Y Combinator Alum DoubleRecall Nabs $1.6 Million To Give Brands An Alternative To Paywalls

Back in August, Y Combinator held its summer session demo day, introducing the world to 60 new companies in one of its strongest batches to date. One of these companies, DoubleRecall launched as a platform that enables companies to roll out digital campaigns that actually succeed in prompting users "to

Grammys 2012 Live Blog: Join Our Discussion

The 54th Grammy Awards airs tonight, and we’re capturing all the action for you on scene in Los Angeles and remotely from New York City. Join us…

Can Pinterest Help Your Job Search?

Just when you thought you had mastered the job search on all social media platforms, along came Pinterest.
You’ve optimized your Facebook and…

No Longer An Awkward Teenager? Gamification Grows Up

Over the last year, you may have noticed that a once-niche trend not only crept into the mainstream, but is starting to really make a big splash. Gamification has become one of the hottest buzz words in the industry and is probably in the process of taking over a website or user experience near you.

Refresh Roundup: week of February 6th, 2012

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure

10 Kinetic Typography Music Videos

If you’re a music lover and a font fan, then a kinetic typography video beats the more traditional genres hands-down. While you’ve no doub…

Maxroam Launches An MVNO With Vodafone In The UK

While startups across the world are doing their best to disrupt mobile networks with clever voice call apps, like Viber, there remains the basic issues of actual voice and data access which still requires some chipping away at. It’s a particular issue in places like Europe where you can drive for only

The Social Media Salary Guide [INFOGRAPHIC]

Social Media Week is upon us, so we thought it would be appropriate to delve into the social media industry and see how its salaries stack up. Social…

Google TV Facebook page teases new announcement on the way tomorrow

Since Eric Schmidt made the rather bold proclamation that "most" new TVs would have Google TV embedded by summer 2012, we’ve all been waiting for something "big" from Mountain View. Well, if you can believe the services’ Facebook page, "big announcements" are just what we can expect Monday. A post on

10 Apps for Finding Apps

With the bounty of apps available for mobile devices, it would take a full-time job to customize the best apps to suit our needs and populate our devi…