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China killed thousands of Maine jobs. Now it's eating up the state's lobsters.
Washington Post - 16 May 2016 06:08
A tiny American town is staking its future on Chinese foodies.
Hearings To Impeach IRS Commissioner Loom
Forbes - 16 May 2016 14:48
Lois Lerner won't be prosecuted, but the IRS Commissioner could still be impeached over the IRS targeting scandal and alleged obstruction.
American Giant Spent A Year Creating This T-Shirt
Fast Company - 16 May 2016 13:00
After your sweatshirt is named "the greatest hoodie ever made," expectations are pretty high when you decide to make a T-shirt. For an entire year, Michelle Allen, American Giant's director of design and merchandising, h...
5 Productivity Hacks For Busy Entrepreneurs
Forbes - 16 May 2016 01:00
There has never been a better time to find great, inexpensive productivity solutions that provide excellent, elegant workarounds for entrepreneurs. Here are 5 solutions to look into.
YouTube Gaming is awash in gaming rap videos
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 23:01
You’ve got a lot of options if you want to be a video game influencer. On YouTube Gaming, one of the increasingly popular ways to do create a rap video about your favorite game. YouTube Gaming has collected a number of...
LinkedIn open-sources Ambry, an object store for media files
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 22:55
LinkedIn today announced that it has open-sourced Ambry, a piece of software it built to store and serve up media files like photos, videos, and PDFs. The system is available on GitHub under an open source Apache license...
How this mobile app scales to 1M concurrent users and 900M daily API calls
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 21:52
ANALYSIS: Mobile user acquisition is generally expensive, hard, and time-consuming. But what do you do when it succeeds beyond all your fondest dreams of success? You scale, scale, and re-scale your service. And you use ...
3 Types Of Grants For Your Small Business To Consider
Forbes - 16 May 2016 21:43
Investigate all of your options to fund your business, whether it's a grant, loan, crowdsourcing campaign, or something else entirely. Good luck!
Minecraft's price on PC is going up in many markets -- but not in the U.S.
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 21:35
Building your digital, blocky worlds is about to get more expensive for much of the world. Minecraft developer Mojang revealed today that the price for the PC version of its block-building game will be going up in many m...
Xbox Live is giving away nearly 1 million dead gamertags on May 18
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 20:50
You could finally get that new Xbox Live name you’ve always wanted. Microsoft revealed today that its making about 1 million gamertags available for registering though a 24 hour period on May 18. These are old user nam...
Aspiring Millennial Coaches: This Mistake Is Keeping Your Business From Taking Off
Forbes - 16 May 2016 20:49
Do you have a coaching business or are you aspiring to start one? Learn a common mistake many millennial coaches make when they are starting out that keeps them from getting the traction they deserve.
How Not To Fix Social Security
Forbes - 16 May 2016 20:48
Using chained-CPI to adjust retirement benefits for inflation is like buying auto insurance that declines in value as the car wreck gets worse.
YouTube for iOS now lets you watch videos with Google Cardboard
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 20:03
Google today announced that its YouTube app for iOS now supports Google Cardboard. Google made a similar update to its YouTube app for Android in November, and now it’s available on the other major mobile operating sys...
HYPR launches App Blaster to put you in front of 1 billion social users
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 19:48
EXCLUSIVE: So you’ve built an app. With over 2,300 launching on the two major app stores every day, how will you make sure people see the digital embodiment of your blood, sweat, and tears? We have been analyzing mobil...
Apple releases iOS 9.3.2, lets you use Night Shift and Low Power Mode at same time
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 19:36
Apple today rolled out a key update to iOS 9.3. Version 9.3.2 solves one niggling problem with iOS 9’s Low Power Mode for extending the lasting power of the last 20 percent of an iOS device. In that mode, the Night Shi...
Musicians' Network Gigmor Stakes Its Future On Crowdfunding As New Rules Go Live
Forbes - 16 May 2016 19:23
The S.E.C.'s long-awaited crowdfunding rules take effect today, but the waiting continues as platforms rush to launch offerings.
Stop Sitting Around Waiting For Funding, Build Your Business!
Forbes - 16 May 2016 19:05
Successful entrepreneurs focus their time and attention on moving their businesses forward--and that naturally attracts better investors.
Sony Mobile plans to consolidate product lines under Xperia X brand
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 19:01
Sony Mobile East Asia executives revealed a plan to consolidate the company’s disparate handset lines under the Xperia X brand, in a presentation to reporters (via Phone Arena). First introduced at Mobile World Congres...
Five Reasons Defense Companies Need To Be Really Big To Survive
Forbes - 16 May 2016 18:54
Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall has been complaining of late that the ranks of military contractors are becoming too concentrated, potentially stifling innovation. However, there isn't much evidence to suggest...
MobileBeat 2016 will be the first major event to tackle the world of bots
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 18:25
VB EVENT: A new paradigm is rocking the mobile world. It's the unstoppable shift to artificial intelligence and messaging and away from apps as we know them. It's changing the way we use our devices, and it's allowing br...
How Investor Immigrants Could Help Canada Build Its Economy
Forbes - 16 May 2016 18:18
In a recent spate of negative articles about investor immigrants in Canada, particularly highlighting their impact on the Vancouver housing market, the media has focused on the government benefits their families are enjo...
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has amassed $1 billion of Apple stock
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 18:15
(Reuters) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Monday revealed a new stake in Apple in a bet that the stock’s price could rebound after iPhone sales fell for the first time. Berkshire held 9.81 million Apple sh...