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ZTE unveiled a new Blade series device called the ZTE Blade S6 which runs Android 5.0 Lollipop with the company's MiFavor 3.0 UI. Priced at $249.99. Starting with the overall design, the Blade S6 seems inspired by the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The device is made entirely out of plastic and comes in two different colours, pink and silver. The front face of both variants is white. The pink variant has a glossy back, but the silver one has a more matte finish. From a distance, the silver ZTE Blade S6 looks metallic. The smartphone is just 7.7…

Entrepreneur - Startups and VCs those won the Crunchies - 2014 VentureBeat and TechCrunch cohosted the Crunchies, an annual award show which ranks the biggest movers and shakers in the technology industry. Category wise awards for startups are as follows Best Technology Achievement: Stella Solar-Powered Car Best On-Demand Service: Hotel Tonight Best E-Commerce Application: Casper Best Mobile Application: Storehouse Fastest Rising Startup: Yik Yak Best Health Startup: Theranos Best Design: Airbnb Best Bootstrapped Startup: Meadow Best Enterprise Startup: Cloudflare Best Education Startup: Classdojo Best Hardware Startup: Oculus VR Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Kim Kardashian: Hollywood Biggest Social Impact: Twitter Angel of the Year: Kickstarter Backers of Oculus VR VC of the Year: Jim Goetz, Sequoia…

Accounting and social media don't always seem to mix, but since the importance of online profiles and social networking in recruitment is on the rise, professionals of every field should get interested in developing a social media strategy as means of both furthering their careers and growing their firms. The key here is personal branding—social networks help to bring your brand to a wider audience, granting you all the space to become your sector's thought leader. And that's something impressive to every recruiter. Here are top five tips on how to create an efficient social media strategy and develop a…

"Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are." --Jim Rohn There's no one secret to success, but it doesn't happen by accident, either. Successful people work hard at themselves and their business. Importantly, they learn to stop hindering their efforts by avoiding these seven things: Dwelling on regrets Sure, it's important to understand your mistakes and failures and learn from them. Dwelling on them, however, is a sure way to make yourself unable to move forward. Stop looking back, and file those lessons you've learned. You'll need them on your path to success. Envying…

Entrepreneurship is a winding, often uncomfortable journey. The trick to success is learning to live with that. When it comes to the word "entrepreneur," most people think of the big names: Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, the kind of people who seem to have a Midas touch track record. But, if you look past the cinema-ready surface, you're going to find that the one common thread all successful entrepreneurs share is failure. Today, I'm the co-founder and CTO of MobileX Labs. We have seven-figure revenues and $1.5 million in venture capital funding. But things weren't like that just a…

If there is any mystery in what kind of startup ideas are fundable, the good news is there are quite a few ideas that clearly are. Why don’t people jump on them right away? As you will see these ideas are just as useful as they are challenging. But not impossible. A list of such ideas was compiled by Y Combinator. They come in large categories: 1. Energy – low-cost energy directly increases the quality of life. Generally speaking, anything you can create to make energy from current energy sources cheaper will be revolutionary. Same goes for extracting energy out of…

If you have a list of all the things you should not do, you can turn that into a recipe for succeeding just by negating. Below you will find the 18 startup mistakes: Single Founder – as a single founder you have almost zero chance of getting funding from Paul Graham. Why? It’s not a coincidence, he says, that founders who succeeded did so as a team of at least two. Bad Location – you can change everything about a house but its location. Likewise, if your startup is in a bad location, you can’t change the nature of that location. It’s easier…