If you’ve ever wanted to edit video that you’ve shot but either haven’t had the time or the ability to do it, there’s a fun new automated service that just launched. Magisto is an Israel-based start-up that will take your unedited footage, run it through its sophisticated computer vision technology to pick out the best scenes, stabilize your images, remove excess “noise” and add smart effects and transitions that interact with the content in the video. READ MORE
Last week we heard about a new bill coming through the Senate now that, if passed, could carry hefty fines for any company that loses online data. Luckily, security companies like Dome9 keep popping up, looking to make your cloud doesn’t burst. READ MORE
From Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco, TechCrunch’s latest Disrupt Start-up Battlefield competition will showcase entrepreneurs from 30 start-ups vying for a $50,000 prize by making six-minute-long pitches to a rotating panel of venture capitalists, tech influencers, angel investors and Silicon Valley players. Monday featured three sessions of Start-up Battlefield, titled Disrupting Traditional Markets, Moving the Web Forward and Entertain Us; here are the start-ups presented in session three: Entertain Us. READ MORE
If you would like to export your products overseas but are intimidated by the complex maze of compliance and operational issues involved doing that, you’re not alone. What might help, writes Kevin Casey for Information Week, is an interesting application of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model: Automated, pay-as-you-go export management and compliance delivered online. READ MORE
The Pentagon is on Facebook. Somehow, the headquarters of the American armed forces, where men and women in soft-soled shoes whisper down long corridors lined by unmarked doors, – or so one imagines – only has 3,090 “likes.” That number may go up as companies compete for $42 million in funding that the Pentagon has announced it will award to social media-types who can help the military figure out what the place of Twitter and Foursquare will be in modern warfare. READ MORE
The annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Start-Up Challenge has returned for its fourth year, with a new twist. American start-ups will now compete with challengers from all across the world for the grand prize of $100,000 in cash and AWS credits. READ MORE
Just after September 11th, Suleiman Bakhit got a nervous call from his father. “Change your name,” he urged. “Say you’re from Mexico.” Suleiman was a Jordanian studying at the University of Minnesota and unfortunately, his father’s worry was justified. A few days later, he was attacked on the street for looking Arab. That night began what a 10 year journey in which Suleiman would transform from a masters student to the CEO and lead creative force behind a growing Arab youth media empire. READ MORE
In American political life “the Culture War” refers to the conflict between conservative traditionalism and liberal progressivism that began in the 1960s. The Culture War transformed political discourse into an exercise of picking sides, and cleaved the Baby Boomer generation into two easily identifiable and highly calcified political categories. When political writer Andrew Sullivan endorsed Barack Obama in The Atlantic Magazine in 2008, he did so because he believed that Obama was the one candidate that could transcend that conflict: READ MORE
Tumblr just surpassed WordPress in blog hosting. But there may be a new kind on the block: Blogymate, created by a team in the UAE, that combines the capabilities of a long-form blogging platform with the flexibility of Tumblr to post microblogs, links, photos, and videos. READ MORE
Facebook may be experiencing traffic drops in North America, but globally, Mark Zuckerberg’s social network is attracting more visitors than ever before. READ MORE
