Finding an appropriate and convenient place to meet a business partner, friend or stranger can get pretty time-consuming. Detroit iPhone application publisher Basara is trying to solve that problem with Meetme. It’s a fairly simple solution: the app combines Google Maps with Yelp recommendations to suggest a handful of meeting points between two locations. Suppose you’re trying to meet a business partner between San Francisco and Palo Alto, Calif., and you have a hankering for Indian food. MeetMe will find the halfway point between the two places then pull up the most highly-rated Indian restaurants from Yelp near there. Full story...
Guest Post
Yesterday morning I read Peter Yared’s provocative article, ‘What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed?’ which is based entirely on the misassumption that mobile users don’t scroll.
Like nerve endings which translate senses into electrical impulses in your nervous system, sensors can translate the physical world into the digital.
Facebook’s first five days as a public company saw its value drop 13.1 percent, the worst first-week performance of any initial public offering in a decade.
Similar to the way that hardcore PC enthusiasts overclock their CPUs to squeeze out extra performance, Ford is preparing a car with an “overclocked” turbocharger.
Guest Post
“Startups are the sum of the decisions made by the people who run them,” Future Simple founder Uzi Shmilovici wrote in a recent post.
Guest Post
Many entrepreneurs dream of starting their own company so they can be their own boss, call the shots, get the corner office nicest table in the co-working space.
Sponsored Post You're building a tablet app, and you need to make decisions on what platforms to support.
Hawken is one of the highly anticipated free-to-play downloadable games coming this fall. Graphics chip maker Nvidia showed a demo of the online mech-combat title today in order to demonstrate its cloud graphics technology.
Sponsored Post Startup investing used to be only for the rich, only if you knew the right people, and only in deals in your city.
This week’s VBWeekly got a little goofy, while our anchor Jolie O’Dell was traveling to the East Coast.