This monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem – digital content, social, local, mob[...]
Increasing deal activity and deal sizes in the food tech and food media space resulted in $1.6 billion of investment in 2013, and $2.8b over two years[...]
Is the future of food brand advertising and recipe website monetization "native advertising"? Yummly thinks so. Today, the semantic recipe website launched what appears to be the f[...]
An eMarketer report released this week outlines how user-generated content is a growing source of food inspiration online and offers some interesting stats.[...]
"How do I use the internet to attract more customers?" is one of the most frequent questions asked by restaurant and bar owners. While listing services and online ordering websites[...]
Most years there is a dominant tech solution at the National Restaurant Association Show (NRA). Not this year. This year, we saw a range of technologies clustered around a common t[...]
A new report released Monday, “Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation,” by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health group of the National[...]
It's social, visual, viral, and easy to use, which are just some of the reasons why brands like Whole Foods, Food52, Chobani, Sustainable Table (GRACE Communications Foundation), C[...]
FarmPlate.com is offering one year of free online marketing to farmers and small food-related businesses affected by Irene. Listing over 35,000 businesses across the country, FarmP[...]
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 [...]
[Editors Note: This is the second story in a series about meat distribution. Food + Tech Connect will run these stories every Monday for the next several weeks.] “The question is, [...]
Illustration by Melkorka Kjarval Grass-fed beef has become a household name, but despite unprecedented awareness and demand, many American producers find themselves struggling to m[...]
Crowdsourcing innovation is all the rage these days. Large corporations like IBM, Nokia, and GE have all created web-based platforms to gather the wisdom of the masses. When I firs[...]