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Why openness is imperative for the new generation of tech companies and leaders
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 06:01
GUEST: Companies need to embrace an open attitude in everything they do, from the products they make to their company culture, from their relationships with partners to their competitors.
How To Crack The Code Of Building Your Personal Brand
Forbes - 13 May 2015 00:16
In an era where social media stars and maverick entrepreneurs continue shaping America’s ever-evolving economy – branding is everything.
How Elon Musk Really Feels About Family And Work
Forbes - 13 May 2015 00:18
The Tesla CEO says he never berated an employee for missing a company event to attend his child's birth. But Musk does have an interesting take on family life.
Billion-dollar startups everywhere -- but no billion-dollar entrepreneurs (yet)
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 23:00
GUEST: Only when you've built a $100 million company should you think about how to build a $1 billion one. And I'm not talking funding-based valuations, I'm talking revenue-based valuations.
90% of Twitter video views happen on a mobile device
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 22:59
Today, Twitter released a report conducted by Research Now that tells us something we already knew: people are watching a lot of video on their mobile devices. In fact, 90 percent of videos viewed on Twitter are being wa...
Mobile studio Pocket Gems gets a minority investment from Tencent to move into China
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 22:34
Tencent to benefit from Pocket Gems' Western roots.
Apple's new app analytics tool is now available to all registered iOS developers
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 22:24
The cost of the analytics tool is included in the cost of the Apple Developer membership fee.
Testin: Mobile Crash Analytics
Nibletz - 13 May 2015 22:22
Testin What is Testin? Testin is the first and leading real-device automated cloud testing platform that creates and maintains a streamline development ecosystem, offers users excellent mobile experience, and provides de...
Facebook now lets businesses add Call Now and Get Directions buttons to News Feed ads
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 22:17
Today Facebook is launching a feature that will allow business to add two new interactive buttons to ads. One is a “Call Now” button, which will launch a call to the business directly within the app, and a “Get Dir...
Zuckerberg: Internet.org is now available to more than 1B people
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 20:55
Impressive milestone.
5 Ways To Enhance Your SEO Campaign With Online Coupons
Forbes - 13 May 2015 20:49
In an age where it’s a constant struggle to improve search rankings and maintain consistency, every business is looking for a way to enhance their SEO campaign and overall digital marketing strategy. Well, believe it o...
Nudgespot: IFTTT for the sales funnel
Nibletz - 13 May 2015 20:48
In any sales-driven environment, customers are the ultimate goal. Customers and sales, though, can be a tough thing to generate. Even if you have a good product, good marketing, good pitch, and so on, sometimes it is not...
MyAlbum: A simple, yet powerful visual storytelling platform
Nibletz - 13 May 2015 20:19
MyAlbum is a new photo album/storytelling platform. It balances a robust set of features with a simple and easy to interface. The post MyAlbum: A simple, yet powerful visual storytelling platform appeared first on Niblet...
Slack cofounder: 'We've done a sh**ty job of telling people how to use Slack'
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 19:49
Slack has grown quickly since launching in February 2014. And the company hasn't even started to explain what the heck its app does.
Google Fit gets an Android widget and Android Wear watch face, now tracks your distance and calories burned
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 19:41
Google Fit just got a lot more useful.
Why Your Organic Facebook Reach Is Still Falling -- And What To Do About It
Forbes - 13 May 2015 19:37
Facebook’s declining organic reach goes by many names: some of the most ubiquitous being the Filtered Feed problem, Facebook Zero and my personal favorite, Reachpocalypse. Fancy names aside, the problem remains the sam...
Cloud providers scramble to address VENOM security vulnerability
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 19:32
A new security vulnerability called VENOM surfaced today, and cloud providers are now scrambling to make patches and issue statements as a result of the disclosure. VENOM, which stands for Virtualized Environment Neglect...
CES was even more crowded than you thought: 176,676 attendees
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 19:01
CES grew well beyond last year's 160,000 attendees.
Experts Vs. Crowds: Who's Better At Funding The Arts?
Forbes - 13 May 2015 18:55
Researchers investigate whether experts or crowdsourcing--the National Endowment for the Arts versus Kickstarter--make better funding choices when it comes to backing proposed theater shows.
Amazon launches app-install ads across Fire devices
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 18:29
Spending for such ads is expected to grow to $3 billion in 2015.
Four Steps For Repairing Brian Williams' Brand
Forbes - 13 May 2015 18:22
This article is by Samantha DiGennaro, founder and CEO of DiGennaro Communications.
Windows 10 will have 7 editions: Home, Mobile, Pro, Enterprise, Education, Mobile Enterprise, and IoT Core
Venture Beat - 13 May 2015 18:10
Despite these various editions, the company is promising that users will be able to access the same Windows Store to find, try, and buy universal Windows apps.