Shelby.tv Office Burglarized, 5 Laptops, 3 iPads Stolen
Some crappy news for the Christmas season. Someone broke into the offices of TechStars NY grad Shelby.tv and made off with the company's laptops. In an email founder Reece Pacheco told Betabeat,...
View ArticleStartup News: Time’s NYC 10 in Tech, Rx Sunglasses Online and Amazon’s Hot...
(Source: Warby Parker) PERFECT TEN. Last Wednesday Time Inc. brought together editors from many of their news properties to bestow upon us the "10 NYC Startups to Watch." Only in the startup picking...
View ArticleTechStars NYC: Where Are They Now?
We feel a little guilty. We’ve been fickle and easily distracted. Last year, the first two TechStars NYC classes were all we could talk about. But when their programs ended, we kind of forgot about...
View ArticleTechstars Alum Shelby.TV Shutting Down This Weekend, Team to Focus on...
The Shelby team hard at work on... something? (Photo: Reece Pacheco, Artwork c/o http://sirmikeofmitchell.com/ ) Apparently something's up over at Techstars alum Shelby.TV. Cofounder Reece Pacheco just...
View ArticleDave Tisch, Alexis Ohanian and Other NYC Tech Favs Cameo in Hulu Dramedy Leap...
Lights, camera, Tisch! (Photo: Leap Year) When the Techstars reality show on Bloomberg TV gets too intense (What will happen to To Vie For!?!), award-winning producer Wilson Cleveland has a solution...
View ArticleWe Know What You Did This Summer
It's hard to be heads down when it's hot out. Exhortations to "just keep shipping" trigger fantasies of sailboats; Friday afternoon happy hours just aren't as appealing as sangria on a terrace in...
View ArticleSpate of Attempted Robberies Hits NYC Startup Offices Onswipe and Shelby.TV
Onswipe’s office. (Photo: Michelle Young, Untapped Cities) A few weeks ago, Betabeat caught wind of a handful of attempted robberies that had taken place at startup offices around the Flatiron area. On...
View ArticleStartup News: NASA Images of Sandy Sold for Charity and Boxee Comes to a...
Fancy's fanciest fan. (Photo: wikipedia.org) Ceci N'est Pas Une Sandy The affordable-art-dealing website 20 x 200 is now selling a print of a NASA satellite image of Hurricane Sandy. All proceeds from...
View ArticleLast Night at New York Tech Meetup: Technology Galore, but Does Anyone Have a...
The robot couldn't get a permission slip to attend last night's New York Tech Meetup, but the audience was still treated to some wow-factor technology. The robotics demo, billed as "Talos: Personal...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: International Defoundered Man of Mystery, Plus Alexis Ohanian...
(Photo: Amazon) Front Page Printed Pages of the Internet Just before taking stage at SXSW to talk his crowdfunded Internet 2012 tour, Alexis Ohanian emailed out a link to his new book, Without Their...
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