PUBLIC MARKS from solrac with tags startup & programming

Our first SmartCamp of 2011 will be in Bangalore, India in April. With a population of over 1 billion plus, and home to some of the biggest tech companies in world, it comes as no surprise that international investors have been actively enagaged with the local communitities for many years. We believe that our mentor network is a real goldmine and the best reason to apply for SmartCamp.

Announcing: The IBM Global Entrepreneur SmartCamp competitions for 2011. We are looking for entrepreneurs with global ambition and want to find ways to connect them to mentors, capital, and markets on a completely international basis. Here are the 9 cities which are a mixture of emerging markets and developed hubs. We have been overpowered by the excitement and support to help build these ecosystems.

Before Super Bowl XLV, there was wide speculation about who would win the Super Bowl ads war between Groupon and LivingSocial. Most people were betting that Groupon would win Big-Time, and they did if you define winning, in this case, as making the biggest Bonehead marketing blunder of the year.