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Songza's "Human API" Seals The Deal For Google Acquisition.
Forbes - 6 Jul 2014 23:25
After Beats Sale, Curation Platforms Are Hot, Hot, Hot.
Anti-super PAC fund MayDay hits its $5M crowdfunding goal
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2014 18:01
Will all the excitement (or craziness) happening over the holiday weekend, you may have missed that the "super PAC to end all super PACs" MayDay.us successfully hit its $5 million funding goal.
Russia votes to block web services that don't store data within the country by 2016
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2014 23:17
The Russian parliament passed a new bill (in both houses) that will require companies to store data about its citizens on servers located within the country, reports AFP. The vote happened on Friday, which coincidentally...
Why old-school tech giants need M&A to stay relevant
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2014 22:05
Guest Post: There's no better time than the present for established enterprise players like IBM, Salesforce, and Oracle to swallow up bleeding-edge business intelligence companies. From SAP to Microsoft, established play...
Now YouTube is calling out ISPs for crappy streaming video service
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2014 20:09
YouTube has recently started notifying users that their Internet Service Provider could be the reason for awful video streaming playback.
10 Inspirational Quotes From Zimbabwe's Richest Man, Strive Masiyiwa
Forbes - 6 Jul 2014 20:09
Here are 10 inspirational quotes from Zimbabwe's richest man, Strive Masiyiwa, to guide you through the week and always.
The time for deep linking standards is now
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2014 20:00
Year after year since the big app stores launched, native apps have asserted their hegemony over the mobile web. One big drawback of native apps was the inability then the difficulty to seamlessly access any content from...
Mobile advertising for millennials -- how to do it right
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2014 19:00
Guest Post: 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 ticke...
The Obama Administration's "Gainful Employment" Regulations Discriminate against the Private Sector in Higher Education
Forbes - 6 Jul 2014 18:30The 4 most preventable mistakes first-time angel investors make
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2014 15:00
Guest Post: Angel investing is the quintessential definition of risk versus reward. The reward is you might own part of the next Google; the risk is you have a statistical probability of losing every cent you put into th...
Stocks to Watch: Lorillard, Lululemon, GoPro are stocks to watch Monday
Market Watch - 6 Jul 2014 14:01
Among the companies whose shares are expected to be active when trading resumes on Monday are Lorillard, Lululemon Athletica, and GoPro. The stock market is closed on Friday due to Fourth of July holiday.
Private Businesses Build On Construction's Growth
Forbes - 6 Jul 2014 13:56
Strength in construction has contributed to privately held companies’ healthy and consistent growth in sales and profit margins, according to new data from Sageworks, a financial information company. Sales for private ...
Journal that published Facebook's secret 'contagion' study questions Facebook's ethics
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2014 00:28
The science journal that published the findings of Facebook's secret study on 700,000 unsuspecting users says the methodology was dubious