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How Bad is Venezuela's Economic Chaos?
Forbes - 18 Feb 2015 16:01
Venezuela’s economy is slowly collapsing, crushed by the pressure of a falling oil prices and the accumulated weight of decades of mismanagement. Venezuela’s currency, the bolivar, is overvalued and artificially prop...
5 Ways To Get Out Of A Funk
Forbes - 18 Feb 2015 23:07
The holidays are over. The surge of energy that swirls with New Year’s Resolutions has dwindled. The romance of Valentine’s Day has passed, too. And now, we’re left with the last weeks of winter. Whether you’re i...
Arming for battle against Apple Pay, Samsung buys LoopPay
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 22:50
Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile. It all takes place at our 5th annual Mobile Summit at the scenic Cavallo Point ...
Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 22:17
Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile. It all takes place at our 5th annual Mobile Summit at the scenic Cavallo Point ...
PS4 will outsell the Xbox One by 40% over the next 4 years, analyst bets
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 22:00
Sony is on top today, and Strategy Analytics predicts it will stay that way.
Facebook unleashes Stetho, its open-source Android debugging tool
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 21:55
Facebook said today that it’s giving away a tool it built to spot errors in Android application code. Facebook has gradually improved its main app for Android, as well as other apps for the mobile operating system, inc...
Google protests Department of Justice's push to grant warrants for 'remote searches'
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 21:52
The Department of Justice is trying to strengthen the legal system's hand against illegal material hidden in offshore servers.
LinkedIn seeks new analytics chief after 2 big-data execs depart
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 21:46
Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile. It all takes place at our 5th annual Mobile Summit at the scenic Cavallo Point ...
Angel Strategies That Build Potential For Blockbuster Returns
Forbes - 18 Feb 2015 21:42
James Geshwiler contributed to this post. His webinar, Driving Investor Returns, inspired this article.
27 tech titans that stand to gain a lot from net neutrality
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 21:19
Net neutrality doesn't just benefit consumers. Companies from About.com to Zynga are backing the concept.
Five Lessons Learned In Marketing From The Financial Industry
Forbes - 18 Feb 2015 21:11Mozilla outlines Firefox roadmap for /2
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 20:41
9 percent of all Firefox release channel transactions are already happening over /2.
Calling all fintech: The huge small business opportunity waiting for you (webinar)
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 20:27
VB Webinar:Small businesses are experiencing a massive shift driven by technology, forcing more and more to adopt new technologies in order to compete.
Foundation Capital's Garg lays out top 5 keys to mobile advertising in 2015
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 20:15
VB Event:Ashu Garg, Partner at Foundation Capital, tells an interesting story about chewing gum when emphasizing the radical impact mobile is having on marketing today.
How Entrepreneurs Are Winning By Understanding Big Data
Forbes - 18 Feb 2015 19:46
Three years ago, CSC predicted that by 2020 data production will be 44 times greater than it was in 2009. Zetabytes (that’s one billion terabytes) of information, residing online and on internal databases, has become ...
Your customers are already mobile-first: Here's how to convert them now
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 19:15
Guest:In 2015, mobile won't just be a component of your digital strategy -- it will be your digital strategy.
Dropbox can now open shared links on Android and iOS
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 19:00
The addition means that tapping on a Dropbox shared link on your mobile device will open the file or folder right in your Dropbox app.
China's Tencent moves into Europe with investment in mobile and online game publisher Miniclip (exclusive)
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 18:45
Tencent adds Switzerland-based game publisher to its fold.
These are the math and tech literacy questions many Americans can't answer
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 18:39
If you think you can do better, take the new global test of basic 21st century skills yourself.
Don't blame yourself for ignoring /2, the biggest update in years
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 18:26
Guest:Stop what you're doing right now. The /2 standard has finally been defined.
Microsoft introduces Azure HDInsight on Linux, continuing its open-source love affair
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2015 18:00
Microsoft understands that developers like and use Linux for cloud development. Today's news suggests that the company recognizes that Linux is a respectable building block for Hadoop clusters in the cloud.
Uber Partners With Breathometer To Suggest Drunken-Driving Alternatives
Forbes - 18 Feb 2015 18:00
Ride-hailing service Uber wants to graduate from being an app to being a button in any app, and its latest partner also helps accentuate Uber's role as an alternative to drinking and driving.