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Google Finance expands to cover the stock market in Spain, Poland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 9:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

Google today expanded its Google Finance product to cover stocks in Spain, Poland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina. As a result, you can now easily follow the performance of indices, stock price movements, trading volumes, and so on for the stock market in those five countries with just a simple Google search. Today’s addition means Google Finance now supports financial information for 35 exchanges worldwide; the full list is available here. While this is certainly good news, we’d personally prefer if Google worked on improving reliability and accuracy first before supporting more markets. Google Finance is one of the…

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10 things you need to know about Google’s Project Ara modular smartphones

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 8:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider, Mobile, Project Ara

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The build-it-yourself modular Google smartphone is one step closer to giving you the chance to build your perfect phone. It’s not going to be available this year. But, 2015 could be the beginning of a significant shift in the smartphone landscape. Project Ara is part of the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group. The group is what Google retained in its sale of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo. The project is a bold plan to create an open-source smartphone hardware platform. Users would start with a piece of base hardware known as an Endo. Features would be added to the Endo as…

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Getting to $100M+ revenue: Understanding the 3 phases of a startup

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 7:16 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Mitchell Harper is the  co-founder and co-CEO of Bigcommerce. He tweets at @mitchellharper. In order to be successful as a first-time entrepreneur, it’s important to understand that as your business grows, what got you to where you are won’t necessarily keep moving you forward. In his excellent book The Hard Things About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz explains why it’s important to be almost short-sighted when hiring people into your business. Instead of wondering whether new hires will be able to grow with your business over the next few years, he suggests only looking at the next 18 months, because by then…

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Favstar founder launches Respondly to help companies use Twitter as a service desk

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Today, the founder of Favstar has taken the wraps off a new service: Respondly, a team support inbox for Twitter. Twitter has become one of the easiest ways to engage with and get support from many companies. The likes of Xbox and Target offer support on the service, alongside trying to engage with users on a more personal level. If you’ve ever been at the helm of a relatively large corporate Twitter account, you can likely relate to this problem. It can be hard to keep up with the amount of mentions you receive, especially considering just how quickly the stream can flow,…

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Neil Young’s PonoPlayer shatters $800,000 Kickstarter goal, raises $6.2m

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 5:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Updates

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Musician Neil Young has shattered his $800,000 Kickstarter goal set up to fund production of a new portable music player called the Pono. Running for the last month, the campaign has managed to raise many multiples of its goal and ended at an impressive at $6.22 million. The result is that the first units will start shipping out for delivery starting in October this year, depending on the level of pledge – some won’t be sent out until December. Young started the campaign to “revive the magic that has been squeezed out of digital music”, and it clearly resonated with the more than…

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