Equalis Launches 1st End-to-End Community Site Dedicated to Math-Centric Endeavors - Startup Report (Press Release)

Posted Tue, 10/05/2010 - 08:37 by jfreilly1

Innovative on-line destination for the mathematics community to connect with others, share ideas, and solve tough problems together

San Jose, CA – July 29th, 2010 - Equalis, the innovative on-line destination for the mathematics community, today announced that it has launched its "Your Math Community” website. This announcement marks the first website completely dedicated to providing math-centric professionals with a comprehensive on-line community experience. Users can register with the community for free, and join various special interest groups and forums to connect with others, share ideas, and solve tough problems together.

IDEAS'11 Annual Business Plan Competition, KANPUR, INDIA - Startup Report (Event)

Posted Sun, 10/03/2010 - 14:06 by anupam_acharya

TECHKRITI, The annual Technical and Entrepreneurship Festival of IIT KANPUR and The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT KANPUR announces the launch of its Business Plan Competition -IDEAS'11.

EVENT LOCATION: www.ecelliitk.in/ideas
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IDEAS'11 invites the Executive Business Summary from the participants all over the world from 5TH OCTOBER. Deadline: 25th NOVEMBER.

Participants who clear the first round will go through a telephonic pitching round and final entries will be invited to Kanpur, INDIA to present their Business Plan in front of Panel of Angel Investors, Ventures Capitalists.

Associates: SIDBI, DST, NEN, TiE

There is no event fess to participate.

Prize Money: Winner will get a cash prize of Rs. 1.5 Lakhs plus an opportunity to showcase his/her idea in front of Eminent VC's.

Mobisenz Mobile Technology Start-up Announces Launch - Startup Report (Press Release)

Posted Tue, 09/21/2010 - 08:06 by ZenlogicDev

Milsons Point, Australia
Sydney-based Internet start-up goes live with its website-to-mobile conversion software system.

Sydney-based technology micro start-up Mobisenz, a provider of "software as a service" (SaaS) mobile website generation, announced its product and website launch on the sixteenth of September. The technology is aimed at small to medium website owners who want a fast and simple way to ensure their website has a mobile presence.

European Internet Leaders Plan for 1st Internet Week Europe - Startup Report (Press Release)

Posted Tue, 09/21/2010 - 07:57 by rassami

- London to host citywide festival 8 -12 November celebrating Europe’s internet community -

20th September, 2010, London: Internet Week Europe will launch in London in November, when a coalition of leading European internet companies hosts the first week-long festival celebrating Europe’s thriving digital media industry and community.

The festival launches with initial support from industry leaders such as Tweetdeck, the Guardian, Moo.com, Google, BBC, WPP Digital, TechHub, Channel 4, Penguin, New Media Age and Creative Review, as well as flagship sponsor Yahoo!. These companies and more will host events throughout London from 8th-12th November 2010, ranging from conferences, technology demos, panel discussions, educational programming and meet-ups to late-night parties at venues across the city.

Cullinary Social Network Cooklet launches new World Cuisines feature on website - Startup Report

Posted Mon, 09/20/2010 - 07:40 by Peter K

Do you enjoy eating Indian food but are not sure how to cook it? Always wanted to learn how to cook Indian food but never had the opportunity? Now you can learn to cook Indian food with Cooklet.

Wroclaw, 13th September – Cooklet has started a new series on its website, cuisines from around the world. The first cuisine to be featured for the next 2 weeks is from India. The first 7 days will have articles that cover the basics of Indian cooking. Users are encouraged to try out some of the featured Indian recipes or upload their own.
There will be a contest in the second week to test the skill of users in preparing Indian cuisine.

VoltDB Raises $5m in #VC From Sigma Partners and Kepha Partners - Startup Report (Press Release)

Posted Tue, 09/14/2010 - 08:50 by aellicott

Will use financing to increase adoption of its high-performance open-source database

Billerica, Mass., September 13, 2010 – VoltDB, Inc. (http://voltdb.com), a leading innovator of high-scale database systems, today announced it has closed $5 million in financing from Kepha Partners and Sigma Partners. VoltDB will use the additional capital to grow adoption and build community awareness of its ground-breaking open-source database software.

VoltDB’s revolutionary database design allows companies to easily scale database performance to unprecedented levels. VoltDB has been shown to seamlessly grow a system to process millions of transactions per second on a cluster of inexpensive, off-the-shelf servers. It is a simpler, more flexible alternative to sharded MySQL, and offers NoSQL-like flexibility without giving up transactional data integrity (ACID) or more powerful relational capabilities.

World’s Brightest College Students Solve Organizations’ Toughest Problems at NoodleStorm.com - (Startup Report)

Posted Fri, 09/10/2010 - 18:11 by danieldbutt

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (September 10, 2010) – NoodleStorm.com is a new website where organizations of all types from around the world submit their complex business, non-profit, public administration, engineering, technology, political, legal, or other problems at www.NoodleStorm.com and receive multiple solutions from the brightest college students in the world. So far, students and professors from over half of the top 50 universities in the U.S. have registered to solve problems, including students and professors from Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Chicago, Berkeley, and Vanderbilt. Students who solve problems on the website gain real-world consulting experience in their chosen discipline before they graduate. Professors can choose problems for their students to solve as a class or allow students to choose problems they want to solve. Students can receive letters of recommendation and job offers from the organizations they solve problems for. The website's services are free and completely confidential.