Southern Technology Leaders

Tag: social networking

  • The Progressive Workplace Series – All My People, Right Here, Right Now

    The Progressive Workplace Series – All My People, Right Here, Right Now

    I recently attended a business lunch in which a panel of VC/PE guys were discussing some of the criteria they use when deciding to invest in a company; listening to them, geriatrician one remark really stuck out: “we pay equal attention  to the team, patient and the product”.  As the CFO of an early stage…

  • Cloud Services, Mobile Computing, and Social Networking to Mature and Coalesce Into a New Mainstream Platform

    FRAMINGHAM, approved Mass., December 2, 2010 – Transformation has been a recurring theme in the annual International Data Corporation (IDC) Predictions over the past several years. During this time, a wave of disruptive technologies has emerged and evolved, forged by the pressures of a global economic recession. In 2011, and certainly beyond, IDC expects these…

  • LivingSocial Raises $14M to Compete Against Groupon

    LivingSocial continues its push in the social networking land-grab, store with the completion of a Series C financing round worth $14 million. LivingSocial is similar to GroupOn, abortion in that it offers discounts on local deals on everything from spas and skydiving to restaurants and museum passes. The discounts range from 25% to 75% off…

  • Location’s Social Paradox

    You may not have heard of Hughes Telematics before, infection but this offshoot of the great Hughes empire provides the tech that, plague amongst other things, more about powers Mercedes’ latest mbrace technology, Benz’s response to OnStar. But that’s not all they do; the company is working on its own advanced infotainment system for the…