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10 Customer Service Practices to Help Retain Your Customers for Life
Forbes - 26 Jan 2015 15:30
Customer service is not a cost center.
Billionaires Tony Elumelu And Aliko Dangote Launch The African Energy Leaders Group At The World Economic Forum
Forbes - 26 Jan 2015 15:17
Speaking at a high profile panel on energy at the 2015 annual meeting for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Nigerian billionaire and philanthropist Tony Elumelu emphasized the key priority for 2015 for Afri...
10 Crazy Sounding Tax Deductions IRS Says Are Legit
Forbes - 26 Jan 2015 15:18
Tax returns are signed under penalties of perjury, so you can't lie. But creativity sometimes pays off. Do you feel lucky today?
Mobile app analytics showdown -- what the best app publishers are using (webinar)
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 23:49
VB Webinar:The mobile app analytics package that has only a 2% market share is used by seven of the top 20 grossing apps on Google Play and eight of the top 20 grossing apps on iOS -- just one of the surprising findings ...
Microsoft shipped -- but didn't sell -- 6.6M Xboxes during its fiscal Q2
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 23:31
Xbox One's sale price hurt revenue but not profits.
More than 9.2M people now subscribe to Microsoft Office 365, up 30% since October
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 23:24
These services, which include both Office 365 Home and Personal, cost between $6.99 and $9.99 per month -- compared to Google's free Drive offerings.
Military Tactics That Matter To Marketing
Forbes - 26 Jan 2015 23:20
This article is by Chad Storlie, author of Combat Leader to Corporate Leader and Battlefield to Business Success. Both books teach how to translate and apply military skills to business. He is also an adjunct lecturer of...
Microsoft sees Surface revenue jump to $1.1B in Q2 2015, sells record 10.5M Lumia smartphones
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 23:18
Microsoft may still be a software company at heart, but its hardware results are becoming increasingly important.
Microsoft beats expectations slightly in Q2 2015 with a $5.8B profit on $26.5B in revenue
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 23:14
While Microsoft beat analysts' revenue estimates and met expectations for earnings, the company's stock was down after hours.
The EFF outlines how to bring the NSA to its knees
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 22:49
The Electronic Freedom Foundation just issued an outline for how it plans to take down the National Security Agency and get people to protect their digital content.
Windows 10 preview: PC gaming works great, but the Xbox App is full of dead ends
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 22:35
Feature:We test the gaming features of the Windows 10 technical preview, including the new Xbox App.
The Rise dietitian coaching app now integrates with your Fitbit
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 21:44
Your Rise dietitian wants to know more about you than just your eating habits. Your exercise and sleep habits also have a huge influence on your ability to lose weight.
Boeing, SpaceX complete first major milestones on manned crew vehicles
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 21:00
Boeing said it has made significant progress on ground control systems for the CST-100, while SpaceX has largely completed a pad abort vehicle.
Iora Health picks up $28M to take the sting out of primary care
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 20:06
New investors include Foundation Medical Partners, Rice Management Company, GE Ventures, and Khosla Ventures.
Facebook And Twitter Changes You Need To Know About
Forbes - 26 Jan 2015 19:46
Did you know that you can now search Facebook posts using simple keywords, and that Twitter is now showing recaps of popular tweets in your feed? These changes (and more) are taking place right now, and as a marketer, yo...
10 Steps For Working With Bloggers: What Your Marketing Team Should Know
Forbes - 26 Jan 2015 19:20
This article was co-authored with Devon DeMars, Social Media Director at IMI. You can follow her at @ThereDGoes.
Stripe and Intuit make being a Lyft driver during tax time less hellish
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 19:00
Tax season is a nightmare for anyone, but doing your taxes as an independent contractor is a special kind of hell. So today, Intuit is announcing a partnership with Stripe to the growing legion of freelance workers in th...
What You Can Expect For Social Video in 2015
Forbes - 26 Jan 2015 18:47
This article is by Devra Prywes, VP of insights and marketing at Unruly, a video-ad technology company.
Apple will close legacy TestFlightApp.com beta testing service on February 26
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 18:44
Nearly a year after acquiring beta testing service TestFight, the company will be shutting down the old Testflightapp.com service in favor of the native beta testing service it launched last year on iTunes Connect. The s...
Why Sales Can't Just 'Show Me The Money'
Forbes - 26 Jan 2015 18:34
Sales' is always in the CEO's crosshairs. For the simple reason that despite billions being spent annually on technology, training and recruiting - the percentage of sales reps that meet quota has stubbornly remained at ...
The wall of "NO": Daunting barriers facing digital health tech startups
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2015 18:00
Sponsored:Launching an app in health care takes a lot more oomph than simply developing a really cool product.
The Zendesk Mafia Strikes Again--ChartMogul Launches Its Subscription Metrics Tool
Forbes - 26 Jan 2015 17:54
News of a recent fundraising by SaaS metrics vendor ChartMogul caught my attention, not least of all because of the pedigree of the founders and investors. Founder Nick Franklin was a very early employee of Zendesk, and ...