It’s not long now until theFuture of Web Appsconference kicks off in London. Running from October 3-5, the conference seeks to bring together Web Developers, entrepreneurs and visionaries from around the world to discuss the next generation of Web apps. Check out our5 reasons to attendthe Future of Web Apps conference, where The Next Web readers are given access to special discount tickets too. One of the speakers will beAlex Russell, a developer at Google since 2008, who is working on Chrome and Chrome Frame....

There’s a lot of noise on the Internet and we know it can be overwhelming. That’s why slick, easy to navigate websites are so important. But with our ever shrinking attention spans, even a sweet website still needs a Cliff’s Notes. Meet:The Hello Bar, a fun new product that lets website owners prominently display their most important message in a highly visible bar on top of their website. “With Hello Bar we saw this opportunity on the most visible area of the site for a company to promote one, important message that will encourage your users to take a certain type of action,” explains Chuck Longanecker, Founder of the Hello Bar....

Thisarticlewas originally published byMartin BanksonClean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. The electric vehicle market has seen incredible growth in the past decade. There were 7.2 million EVs on the road in 2019, despite there being less than 20,000 in use just nine years earlier....

In the past few years, a rising number of female entrepreneurs have spawned lucrative fashion and beauty businesses in the halls of Harvard Business School. Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank launched online sample-sale siteGilt Groupein 2007; the company is now worth close to $500 million. Last year,Rent the Runway, like a “Netflix for dresses,” was founded by two Harvard Business School graduates. Also,FashionStake, a site where members invest in up-and-coming designer pieces andChickRx, a site that gives women sex and relationship advice were both launched by Harvard alumni....

This weekend, Foursquare hosted its first global hackathon. The New York startup brought together an insane number of developers at five official sites: NYC atGeneral Assembly, San Francisco atFoursquare S), Denver, CO atClosely, Tokyo atGaiaXand Paris atLe Camping. Plus, many more–geographically challenged–developers organized events of their own. As you might have guessed, there are local and global winners. The local winners have been decided, but Foursquare needs you to vote for the global champs....