Central America and startups: what you need to know

It all started with atweet. Commenting one of our recent posts, ‘Latin American Startups: Eight “Gringas” to Watch Out For,’ a web developer from Nicaragua calledJorge Cerdapointed out that our scope in that post was actually limited to Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Although we have also talked quite a few times about Mexico and itsstartups, Jorge had a point: there have been very few mentions of his home country and its neighbors on The Next Web....

8 min · 1627 words · Brett Roman

Central.ly: A businessman’s alternative to about.me

An awful lot like the incredibly popularabout.me,Central.lyis a new service that allows businesses to create a landing page to advertise or market themselves. Central.ly, which comes courtesy of San Francisco founders Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray and Edward Robertshaw, does target businesses, but there’s no reason why a designer, photographer, or anyone who has an online profile, can’t make use of the free service. Central.ly has total ease of use going for it, with its WYSIWYG editor which shows you the changes as you make them....

3 min · 513 words · Lindsey Chandler

CEO caught leaving slanderous app store reviews about competitor. Surprised? [Updated]

We have gotten a response from GasBuddy’s Dustin Coupal. It is included below. We review a lot of apps around here at TNW. In doing so, some of them stay on our devices for personal use, but most of them we just tell you about because we’re positive that TNW readers will find them interesting. Out of every 20 apps that I review, I might actually write about 5 and then keep 1 for personal use....

6 min · 1089 words · Kenneth Patterson

CERN’s LHCb breakthrough will reveal a lot about the universe’s origins

What happened at the beginning of the universe, in the very first moments? The truth is, we don’t really know because it takes huge amounts of energy and precision to recreate and understand the cosmos on such short timescales in the lab. But scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Switzerland aren’t giving up. Now ourLHCb experimenthas measured one of the smallest differences in mass between two particles ever, which will allow us to discover much more about our enigmatic cosmic origins....

6 min · 1077 words · Kelly Copeland

CES 2011 Video: Earn gift cards for liking Facebook pages and downloading apps with JunoWallet

If there’s one thing that’s always left in my wallet at the end of the year, it’s that $50 gift card from Aunt Dora that I forgot to spend and now I never will spend because it’s expired. Silicon Valley based startup JunoWallet aims to solve that problem enabling to not only keep your gift cards digitally on your iphone or android, but they also give you gift cards or Juno credits for doing tasks like liking Facebook pages or downloading apps....

2 min · 254 words · Vanessa Choi
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