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Samsung Galaxy Note7 review: This productivity phone is worth the price
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 17:00
REVIEW: The world is continuing to do more with their smartphones, with salespeople, designers, businesspeople, and other professionals using it as their main device. Samsung has begun selling its latest smartphone, the ...
The WalabotDIY lets remodelers see through walls like Superman
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 16:10
Vayyar is launching a new toy that, at the very least, will become the favorite tool of every home remodeler. The WalabotDIY device gives consumers Superman-like vision, allowing them to see what’s behind a wall. That�...
Intel shows off virtual music-playing demo at dev event
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 20:18
Intel kicked off the annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco with a very cool music-playing demo. Three different groups of performers jammed together on stage in front of thousands of developers at the Moscone Wes...
Titanfall 2 gets two weekend multiplayer tests in August
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 20:22
If you were a fan of the first Titanfall, don’t make any plans for the next two weekends. Electronic Arts announced today that it will run multiplayer tests for its upcoming shooter Titanfall 2 on PlayStation 4 and Xbo...
How brands are shaping the future of mobile advertising
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 18:45
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Upsight. With mobile ad spend on track to exceed $100 billion in 2016, publishers and advertising professionals are seeing thousands of new campaigns every year. Though forma...
How To Use The Internet To Build Your Business
Forbes - 16 Aug 2016 17:30
Once upon a time, it was pretty hard for your average Jane to be an entrepreneur. In fact, if you were successful in entrepreneurship chances are you knew the right people, had a lot of money and were either a really suc...
Bots are better without conversation
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 19:00
GUEST: It has been four months since we launched the Kik Bot Shop and Facebook opened its bot platform for Messenger. It's been about the same amount of time since the hype around bots was at its peak, with Microsoft CEO...
Lenovo launches two compact desktop virtual reality gaming systems
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 16:00
Lenovo is launching two new computers today that it will market as gaming desktops that can handle demanding virtual reality applications. The new Lenovo IdeaCentre Y710 Cube and the Lenovo IdeaCentre AIO Y910 have the c...
Trump's Tax Plan: Version 2.0
Forbes - 16 Aug 2016 16:55
That Donald Trump revised his tax reform plan came as no surprise. His campaign had been hinting for several weeks that a partial rewrite was in the works. The presumed objectives of the revision were threefold, and it's...
Why China Consistently Takes Cocky U.S. Tech Companies To School
Forbes - 16 Aug 2016 18:43
The reality is, despite its great allure, U.S. companies are more likely to lose their shirts than make their fortune in China. Uber arguably did better in China than any company that preceded it, but it also reportedly ...
Paragon is now in open beta on PlayStation 4 and PC
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 18:24
Gears of War meets League of Legends in Epic Games’ attempt to crack the esports market, and now everyone can try it. The developer announced today that its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) Paragon is now availab...
U.S. game sales to hit $25.3 billion in 2016, thanks to rapid online growth
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 20:00
U.S. sales of console and PC games are expected to hit $25.3 billion in 2016, up 7.6 percent from $23.5 billion a year earlier, according to a new report from Adobe. The game sector is growing in large part because of bo...
Facebook will waive fees for Account Kit SMS confirmation messages through August 2018
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 18:00
Facebook is announcing today that it will delay charging broad-based fees for SMS messages that confirm people’s identities when they sign in with the Account Kit technology introduced earlier this year. For the past f...
Chinese tourists just can't get enough of cruises
CNN - 16 Aug 2016 09:11
Cruises are a booming business in China, whose tourists spent more money than anyone else around the world last year.
IRS Weapons And Ammunition Spending Is Unremarkable
Forbes - 16 Aug 2016 05:09
Concern about IRS spending on weapons and ammunition has been a "thing" of late. I've been trying to take a closer look and my conclusion is that it really is not much of a thing. Tracing back behind headlines like "IR...
Google adds SQL Server support in Compute Engine, speeds up Cloud Storage Nearline performance
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 20:00
Google today is pulling the beta label off of three of its cloud-based data storage services: the second-generation Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable, and Cloud Datastore. But Google is also announcing speed-ups for another clou...
Peter Dering, Kickstarter, and winning with radical transparency - VB Engage
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2016 19:10
Star Date Episode 15. Today, Travis and Stewart get excited about the new app-sharing economy. What do we mean by that? Apps within apps, people, and we'll tell you why you should get seriously pumped about this trend to...
Manage Your Business's Budget In Four Simple Steps
Forbes - 16 Aug 2016 17:00
As your business grows, make sure you have the right mandates in place to keep your financial health in check.
It Pays To Maintain Trusted Relationships In Business
Forbes - 16 Aug 2016 09:07
Based on my years of experience in both startups and large companies, trusted relationships are more the key to success than a great business model, how smart you are, or how much money you have. Aspiring entrepreneurs w...
Hedge fund boss accused of defrauding terminally ill patients
New York Post - 16 Aug 2016 07:56
A New York hedge fund executive used terminally ill patients to pocket roughly $9.5 million in profits in a bond-buying scheme, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged Monday in an administrative action. Donald "J...
Ben Bernanke doesn't own up in his latest Fed analysis
New York Post - 16 Aug 2016 07:20
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke must be having memory problems. In his most recent analysis of the Federal Reserve for his new employer, the Brookings Institution, Big Ben detailed the Fed's problems as if h...
Does It Matter What Hedge Funds Are Buying And Selling?
Forbes - 16 Aug 2016 05:43
Following a quiet week on the news and economic data front, this week will have plenty of events and catalysts for markets, as we sit at record highs in U.S. stocks.