(Photo: Kiss108.com) One 39-year-old creep may finally achieve his dream of sniffing Taylor Swift’s hair–at least if 4chan has anything to do with it. A contest organized by Boston radio station KISS 108FM is offering to send one lucky winner to a Taylor Swift show on July 27 and get their picture taken with her. When you register for the contest, you generate a unique link; in order to win, you have to get as many people to click on that link as possible once a day until the end of the contest.

Betabeat - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Editor’s Note: College Treps is a weekly column that puts the spotlight on college and graduate school-based entrepreneurs, as they tackle the tough task of starting up and going to school. Follow their daily struggles and this column on Twitter with the hashtag#CollegeTreps. Businesses today… they don’t make them like they used to. From app makers to online retailers, starting up today is easier than ever. Not only are there ample educational resources, networks and programs that can help launch an idea into a profitable business. These days, it’s also cheaper to get started. Think of it: You can launch a website ... → Read More

Young Entrepreneur - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The company, China’s answer to Google, has agreed to buy out 91 Wireless, which develops apps for Android phones as well as running its own app store. The deal marks an aggressive investment into mobile from Baidu, in what is now the world’s largest smartphone market. The Nasdaq-listed company dominates web searches in China but is seen as needing to branch out into mobile to continue to grow, as users increasingly access the internet from smartphones. The price paid is unprecedented for an internet company in China, underlining the strength of the country’s rapidly growing technology sector. 213m smartphones were ... → Read More

Silicon Alley Insider - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

I am not going to wax poetic on Zygna’s successes Farmville or Mafia Wars because they annoy me to no end and I wish people would stop herding sheep on Facebook because I think there are better ways… AlleyWatch

Alley Watch - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Artist’s rendering. A disgraced Cal State San Marcos student has been sentenced to a year in prison for attempting to hack his way to the position of student body president. We’re not talking a little simple War Games-style numbers-fudging, either.

Betabeat - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

In June of 2012, a company called 10Sheet launched out of TechStars NY with a plan to revolutionize bookkeeping for SMBs through software. But despite the brilliance of online services, some things are a bit too important to trust to an algorithm. Learning this, 10Sheet is today relaunching as Bench. Still a bookkeeping service, Bench makes it easy to keep a record of your transactions and expenses so that the bookkeeping portion of your business’ equation is never a distraction. However, Bench focuses far more on its human bookkeepers now to ensure that users feel they are completely taken care ... → Read More

TechCrunch - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Online home and apartment sharing startup Airbnb is one of the most anticipated tech IPOs. It’s valued at $ 2.5 billion and recently raised a $ 150 million round, The Wall Street Journal reports. But it doesn’t want to become the next overhyped startup that tries to fly before it can walk. (Some would like it to file for an IPO — but that seems premature.) That’s why it’s slowing down expansion of its international operations. Instead of hiring more people, Airbnb is reassigning current employees to new positions and moving them to a new hub in Europe. There have been ... → Read More

Silicon Alley Insider - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

With a variety of resources including workshops, seminars and invaluable access to business connections, NYU’s Launchpad program gives a select number of student entrepreneurs the opportunity to… AlleyWatch

Alley Watch - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Most entrepreneurs I know are individually very innovative, but a successful startup can’t be a one-man show (for long). That means they need to build an innovative team, which is not a skill that most people are born with. In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams. A typical approach to dealing with team dysfunction or no innovation process is to work around it, which normally leads to startup failure. The only way to build productive, collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teams is by resolving core dysfunction issues and ... → Read More

Startup Professionals - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Apple is supposedly having production problems with its next iPhone, the so-called iPhone 5S, reports DigiTimes. The production problems are due to difficulties with the rumored fingerprint sensor that will be part of the device, and could hold back about 3 million units until the fourth quarter of 2013. The iPhone 5S is expected to launch in September, according to the report. Keep in mind that DigiTimes isn’t always correct with Apple reports, but it is right often enough to warrant attention. Despite numerous rumors, there still hasn’t been a solid report yet on whether or not Apple’s next iPhone ... → Read More

Silicon Alley Insider - Tuesday, July 16, 2013