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Location American Startup News for 18 August 2014

A Simple Model For Business Planning

Forbes - 18 Aug 2014 17:51
Sometimes I triage business owner cases. Recently, I spent a half hour on the phone with the owner of a successful, growing business. As he laid out the various issues and concerns he had, a picture emerged of four prima...
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Unconferences are getting more popular and could be a model for how regional economies implement cultures of innovation.
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Now Profitable, AppNexus Scores $1.2 Billion Valuation For New York Ad Tech Scene The New York ad tech community has a billion-dollar company at last, and it's Brian O'Kelley's AppNexus after all.
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Case Foundation, Omidyar Network Back White House Effort To Spur Impact Investing Several weeks ago, the U.S. National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investment Task Force met at the White House to discuss its newly issued report, "Private Capital, Public Good: How Smart Federal Policy Can Galva...
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Word Of Mouth On Social Media Can Make Your Brand Great Customers,  talking about you on social media is what you want, and the way you respond makes all the difference to the reader.
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HealthTech Conference 2014: What new HealthTech companies will be the winners? Sponsored Post: There's nothing we want more in this innovation economy than new business models. But what makes the difference between a sustainable healthcare business and simply building a product? Successful HealthTe...
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This startup's technology will help Tumblr scan your photos for your favorite brands Tumblr has enlisted image-recognition startup Ditto Labs to help brands see how their stuff appears in pictures on the microblogging site, Mashable reports today. The news is interesting from a corporate perspective — ...
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The San Francisco 49ers hosted their first preseason home game Sunday afternoon against the Denver Broncos. The match-up of two perennial NFL championship contenders, the contest was also noteworthy for being the inaugur...
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Why the 'Internet of things' is a ticking bomb

Venture Beat - 18 Aug 2014 22:50
Why the 'Internet of things' is a ticking bomb Guest Post: IoT devices can provide intelligence for highly sophisticated "social engineering" attacks
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Philips opens up preorders for 'Hue Lux,' its new white light smart bulbs The new Hue Lux bulbs are also a bit cheaper than the original color smart bulbs at $30 each, while the entire kit will set you back $100.
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DERP! Yup, that's the name of a new cross-platform research project The Digital Ecologies Research Partnership hopes to help researchers explore why people love watching fish play Pokemon and other weird web phenomenon.
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An expected 500,000 adults with autism are expected to begin seeking employment over the next decade as a tidal wave of young adults with autism age out of school and other programs.
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GuardiCore raises $11M to protect data centers from within GuardiCore deals with east-west data traffic at the rates of multi-terabit by "dynamically re-routing traffic, without the attacker knowing, to a highly monitored stealth 'ambush' server."
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AppNexus grabs $60M to pursue its White Whale: 'making advertising better' CEO/co-founder Brian O'Kelley said the company now has the resources to achieve its goals of eliminating "fraud and malware from online advertising," making mobile ads work, and hiring the best minds.
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For Epic Business Success: How To Find Your 'Miles Davis' How do you take a business from exceptional performance to an organization that has discovered its very essence on a pathway to all-out success? Perhaps the path to epic succe is more straightforward than you may think.
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7 Tiny Companies That Blew Up

Forbes - 18 Aug 2014 20:43
7 Tiny Companies That Blew Up Most businesses start small but only the special ones achieve great heights. Here are seven companies that began as tiny acorns but grew (or are growing quickly) into great oaks.
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Google can now track when your online clicks lead to phone calls Companies can already find out when people click their ads on Google and then call a business. But when a person clicks and ad and then explores a bunch of pages on a company’s website and then makes a call hours later...
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The OID Fraud And Criminal Gullibility

Forbes - 18 Aug 2014 20:01
April J. Rampton was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for filing false claims for income tax refunds.  She tried appealing her conviction to the Tenth Circuit, but that did not go well.  Her defense was based o...
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Lessons from a game guru: Candy Crush Saga creator once survived six months without pay Tommy Palm seriously considered working at McDonald's. But he stuck with his career in video games.
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Comprehend Systems raises $21M for clinical-trials data platform For device makers and drug companies, going through the process of clinical trials for new treatments is expensive and time consuming. But they have to do it to get FDA approval. Part of the problem is a data problem. Bi...
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How Microsoft Has Leveraged Xbox Kinect's Technology Into Brilliant New Business Areas Microsoft XBox Kinect Motion Sensing Technologies have been applied to breakthrough innovations in areas as diverse as healthcare, education, business-to-business and retail.
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Hackers stole data from 4.5 million U.S. patients

Venture Beat - 18 Aug 2014 18:47
Hackers stole data from 4.5 million U.S. patients The attack on Community Health Systems happened between April and June of this year and is believed to be the work of a hacker group in China.
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