What is a Streaming Media Player and What Does it Mean to Me?
Posted on August 31st, 2017 by RESCUECOM
Cable TV was once dominant and commonplace in the home before the Internet. Fast forward to today and now you can view videos, Network TV shows, movies all online whenever and wherever, without cable. Why keep your cable subscription? Companies like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO Go and many others allow members access to stream television shows on any device with an Internet connection. For years, streaming media was only available just on your PC, tablet or smartphone. Now, streaming media players give you the ability to connect your smart television to the Internet so you can view your favorite shows, videos and media content on it. Read more »
Marketing in the Internet age is much different than in years past. It is more difficult than ever to compete and make a sustainable profit with growing competition and the fast pace required to keep up in business. Sideqik is a startup that works to alleviate the potential problems facing brands and increase sales utilizing the most effective means in modern marketing. This involves taking advantage of “influencers,” or specific key individuals and groups who have the most influence over potential buyers, rather than focusing on a target market as a whole to grow sales. An influencer can be an individual buyer whose presence in social media, online review sites, or similar venues can impact sales more effectively than any traditional advertising campaign. It can also include third parties, such as suppliers or manufacturers in a supply chain or those such as journalists, industry analysts, professional advisors, and the like. 
Individuals searching for jobs and companies looking to hire have their share of difficulties in the process. It can be stressful, time-consuming, and tedious, though necessary. While the Internet has provided opportunities for tools such as job boards and postings, online application and resume submission services, and more, there is much technology can still offer. This is where a startup called Workpop comes in. It is much more than just a resume or application that can help make the process of finding a job much easier and faster while allowing employment providers access to much more detailed and applicable information about a candidate. 
Startups are part of a busy marketplace, and in it there are thousands and thousands of apps that aim to affect behavior change through many different means. The reality is behavior change is very, very complicated and there is no simple solution. EveryMove is an app that unifies all of your fitness activity all in one place, then helps you build that personalized network around you to provide you with recognition and awards for being healthy. Rather than being an app that changes your behavior in an online marketplace crowded with such apps, it integrate with more fitness devices than any other app, to capture and gather information on more than 100 different activities. Plus, unlike many other fitness apps, EveryMove emphasizes social sharing so that friends and family can cheer a user on. 
Beyond Pricing optimizes rental hosts success on Airbnb and other vacation rental sites. A major problem has emerged for vacation rental hosts: how to decide the best rental prices and improve marketing strategies. There are too many factors for rental hosts to consider, thus their revenue and rental success on Airbnb’s marketplace is stagnate. Beyond Pricing solves this problem by providing a platform to help rental hosts competitively price their rentals, increasing revenue and maximizing the number of nightly rentals.