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How To Stop Driving Customers Crazy: Secrets Of A Frustration-Free Customer Service Experience
Forbes - 11 Oct 2014 21:20
Customers appreciate the ability to have genuine, meaningful contact with a company, especially if the company has empathetic, intelligent, empowered humans working for it. However, customers only want to be in touch w...
Don't Just Make Money, Build Relationships
Forbes - 11 Oct 2014 00:49
Intrapreneurs have to add real value to customers and the company. And that value should be directly measurable in dollars.
President Obama, Audit Threats, And Rogue IRS Employees
Forbes - 11 Oct 2014 15:50
President Obama's IRS is Not Supposed to be Influenced by Politics. But is it Clear that Rogue Employees Understand?
Apple Pay could launch next Saturday, according to leaked Walgreens memo
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2014 22:07
A leaked, purportedly authentic Walgreens memo says Apple Pay will launch in stores next Saturday — two days after Apple’s October 16 press event. The memo, below, gives store managers instructions “in preparation ...
Must We Vilify Satya Nadella?
Forbes - 11 Oct 2014 21:39
Right now when - finally - the spotlight is being focused on the abysmal record of tech firms in hiring, promoting, retaining, and paying women leaders...it is very appealing to use this misstep as the focus for our rage...
Eric Schmidt explains how arrogance cost potential Google employees half a billion dollars
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2014 21:00
Former Google CEO and current executive chairman Eric Schmidt can put a pretty high price on arrogance: about $500,000,000.
Every Smart Athlete Should Be A Shaq-Tag
Forbes - 11 Oct 2014 19:51
Athletes should demand agents skilled at branding and connecting them to corporate products. Shaq O'Neal has done it to the tune of $21 million last year. Others ought to follow his model.
Robot bartender maker Monsieur takes in $2 million
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2014 19:24
Monsieur claims it has developed what is literally the first AI robot that can bartend and pour drinks.
6 Ways To Avoid The Pain Of Bad Online Reputation Management
Forbes - 11 Oct 2014 19:00
Follow this digital playbook to make sure your profiles become a great modern-day business card.
Why Hubspot's IPO was more than just an IPO
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2014 18:00
Guest Post: When most companies have their IPOs, it's a private celebration amongst founders, employees, investors, bankers and lawyers. But the debut of HUBS needs to be a more public celebration.
This Brazilian pie maker sold everything to learn game design -- and her Oculus Rift game is incredible
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2014 17:00
Pixel Rift is a playful riot of a game, mashing retro gaming, virtual reality, and augmented reality together in a joyful, dreamlike pixel explosion.
How To Structure Your Board Of Directors Or Advisory Board
Forbes - 11 Oct 2014 15:02
Properly structuring your board of directors or advisory board could be one of the most important pieces of determining the success for any venture. These are the people you are going to be relying on for strategic di...
Who's to blame for the 'Snappening?' You are.
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2014 02:30
Earlier today when Snapchat issued a statement about the “Snappening” — when hundreds of thousands of stolen Snapchat photos hit Internet forum 4chan last night — it pushed blame onto consumers for using unauthor...
Where Will Healthcare's Data Scientists Find The Rich Phenotypic Data They Need?
Forbes - 11 Oct 2014 01:40
The big hairy audacious goal of most every data scientist I know in healthcare is what you might call the Integrated Medical Record, or IMR, a dataset that combines detailed genetic data and rich phenotypic information, ...
Funding Daily: Technology + people = perfection
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2014 01:30
A company that adds a human touch, a mobile app studio, and startup for mobile tools.
As Pressure Mounts To 'Demilitarize' Police, Sovereign Citizens Arm For War
Forbes - 11 Oct 2014 01:30
On July 30, 2014, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland released a report entitled “Understanding Law Enforcement Intelligence Processes.” Accor...
Now mobile analytics startups are hiring data scientists. Here's why
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2014 00:45
Mobile analytic companies see value in having in-house data scientist teams
The trailer for this Edward Snowden documentary is absolutely chilling
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2014 00:06
“Citizenfour,” the closest look we’ll ever have at how the largest leak in U.S. government history went down, is about to premier at the New York Film Festival. While most of us have to wait until Oct. 24 to see th...