After three days of collaboration, discussion, recognition and celebration, the curtain came down on the Red Herring Global Conference of 2013 in Santa Monica, California, leaving attendees to reflect on the dynamic…
Tech funding taking bigger share of Silicon Valley investment
Investment in technology companies in Silicon Valley is not just on the rise; it’s increasingly taking funding away from other sectors, according to research from CB Insights. Technology is dominating funding in…
ff Venture Capital to Public: We Are Fundraising
An eighty-year-old ban on general solicitation, officially lifted in September, denied startups and VCs alike the power to announce fundraising plans publicly. Suddenly ungagged, some startups jumped to declare they sought money,…
Searching for a Cold War
The Russian government could drag the world back in time to the Cold War era with plans to develop and deploy a state-owned search engine named Sputnik. According to Russian business daily…
Chinese Web Titan Baidu Launches TV
Baidu, the Chinese web titan behind the country’s search engine that works similarly to Google, will enter the television with its own smart TV as the company forays into the expanding online…
2013 Top 100 Asia: Winners
The Red Herring team would like to congratulate its 2013 Top 100 Asia winners. Accolades were bestowed on the evening of September 5 based on qualitative and quantitative criteria involving financial performance,…
Skyera’s Latest Gen Boosts Data Capacity by 10X for ½ the Price
Last year, Skyera released skyHawk, a product that blew the lid of flash storage which, at a price tag of $3 per a gigabyte, essentially made flash pricing comparable to traditional storage…
Locket Rolls Out Campaign for Customization and Looks to Give Back
Mobile advertising startup Locket has successfully set customers a-clicking. The company has approximately 100,000 users, a quarter of whom downloaded Locket within two days of launch. The company announced a new program,…
Fly Under the Radar with OFF Pocket
Even when your phone’s off, you might not be off grid. The OFF Pocket, a metalized-fabric case currently on Kickstarter, blocks signals to mobile phones and ensures users digitally disappear. The product’s…
The Seasteading Institute Fundraising for First Floating City Plans at Indiegogo
To flesh out plans for their floating city, The Seasteading Institute takes fundraising to Indiegogo. With capital from the masses matched by the Thiel Foundation, twenty-first century pioneers may settle the oceanic…