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How to Always Say the Right Thing
Forbes - 3 Apr 2013 23:50
It's often true that the more proficient we become in our role as managers and leaders, the less preparation we think we need. As a result, we become less effective at motivating and inspiring others, and our ideal messa...
Daily Wrap: 4/3/13
Forbes - 3 Apr 2013 22:51
Weaker than expected economic data including a disappointing private payrolls report kept the markets under pressure today.
Sebastian Thrun's Online Goal: Act Where College Isn't Working
Forbes - 3 Apr 2013 23:23
Udacity is growing up. The online education company, founded by former Google research whiz Sebastian Thrun, made awkward waves last year when Thrun suggested that in 50 years there would be only 10 higher-education inst...
Startup stories: What I learned in a year with WisePricer
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 23:20
Guest Post As I'm writing this post, I'm sitting in an apartment that our business development guy is renting in Oakland. I'm practically homeless at the moment but I couldn't care less.
Bitcoin prices plummet following Mt. Gox outage & Instawallet hacking
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 23:38
The price of Bitcoin has been on a tear, with prices surging from $100 a few days ago to $145 earlier today. But an outage of the largest Bitcoin market and an unrelated Bitcoin hacking incident have knocked the price do...
Mac Flashback trojan hacker identified, researcher says FBI will likely investigate
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 23:03
We may now know who is behind the Flashback trojan, one of the biggest Mac viruses ever.
LucasArts' mixed legacy: A breeding ground for great games and designers that relied too much on Star Wars
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 23:00
The old Star Wars game business apparently wasn't enough to carry the longtime studio into the new age of games.
Huh? EA builds an app for sharing music and photos (exclusive)
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 22:48
Is this a glimpse of EA's future?
Disownership is the new normal: the rise of the shared economy (infographic)
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 22:46
Consumer attitudes and behaviors surrounding renting, borrowing, and leasing items, versus ownership, are shifting around the country, according to a study conducted by Sunrun and Harris Interactive.
One year after launch, Instagram's Android app makes up nearly half of its users
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 22:08
After only one year, Instagram's Android app has grown to account for almost half of the photo sharing app's 100 million users, the company announced today.
Fully Dressed Superheroines: An art project we wish would come true
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 22:02
Meet Fully Dressed Superheroines, a posse that covers it up, looks comfortable enough to get any job done, and provides powerful role modeling for young girls without giving them body image complexes.
Facebook will get 30% of all mobile ad dollars in 2013
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 21:51
Google will keep the lion's share of mobile ad spend this year. Still, the search giant's stranglehold on ad dollars in mobile is slowly loosening as new players like Facebook come onto the market.
The crusade to keep Huawei out of the U.S. is actually working
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 21:40
Fear of Huawei's alleged connections to the Chinese government is keeping the company out of U.S. businesses.
Bitcoin wallet service Instawallet hacked, shuts down 'indefinitely'
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 21:11
Bitcoins are a hot commodity now, but are your Bitcoins actually safe? The Bitcoin wallet company Instawallet has suspended its service "indefinitely" after being hacked.
D: Dive Into Mobile Conference adds Google's Schmidt and Twitter's Sippey
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 21:00
Sponsored Post D: Dive Into Mobile will be a place to explore all the implications of the mobile revolution...
Daily Dividends Report: OXM, UNF, STEI, DEX, TJX
Forbes - 3 Apr 2013 20:55
Oxford Industries (OXM) announced its quarterly dividend of 18 cents per share, an increase of about 20% over its prior dividend in January of 15 cents. Stockholders of record on Friday, April 19th will be paid a dividen...
Rdio launches Vdio -- yet another digital video store
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 20:50
The creators of streaming music service Rdio have finally launched their take on digital video through a new service called Vdio.
Is the future of mobile wallets finger-lickin' good? KFC and Airtag think so
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 20:44
I asked Airtag CEO Jeremy Leroyer what happens when we deal with 35 different merchants: Do we need 35 different apps?
Analyst Moves: SWI, NBL
Forbes - 3 Apr 2013 20:31
Solar Winds (SWI) was upgraded by Morgan Stanley (MS) to equal weight due to stabilized sales productivity and accelerating growth. A $67 price target was set.
Kabbage wants to provide loans to 100K small businesses this year
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 20:30
Kabbage just announced it has closed a credit facility of $75 million, its largest to date. With these funds, Kabbage aims to provide 100,000 advances by the end of 2013.
The mobile war is over and the app has won: 80% of mobile time spent in apps
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 20:10
Only 20 percent of American consumers' time on mobile devices is spent on the web. A massive majority, 80 percent, is spent in apps: games, news, productivity, utility, and social networking apps.
Tag, You're it! Tealium catches $15.6M for tag management
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2013 20:08
Tealium has raised $15.6 million of growth capital to expand its enterprise tag management platform.