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Every week we track the business, tech and investment trends in CPG, retail, restaurants, agriculture, cooking and health, so you don’t have to. Here are some of this week’s [...]
Easy Pairings' future of dining includes mobile "taste profiles" and technologies that help restaurants manage operations, increase sales and grow their business.[...]
This monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem – digital content, social, local, mob[...]
This monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem – digital content, social, local, mob[...]
August fruitful for food startups in the tech & media space with fifteen companies raising over $110m during the month.[...]
There is an interesting race heating up in the payments and POS arena, with major players unveiling new solutions to own the register of the local merchant.[...]
Recap of the Hack//Meat projects tackling universal meat industry challenges including farm consolidation, food labeling and consumer empowerment. [...]
Two infographics look at Facebook data to understand how our daily food choices reflect our politics.[...]
Information asymmetry puts consumers at a disadvantage. Investor Ali Partovi argues that enacting Prop 37 would "return us to a baseline of basic transparency from which a free mar[...]
New research released today by Rosenheim Advisors, a strategic and financial consulting firm, and León, Mayer & Co., an investment banking and private equity firm, indicates an app[...]
Rev Ciancio demystifies 10 social networks, helping restauranteurs learn how to use these platforms to foster brand awareness, online engagement and better customer service.[...]
Two interesting surveys about technology use in restaurants predict trends for 2012. But the specifics of those trends seem to be lacking, and to find out more, Food+Tech Connect [...]
The recent “Food Dialogues” - organized and funded by the year old U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance - has a multi-million dollar annual budget, and the membership of some of the [...]
How can data exhaust produced through social networks be leveraged to improve web search? What business models are emerging based on the monetization of digital assets rather than [...]
Everyday, food lovers from all over the world log on to the web in search of recipes. A growing number of sites, such as Food52 and Gourmet Live, are helping to democratize, person[...]
One glaring hole in the Food+Tech Business Model Canvas is, of course, revenue. The central issue for an online media platform (or any start-up business!) is how to monetize (ie, [...]
Last week, I asked if you would be interested in having me launch a Your Weekly Questions section in the newsletter and on the website. The idea is to get everyone talking and make[...]
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead ti[...]
Oprah’s is in love it. It’s Cyber Week. Have you bought an iPad yet? When I first played around with an iPad back in April, I didn’t get it. [I didn’t Tw[...]
This Thanksgiving the AgChat Foundation has launched foodthanks.com and is asking people to thank those who help to grow and provide our food. The site offers five simple tips for [...]
Please join Food+Tech Connect, Open Source Cities, & Gojee on December 4th for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. This open-sou[...]
What is the Farm Bill? The Farm Bill is the 700-page, $289 billion federal legislation that sets the rules and appropriations for the U.S. food system. While originally created as [...]
Last week, I posted a provocation for a ‘Massive Brainstorm‘ on how we could use social media to affect the 2012 Farm Bill. Inspired by the use of social media in the m[...]
I’ve started a weekly newsletter to help you keep up-to-date about interesting events, companies, and research that are changing the way we produce, distribute, and consume f[...]
The use of Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook in 2010 mid-term elections helped to reach and engage a wide range of individuals who might not have voted otherwise. This serves as a [...]
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