Category: News

  • With YC Backing, PersistIQ Hopes To Remove Excel From The Outbound Sales Process

    By Ron Miller As with many companies, the two founders of PersistIQ, a YC-backed startup had a problem they saw needed fixing and they decided to build a product to take care of it. In this case, they found themselves coordinating their cold-call drip marketing campaigns in an Excel spreadsheet and they thought there had…

  • Bolt Vs. Bolt: A Speedy, New Photo Messenger Debuts Using A Familiar Name

    By Sarah Perez There’s another Bolt on the App Store that isn’t Instagram’s experimental photo messenger, and it competes in the same photo messaging space. How will Instagram parent company Facebook react to this new Bolt? Even Bolt’s creator, Nick Bicanic, better known as the founder of mobile dating app Flikdate, doesn’t quite know. Read…

  • Microsoft Updates Windows 8.1 And Surface Tablets

    By Alex Wilhelm It’s a big day in the Windows world, with Microsoft rolling out a grip of security patches, updates for Surface tablets, and new capabilities for Windows 8.1 as part of its August update. Regarding the security fixes, nine security updates are part of the package, addressing what Microsoft calls “37 unique Common…

  • Uber Strikes Back, Claiming Lyft Employees Canceled Nearly 13,000 Rides

    By Ryan Lawler The war of words between Lyft and Uber continues to escalate. Following allegations that its drivers and employees were regularly hailing and canceling rides that they booked on its competitor’s service, Uber issued a statement claiming Lyft is guilty of the same actions. Furthermore, Uber claims these actions were taken after Lyft’s…

  • Westboro Baptist Church Protesting Tech Workers This Afternoon

    By Sarah Buhr The Westboro Baptist Church, the group known for hate-filled picketing outside soldier’s and AIDS victims funerals has found a new target – the tech industry. The group plans to picket pretty much every major tech company in Silicon Valley from Facebook to Reddit this afternoon. In what looks to be a press…