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This is why health care will finally be forced to automate
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2014 19:15
Guest Post: The annual U.S. spend on healthcare is nearly three trillion dollars (more than 17 percent of GDP), and yet the World Health Organization ranks our healthcare system below almost every other industrialized na...
Google suspends pre-orders for Nexus Player pending FCC approval
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2014 22:03
After announcing its new Nexus Player, a set-top box and Android video game console, Google initially started accepting pre-orders via its web site. Today, it stopped accepting pre-orders and added a note to the bottom o...
Facebook to federal agents: No, you don't get to create fake profiles to ensnare suspects
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2014 21:11
Facebook is serious about real people using real names on its service. After initially cracking down on drag queens, the social network is going after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency for using fake profiles.
Two Convenient Myths About Leadership*
Forbes - 18 Oct 2014 18:44
Anyone following the leadership turmoil in American iconic firms like EK, HP and JC Penney in recent decades -- or having observed how different divisions, departments, and teams are managed within large organizations --...
Yahoo releases new Retina-optimized Flickr 3.2 for iPad, iOS 8
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2014 17:15
Flickr's first official iPad app, called Flickr 3.2, supports the "Retina" display found on the old iPad Air and iPad mini, as well as the new iPad Air 2 and the new iPad mini.
Out on the bleeding edge of tech hardware with Broadcom's CEO (interview)
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2014 17:00
Broadcom sells billions of dollars worth of chips in networking, consumer electronics, and communications infrastructure markets. But it’s trying to move beyond that to dominate the market for chips for the “internet...
The fractured state of enterprise messaging: Why can't anyone get it right?
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2014 05:00
Guest Post: Rapid communication among teams in any organization is crucial for success, yet today's communication technology offerings seem to fall short when it comes to enterprise.
New study from Pepperdine University: Minority- and women-owned businesses are much less likely to get VC funds
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2014 02:05
We were alarmed at the extent to which a business owner's ethnicity, gender, and nationality affect that owner's chances of being funded.
Expanding cloud-storage's health-focused capabilities will help everyone
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2014 01:15
What cloud-based file storage Box set out to do for companies in the mid-2000s, a little startup named MedXT wants to do for hospitals and clinics. The two companies joined cloud-powered forces when Box acquired MedXT la...
Salesforce is onto something. It's about time we put our data to work
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2014 00:35
Guest Post: While new solutions like Salesforce Wave allowing us discover interesting new facets of the data we've collected, the most exciting innovations focus on delivering more actionable insights in the moments when...