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How to Give Your Facebook Page a Holiday Makeover
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 21:09
By Danielle Cormier
This French startup will dispatch a professional chef to your home
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 16:13
It's not exactly cheap, but it's similar to restaurant pricing --- only in this case the restaurant is your home.
ZipLine® Medical Closes $5.7 Million Extension to Its Series C Financing Led by New Investor, China Materialia
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 14:15
Press Release: ZipLine Medical announced today that it has closed a $5.7 million extension to its Series C financing, which was announced on Jan. 21, 2014. The financing extension was led by new investor China Materialia...
Tim Cook: Apple Pay is a 'killer' feature that will sell phones
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 23:55
Cook and the other executives on the call didn't say much about Apple Pay, until an analyst asked about Apple's motivations for doing it.
Meet The Man Who's Using Physics To Make Surgery Safer
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 23:55
Nikolai Begg's invention aims to greatly reduce that risk of vessel and organ puncture during medical procedures.
Marcus Lemonis: His Investing Successes And Regrets
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 23:49
The third season of Marcus Lemonis's show "The Profit" on CNBC premiered on October 14th and the second episode will air tomorrow night at 10pm ET/PT. Since 'The Profit' first premiered, Marcus Lemonis, Chairman and CEO...
Citrix has bought e-signature startup RightSignature
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 23:46
Enterprise software company Citrix said today that it’s acquired RightSignature, one provider of technology that lets people sign files digitally on desktop and mobile devices. It sounds like the acquisition won’t ma...
Stock market hammers King despite new Candy Crush game
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 23:15
Mobile gaming, like consoles, is a hit-driven business, and King still doesn't have anything new.
VentureBeat Webinar: The Private Cloud Diaries or 4 reasons your company needs private clouds
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 23:00
When it comes to cloud computing, what about security and critical operations your company depends on? Can you afford to risk these in exchange for the flexibility provided by third-party cloud providers?
Apple's Mac sales surge 20% to 5.5M, proving one company still makes must-have PCs
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 22:34
Today Apple reported 5,520,000 Mac sales and 2,641,000 iPod sales within its fourth-quarter earnings report. Predictably, Mac sales are up year over year and iPod sales continue to decline. During the fourth quarter of 2...
Apple kills it in fiscal Q4 earnings on surging iPhone sales
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 22:33
The company has shown strong performance as it releases a string of upgrades and new products with Tim Cook at the helm.
iPhone sales grow 16.3% to 39.3M in Q4 2014, but iPad sales decline by 12.8%
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 22:33
As part of the company’s latest quarterly earnings announcement, Apple today revealed that it sold 39.3 million iPhones and 12.3 million iPads during its fiscal fourth quarter of 2014. These are mixed results, which ha...
Video - A Look Around The Corner
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 22:10
Now that it's clear where tv and video are going in the near future, it's easy to sit back and say the future is sorted out, no need to look further. Just stand by and wait for the long-heralded ‘ a la carte' future t...
Why telemedicine's window is finally opening
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 22:00
Guest Post: The telemedicine window has opened, and 2015 will be the year that we go through it.
Are These Scary Stressors Holding You Back From Business Success?
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 21:46
Around this time of year, ghosts and goblins are traditionally what most people are afraid of. But for us entrepreneurs, there are things out there that are much more frightening.
Three Young Social Entrepreneurs Breaking The Rules To Save The World
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 21:45
Three of the world's most groundbreaking young social entrepreneurs lay out their blueprints for healing the planet.
Suspected Chinese government hackers behind new iCloud account attack
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 21:39
Apple experiences another breach of its iCloud service, this time by hackers possibly affiliated with the Chinese government.
When Is It Worth It To Drop Out Of College?
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 21:36
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel and MIT dropouts and Thiel Fellows Delian Asparouhov and Laura Deming all recognize that higher education has its merits but that a traditional four-year degree only goes so far...
Apttus Attempts A Massive Aerial On Salesforce.com's Wave
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 21:31
Analytics may seem new but it is really ancient. Let’s face it, the dinosaur “big iron” mainframes have been doing this stuff for decades.
The Top Ten Tax Cases (And Rulings) Of 2014: #10 - IRA and Qualified Plan Rollovers Are More Treacherous Than You Realize
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 21:21
It's finally over. The October 15th tax deadline is behind us, which means for tax practitioners, our return filings are mercifully finished for the year. Unless of course, you chose to make your career in the not-for...
More open-source at Microsoft? You'd better believe it
Venture Beat - 20 Oct 2014 21:15
REDMOND, Wash. — Following Microsoft’s announcement today about new partnerships with operating system startup CoreOS and big data company Cloudera, it’s clearer than it’s been in years the tech giant is committe...
6 Guaranteed Ways To Improve Your Holiday Marketing Results
Forbes - 20 Oct 2014 21:10
By Ryan Pinkham