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New Clues In Philip Seymour Hoffman's Costly Estate Plan
Forbes - 22 Jul 2014 08:25
Philip Seymour Hoffman Didn't Believe in Marriage, But Would He Have Married To Save $15 Million In Taxes?
2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Top 10 Amazing Facts about America's Most Powerful Car
Forbes - 22 Jul 2014 12:00
No matter how you slice the data, Chrysler is enjoying great success in the automotive world. At Kelley Blue Book we've watched shopper traffic across every Chrysler division (Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, and Ram) effect...
Getting To Grips With The Late Payment Problem
Forbes - 22 Jul 2014 23:56
In an ideal world invoices would be honoured on or ahead of time and there would absolutely no need to spend time and energy trying to get through to the ‘right person’ in your customer’s accounts department to sec...
Nokia adds $1.9B to Microsoft's revenue in Q4 but cuts into firm's profit
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 23:16
Nokia: a lead weight for Microsoft?
Microsoft's Surface tablets brought in $409M in revenue last quarter
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 23:12
Looks like the Surface tablets have again helped Microsoft’s revenue this past quarter. Surface tablets brought in $409 million in revenue, mainly in sales of the second generation Surface 2, Surface 2 Pro, and Surface...
LinkedIn buys B2B marketing startup Bizo for $175M
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 23:02
Pro social network LinkedIn has purchased marketing-platform startup Bizo in a deal worth $175 million, the company announced today. Bizo produces B2B marketing products that let businesses measure display and social adv...
Microsoft Azure cloud revenue keeps on growing
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 22:44
Microsoft’s quickly maturing Azure public cloud looks to be generating more revenue for the company — fortunately for cloud-obsessed chief executive Satya Nadella. Azure growth was up more than 100 percent year over ...
Accuracy measurements put Google Now slightly ahead of Siri
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 22:43
Mobile voice assistants continue to improve. Both Apple’s Siri and Google’s Now are a far distance from emotional and compelling Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johannson in 2013′s double Oscar and Golden Globe winnin...
Apple earnings beat estimates thanks to 35M iPhones sold
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 22:38
Apple today released its fiscal third quarter earnings report, with revenues of $37.4 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of $1.28. Analysts had expected Apple to report earnings of $1.23 per share on revenues of $37.99...
Fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean Is Most Expensive Movie Ever With Costs Of $410 Million
Forbes - 22 Jul 2014 22:28
The fourth instalment of the popular Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been revealed to be the most expensive movie in history with production costs of $410.6 million according to new research by Forbes.
Nadella's first quarter at Microsoft barely beats revenue predictions, but profits slip
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 22:07
But changes are coming. ...
Teradata grabs startups Hadapt & Revelytix that make Hadoop easier
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 21:50
Teradata is not about to let Hadoop and its circle of companies get all the attention and revenue when it comes to big data. Today it announced the acquisition of two startups that have built tools that make it easier to...
IFTTT announces Nike+ Channel for automating fitness activity
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 21:43
Nike+ fitness apps get channel in IFTTT service for easier sharing and logging.
Amazon Appstore exec paints one vision of gaming's future: wearables, cars, and, of course, Fire devices
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 21:00
Amazon exec says games will go multiplatform and take advantage of new hardware like virtual reality. There must be an evil master plan in here somewhere.
How Zappos is personalizing the consumer ad experience
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 20:55
E-commerce websites like Zappos rely heavily on advertising to engage and re-engage shoppers online. In today’s atmosphere of banner-blindness, top performers are increasingly leveraging programmatic media buying. It e...
Comcast's 'retention policies take the blame for that customer service call from hell
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 20:48
Leaked internal memo shows Comcast admit to issues with its retention policy that led to horrific customer service call.
4 Content Marketing Mistakes That Will Wreck Your ROI
Forbes - 22 Jul 2014 20:44
Are you happy with your content marketing results? If not you may be making one of these crucial mistakes.
7 CEOs Who Took A Gamble And Scored
Forbes - 22 Jul 2014 20:40
Many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs got to where they are today by taking strategic gambles that turned into a big payoff. At the time each took their risk, others would have regarded their decisions as f...
SpoonRocket website struck down by insane traffic on the first day of a huge PR stunt
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 20:35
The food delivery startup SpoonRocket threw its first dinner party yesterday in San Francisco, and its website crashed due to an insane volume of traffic. In theory, everyone in San Francisco can order a $1 SpoonRocket d...
Timehop gets $10M to be the anti-Snapchat
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 20:11
Amidst the current ephemeral messaging craze, one company is actually all about document people's social media history for ever and ever. Timehop, an app that lets people see what they were up to on their social media ac...
Amazon heads into retail meatspace with its first smartphone-based wallet
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 20:07
In yet another indication that the world's largest digital store is seriously interested in real-world commerce, Amazon has released a beta of its first mobile digital wallet.
Watch Hillary Clinton tell Googlers her one solution to fix inequality in an economy run by robots
Venture Beat - 22 Jul 2014 20:01
Spoiler: she admits she doesn't have a good answer.