Client PR Wins
Keep An Eye on Rick Tomsic
I’m keeping an eye on Rick Tomsic, who helped it launch futures trading for its retail customers in 2008. After Schwab acquired ...
ParkWhiz Launches Redesigned Parking App
Today, ParkWhiz - the Chicago-based online parking marketplace - has put the pedal to the metal, releasing a completely redesigned and ...
Can’t Afford a $4 Million Super Bowl Ad? Try These 3 Things Instead
This year 30-second Super Bowl ads went for a cool $4.5 million and that’s just for the airtime. Consider all the related costs (filming ...
A DevOps Metamorphosis Echoes Through Reverb.com, Part One
"Reverb.com is an e-commerce platform that connects musicians, enabling them to buy and sell used gear and instruments,” says Adam Enger ...
Aaron Swartz Documentary, ‘The Internet’s Own Boy,’ Comes Home
Aaron Swartz left his home in Highland Park to enroll at Stanford in 2004, the first steps on a brief but brilliant career co-founding ...
Why Investors Should Beware of Bitcoin
“I think the price is getting close to being extremely attractive,” says Vadim Telyatnikov, CEO of AlphaPoint, a New York-based digital ...
Video: Chicago Music Exchange Tour
Premier Guitar takes its readers on a tour of the beautiful Chicago Music Exchange showroom.
Office Envy: Go Inside OptionsCity, Chicago’s FinTech Pillar
Today, OptionsCity, one of the Windy City's startup pillars in this space, is opening its digital doors thanks to The Muse, the New York ...
In 2015, Ecosystems Will Transform Fragmented Wearables Market
Its most recent client is 4D a healthcare analytics platform. 4D CEO Star Cunningham sees participation in the kind of ecosystem Human ...
Big Data and Analytics in IoT and M2M
ABI Research’s first report about the use of big data and analytics in the Internet of Things (IoT) was published in 2013, under the name...
What Your Child Should Know About Money
Ted Gonder, co-founder and CEO of Moneythink, a Chicago-based nonprofit specializing in educating inner-city high school students on ...
50 Chicago Tech People You Should Follow on Twitter
Built In Chicago includes Propllr founder Josh Inglis as a Chicago tech twitter account worth following.
New Product: Real Food Blends
Real Food Blends was featured as a new product in the home care enteral nutrition market.
Spillover Effect: Oil Price Crash Bankrupting ‘Small Oil’
Some firms that serve the oil and gas industry are finding the lower prices have an upside. TempoIQ, a 14-employee start-up in Chicago, ...
Forbes 30 Under 30: Ted Gonder
Developed curriculum to teach high school students about finance using pop-culture references and goal setting. Moneythink college ...