Pitch for UserApp
Company / App Name: UserApp https://userapp.io/ Twitter – userapp_io What does it do? UserApp is a cloud-based user management API for web apps. The purpose is to relieve developers from having to program logic for login, sign up, calculate payments, turn on or off features, etc. And instead focus on their core product. Why do we need it? Developers are passionate people with lots of motivation for their projects. But in every project there are time-consuming and boring aspects as well. User management is one of these boring aspects and UserApp takes that boring part away Who is it for? ... → Read More
The Startup Pitch - Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Where there’s a weather advisory, there’s tweets. Such is the case today. With a tornado watch in effect until 5pm in New York City, tweets have poured in like rain (see what I did there?). Along with tweets, photos. And when everyone is focused on the weather, everyone tends to retweet the images onto their own timelines. Here’s a photo from Brian Stelter of the New York Times: — Brian Stelter () October 7, 2013 This is all well and good. It is a clear photo and, to my knowledge, no filter was used. ... 
The trial of James Holmes, accused of going on a shooting rampage in a Colorado movie theater, is in its beginning stages–and the suspect’s online dating activity may figure prominently into the prosecution’s case. Mr. Holmes returns to court today for two weeks of hearings focused on evidence prosecutors may use against him, the New York Post reports. From ABC 7 News. Denver: “Holmes’ [sic] created the Match.com account in April 2012 and the AdultFriendFinder.com account just 15 days before the shooting on July 20. Both were last accessed two days before the shooting. “Photos posted to both accounts showed Holmes ... 
We’re pretty much speechless over this old Microsoft video that features Steve Ballmer as Dr. Evil and Bill Gates as Austin Powers. Microsoft has done a lot of goofy videos through the years that were intended for internal use. We’re guessing this is one of them. It looks extra to us on the outside, but on the inside of the company it may have been well received. Or it may have been seen as goofy. Via: Gurman Join the conversation about this story » Tech
Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the pursuit to build a cloud infrastructure for the intelligence community. In a ruling published today, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler wrote that AWS legitimately won a $ 600 million contract with the CIA that IBM had contested. IBM plans to appeal the ruling. In a statement, the company said what the company offers is more cost-effective and that they have decades of experience working with the U.S. government. The dispute arose after the General Accounting Office (GAO) published a report in February that said AWS had not met ... 
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today. Twitter Makes Less Money From Mobile Users (All Things Digital)Twitter recently filed its S-1, revealing the company’s long speculated-upon financials for the first time. One item of note was Twitter’s mobile users, which account for 75% of its 218 million monthly active users, making it one of the most mobile-centric of the top social networks. However, it turns out that Twitter is dealing with a mobile monetization gap. It’s mobile users generate less revenue for the company ... 
2 Chainz helps his followers drop pounds one butter-poached lobster omelet at a time. (Screengrab: Instagram) If you avoid Instagram on Sunday afternoons due to the endless stream of mimosa-and-omelet photos it yields, you may be messing up your diet big time. A BYU study found that maybe, just maybe, “seeing photos of certain foods, as opposed to eating them, still gives you a feeling of satiation, which makes those foods less appealing” when you go to stuff them in your face IRL, TechCrunch reports.
Ben Milne is CEO of Iowa-based payments company Dwolla and he barely carries cash anymore. Dwolla works by charging a simple $ 0.25 fee for sending money to someone. Transfers under $ 10 are free. “I reached into my pocket the other day and felt crumpled paper in there,” he said during a panel at Money2020 in Las Vegas. “I thought I had absentmindedly put my burrito wrapper from lunch in there, but it was actually some dollar bills.” Milne’s point is simply that the Internet has carried so much of our analog world into the digital age that the ... 