seems Mad At Reservation Hop, Founder Admits He Was “Taken Aback” By The Criticism
So … have you heard about Reservation Hop? I mean, it’s not quite the hottest topic on Twitter, but among the folks who have heard about it, the idea seems to have unleashed an impressive torrent of malevolent creativity. The idea, basically, is that Reservation Hop will help users get a table at in-demand restaurants. How? The company will make reservations in advance, and then… Read More
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Mobile Accelerator Tandem Announces Four New Startups As It Prepares To Double In Size
Tandem, a Silicon Valley-based accelerator for mobile startups, is unveiling its latest group of companies.
The firm says this is its “largest startup class ever” — though that’s not quite as dramatic a change as you might think. In the past, Tandem has accepted three startups in each class. This time, there are a grand total of four. Read More
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Lua, The Mobile-First Comms Tool For Any Workforce, Launches Insights Metrics Product
Lua, the mobile first communications platform for any workforce, has today launched a brand new feature of the product called Insights. Insights is a metrics platform that will allow clients to see in real-time the way that their employees are communicating and gauge that against the success of the company. Lua launched back in 2013 out of TechStars to bring better communication tools to… Read More
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Can Content Pay Its Way Through Social Shares And Tailored Email Newsletters?
Publications like The Times of London, the FT and the New York Times have been hammering away at paywall-based business models that let them make money not just from traffic-based advertising but getting users to pay for the content they read, while newspapers like The Guardian have eschewed the idea on their website but opted for apps where payments are in place. While the basic… Read More
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