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Obama Calls Offshore Deals 'Unpatriotic' Yet Funds, Investors, Boards Jump Aboard
Forbes - 27 Jul 2014 08:21
Despite President Obama's Claim That Going Offshore Is Unpatriotic, Inverison Deals Are the Talk of Boards, Investors and Funds.
How Disruptive Start-up Co-Founders Keep Their Businesses on Track
Forbes - 27 Jul 2014 15:37
There is something of a rock star status attached to being a ‘disruptive’ start-up founder.
The Fastest- And Slowest-Growing Retailers
Forbes - 27 Jul 2014 11:03
Sellers of discretionary items dominate a new list of retail industries with the fastest sales growth over the last 12 months, according to research from Sageworks, a financial information company. Electronics and applia...
Table For One? Winners And Losers in the Cat Lady Economy
Forbes - 27 Jul 2014 03:38
More than one quarter of the U.S. population lives alone. Per the latest census, single-person households are now the single largest segment of the U.S. population. This is a first.
3 reasons why Tesla can scale where others have failed
Venture Beat - 27 Jul 2014 22:30
Guest Post: NOTE: GrowthBeat is less than 2 weeks out! VentureBeat is gathering the best and brightest in modern digital marketing to help declutter the landscape, simplify the functions, clarify the goals, and point the...
Maybe It's Time To Redefine 'The Store'
Forbes - 27 Jul 2014 21:52
"The customers are the assets; not the stores and not the e-commerce sites."
Enterprises will benefit the most from wearables, says Motorola Solutions' senior maverick
Venture Beat - 27 Jul 2014 21:02
With a title like “senior maverick,” it’s no surprise that Motorola Solutions’ Nicole Tricoukes has an optimistic vision for the future of wearables. Even though wearables today are mostly targeted at consumers, ...
The Uniform Voidable Transaction Act And The Shifting Of Burdens
Forbes - 27 Jul 2014 19:59
(This article is the third in a series on the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act of 2014 (“UVTA”), as found at ://goo.gl/kS7MqZ and adopted by the Uniform Law Commission on July 16, 2014. Your author was an American B...
Good news for electric cars: New battery tech uses peroxide to boost energy density by 7X
Venture Beat - 27 Jul 2014 19:40
All electric vehicles currently in production use some form of lithium-ion chemistry in their battery packs. Finding ways of improving that chemistry is therefore very important — the aim being to make future electric ...
Hello's Sense sleep tracker is wary of the wearable
Venture Beat - 27 Jul 2014 16:22
You may love your wearable, but you shouldn't take it to bed. That's the argument made by James Proud, the founder of Hello who recently created a runaway success on Kickstarter with the launch of the Sense sleep coach. ...
7-Eleven & Medallia to open up on how to create fierce customer loyalty
Venture Beat - 27 Jul 2014 03:57
Savvy brick and mortar retailers are using some of the Internet's own tools -- and customer feedback -- to fight back against online competitors.
Silicon Valley VCs don't like to travel. Here's why they should reconsider
Venture Beat - 27 Jul 2014 03:00
Guest Post: By shying away from foreign startups, U.S. tech investors may miss the next wave of major exits.
Cell phone unlocking bill could be a historic step in Internet politics
Venture Beat - 27 Jul 2014 01:00
The bill began as a surprisingly viral petition on the White House's experimental direct action website, WeThePeople.