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Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 23:46
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Google exec: Marketing today means understanding customers' path to purchase
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 03:44
Today, consumers may travel, digitally at least, across two or three devices before they get to the point that they make a purchasing decision. Successful CMOs will understand that journey.
Lyft's two big goals for great advertising: consumer education and high performance
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 03:14
Lyft is trying to accomplish a lot with its marketing right now.
Spotify exec: We collect an 'enormous amount of data on what people are listening to, where, and in what context'
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 23:27
The Internet radio service knows a great deal about its users' behavior thanks to 'enormous' amounts of data it collects. And its free users are almost as profitable as its premium users.
Xero tallies up $110M more for cloud-based accounting platform
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 23:22
With the investment, Accel Partners will own approximately 4.9 percent of Xero.
Hortonworks falls short with $12.7M in revenue in its first earnings report
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 23:10
Increasingly, big data is big business.
6 Business Deal Disasters
Forbes - 24 Feb 2015 22:57
Everyone makes mistakes. But when you run a large business you mistakes can burn a lot of people. Here are a handful of deals gone wrong, foolish negotiations and downright failures from business lore.
Avoid Pain, Plan Ahead For The Break-Up Of Your Business
Forbes - 24 Feb 2015 22:57
A destructive marital dissolution can burn through mountains of money, take an immeasurable toll on both spouses, and harm innocent children. A poorly planned, hot-headed business breakup can cost the owners every dollar...
4 Ways To Market Cars To Millennials
Forbes - 24 Feb 2015 22:14
Many studies have shown that not only are transportation tastes changing, but the whole car sales process itself is undergoing a transformation.
Google scraps Pwnium security contest in favor of its Chrome Vulnerability Reward Program
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 21:48
Once confined to an annual conference, Chrome's vulnerability submission event Pwnium has become a year-round bug bounty program.
Facebook's Origami design tool now lets you test app prototypes on your iPhone & iPad
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 21:22
Facebook introduced a number of new features to its free Origami prototyping tool. Starting today, the app lets designers preview their designs directly on an iPhone or iPad. The service, which lets designers build and t...
Employee Tenure Is Shrinking: What Do We Do?
Forbes - 24 Feb 2015 21:20
There used to be a time where you devote the majority of your life to working for just a small handful of companies. You would stay at each job for 15, 20, 30 plus years and the company would give you a nice pension when...
A Peek Into My Favorite CEO SaaS Toolbox
Forbes - 24 Feb 2015 21:20
Take one look at my computer environment, and you’ll see more tickers, trackers and pop-ups than any information lover like me could possibly want. I probably touch more than 25 digital tools on a daily basis. That’s...
Brian Sharples, Head Honcho At HomeAway, Gives A Glimpse Into The Future
Forbes - 24 Feb 2015 21:02
With a new marketing campaign underway, HomeAway's CEO, Brian Sharples, sat down to talk about entrepreneurship and the future of the hospitality business.
Texas Has The Largest Percentage of E-Fraudsters -- What Should Retailers Make Of That?
Forbes - 24 Feb 2015 21:01
"Fraudsters don't target geography. They don?t wake up one morning and say, 'today I will target the state of Delaware.'" What they say is, 'I want to attack Target.'
IDC: Android and iOS accounted for 96.3% of global smartphone shipments in Q4 2014 and the whole year
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 20:50
Android and iOS accounted for 96.3 percent of all smartphone shipments in Q4 2014, and coincidentally, 96.3 percent for all of last year as well. That means the duopoly grew 0.6 percentage points compared to the same per...
Intel: Wearables will increasingly find their place in the enterprise
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 20:32
Intel's wearables chip lead Steve Holmes spoke at Mobile Summit about the directions wearables may take in the future.
Foursquare exec boasts company has seen triple-digit revenue growth for 3 years straight
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 20:26
Big data. But he won't say how big is big.
Vimeo brings exclusive Machinima content to its self-distribution 'On Demand' platform
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 20:15
Video-streaming platform Vimeo has announced a tie-up with Machinima, a video site dedicated to fandom and gamer culture, that will see exclusive content arrive on Vimeo's self-distribution platform.
Five years later, Google passes 1,000 Chrome experiments
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 19:59
Experiment 1,000 is very fitting.
Medium replaces channels with tags
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 19:57
Medium is switching up the way it organizes stories, killing off channels in favor of tags. The blogging platform’s homepage used to display a series of categories like Design, Tech, and Culture. Now, the company is al...
Wildcard's new developer tool could change the way you share links with friends
Venture Beat - 24 Feb 2015 19:30
Wildcard is launching a new iOS SDK, so you can share actual content instead of blue links. The mobile web browser company announced its new developer tool today, enabling mobile apps to display content as in-line cards ...