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What Killed Black Friday
Forbes - 30 Nov 2014 05:19
Retailers are finding themselves hard pressed to offer good deals for weeks at a stretch, and simultaneously preserve margins.
comScore: Ecommerce spending on Thanksgiving tops $1B for the first time, passes $1.5B on Black Friday
Venture Beat - 30 Nov 2014 22:56
Reports have been coming in all weekend about how Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales are up this year, in double-digit percentages yet again, but now the first raw number estimates are finally here. comScore has ...
Small Family Farm Wins Slow Money's $60K BEETCOIN Loan
Forbes - 30 Nov 2014 22:21
At the Slow Money Alliance's recent gathering in Louisville, Cedar Valley Farms won a $60,000 no-interest loan raised from the group's BEETCOIN campaign.
Media Roundup: Another Bad Month for Mexico
Forbes - 30 Nov 2014 22:07
Mexico continues to suffer from the fallout of a scandal involving 43 missing students from the state of Guerrero.
Why Eric Schmidt doesn't know how Google works
Venture Beat - 30 Nov 2014 22:00
Guest:Google is a great company — from its record $23 billion IPO in 2004 (at a time when Nasdaq was below 2000!) to its dominant mobile OS. My associates and I have such an admiration for Google that we built our late...
Will 2014 Be GivingTuesday's Breakthrough Year?
Forbes - 30 Nov 2014 22:00
Suppose I told you in the summer of 2012, as the election season was heating up and the political conventions assembling, that a new movement of citizen philanthropists would transform the Tuesday after Thanksgiving into...
Uber now complies with India's two-factor authentication requirement, calls it unnecessary and burdensome
Venture Beat - 30 Nov 2014 21:22
Uber today announced that it has complied with the Reserve Bank of India’s requirement that every transaction made with an Indian credit card use two-factor authentication (2FA). Yet the company has done so grudgingly:...
Black Friday 2014: E-commerce desktop pages were 20% slower than in 2013, mobile pages were 57% slower
Venture Beat - 30 Nov 2014 20:49
The Best Buy outage wasn't the only problem this weekend.
Watch a George Lucas parody of the 'Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens' trailer
Venture Beat - 30 Nov 2014 19:35
On November 28, the “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens” trailer was released on iTunes and then YouTube. On November 29, the parodies started to trickle in. Introducing the George Lucas’ Special Edition:...
Big video data could change how we do everything -- from catching bad guys to tracking shoppers
Venture Beat - 30 Nov 2014 17:30
Guest:With vast amounts of video growing vaster at a rate faster than the day before, and the hottest devices like drones decreasing in price and size until everyone has one, it's time to start talking about mining this ...
Reddit Secret Santa hits 200K signups, aims to break Guinness world record (again)
Venture Beat - 30 Nov 2014 04:06
Reddit is about an hour away from hitting its massive goal of getting 200,000 of its users to sign up for the annual Secret Santa gift exchange program, which is actually really good news for the company's bottom line.
Xbox One beats PS4 on Black Friday, according to market-research firm
Venture Beat - 30 Nov 2014 03:45
Microsoft's new console made up half of all hardware purchases on one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
Admitting You Don't Like Your Boss Could Be The Wisest Career Move You'll Ever Make
Forbes - 30 Nov 2014 01:46
Acknowledging your aversion to the boss could actually improve your motivation and productivity.