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Golden Globe Winner and Wildlife Campaigner: Virginia McKenna Discusses Fashion and The Born Free Foundation
Forbes - 29 Nov 2014 22:11
The Born Free Foundation a global organization devoted to saving endangered species started from the 1966 film Born Free. Where Virginia played a conservationist raising an orphaned lion cub name Elsa. Through the film, ...
LinkedIn data: Highly skilled immigrants are losing interest in America (in 1 graph)
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 02:00
The United States is quickly losing it’s appeal to the world’s most talented immigrants, according to a new study. Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington culled a large dataset from LinkedIn and fou...
How to use Apple Pay to return that sweater your wife hated
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 00:15
When will you ever learn not to buy clothing for her? Anyway, your annual trip to the returns counter might be a bit more high tech this year.
The Art Of Anticipation: Why Apple Stores' Retail Customer Service Is Better Than Yours
Forbes - 29 Nov 2014 04:26
To bind customers to you through customer service and the customer experience requires what I call ‘‘The Art of Anticipation.’’
How Arizona (yes, Arizona) is becoming a hotbed for tech startups
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 03:07
Guest:Arizona isn't going to suddenly usurp California or Texas any time soon when it comes to things like venture funding, but the sleeping giant out in the Southwest is starting to make some noise.
Visual listening is the next big thing in social. Here's why.
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 22:41
Guest:The human brain can process images in as little as 13 milliseconds, according to research from MIT released this year. That's a hell of a lot faster than earlier studies, which suggested it takes 100 milliseconds. ...
Why hardware startups should screw VC and go straight to crowdfunding
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 20:55
Guest:Software's always been the sexy sell of Silicon Valley. With low startup costs, margins on par with the most illicit drugs and the boom or bust mentality of the Internet era, it's been the sweetheart of startups fo...
Training Newbie Impact Investing Fund Managers In Africa, South Asia
Forbes - 29 Nov 2014 20:01
The Global Impact Investing Network is launching a training program for freshly minted impact investing fund managers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
This 24-year-old high school dropout is tackling a problem every startup hates
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 19:45
Jessica Mah, the founder and CEO of Indinero, was only 11 years old when she started her first business. Having learned how to code in fifth grade, Mah built websites for people and got paid a few thousand dollars a mon...
Rocket Internet's Amazon clone Lazada secures $250M
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 18:13
The Amazon of Southeast Asia, Lazada, has raised a whopping €200 million (about $250 million USD) to secure its position as a dominant force in ecommerce for the region, the company announced today.
Here's how marketing tech could get Americans off their butts to vote
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 17:15
Feature:Let's say your "client" is the United States of America, the "events" are the elections, and the response is the abysmal voter turnout that currently characterizes America's defining event. How can digital market...
Interview With Steve Cheney On Estimote And The Power Of Local Commerce
Forbes - 29 Nov 2014 16:02
I've interviewed tech blogger Steve Cheney before in Forbes, but - about a year ago - he became SVP of Business and Operations for Estimote. Estimote is an NYC-based start-up that produces beacons and software to allow f...
Global Health Looks To BRAC And Gates Foundation For Mobile Money
Forbes - 29 Nov 2014 15:36
Bangladesh is going digital. Not in smart watches, sensor-based clothing or electronic health records, but in money. Mobile money. Money, that according to BRAC and the Gates Foundation could improve the economic and hea...
Five Important Lessons From A Trip To The Apple Store
Forbes - 29 Nov 2014 04:26
Want to sell more stuff? Take some tips from the folks who do it best.
Hampton Creek's data scientists team up with chefs to find the holy grail of plant proteins
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 04:00
At Facebook and LinkedIn, data scientists analyze site usage and develop features that take user information into consideration. Inside the cramped office of Hampton Creek, a 3-year-old San Francisco startup, data scient...
Open data startup Socrata brings in $30M to make government data more accessible
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 01:30
Socrata, a startup working to make government data more easily accessible to companies and services, has raised $30 million in new funding. Socrata has raised at least $30 million out of possible $35 million it’s seeki...
Ray Rice's NFL Reinstatement Should Surprise Nobody
Forbes - 29 Nov 2014 01:07This is what you should expect from enterprise software in the future
Venture Beat - 29 Nov 2014 01:00
Guest:We're in the midst of a transformational moment as the makeup of the workforce changes, as does the outright speed in which business is done -- all of which impacts enterprise technology development and solutions.