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Stocks to Watch: MannKind, Apple, Facebook are stocks to watch
Market Watch - 30 Jun 2014 01:16
Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are MannKind, Apple, and Facebook
Design For Success: How To Choose The Right Visual Elements To Define Your Brand
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 13:55
Whether you're launching a new business, working with a new agency, or just contemplating a re-design, the first step is deciding what message your graphic content should convey. Your brand needs to tell a story--and tha...
Does Sustainability Mean Anything Anymore? Lessons From Pfizer, Alcoa and Alcatel-Lucent
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 23:45
Does anyone remember the sustainability timebomb? Cast your mind back to a world before 2008 when, we were told, the way that modern capitalism had functioned in its 200-odd years since industrialisation just wasn't go...
Roberts, Kennedy Saved Supreme Court Conservatives From Themselves This Term
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 23:28
How the duo of Roberts and Kennedy prevented some of the conservatives' favorite arguments from becoming law.
12 major brands show off their customer-conversion strategies at MobileBeat
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 22:59
Consumer traffic is spiking on mobile devices. It’s shifting away from the desktop, which is dangerous for brands that took the PC experience granted for so long. So brands are scrambling to manage the shift, seeking t...
Amazon blames screensaver bug, not 'ASAP' feature, for Fire TV data drain
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 22:46
How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? 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 $200! Amazon's F...
Senators blast NSA 'transparency' report as lame
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 22:27
Washington pols blast NSA "transparency" report, as, surprise, lacking.
Twitter buys ad-tech startup Tap Commerce for $100M
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 22:09
Social network Twitter has reportedly acquired mobile advertising technology firm Tap Commerce. The social network apparently paid about $100 million for Tap Commerce. Re/code broke the news, and Twitter is expected to m...
Netflix's newest open-source project, Security Monkey, hunts for vulnerabilities atop Amazon's cloud
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 22:00
Here's another tool to help you run applications like a champ on the big Amazon Web Services public cloud.
Gartner scoops up Senexx, a Q&A tool for the enterprise
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 21:41
Quora may be a great place for the average Joe or even an expert in a field to find and share some great topical knowledge, but what about enterprises and their more robust needs? There’s Senexx for that, actually. And...
Google's Android TV controller looks like an Xbox One gamepad with PlayStation-style sticks
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 21:20
Google built its own controller for the Android TV platform.
How To Maximize Your Marketing Campaign Through Storytelling
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 21:18
Marketing is getting more difficult by the day; amidst the content marketing buzz, audiences are drowning in content as marketers and brands try to establish authority and credibility through frequent content publication...
Four Forces Driving Contemporary Culture Deeper Into The Organization
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 21:09
This article is by Rob Fields, an award-winning marketer who’s passionate about helping companies solve the disconnect between their brands, theirbusiness and marketing objectives, and contemporary culture, particul...
Leveraged Loans: US, European CLOs See Record-Breaking June; Pipelines Still Bulging
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 21:00
;It has been quite the month for the CLO markets in June with issuance in both the U.S. and Europe breaking records and global volume pushing up to $69.66 billion. The summer’s onset could see supply tail off over the ...
Blackphone, a new encrypted smartphone built from scratch, is now market ready
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 20:58
SGP Technologies is ready to start selling its new Blackphone, touted as the world's first NSA-proof smart phone.
Tindie Helps You Solve Hardware Problems
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 20:53
Star Trek and Star Wars denizens could have founded Tindie, which has a great name for its community members: Tindarians. Doesn’t that sound like a race from one of those two epic series? Tindie is an independent hardw...
The UK-Designed World Cup Radar Gun That Could Save Soldiers' Lives
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 20:49
A UK-developed new portable scanning device, utilising millimetre wave technology and currently being field tested at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, could soon be saving the lives of soldiers at check-points across t...
Reading Rainbow fans break record for series-turned-app
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 20:34
LeVar Burton, who played Geordi on Star Trek: The Next Generation, is now leading exploration into strange new worlds — of crowdfunding. Today, Burton’s Reading Rainbow campaign announced it has broken Kickstarter‘...
Here's Why The Startup World Has Become A Go-To Backdrop For TV Entertainment
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 20:26Databricks ropes in Alteryx to push Spark adoption for big data projects
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 20:10
Databricks thinks the open-source Spark engine is the next big thing for big data processing — so it has teamed up with analytics firm Alteryx to supercharge the software. The two data startups intend to drive Spark in...
After ditching Echo Nest, Rdio acquires music discovery startup TastemakerX
Venture Beat - 30 Jun 2014 19:49
Rdio has acquired music discovery service TastemakerX, according to a Pando report published today. TastemakerX started as a streaming music service that sought to appeal to the inner music enthusiast (or music snob) in ...
China's Future In Brand Awareness
Forbes - 30 Jun 2014 19:44
This article is by Nirmalya Kumar, professor of marketing and co-director of Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School. He’s the author of several books, including Brand Breakout: How Emerging Market Brands W...