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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says trolls are driving away 'core' users
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 05:18
Twitter -- at 284 million registered users -- needs to keep growing its user base to support the advertising needs of its big brand clients.
Google knew Glass 'wasn't even close to ready,' but Sergey Brin pushed it out
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 05:00
Glass was still an early prototype when Google made it available to fans and journalists in 2013.
Startups: 3 ways to keep from burning through your cash
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 04:00
Guest:High burn rates are not just a symptom of competition for customers and talent --- they also show that a cadre of entrepreneurs in the Valley are getting too caught up in generating growth, publicity, and showing o...
Twitter now has 288M monthly active users, but growth is slowing
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 23:18
Despite unexpectedly decent revenue growth, the company has been in hot water over user growth for multiple quarters now, with investors carefully tracking the metric.
Twitter ad revenue soars 97% year over year in Q4
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 23:15
To Wall Street, Twitter's ability to make money on ads is the number one concern. They should be happy, at least when comparing to last year at this time.
Twitter beats Q4 revenue expectations with $479M, nets just 4M new monthly users
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 23:10
After a series of quarters showing slowed user growth, investors really wanted to see Twitter break its slothy streak.
LinkedIn now counts 347M members, up from 277M at the end of 2013
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 23:05
LinkedIn took a $15.3 million loss on $2.2 billion in revenue for the entire year. But hey, its quarterly revenue has never been higher -- that's something.
New leak shows Samsung Galaxy S6 is as thin as the iPhone 6
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 23:02
The new schematic shows that the S6 is 6.91 mm thick -- same as the iPhone 6.
Mobile dining app Cover is offering to spot you for dinner
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 22:00
The new Float feature will cover an unregistered friend's share of the tab for up to a week, until that friend registers and pays.
Obama's Foreign Earnings Tax: 19% Minimum DOA But Deemed Repatriations Key
Forbes - 5 Feb 2015 21:43
President Obama's February 2 budget proposes a 19% minimum tax on foreign earnings. When news broke last weekend about the plan, all of the headlines focused on this new levy, which is designed to minimize the benefits o...
Swatch smartwatch has zero chance against the Apple Watch (unless it's radically less expensive)
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 21:20
No doubt Swatch has some iconic power, mostly left over from the grand old 80s. But it's already made some crucial errors.
Move Over, Millennials... Boomers Still Got Game
Forbes - 5 Feb 2015 21:17
Boomer or Millennial... regardless of age, isn't it grand to be an entrepreneur?
VitalMedicals takes $925,000 for doctors' smart glasses apps
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 21:00
The startup, part of the StartX accelerator's class of Fall 2014, is participating in StartX's Demo Day in Palo Alto, California today.
Apple's iPhoto successor, Photos for OS X, gets closer to public release
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 20:36
Apple is finally killing the clunky old iPhoto app, and today it said it's released a developer beta of the replacement: Photos for OS X.
Facebook now lets celebs share posts to Twitter
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 20:29
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Y Combinator partners with early-stage VC Bolt and Autodesk, opens lab to foster hardware startups
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 20:27
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Closing The Skills Gap: How Udemy Is Helping Anyone Learn Anything
Forbes - 5 Feb 2015 20:04
The “skills gap” is unarguably one of the biggest threats for modern day workplaces and one of the most hotly debated topics. Consider two opposing pieces on this topic, one from Inc Magazine called Is There Reall...
Porsche is debuting its next car right now ... in EA's Real Racing 3
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 19:55
This is the first time an automobile manufacturer has revealed a new car in a mobile game.
Google's slippery slope: If search giant pays Twitter for content, should it pay all publishers?
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 19:52
Toward the end of Bloomberg’s story about a potential deal between Google and Twitter to display tweets in search results, this bit at the end made me sit up: “There's no advertising revenue involved in the deal betw...
What was a game guy doing in the White House?
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 19:30
Mark DeLoura tried to find the intersection of games and education.
Customer Service Numbers Are Down But Not For Everyone
Forbes - 5 Feb 2015 19:05
A little backstory if I may. I started my working life when I was 16 in the retail industry, specifically working in a supermarket. I was proud to carry on the tradition laid down my father and older siblings.
Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Rogue will use Tobii's eye-tracking technology
Venture Beat - 5 Feb 2015 19:00
The game will ship with the SteelSeries Sentry eye-tracker in March.