Raising funds for a small business can be a daunting task for any fledgeling entrepreneur. Whether it be from friends and family or from the general public, finding investors, setting terms of the funding, assigning equity and filing compliance documents is a challenge. Enter ProFounder, a stealth startup that launches today to ensure that all [...]

Last week Facebook was hit with yet another patent lawsuit, this time by Walker Digital, an “invention company” founded by Jay S. Walker, co-inventor of Priceline.com. And boy does this one come straight out of left field. Bloomberg Businessweek first reported the news last Wednesday, but for whatever reason got the number of the patent-in-suit [...]

The Boxee Box and other set-top boxes like it promise to pipe the internet to your HDTV with little fuss, for about $200. But Boxee itself is still a free download. Here’s why a DIY Box could still be your best bet. I received a Boxee review unit to play around with, and I have [...]

These days it seems there’s a Starbucks on every corner — and although the Inhabiteam loves us some caffeine, we cringe at the thought of all those carelessly discarded coffee cups. Today the giant of all coffee companies set a new green goal to make 100% of their cups reusable or recyclable by 2015. It’s [...]

We’ve seen ridiculous fridge concepts from Electrolux before and covered Linux running on all types of gadgets, so it’s only natural that the OS has found its way into an icebox developed by Electrolux’s Brazilian subsidiary in partnership with ProFusion Embedded Systems. Dubbed the Infinity I-Kitchen, it sports a Linux-based 800 x 480 touchscreen computer [...]

When moving from place to place, packing up clothes is a huge pain. Skip all the folding, boxing, and fussing, the “dead body” bundle is a quick and hassle-free way to move your closet from your old home to your new. Photo by Alicia Nijdam. Lifehacker reader theworldisasheep shares a clever and speedy way to [...]

Renting an apartment can be an easy and pleasant experience or a living hell, and both outcomes generally depend on whether or not you have a good landlord. Here’s one landlord’s advice on avoiding common pitfalls and renting intelligently. Photo by ProjectPlaid My dad made a living as a landlord for many years and, when [...]

Lifehacker AU editor Angus Kidman has spent the month of November writing a book as part of previously mentioned NaNoWriMo, during which he’s learned a lot about his writing habits. For example, he noticed he’d been overusing these five common phrases. Despite having to write the whole thing in 30 days, I’ve had the luxury [...]

Virgin’s somewhat highly-anticipated Project iPad magazine went live early this morning. Its focus is on “design, entertainment, technology, entrepreneurs” and its format is kin to other attempts at next-generation magazines, though I’d say this one is more successful. Of course, it requires an iPad with 4.2 to enjoy, and while five or six million of [...]

Online video technology management firm Freewheel has found that the completion rate for watching post-roll video ads is 49 percent, an extraordinarily high number. This is the latest evidence that Internet TV is going to be chock full of commercials, just like regular TV. Also, this week’s New Media Minute includes details on why the [...]