By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Forbes just acquired journalism startup True/Slant, hoping the entrepreneurial talent could help the established publication revamp its online business model.

With the purchase comes the startups’ 5 person team, including the site’s brainchild Lewis Dvorkin.

True/Slant allows freelancers to build a…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

It seems like everyone in the tech world was at Tech Crunch Disrupt last week. I was out of town, so I’ll have to take CNN’s word on what the top 5 startups are:

1. Soluto: PC trouble shooting startup…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

We’re not sure about that yet. However, scientists have discovered that locusts have freakishly large brains.

In fact, the swarming locusts have larger brains than the solitary insects. Apparently, living in crowds makes the social bugs’ brains swell.

University of Cambridge…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Former executive of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee, wants to help Chinese startups grow under the guidance of his company, Innovation Works, reports PCMag.com.

These days, flat out copying an idea doesn’t really work. The Chinese have to be smarter about…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Think of the cheap tablet as a laptop, iPad, and Kindle all in one.

“The 75 dollar mark isn’t a problem…the problem is when will we get plastic. We want it to be 100 percent plastic,” says One Laptop Per Child…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

As I said earlier, Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants people to move to New York to start their businesses. The NYC Entrepreneurial Fund will pump in $19 million into New York-based startups. Read the full story »

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

The flexible color video screen can wrap around a pencil. Sony has introduced its flexible display made of organic semiconductors that are coated with thin flexible material. It’s a cell phone, newspaper reader, and movie screen all in one.

Sony hopes that it can…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

Obama began Small Business Owners Week, asking Congress to create a small-business jobs package ASAP.

“Small business owners have been the hardest hit by this recession,” Obama added. “From the middle of 2007 through the end of 2008, small businesses lost 2.4 million

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

Fast Company’s Infographic of the day is The 140 Most Influential People on Twitter. Clearly this diagram is a play on the 140 characters on Twitter. And of course the founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone are at its…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

GPS just got an upgrade. All you need is an Android phone and you are set. Wikitude Drive provides video footage and directions in real time.

This way you don’t have to take your eyes off the road to look at a map or…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Where is the value in the brands to create new products? What is it about the Vanity Fair brand? Why does society think that is okay to illegally download movies online, but think it’s not okay to steal a DVD from…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

Serial entrepreneur Michael Cassidy, has traveled to over 25 countries and knows how fragmented travel information is on the web. He wanted to create a place where people could come to discover and explore their travel online. So he co-founded travel site Ruba,…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

The creation of the synthetic cell was only a matter of time. We had been anticipating genomic pioneer J. Craig Venter’s announcement of the first self-replicating, synthetic cell for a while. It took the Venter team 15 years to complete this breakthrough.

The synthetic cell…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

The Google TV is “a big deal”. The Daily Mail calls it the “biggest improvement since color.” You can check Facebook, surf the net, watch YouTube, or regular TV from Google TV.

Google said in their blog:

Google TV is a new experience

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

Snac is a startup that wants you to digest information in snack sized amounts.

Want access to the web in 2 seconds to check sports scores, stock, or the latest tweets, but only have an old school phone?

Well Snac might be able to…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

Feminism is getting a makeover — as women ditch the corporate life for the kitchen and garden.

In Shannon Hayes’ new book, Radical Homemakers, she makes the case: “homemaking is no longer the lonely depressing realm of the subjugated or bored woman. It…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

We can like stuff all we want, but does that really reveal what we truly desire?

Scientists are finding that Internet marketers might be deceived by what they interpret as our personal tastes.

Companies like Amazon, TiVo, and Delta might be too quick to…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

I’m not usually a sucker for robot stories, but this one seemed too cool to pass on.

Anybots, a startup in Silicon Valley, has built a robot that will let you interact with people you are working with through controlling a robot from the…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Music startup Jelli just raised $7 million. Jelli makes radio interactive, by allowing users to create their own playlist (collectively with other listeners).

Jelli taps into the benefits of old media properties, says the New York Times. Traditional radio has already…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Booyah raised $20 million for Accel. You might know about Booyah by their popular app called MyTown, which is a location based game app for the iPhone. Since January, the user base has grown from 450,000 users to 1.8 million users. Impressive!…