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Nordstrom department stores are working with Apple on mobile payments (report)
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 05:00
The report flies in the face of other theories saying Apple prefers to work through credit card partners to recruit merchants to its platform.
Mainframe veteran Compuware goes private for $2.5 billion
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 03:30
The venerable Detroit-based company, started in 1973, said it can now focus on its mainframe solutions and application performance management.
Checklist Of Traits Of A Successful Entrepreneur
Forbes - 3 Sep 2014 23:54
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Will Consumers Care About The New 'CVS Health' Mark?
Forbes - 3 Sep 2014 23:30
Put another way, who is it that now cares about the Caremark mark?
Two new studies show why Uber makes cities more productive and less congested
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 23:12
Two new studies show why ridesharing is crushing the taxi business. Unequivocally, the new research proves that ridesharing dramatically reduces wait times and can make cities less congested. UC Berkeley researchers foun...
Samsung's Gear VR is a solid step into virtual reality -- unless you wear glasses (hands-on)
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 23:05
I've never had the privilege of sitting in the front row of an intimate Coldplay performance, but with Samsung's new virtual reality headset, I was able experience the next best thing.
Sales reps, hoarding secret notes outside Salesforce, have an app for that
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 23:00
There’s a dark hole in the Salesforce universe. It’s where sales reps keep their own notes on deals that may never pan out — and a startup is targeting that hole with an updated app. “Sales reps never really like...
AVG boosts its mobile security business by acquiring Location Labs for $220M
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 22:10
In a classic case of acquiring a company that offers related and complementary services that can beef up a company’s offerings, antivirus company AVG Technologies has a acquired mobile location and security company Loc...
OSS provider Black Duck pulls in $20 million
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 21:32
Black Duck, an OSS provider, hauls in $20 million to build out global operations.
deviantART Looks To Put Its Latest $10 Million Into Mobile Experience
Forbes - 3 Sep 2014 20:54
It’s been 14 years since deviantART began as a small-time picture hub. In that time it’s evolved into a complex intersection of art and commerce, attracting 2.5 billion monthly page views from 67 million unique visit...
Feed.fm picks up $1.2M to inject music into your marketing campaign
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 20:23
Marketers spend gobs of money and even more time trying to devise ways to engage people with a particular brand. Not enough of them realize music might be the best way to do that — and that Feed Media could be music to...
Digital analytics: Google, Google, and Google win TrustRadius' newest ratings
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 20:01
Google has apparently won the Internet, so why not web-based digital analytics products too? TrustRadius’ latest user-powered report is on digital analytics, and the freely available Google Analytics package seems to b...
Starting A Company Is Exciting And Fun. Don't Jump The Gun
Forbes - 3 Sep 2014 19:57
Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. High school students say they never plan on working in a real corporate environment, and MBA candidates at Stanford are forgoing corporate gigs to start their own ventures. Peter T...
Amazon will launch its Fire TV set-top box in Europe next month
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 19:40
Amazon today announced that its Fire TV streaming set-top box will arrive in the U.K. and Germany on October 23. The expansion follows the Fire TV’s U.S. launch earlier this year. Today’s announcement also follows th...
The Path To Software Success Starts With A Data Roadmap
Forbes - 3 Sep 2014 19:37
Software businesses can be worth phenomenal amounts of money if the data transformations are managed to their full potential. Those that manage the transformation of their data explicitly through all five stages of the d...
Box Workflow could help you manage your company's files in the cloud
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 19:24
SAN FRANCISCO — Box today introduced Box Workflow, a set of tools that can help employees act on all the files floating around in the cloud. “We think it’s business process made better,” Box chief executive Aaron...
GamesBeat 2014's newest speakers are execs from Twitch, iDreamSky, and Super Evil Megacorp
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 19:15
This trio of speakers shows how international our conference will be.
Box weaves itself into Office 365
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 19:01
SAN FRANCISCO — Box can now integrate with the desktop version of Microsoft’s Office 365 software, Box cofounder and chief executive Aaron Levie announced today. It’s now available in beta. More than 240,000 busine...
Teradata throws itself further into Hadoop with Think Big buy
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 18:36
Teradata wants to help companies use Hadoop for certain uses and also move its data warehouses, too. A bigger consulting arm could come in handy as more companies try out Hadoop and other open-source tech.
There are now at least 25 billion-dollar mobile internet companies
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 18:33
Some are virtually household names, like Uber and Dropbox, Snapchat and WhatsApp. Others you may never have heard of, like GungHo and Airwatch and RocketFuel. But all of them have two things in common: a minimum billion-...
Hands-on with Samsung's new Galaxy Note phones: Stylish -- yet awkward
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2014 18:14
In Samsung’s newest phablets, we can clearly see the companies conflicting personalities: A noble urge for refinement, and a bumbling desperation to be innovative. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge this ...
European Online Fashion Retailer Zalando Announces IPO
Forbes - 3 Sep 2014 18:09
European retailer Zalando's IPO, which was announced officially on Wednesday, could be the largest offering from Germany's tech sector in 14 years.