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Build An Unbeatable Customer Service Advantage--By Being Inefficient
Forbes - 7 Aug 2014 07:12
When my daughter went to overnight summer camp for the first time, it was on an isolated, low-tech island. Being her first time on her own, she wrote home faithfully every day. To her parents, to her little brother, even...
Microsoft will kill support for IE 8, the world's most popular desktop browser, by 2016
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 23:07
Hoping to prevent another IE6 catastrophe, Microsoft today announced plans to end support for all Internet Explorer browsers introduced before 2011. By January 12, 2016, Microsoft cautions that it will only support the f...
Malware is now officially in the arsenal of 30 police departments worldwide
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 22:47
Cops from 30 countries are now using malware as part of criminal investigations.
WordPress & Drupal team up to save your website from going down
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 22:15
The patch fixes a vulnerability to denial of service attacks, which means you should update your site -- NOW
Zynga misses Wall Street expectations, but it invests in NFL and Tiger Woods games for the 'long term'
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 22:00
A year into his tenure, CEO Don Mattrick is having a hard time growing revenues, but he remains an optimist about investing in social mobile games.
Google releases Google Fit SDK so devs can build health apps
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 22:00
Developers will be able to launch their Google Fit apps when Google launches the full Google Fit SDK. Are they trying to tell us something? Should we be offended?
For teens, Katy Perry & Leonardo DiCaprio aren't as cool as YouTube celebrities
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 21:44
Heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio was less appealing than quirky YouTube personality Jenna Marbles, and Hunger Games sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence got outranked by Swedish video gamer reviewer PewDiePie.
Twitter's ad campaign tools get a major update
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 21:40
Twitter revealed several new ad tools today that give marketers better control over their campaign objectives.
A history of malware in 30 minutes by Mikko Hypponen
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 21:37
A history of malware in 30 minutes or less by Mikko Hypponen
Intuit's buying jag continues with acquisition of UK payroll service PaySuite
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 20:36
Financial services firm Intuit extended its buying spree today with the announcement that it is buying PaySuite, a UK-based provider of self-service online payroll services. Terms of the deal were not made public. In ear...
Yelp now uses Bing Translator in iOS, with Android coming soon
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 20:27
Yelp iOS app gets Bing Translator to ease foreign language review confusion.
Google's chief economist describes life in the robot-run economy in 1 meaty quote
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 20:18
Google has enough excess billions laying around that they can pay the world’s brightest minds to just think for them. Famed Berkeley economist Hal Varian moonlights as Google’s chief economist and responded to Pew’...
Brazil's Movile grabs $55M as it grows its e-commerce and instant delivery businesses
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 20:06
The on-demand economy is not just a thing in the U.S.. Brazil has apparently been really getting into the trend with various apps and services becoming available online. Brazil’s Movile, the mobile commerce company beh...
IBM's Synapse marshals the power of the human brain in a computer
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 20:00
The new brain chip is the culmination of a decade of research, and it uses a hundredth of the electrical power of today's microprocessors.
Twitch CEO: 'We have absolutely no intention' of muting copyrighted audio on Twitch livestreams
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 19:45
Twitch is only flagging content on archived recordings that players can watch on demand.
Google's 'Loon' broadband balloon completes 120 days of flight at the edge of space
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 19:45
The test balloon, called Ibis 152, was launched from New Zealand on February 26 and has circled the earth twice.
New pics of Apple spaceship campus reveal massive size
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 19:01
Apple is building a crazy, new, gigantic, round-shaped campus, and the tech giant just published a new aerial view of the thing Tuesday. The photo appeared at the city of Cupertino’s website, and this view gives a clea...
In Boom or Bust, Is HR Worth It?
Forbes - 7 Aug 2014 18:48
When economic hard times strike, the training budget is often one of the first to be slashed. Seen by some as a ‘nice to have’ in prosperity, scaling back training seems an easy way to reduce outgoings and focus more...
Will RadioShack's Suppliers Let It Live Through The Holidays?
Forbes - 7 Aug 2014 18:42
By Reshmi Basu
Two Tap raises $2.7M to push its universal shopping cart
Venture Beat - 7 Aug 2014 18:07
Two Tap wants to be a quick and easy shopping cart for e-commerce sites and it just raised $2.7 million to expand its client base.
The Origination Clause? Let It Go
Forbes - 7 Aug 2014 17:43
Whether or not the origination clause is actually defunct, it certainly should be.
Bridge The Gap In Women's Journalism By Bringing HerCampus to Your Campus
Forbes - 7 Aug 2014 17:37
Stephanie Kaplan always had a knack for journalism, but never thought she’d be the CEO of a business in the field. When Windsor Hanger Western began her freshman year at Harvard, she thought she’d follow college with...