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Google launches weirdly fun 'Smarty Pins' trivia map game
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 23:27
Players put pins on cities to answer timed trivia questions.
Activision shows off animation and art direction for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 22:57
Call of Duty's artists and developers at Sledgehammer Games describe their handiwork.
Has Disruptive Innovation Been Mortally Wounded?
Forbes - 1 Jul 2014 22:44
We believe the rumors have been greatly exaggerated but many have questioned what motives might underlie Professor Jill Lepore's frontal assault in the "The New Yorker" on disruptive innovation theory and it's creator, f...
FCC launches its own investigation into T-Mobile bill 'cramming'
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 22:03
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. There are only a few tickets left! The...
Procter & Gamble Sponsors UNICEF Effort To Save Babies In 25 Developing Countries
Forbes - 1 Jul 2014 21:49
Every year 58,000 babies die from maternal and neonatal tetanus or MNT, all in the developing world. UNICEF, with support from Procter and Gamble's Pampers, is working to eradicate MNT around the world. The battle agains...
With these Apple hires, Siri should get smarter with speech recognition
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 21:42
Apple appears to be the latest company to venture into an increasingly popular branch of artificial intelligence research known as deep learning. The work could lead to substantive improvements to Apple’s Siri personal...
With new money in tow, Hinge wants to be the fast-forward button of meeting people
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 21:29
Tinder may be getting lots of attention for having reduced romantic interaction down to the swiping of a screen, but Hinge has shaking things up by adding an element of trust: The mutual connection. And it might be onto ...
Protesters picket Facebook's London office
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 21:15
Protesters gather outside Facebook's London office Tuesday.
Smart CMOs Uncover Hidden Moments That Connect With Consumers
Forbes - 1 Jul 2014 21:07
This article is by Jeffrey K. Rohrs, VP, Marketing Insights for the Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud and author of AUDIENCE: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans, and Followers. For more information, visit ....
Worry About Your Estate Plan, Not The Taxes
Forbes - 1 Jul 2014 21:01
About 10 years ago, a politician asked us to find an example of a family farm in the area that had been financially wiped out because of the federal estate tax (or “death tax” as he called it). He was not pleased whe...
T-Mobile charged customers hundreds of millions in bogus fees, claims FTC
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 20:59
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. There are only a few tickets left! The...
The IBM public cloud's newest trick: file sharing
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 20:52
IBM just got hip to Box and Dropbox, with a secure cloud-based mobile-friendly file-sharing service of its own.
Plumgrid raising $17.2M for cloud- based infrastructure service
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 20:46
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. There are only a few tickets left! The...
8 Great Pieces Of Startup Advice From 4 Silicon Valley Stars Under 30
Forbes - 1 Jul 2014 20:13
Twentysomethings have it pretty good in Silicon Valley. To the extent that age discrimination exists, it generally favors the young. It may be the one place in America where a 23-year-old can introduce himself as a CE...
iDreamSky creates a big mobile game publishing platform in China
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 20:00
China's game market is becoming huge. iDreamSky can help make it work for you.
3D Printer Stocks On Fire
Forbes - 1 Jul 2014 19:51
Disclosure: I own 3D Systems and Voxeljet stocks.
Samsung's Galaxy S5 Mini: Everything you need to know
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 19:48
Samsung's Galaxy S5 is getting a smaller sibling, the Galaxy S5 Mini, the smartphone maker announced today. Here's the skinny on the Samsung's compact new device.
Amazon's new T2 low-cost server slivers scale up to meet demand
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 19:47
Amazon Web Services has you covered if you’re seeking powerful chips to handle your app’s needs. Now it’s becoming more full-featured on the other range of the spectrum, with new slices of servers that can run supe...
Simply Hired simply scores a funding round of $12 million
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 19:46
Job listings search site Simply Hired has simply landed a $12 million funding round. This brings the total raised so far to $34 million over five rounds. The new financing, announced Tuesday, will be used to back R&D in ...
Report: 330 million smartwatches will be sold worldwide by 2018
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 19:18
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. There are only a few tickets left! In ...
Vine introduces loop counts to highlight popular videos
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2014 19:15
Vine, the popular six-second video sharing website, has announced that users will now be able to view loop counts. This means that Vine users who have uploaded videos will now have the ability to see how many times their...
Pizza Shop Owners Rebuild After Hurricane And Fire Destroy Their Business
Forbes - 1 Jul 2014 19:14
By Natalie Burg