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Taiwanese Plastics Heir Fights Cancer, Litigation To Build World's Biggest Pipemaker
Forbes - 30 Apr 2014 23:52
A famous Taiwan plastics fortune has not spared Walter Wang his travails. But the plucky scion's luck could turn again and let new wealth flow.
Silicon bigshots create company to make extremely tiny mechanical gadgets
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 03:00
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are the technology of tiny devices, such as earphone-attached microphones, accelerometers, and gyroscopes found in smartphones.
In Sector Led By Women, Glass Ceiling At Top - And Networked Feminism Below
Forbes - 30 Apr 2014 02:38
More than 200 executives, foundation leaders, and social sector professionals gathered a short breeze from the spring blooms of Washington Square Park in Manhattan yesterday for the inaugural Women in Philanthropy Sum...
Blue Apron attracts $500M valuation by catering to lazy chefs
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 23:30
Blue Apron delivers fresh, pre-measured meal ingredients to Americans who want to cook healthy meals without whipping out the cutting board.
Alchemist launches a special accelerator for 'Internet of things' startups
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 23:15
Internet of things hardware and software startups now have a new place to pick up early cash and training to grow.
Facebook is all-in with mobile, CEO Zuckerberg says
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 23:00
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg made clear what we have suspected for awhile already: "We are a mobile company now," he declared at the company's F8 developer conference in San Francisco.
Twitter shares hit record low, CEO admits 'a lot of work to do'
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 22:20
That sound you hear is Twitter’s shares hitting its lowest price yet. The opening price today of $37.65, sharply down from yesterday’s closing of $42.62, followed its quarterly earnings report yesterday. But here’s...
IBM and marketing tech: How Big Blue plans to tackle Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, and Sitecore
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 22:09
Earlier this month news broke that IBM had finalized an agreement to buy Atlanta-based marketing automation system Silverpop for about $250 million. In an exclusive interview with IBM’s Kevin Bishop, VP of enterprise m...
Microsoft boosts the IQ of its Bing desktop search tool for Windows 8
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 21:55
Natural-language understanding makes searching on Windows start screen more accommodating.
Instagram announced nothing today at Facebook's long awaited conference
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 21:41
At Facebook’s f8 developer conference, Instagram owner Facebook announced absolutely nothing new about the photo-sharing app during the opening keynote. Despite Instagram now having over 200 million monthly active user...
Twitter and Facebook tied in high school popularity contest
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 21:30
Twitter’s very bad week has a glimmer of hope, thanks to a new study from Harvard’s Institute of Politics that shows teenagers might — just might — be latching on to Twitter. The Harvard report examines the digit...
Verticalized Big Data Solutions
Forbes - 30 Apr 2014 21:30
By Ben Lorica
LendUp opens up its API to spread safer payday lending across the country (exclusive)
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 20:30
"It's the first time that there is a consumer lending API," Orloff said. "A single API that handles all the different aspects."
The New Strategy For Successful Crowdfunding
Forbes - 30 Apr 2014 20:28
By Candice M. Hughes, PhD, MBA
Music app Bloom.fm shuts down after investor yanks funding
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 20:22
Music streaming startup Bloom.fm announced it is shutting down immediately, following a highly publicized ban from Apple's iAds advertising network. The U.K.-based startup, which offered both Pandora and Spotify-like fea...
5.6M Small Businesses Blindsided By Obamacare
Forbes - 30 Apr 2014 20:18
Since 2010, much of the conversation for small business owners regarding Obamacare has been about how healthcare reform will or will not apply to their business. During this time, great efforts have been put forth to a...
China Helps Internet Of Things Startup Ayla Raise $14.5M
Forbes - 30 Apr 2014 20:14
Ayla Networks, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider focused on connecting devices to its cloud platform, announced today that it has closed a $14.5 million Series B financing round with new investments from Cisc...
f8 is now an annual event, just like Apple's WWDC & Google I/O
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 20:09
SAN FRANCISCO — Today at f8, Facebook’s developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is entering the big leagues. Along with Apple and Google, it will now host its conference every spring. Next ye...
Understory scores $1.9M to generate better weather data from the ground
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 20:05
What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! Most meteorologists predict the weather by looking at the s...
Copycat China Still A Problem For Brands + China's Future - Just Ask Apple, Hyatt + Starbucks
Forbes - 30 Apr 2014 20:02
Shan Zhai - The Chinese term used to describe the culture and practice of producing fake and imitation products, services and brands.
Facebook's ad network is all about getting the right ads in front of you
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2014 19:57
SAN FRANCISCO — Today, at Facebook’s long awaited developer conference, the company officially announced its Audience Network. “Advertising, traditional advertising still works really well and it works well on mobi...
Join Us for The Everywhere Else Tennessee Opening Party!
Nibletz - 30 Apr 2014 19:55
It's finally here! Join us as we kick off the Everywhere Else TN conference in classic Memphis style.