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My 14 Most Influential Agencies Of 2014
Forbes - 18 Dec 2014 16:54
The agencies I have selected have a clear sense of how much is changing, including the new role of the consumer, the migration away from interruptive messages, and the technologies and platforms that make listening more ...
4 questions that reveal whether you have the hottest job skill of 2014
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 23:40
LinkedIn's engineers tapped their massive dataset of job promotions and transfers, and one skill set stands out above the rest.
Listen up: Social listening proves critical for successfully launching new gadgets
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 23:00
Guest:An estimated 250,000+ new consumer tech products launch every year, and 95 percent fail. The pressure is high to make it onto must-have lists.
Cuba Opening Could Mean Mother Of All Property Disputes
Forbes - 18 Dec 2014 22:31
Exiles and U.S. corporations claiming billions of dollars worth of Cuban property might finally begin the process of getting it back.
Intel confirms that Lenovo will use Atom chips in two new smartphones next year
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 22:30
Intel is making good headway with mobile chips, finally.
Russia's currency needs help, but don't count on Bitcoin
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 22:21
The decline of the Russian ruble earlier this week has caused a mass selloff of the currency in exchange for alternatives -- including the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The ruble has declined roughly 50 percent since the begin...
Prime-time: Amazon's annual membership is now too good to ignore, and local retailers should be afraid
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 21:45
2014's developments have put a slightly different spin on the service, even though it now costs $20 more.
If Apple Were A Worker Cooperative, Each Employee Would Earn At Least $403K
Forbes - 18 Dec 2014 21:25
Apple has 98,000 employees and earned $39.5 billion after tax over the past year. If Apple was a worker cooperative, then each employee would’ve received a $403,000 dividend on top of their salaries. Even the lowest pa...
OMG! Guardians of the French language warn against using 'LOL'
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 21:22
The Académie française has identified a new threat.
WordPress 4.1 arrives with new default theme, distraction-free writing mode, Vine embeds, and more
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 20:49
What are you waiting for? Go download it.
P97 Networks Closes $8 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Emerald Technology Ventures and ATAPCO
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 20:42
Press Release:P97 Networks, developers of PetroZone, a cloud based mobile commerce and behavioral marketing platform for the convenience and fuel retailing industry, announced today the closing of an $8 million Series A ...
Why 2015 Super Bowl Spots Aren't Selling Fast
Forbes - 18 Dec 2014 20:37
By Tim Calkins and Derek D. Rucker. Calkins is a clinical professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He teaches several marketing classes, including marketing strategy and bio-...
Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 20:27
Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Hampton Creek, changing the world one plant-based mayo jar at a time, gets $90M Startup Hampton Creek ha...
Microsoft brings Windows Phone carrier billing to China, India, Brazil, and Verizon in the U.S.
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 20:00
Microsoft today announced new Windows Phone partnerships for carrier billing, which lets customers charge app and other content digital purchases directly to their phone bill. In fact, the company says it is the first gl...
GameAnalytics raises $5.5M and hires new CEO
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 20:00
The company provides analytics to developers with more than 500 million unique players.
Secret's relaunch adds 1-on-1 chat and location-based sharing
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 19:47
The anonymous app is back with new design and features.
The Yahoo app gets more personalized with local news and comments on both iOS and Android
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 19:37
Yahoo continues its trend of building personalized content in its latest app update for both iOS and Android. Today, Yahoo is tweaking its digital content app to provide local news regardless of where you travel to. The ...
Luxurious and Environmentally Friendly: House Of Marley Headphones and Speakers
Forbes - 18 Dec 2014 19:24
Plastic bottles, cups and bags are what we typically think of when guilt-ridden over our damage done to Mother Earth. But speaker systems, not so much.
CEOs Have Obligations To CMOs Too, And They're Critical For Mutual Success
Forbes - 18 Dec 2014 19:24
This article is by Mark Stevens, CEO of MSCO and author of “Your Marketing Sucks.”
Photography community EyeEm's latest feature teaches you to edit photos like a pro
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 19:11
Today EyeEm, a mobile app that’s like Instagram for people who actually care about photography, released a handful of new editing features, the most interesting of which lets you copy editing tricks from popular users....
Mixpanel grabs $65M from Andreessen Horowitz to fund acquisitions and an R&D team
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 19:00
When a profitable company decides to raise new funding.
Pandora launches its first native game console app -- and it's for Xbox One
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2014 19:00
Digital radio service Pandora is finally showing some love to gamers today with the launch of a new application for Xbox One.