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Why Google Created a Self-Driving Car and DuPont Didn't
Forbes - 9 Apr 2015 20:15
DuPont created a self-braking car in 1987, but killed the project. How a fear of blue ocean creation kept DuPont from venturing forward. 25 years later Google is leading the charge.
Watch this developer build a Facebook Messenger app for Windows in 3 minutes
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 23:30
Simply awesome.
For Jamie Dimon Crisis Memories And New Warnings Are Helpful
Forbes - 9 Apr 2015 17:50
Everything about Jamie Dimon's annual shareholder letter, his arguments about how to change post-crisis regulations and his diplomatic tone, indicate he thinks he's back.
Conversion Optimization: The best strategies and tools to get web traffic to do your bidding
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 02:54
VB Webinar: Learn about the best Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) strategies and tools that result in quantifiable, demonstrable change -- and turn more traffic, visits, and page-views into customers and subscribers.
Tesla's new base model, the $75K Model S 70D, has all-wheel drive and 240-mile range
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 02:00
Leave it to electric-car maker Tesla Motors to spring another surprise on the world. This morning, it announced a brand-new version of the base model in its signature battery-electric luxury sedan lineup. The Tesla Model...
Don Mattrick gets about $15M for leaving Zynga
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 01:15
Mattrick will get a severance, his stock, and a bonus.
Buffett Wannabe Biglari Unapologetic After Beating Investor Challenge
Forbes - 9 Apr 2015 23:58
In a packed, near five hour-long question and answer session styled after Buffett's so-called 'woodstock of capitalism,' Sardar Biglari was defiant.
6 things to know about eBay's planned split from PayPal
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 23:52
Top marketing execs: Join us June 1-2 in Boston for GrowthBeat Summit. Sign up today as space is limited and we're limiting attendance to CMOs and top marketing execs. Request your personal invitation here. Today eBay re...
Gartner and IDC agree: PC shipments fell at least 5% in Q1 2015 as Windows XP replacement cycle starts to fade
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 22:43
PC shipments are falling, again.
Why Financial Dashboards Matter, and Five Pointers to Get You Started
Forbes - 9 Apr 2015 22:20
Why Financial Dashboards Matter, and Five Pointers to Get You Started
Spanish Eviction Protesters Target U.S. Private Equity Giant Blackstone
Forbes - 9 Apr 2015 21:58
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Google announces Chrome Live, an online-only Chrome for Work event on April 22
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 21:24
Google is hosting an online event just for Chrome.
Zynga's head of game studios quietly left before CEO change from Mattrick to Pincus
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 20:50
Exclusive: Former Xbox Live exec left in March. Two new data experts have also joined Zynga.
Stanza (formerly SpotOn.it) pulls in $4.3M for smart Add-to-Calendar button
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 20:40
The startup's Add-To-Calendar button can integrate with any calendar client, but it also does some tricks that older, static, calendar buttons can't do.
An artist hid 4.87 Bitcoins in this painting puzzle, triggering a frenzy to solve it and claim them
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 20:30
Feature: "Mystery has always intrigued us, art on its own is a cryptic puzzle, but what happens when we combine art that literally conceals the patterns and data that lead to money? I wanted to find out," said Bitcoin ar...
Amazon EC2 Container Service becomes available, featuring new scheduler
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 20:27
The service, trumpeted today at the 2015 AWS Summit in San Francisco, builds on Amazon's partnership with Docker.
A Look At How Car Brands Are Effectively Using Social Media
Forbes - 9 Apr 2015 20:05
While everyone knows social media is a valuable medium for customer engagement and lead generation, most industries still don’t know how to effectively use networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to unlo...
Amazon, following Microsoft, introduces a cloud service for machine learning
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 20:02
Amazon Web Services, the largest public cloud in the market, today debuted a service developers can use to introduce machine learning into their applications. Andy Jassy, head of the Amazon cloud, spoke about the new ser...
Google updates Snapseed photo editor with new tools, filters, and an undo button
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 19:55
Google is releasing the second version of its popular photo editing app Snapseed today.
Amazon unveils its Elastic File System for storing company files
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 19:49
Amazon Web Services, the biggest public cloud around, today announced Amazon Elastic File System, a new cloud service companies can call on to set up and share their file systems. AWS head Andy Jassy announced the featur...
With Small Add-On To Its $135 Million Raise, Lynda.com Rival Pluralsight Takes Odd Approach To VC
Forbes - 9 Apr 2015 19:49
While LinkedIn took one major online education company off the market today by acquiring lynda.com for $1.5 billion, another online learning company with a valuation close to billion-dollar status was making an unusual m...
Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place
Venture Beat - 9 Apr 2015 19:45
Get all the tech funding news of the day delivered straight to your mailbox! Sign up for Funding Daily and never miss a deal. Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you ...