Among the Sleep Kickstarter ends nearly $50k beyond its target

Krillbite Studio’s first-person baby simulator/horror game Among the Sleep has completed its 30-day Kickstarter campaign, raising a grand total of $ 248,358 from 8,110 backers – nearly $ 50,000 more than the $ 200,000 fundraising goal originally set. All that [...]

Family Safety App Alert.Us Goes Beyond Kid Tracking With Message Boards, Battery Alerts & More

Alert.Us, a recently launched mobile family safety application, has some interesting ideas about the direction that these sorts of GPS tracking apps should go. In fact, says CEO Antoine Martin, the company’s goal is to have kids actually accept and [...]

Facebook Home expands beyond the US, now up for download in Canada and the UK

Facebook promised that other countries would be getting Home for Android sometime after the US rollout, but it didn’t have much more to offer in the way of specifics at its launch event earlier this month. It turns out the [...]

As It Moves Beyond Rentals To Become An Academic Hub, Chegg Brings 2.5M Textbook Solutions To iOS

Chegg has long been known as a textbook company, becoming one of the first companies to bring textbook rental online and reach widespread adoption. But with Amazon, Apple and others moving aggressively into the textbook market — and the market [...]

Soundrop Goes Beyond Spotify With Listening Rooms And Videos On Facebook, And Coming Soon To A Platform Near You

Soundrop has found a lot of success on the music streaming service Spotify as one of the first apps on the platform, and the first to offer a way of users to create social “listening rooms” to hear music together, [...]

‘I have no use for money beyond a certain point’, says Bill Gates

To amass wealth is not a sin, but one must also engage himself in donating alms. Mr. William Henry “Bill’ Gates rightly believes so. Even after owning a lakeside estate This post ‘I have no use… For more visit TheWindowsClub.com. [...]

For Startups In Search Of A Celebrity Partner, Go Beyond The Name

Editor’s note: Sameer Mehta is the CEO and co-founder of 12Society, along with celebrities Nas, Michael Strahan, Nick Cannon, Tim Lincecum, Blake Griffin, and Kevin Love. Follow him on Twitter @SameerSociety. I recently had a chance to sit backstage at a sold-out Nas [...]

Apple patents a method to refine curved glass for displays and beyond

The curved screens of Samsung’s Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus helped them stand out in the smartphone crowd, but it’s clearer than ever that the company doesn’t have a lock on the idea. Apple is exploring the concept as well: [...]

Lightbank Aims To Change The VC Game As It Expands Its Investements Beyond Chicago

There’s a lot of talk about disruption in the venture capital world. We’ve discussed at length the shift that many VCs are making from simply writing a check to serving as a hands-on, end-to-end service driven by seasoned operators and former founders. [...]