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Starbucks To Shell Out $250 Million On Free 4-Year College For Every Employee
Forbes - 7 Apr 2015 04:56
Starbucks Coffee today promised to provide full 4-year college tuition coverage to every U.S. employee of the company, in a major expansion of the coffee giant's previously-announced educational commitment.
Samsung predicts 30% drop in profits for Q1 2015
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 03:19
Samsung released its earnings guidance for Q1 2015 this evening. Once again, the company predicts it will post a drop in operating profits and revenue. Per the report, Samsung expects its operating profit between January...
Apple is working overtime to get its watch on TV
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 04:45
Just days ahead of its pre-order launch, Apple premiered its new smartwatch on primetime. The Apple Watch made its television debut (depending on your time zone) on the wrist of Apple CEO Tim Cook, who was spotted at the...
Mobile games are eating console games' lunch in national TV ads
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 00:30
Guest: According to data from iSpot.tv, four of the top five biggest TV ad spenders in the video game category for the first quarter of the year are mobile game companies, collectively spending over $130 million in 2015...
Amazon's Jeff Bezos will enter commercial space race with Blue Origin test launches later this year
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 23:30
Bezos's Blue Origin joins a small number of privately held space flight companies, including Virgin Galactic, XCOR Aerospace, and SpaceX.
Square, Inc. Offers Capital to Clients, Changing The Path of How Small Businesses Can Gain Capital
Forbes - 7 Apr 2015 23:00
Square, Inc. is a leader in the financial services space when it comes to supporting small businesses through merchant services, mobile payments and software and hardware products. But have you ever thought of Square as ...
Email marketing, that digital workhorse, primed to grow in 2015
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 22:45
VB Insight: But marketers still report a lack of insight and understanding into the revenue generated by emails.
FBI warns of ISIS-sympathetic hackers attacking and defacing WordPress sites
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 22:38
Update your WordPress installations and plugins ASAP.
NFL Tabs George Pyne, Gerry Cardinale To Grow Premium Events, Hospitality Business
Forbes - 7 Apr 2015 22:33
The NFL added a pair of heavy hitters in George Pyne and Gerry Cardinale to its marketing and investing team in granting the two companies they operate a long-term license to run the premium events and hospitality arm of...
MLB.com At Bat out-grosses Candy Crush Saga ... for one day
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 22:30
Take me out to baseball app.
Get Behavior Change That Lasts Using Neuroscience
Forbes - 7 Apr 2015 22:28
What Triggers set off Routines and Rewards in your life and business? Discover how to respond from choice, versus react.
HBO unlikely to immediately crack down on Go password sharing as Now launches
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 22:00
The network was happy that it was creating "addicts," but now people have a way to pay $15 a month.
Update: Square Enix appears poised to unveil Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (leak)
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 21:32
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will be the first major title in the series since 2011.
Microsoft's codename Redstone is a Windows 10 update coming in 2016
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 21:17
Threshold is just the beginning.
Hands-on with HBO Now: Yes, it's as awesome as you imagined
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 20:51
This morning HBO Now launched on iOS, Apple TV, and online. Naturally, we dropped everything to give the streaming service a try.
Apple may be hot to sell the Watch into health care environments
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 20:36
Apple has far wider aspirations for the Apple Watch that just consumer sales. As with the iPad, the company wants to sell the device into vertical enterprises like health care organizations.
CDO: You Say Chief Digital Officer, I Say Chief Data Officer
Forbes - 7 Apr 2015 20:24
There’s a tidal wave of data-related jobs rolling in these days, from data scientists and data analysts to CDOs and CDOs. No, that’s not a typo; I’m just using the same acronym for chief data officer and chief digi...
App testing firm Applause now shows developers how their apps are doing around the world
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 20:15
App testing firm Applause has rolled out an update to its mobile-analytics tool, bringing global benchmarking to the mix as well as a new interface and handful of fresh additional features.
Imgur introduces embed option for online publishers to repost and attribute photos on their own site
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 19:59
Image-hosting platform Imgur is making it easier for publishers and bloggers to use its content, with the launch of a new embed feature.
Google Moderator is shutting down on July 31, 2015
Venture Beat - 7 Apr 2015 19:56
Another one bites the dust.
Are Long-Tenured Trusts Unconstitutional? No Says The Nevada Supreme Court
Forbes - 7 Apr 2015 19:55
The Nevada Supreme Court rules that the legislature's establishment of long-tenured trusts not only comports to the state's constitution, it is a codification of the public policy expressed in the state's constitution.