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[Review] Steve Jobs

YoungUpstarts

Jobs’ death on 5 Oct 2011 at the age of 56 due to pancreatic cancer has been one of the most talked about death in recent history. In his own words, Jobs “screwed” players like Google and Microsoft whom he considered as being too promiscuous in allowing other manufacturers to use their software and applications.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales. Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer were all shuttered due to GM's bankruptcy, which occurred on June 1, 2009. He saw the company shift its focus from personal computers to IT services and softwares.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. It can process petabytes of data in real time to identify faces in crowds, voices in audio recordings and predict threats, (and opportunities) before they become a reality. Dragonera (2016) – AI based software development service.

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Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts

Duct Tape Marketing

Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. 500-rated, top-ranked conversation analytics software serving over 30,000 businesses around the world. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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TechCrunch Disrupt: Where Are They Now?

ReadWriteStart

What It Is: Audio conference calls aren’t going away, so Firespotter Labs' ÜberConference made them less sucky. By removing login annoyances (“Can you text me that code? iOS, Android and paid versions of the service are due soon, and UberConfernce can monetize its already-solid feature set, prospects look good.

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TechCrunch Disrupt: Where Are They Now?

ReadWriteStart

What It Is: Audio conference calls aren’t going away, so Firespotter Labs' ÜberConference made them less sucky. By removing login annoyances (“Can you text me that code? iOS, Android and paid versions of the service are due soon, and UberConfernce can monetize its already-solid feature set, prospects look good.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Both commercial offerings are supported by expert professional services for strategic design and software development.