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New lawsuit alleges paid informants, pricey escort at Redstone mansion
Reuters - 10 May 2016 02:44
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Your Step By Step Content Marketing Strategy
Forbes - 10 May 2016 17:00
Since content marketing is still a relatively new methodology – at least when we’re talking about digital marketing – it should come as no surprise that one of the most common searches associated with it is “cont...
Save Money And Reduce Carbon Emissions From Business Travel
Forbes - 10 May 2016 16:30
Despite what some journalists and news media would have you believe, the vast majority — almost 100% — of credible climate scientists and scientific associations agree that climate change is happening, that it is alm...
As trouble piles up, online lenders pull back
L.A. Times - 10 May 2016 03:37EA: 55M PlayStation 4 and Xbox Ones sold through 2015; 25M more should sell in 2016
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 23:57
Electronic Arts claims it is the top publisher on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and if it can keep that title through the end of this year, it’ll have a significantly larger audience. The publisher noted that Sony and Mi...
Battlefield 1 beats Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in social video battle
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 23:01
EXCLUSIVE: Electronic Arts said that its social media reactions broke records with its revelation of the Battlefield 1 video game last Friday. And the reaction to the reveal trailer for the World War I-based game was far...
PopCap shoots for a mobile comeback with action-packed Bejeweled Stars
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 23:00
King’s Candy Crush Saga has ruled the “match-3” game category on mobile for several years now. But that title once belonged to match-3 pioneer PopCap Games and its Bejeweled title. Now, Electronic Arts’ PopCap Ga...
Disney Infinity canceled: The entertainment company pulls out of console-game publishing
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 22:46
Disney is hitting the ejector-seat button on its interactive-gaming-toy business. The company told investors today that it is ending its Disney Infinity gaming franchise. This gaming series enabled players to buy physica...
Hedge fund honchos made $13 billion last year, and other MoneyWatch headlines
CBSNews - 10 May 2016 22:41
Top 25 hedge funders paid $13 billion in 2015; Amazon rolls out its YouTube killer; Botox maker seeks a stock lift
SEO Needs A Visualized Data Revolution -- Here's Why
Forbes - 10 May 2016 22:13
The strongest need in the SEO community is in data analysis, and the best way to address it is through a data visualization revolution.
Star Wars: Battlefront's ongoing success helps EA earnings beat Wall Street's expectations
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 22:06
Electronic Arts reported better-than-expected results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, thanks to the strength of the Star Wars: Battlefront shooter game. EA’s results are closely watched as a bellwether fo...
This candy company is ready to cash in on a viral mashup of two iconic treats
Business Insider - 10 May 2016 21:51Mozilla launches Test Pilot, a Firefox add-on for trying experimental new features
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 21:13
Mozilla today launched Test Pilot, a program for trying out experimental Firefox features. To try the new functionality Mozilla is offering for its browser, you have to download a Firefox add-on from testpilot.firefox.co...
How Successful Entrepreneurs Build Opportunity Funnels
Forbes - 10 May 2016 20:28
The most successful entrepreneurs don't rely on luck, and they certainly don't rely on the first opportunity that falls into their laps.
Cameron is right: Afghanistan and Nigeria are fantastically corrupt
Forbes - 10 May 2016 20:10
The British Prime Minister David Cameron is embroiled in a scandal after describing two countries as corrupt during a diplomatic event. Although the press is feigning shocked dismay around this supposed gaffe, his statem...
Weather-Proofing Small Farmers In India
Forbes - 10 May 2016 20:07
Social enterprise Kheyti wants to help small farmers in India grow crops in greenhouses.
Redis launches modules to add extensibility to the open source database
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 20:05
EXCLUSIVE: Redis, a type of open source NoSQL database known as a key-value store, is getting an important but long delayed addition. Today at the 2016 RedisConf conference in San Francisco, Redis creator Salvatore Sanfi...
Star developer Cliff Bleszinski invests in crowdfunding game site Fig
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 20:05
Gaming’s own crowdfunding and investment site is getting a new, big-name investor. Cliff Bleszinski, the founder of Boss Key Productions and former director of the Gears of War games, is investing in the crowdfunding p...
Medical billing startup Simplee collects $20 million from Social Capital, Amex Ventures, and others
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 19:59
Social Capital and American Express Ventures backed Simplee, a startup that aims to facilitate medical bill payments, in its latest $20 million funding round. Simplee says it works with over 900 hospitals and physicians ...
How Sound Will Shape The Advertising Industry
Forbes - 10 May 2016 19:19
“The internet was designed to replace infrastructure. Everything that I can buy in a store I can now buy online...So when new advances in technology require new infrastructure...I always worry there is something off th...
FreshGrade's $11.6M funding is all about making it easier to talk to your kid's teacher
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 19:15
Education and collaboration tool FreshGrade announced today that it scored an $11.6 million funding round to grow its reach in the United States. FreshGrade works as an online portfolio that allows teachers, parents, and...
How Sound Will Shape The Advertising Industry
Forbes - 10 May 2016 19:10
What if you could replace all the hardware-requiring proximity marketing tech with simple audio tones? That's the promise of Lisnr, a startup changing how brands are thinking about interacting across the entire consumer ...