Launching the USA TODAY Census API - TechLabs: USATODAY.com innovation, new projects, ideas and access to beta site features - USATODAY.com TechLabs - finding out what works and thinking out loud...
Backed by an impressive list of investors, Zaarly, a web and mobile service that connects buyers and sellers in a localized market place, is launching to the public today.
As we've written in the past, Zaarly is a mobile-centric reverse Craigslist service. Here's how Zarrly works. On the site or via the startup's mobile apps, you post what you’re looking for (i.e. cupcakes), how much you’re willing to pay for it and how soon you need it. Zaarly will then share your request in the local...
On Friday, Q&A site Quora eliminated its policy banning self-promotion. My reading of the policy is that it is more of a clarification than a veritable about-face. Quora’s goals have always been to foster an environment of learning. As they wrote in their post, “Quora's key principle regarding content is that users should make the site a great resource for people who want to learn. The quality of the answer is what we care about. Evaluating the intention of an answer does not...
Mobile payments are coming, and there are many paths being beaten to get them to our phones. Google-backed mobile payments startup Corduro launches this week with a combined mobile wallet/payments processor for Android and the iPhone (which will be available in the respective app stores later this week).
Like Square, Corduro is primarily a way for merchants to take payments on mobile devices. But it has a few twists. One is pricing. In some cases, it can be up to 30 percent cheaper for...
NetSuite, one of the handful of companies to build a big company out of the early 2000s software-as-a-service funding frenzy, is now making a push into cloud based enterprise software, according to several announcements being made this morning by CEO Zach Nelson at SuiteWorld, the company's user conference being held in San Francisco.
As with most of these user conference announcements, there will be the usual fanfare and big-name guests trotted out-- in this case, Oracle President Mark Hurd...
