In an interview, Nest’s CEO tells us why a union with Google is a good idea (hint: infrastructure and scale) and how he can now get back to designing killer product… Read more »
More efficient power electronics might not be all that sexy. But a startup is scaling up the process to make next-generation power conversion a reality. Read more »
Though there are millions of truck drivers with smartphones, most of them live in a pen, paper and fax machine world when it comes to managing their driving records. KeepTruckin aims… Read more »
The Orange Chef has raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by Google Ventures and Spark Labs. The company makes a kitchen scale that communicates with your iPad and a wealth… Read more »
JumpCam is launching its Android version less than two months after debuting on iOS. The small startup took this step because for its app to go viral, it really needed to… Read more »
Data is an ever-more important element in business decision-making, so why isn’t venture capital keeping up? When will the industry move from intuition to algorithms? Read more »
Mountain View-based Play-i is launching a crowdfunding campaign to produce simple robots that can help kids as young as five years old learn basic concepts behind programming. Read more »
Check out some of the very best in product experience design, according to these designers. Hear more from them at Roadmap on November 5th and 6th in San Francisco. Read more »
In its first national equity investment, Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup:Education fund has co-led a seed round in K-12 education startup Panorama Education. Read more »
Vertical applications can take some of the advances mobile technologies have made in the consumer market and apply them to the corporate market Read more »