Posts Tagged ‘ words ’

GroupTalent’s Hiring Marketplace Now Automatically Matches People With Jobs

GroupTalent’s Hiring Marketplace Now Automatically Matches People With Jobs

Talent drain? That’s what they’re saying . The explosion of early stage startups has made it harder for companies to find the best engineers and designers because everyone’s trying to do their own startup. GroupTalent (a startup, of course) wants to be the solution for that. In an effort to make the process...

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Another Study Shows Data Caps Are Likely Ineffective, Address Wrong Problem

Another Study Shows Data Caps Are Likely Ineffective, Address Wrong Problem

Data caps on your broadband, while in principle sound troublesome, are at least understandable. Bandwidth is a limited resource and we all have to share it, and presumably if we all were maxing our connections out all the time, we’d tax the system beyond its capacity. But who uses the most bandwidth and...

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Aviary’s Tools Are Powering One Million Edited Photos Per Week On Mobile Alone

Aviary’s Tools Are Powering One Million Edited Photos Per Week On Mobile Alone

If apps like Instagram have proven one thing, it’s that photos and mobile phones are an extremely popular (and powerful) combination. And photos on the web are obviously immensely popular as well. A year ago NYC-based startup Aviary decided to capitalize on these trends by launching developer-facing APIs, which allow third-party apps to bake in image editing...

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Going shopping

Going shopping

With all these amazing tools we have, it’s not a little surprising how much we take the traditional forms of media as the way things are and should be done. The iPad exposes the mediocrity of our expectations, with its Reader button in the address field stripping the comments and jingle jangle out...

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Why Haven’t We Seen A Rollup Yet in Online Video?

Why Haven’t We Seen A Rollup Yet in Online Video?

Editor’s note : Guest contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is founder and CEO of  WatchMojo , a video publisher. Online video is booming and the are tons of small video companies across production, advertising, distribution, and technology.  Yet we have yet to see a serious attempt to roll up the industry.  The reasons, I submit,...

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