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It's time for advertisers to leave the wild west of data. Here's why
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 07:00
Guest Post: The consumer privacy status quo is unsustainable. It's time to move from the "wild west" of data, where anything goes, to an arrangement that's more like the real world, where strong relationships are built o...
7 reasons why we're going to see more card data breaches at our favorite retail stores
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 22:35
Guest Post: Supervalu and Albertsons are the latest retail chains to get hit by credit card breaches, but they won't be the last. Here's why.
Shazam touts TV success as it hits 100M monthly active mobile users
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 22:34
Sometimes its okay to build an entire company around a feature, as media ID service Shazam is demonstrating. Today, the company revealed it’s seeing 100 million monthly active users tagging songs and video from mobile ...
Microsoft chases after Google in new, huge Bing Maps update
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 22:20
Microsoft’s Bing Maps team just announced a major update, introducing "street side views” (Bing’s answer to Google’s street view) to 64 new cities and 3D maps to 29 new cities. In addition, the company announced ...
HP escapes the summer doldrums as it beats quarterly earnings targets
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 22:14
Hewlett-Packard reported better-than-expected earnings for its third fiscal quarter ended July 31. The tech giant, whose earnings are a bellwether for the consumer and enterprise computer markets, said that its third fis...
Gilmo wants to solve the password problem with a dedicated device
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 22:01
From the NSA and Snowden to Target, Heartbleed and the U.K. phone-hacking scandal, privacy will likely be the tech story of the decade. A new Australian startup thinks it has the answer. But you're not going to like it.
Do you really know your consumer? The art and science of location data.
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 22:00
Sponsored Post: "We all carry in our pockets a temple of science," claims Tyler Bell, VP of Product for Factual. He's talking about the power of mobile devices to collect location data points that let businesses and adve...
Wearable Intelligence is raising $8.4M for Google Glass for doctors
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 21:28
Healthcare might be the first major industry to benefit from Google Glass-based tech.
PernixData, a startup looking to make the most of data center flash, grabs $35M
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 21:20
As flash gets cheaper, now companies will want and need to get the best bang for their buck as they buy more of it.
Health Gorilla, looking to be king of the diagnostic lab jungle, grabs $1.2 million
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 20:50
To bring some civilized order to this zoo of labs, Health Gorilla is looking to provide what it describes as "the first online healthcare marketplace to connect all doctors and clinicians" with the testing facilities.
The next Internet monopoly: Uber, the transportation network
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 20:47
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Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook (gallery)
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 20:36
Today, Barnes & Noble and Samsung unveiled the “Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook,” the first Nook release since the launch of the Nook HD way back in 2012. The release marks a new direction for Barnes & Noble, as the compan...
Healthsense raises $10M for remote patient monitoring system
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 20:00
Another digital health company is finding some market traction, and some new funding, in the home monitoring business.
Why COACH, Michael Kors, Apple, GM and New Balance are Succeeding in China
Forbes - 20 Aug 2014 19:18
COACH, Michael Kors, Apple and New Balance, as well as brands like GM and Rebecca Minkoff are all succeeding in China and with the Chinese Global Consumer Demographic.
Famous Comedian Steve Martin Shares Three Insights On Success
Forbes - 20 Aug 2014 19:07
During his stand-up comedy career, Steve Martin was the comedic equivalent of Bono from U2. He could sell out a stadium that seats forty-five thousand people, which at the time, was completely unfathomable for a comedian...
What to Think, Ep. 17: Here's a guy building an app store for algorithms
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 18:47Google says it favors encryption, but it's penalizing encrypted retailers
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 18:37
Earlier this month Google said it would be prioritizing encrypted sites in search results, but it's not equipped to include encrypted retailers in its Trusted Stores program.
7 Ways To Charm The Pants Off Of Everyone, All The Time
Forbes - 20 Aug 2014 18:36
First impressions count. From work events to cocktail hours, small talk is in every aspect of your day to day life. Making a great first impression at social functions can be a daunting task. According to psychologist Li...
Intel collaborates with Unity so that mobile games run well on Intel-based tablets
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 18:35
Under the deal, Unity-based games will run fast on Intel's latest tablet processors.
Taxi hailing app Hailo launched a new API today, too -- just like Uber
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 18:18
Shortly after Uber’s API launch, taxi hailing app turned ridesharing startup Hailo launched its own transportation API. “A big day for transportation APIs!” reads a pitch from the company, which opened its API toda...
Twitter's Vine debuts new editing features, lets you import videos in latest update
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2014 18:10
Today Twitter’s six second video sharing app, Vine, introduced advanced video editing and video importing features — two major additions which will forever change the service going forward. We’ll get to why in a mo...
15 Google Analytics Tricks To Maximize Your Marketing Campaign
Forbes - 20 Aug 2014 17:53
Google Analytics is the most popular free tool you can use to measure the success of your inbound marketing efforts. With it, you can view the volume of your website traffic, track where your users are coming from and wh...