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Online Decision Making: What Really Drives Customers To Choose One Option Over Another?
Forbes - 18 Jun 2014 15:15
Each purchasing decision we make is actually quite dependent upon the context in which it is made.
Bill Gates And The Common Core: Did He Really Do Anything Wrong?
Forbes - 18 Jun 2014 12:00
In a recent front page article, the Washington Post tells what it casts as the story of how Bill Gates, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, used his fortune to promote adoption of the now-controversial Common ...
Mobile games will bring in nearly $29B by 2016 by squeezing players for more
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 22:15
Mobile gaming will grow around the world as people in developing regions earn more and get more access to smartphones.
The Surprising Secret Francis Ford Coppola Shared with Me Over Dinner
Forbes - 18 Jun 2014 23:24
“The seeds of great success are often right in front of you, hidden in the ashes of adversity.”
Disaster recovery ain't hip, but it's important. So Zerto gets $26M more
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 15:00
Disaster recovery isn't hip. But big companies and cloud providers splurge to ensure their information is available if their data centers go haywire. So more funding for Zerto makes sense.
Chinese cloud provider UCloud brings in $50M to expand into North America
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 11:00
Cloud provider UCloud focuses on game hosting and related cloud services. Now UCloud will be able to build a data center in North America.
Dutch Bank ABN AMRO's Top Salaries Hike Plan Sends Wrong Signal
Forbes - 18 Jun 2014 10:10
ABN AMRO, the bailed-out once-proud Dutch bank that fell prey to a carve-up after a period of ambitious expansion, plans to raise the salaries of its top 100 managers by 20 percent just in time before an announced salary...
Netscape founder Jim Clark pours heavy cash into mobile-coupon startup Ibotta
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 01:00
Jim Clark: pioneer of computer-graphics technology, cofounder of Netscape and web browsing, and now, an investor in a shopping-rewards app, Ibotta. Clark is leading Ibotta’s second funding round, which is $20 million, ...
IBM SoftLayer chief: A Rackspace acquisition is 'not exciting'
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 23:46
So just scratch IBM off the list, OK?
Social Entrepreneurship: Is It Right For Your Company?
Forbes - 18 Jun 2014 23:35
By Candice M. Hughes, PhD, MBA
Sideboob Kardashian bikini madness! Outbrain gets slammed for deceptive content recommendations
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 23:34
[Disclosure: VentureBeat uses Outbrain.] The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), “the UK’s independent regulator for advertising across all media,” dealt a blow to so-called “native” ads often found along th...
Redskins Call: Upon Further Review, Pity The Poor Trademark Office
Forbes - 18 Jun 2014 23:23
By now, everyone has read that the Trademark Office issued its long-awaited decision, ruling that the word “Redskins” was disparaging to a substantial composite of Native Americans, and as a result, ordering six of t...
More than half of U.S. teens are sexting, & 1 in 4 is sexting with pics
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 23:15
More than 50% of surveyed teens send sexual texts to each other as minors, and 28% of them are pornographic photos, according to a new study from Drexel University.
This 'personal mobility device' would make Professor X drool. Just don't call it a wheelchair
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 23:03
A new Kickstarter project from Japan seeks to eliminate the stigma associated with wheelchairs with a futuristic design that goes way beyond assisted mobility.
Time is running out for Congress to ban the 'Internet tax'
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 22:54
The House of Representatives has advanced a bill to permanently ban a tax on Internet access, as the November 1st moratorium deadline looms.
Private Equity, Hedge Funds "Make It Rain"
Forbes - 18 Jun 2014 22:48
As David Rubenstein of Carlyle Group once succinctly remarked, “If you can make 20 percent of the profits on other people’s money, you are going to make a lot of money if you are good at what you do.” Never have tr...
Here's how to make animated GIFs for your new, GIF-filled Twitter stream
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 22:13
You’ve been able to post GIFs to Twitter with Giphy since last year, but its never been an inherent feature in Twitter’s mobile platform. Now that’s all changed. Twitter is allowing you to upload animated GIFs from...
Amazon's new phone is a dream for developers, says an early API partner
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 22:09
Just hours after receiving the software development kit for Amazon's Fire Phone, social networking startup Squarehub had elements of its Android app running in the Fire Phone environment, said Squarehub chief Dave Cotter...
Galvanize's urban campus for digital entrepreneurs just landed a fresh $18M
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 22:06
Whoever said education is entirely moving onto the Internet and our devices might need to hold that thought. Today, Galvanize, a network of urban campuses focused on education for tech and Internet entrepreneurs, is anno...
Cloud gaming is so much more than streaming
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 22:00
Sponsored Post: Cloud Gaming, originally conceived as a streaming service, the Netflix for video games, has evolved to enable advanced game design at studio level.
IRS Offers New Incentives To Disclose Foreign Bank Accounts
Forbes - 18 Jun 2014 22:00
Those concerned with criminal penalties may opt for the offshore voluntary compliance program. For many others, there's now a simpler ? and less costly ? alternative.
Resigned, my ass: PayPal president David Marcus was fired, say eBay, Inc. execs
Venture Beat - 18 Jun 2014 21:41
PayPal president David Marcus was shown the door because his vision for the company didn't jibe with eBay brass.