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IBM commits $3B for new Internet of Things business unit
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 06:01
More tech companies are investing in the Internet of Things.
Elon Musk's SpaceX buying $90 million of Elon Musk's Solar City solar bonds
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 01:13
SolarCity said that SpaceX is essentially getting paid back by the sun.
John Taft: Wall Street Can Be A Force For Good
Forbes - 31 Mar 2015 05:48
John Taft, the CEO of RBC Wealth Management US and a frequent guest here on my show, has compiled the thoughts of some of Wall Street's elite discussing how its power can be used for the greater good in a new book, A For...
Martech unicorns: Why true marketing technologists are so desperately rare
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 23:47
Chief marketing technologist is a growing title, a growing category, and a much-needed one. A new study, however, suggests that the perfect blend of marketing art and technological science is still far from being realize...
7 Observations By An Out-Of-Work Leader
Forbes - 31 Mar 2015 23:46
Change. It happens to all of us. Some of us embrace it, others fight it. In the end we all learn from it. Here's what I have learned from being an out-of-work leader.
Apple may let you unlock your iPhone by taking a selfie
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 23:31
Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only -- apply here. Ticket prices increase on April 3rd! T...
Note-taking app Evernote experiences outage, comes back 1 hour later (updated)
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 23:22
The popular Evernote desktop and mobile app today experienced a period of downtime, the company disclosed today. The outage lasted a bit more than an an hour. The company was looking into the matter as of 1:41 p.m. Pacif...
New Twitch mobile update adds a neverending video player
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 23:20
Android users get a bonus audio-only mode.
Tapstream unifies deep links and deferred deep links, connecting mobile web and mobile apps
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 22:53
VB Insight:Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only -- apply here. Ticket prices increase on A...
Mobile marketing: winning at 'brandvertising'
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 22:45
Can traditional brand advertising work on mobile? The answer is a definitive yes.
Etsy prices shares at $14-$16, aims to raise as much as $267M in IPO (updated)
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 22:32
Today Etsy revealed that it plans to price shares at between $14 and $16 when it starts trading on the NASDAQ.
Employee Appreciation: Where's It Gone...But Can Good Company Practice Boost Stock Performance?
Forbes - 31 Mar 2015 22:31
Had a bad day at the office or been under the thumb from a demanding boss? Well, you’re probably not alone there. But as I reflected on this following Employee Appreciation Day in the US earlier this month on 6 March -...
Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 22:13
Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds.
$45 Million For Online Auction House, Auctionata
Forbes - 31 Mar 2015 21:16
The thrill of bidding and the thump of the gavel that auctions provide don’t necessarily have to be experienced in person—the world learned that from eBay. But Berlin-based Auctionata, which offers those experiences ...
Case Foundation, B Lab Team Up To Make Measuring Impact More Mainstream
Forbes - 31 Mar 2015 21:12
The Case Foundation and B Lab recently announced they're joining forces to make measuring impact more accessible--and mainstream
Slack just made it easier to find key files or comments in channels
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 20:16
Now users of the team-communication app can "pin" specific statements to the rail summarizing a channel.
How Cultural Differences Can Affect Customer Experience
Forbes - 31 Mar 2015 20:14
I'm in Europe this week and if there's anything that will get your brain thinking about customer service it's travel. From the experience of 12 hours of flying to the AirBNB we arrived in once settled in Prague to the ma...
Acrolinx's new Content Marketing Platform tailors a writer's work for your audience
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 20:00
The new cloud-based platform automatically offers real-time suggestions to hone the wording, style, terms used, readability, tone, and other factors to the message's purpose and audience.
Google Maps meets Pac-Man: Munch up power pellets in your neighborhood
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 19:45
Google kicks off April Fools' Day with a classic arcade joke.
Who Should Pay For The Mess We're In?
Forbes - 31 Mar 2015 19:20
With bold tax policies we could avoid ?taxing? poor and middle-income individuals by cutting off vital programs, and we could shift the burden of two decades of unfunded wars and other reckless decisions from future gene...
Twitter cozies up to media outlets with the launch of Curator
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 19:15
Twitter today announced the launch of Curator, a tool that will enable media outlets to more easily sift through the social feed’s content in order to highlight collections of tweets and stories. Some have compared the...
App downloads are slightly down from January -- but user acquisition is way up from last year
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2015 19:00
Download volumes for top apps are still at record highs.