A preacher, 500 startups, and a dream to change it all
What Billy Beane is to baseball, Dave McClure wants to be technology startups. And like Beane, he is willing to go anywhere in the world to find a slight edge to…
View ArticleWhy Niklas Zennstrom thinks Brazil’s startups are hot
Niklas Zennstrom, the founder of Skype and Kazaa and the founding partner of investment firm Atomico, tells me that he's been spending a significant amount of time in Brazil looking for…
View ArticleHow a Mormon VC ended up betting everything on Mexico
What's a Mormon white guy from Southern California doing running a tech fund in Mexico? Paul Ahlstrom, the founding partner of one of Mexico's rare venture capital firms, Alta Ventures, says…
View ArticleBehind the scenes of a Brazilian hacker space
Get a peek behind the scenes of the hacker space Casa da Cultura Digital, or the House of Digital Culture in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
View Article10 things to know about tech startups in Brazil
Compared to Mexico, the web and mobile startup ecosystem in Brazil is hot -- probably too hot. Here's 10 things you should know if you want to build, buy, invest in…
View ArticleA journey through a water cleaning plant in Brazil
About an hour drive outside of the packed streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and into the sprawling Sorocaba region, GE has quietly been leading the way on clean water technology.
View ArticleHow Latin America’s e-commerce behemoth finally embraced social
Not aggressively creating a social strategy years ago with a site like Facebook was one of the biggest mistakes of my career, says Daniel Rabinovich, CTO of Latin American e-commerce pioneer…
View ArticleA crazy dream to build a computer animation industry in Argentina
Behind the doors of Catmandu studios, on a quiet street in Buenos Aires, Argentina, dozens of young animators stare intently at their computer screens in low lit rooms, obsessing over the…
View ArticleThe next hot smart grid market: Brazil
With its booming economy, growing middle class and investments in city infrastructure, Brazil is looking to be the next hot market for smart grid development.
View Article500 Startups doubles down on Mexico via local accelerator
500 Startups gets its first international accelerator. Dave McClure's investment group joins with a Mexican accelerator called Mexican VC. Mexico has a growing population of new Internet and mobile...
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Get the Lowdown on Cloud Computing at Structure 09
Many of the web apps that we cover here on WebWorkerDaily wouldn’t have made it off the ground without the scalability and flexibility offered by cloud computing. It’s one of the main reasons that...
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Digital Marketer Sapient To Buy Nitro Group
Acquisitions of ad networks have ground to a halt in the past year. But Sapient still wants to do some shopping. The digital-marketing firm said it intends to buy Nitro Group. Terms of the acquisition...
View ArticleSolar Millennium Inks Massive Solar Thermal Deals
If anyone doubts the ability of renewable portfolio standards to spur the adoption of clean energy projects, they should look to California. The state is requiring that electric utilities need to get...
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AP Lowers Newspaper Fees On Hopes Of More Web Deals
The Associated Press is dropping its fees for newspaper members once again as it looks to strike more online content deals, AP reported. Next year, newspaper and broadcaster members will see their fees...
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Poet Launches New Biz to Power Cellulosic Ethanol Plant With Corn Cobs
Call it ethanol-on-the-cob. Corn ethanol giant Poet announced plans today to power its cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa, with methane derived from corn cobs — rather than natural gas. Never...
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T-Mobile to Get myTouch Next Week?
The successor to the T-Mobile G1 is rumored to be hitting the U.S. next week. The myTouch had previously been known as the G2 and is the same HTC Magic that Vodafone (s vod) has been selling in Europe....
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Bilingual Social Networking: How to Interact in More than One Language
Whenever I use social media tools, I find myself communicating in two languages: English and Tagalog. I use the former to talk to international contacts, and the latter for local contacts. It’s not a...
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Over-the-Top Consumption and Revenue Will Rocket: Report
More than 100 million households in the world will have an Internet-connected TV by 2011, according to The Diffusion Group (TDG). That’s way more than current estimates, including one for GigaOM by Dan...
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Twitter Start-Up Funding, By The Numbers
New funding may be sluggish, but there’s at least one category that investors are more than happy to pour money into: Twitter-related startups. On its blog today (via Silicon Alley Insider), startup...
View ArticleReview Round-Up: iPhone 3G S Offers Improvements, But Nothing Revolutionary
Some of the first reviews have started to trickle in on the new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone coming out this Friday. Above and beyond the consensus seems to be that the 3G S upgrades will be nice, but...
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