Startup News
Jay Z's music streaming service Tidal loses interim CEO after 3 months
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 16:12
Jay Z’s music streaming service Tidal says interim CEO Peter Tonstand is no longer with the company. This is second time a CEO has left Tidal this year. In April, Tidal affirmed that CEO Andy Chen would no longer be le...
District Court Denies Theft Loss Deduction For Worthless Stock
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 23:56
Last week, a federal district judge in the Northern District of Ohio denied a theft loss deduction in connection with worthless stock that was the subject of a pump-and-dump scheme. In this case, the taxpayers, a married...
6 horribly depressing things Google says YouTube can teach us about humanity (NSFW)
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 23:50
Google executives explain what's not allowed on YouTube -- and in the process, point us to some really weird, sick stuff.
7 Tips On Building Better Connections With Your Team
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 23:07
Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, ...
Hands-on: Instagram's new search and explore features are a massive improvement
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 22:40
Instagram's new search is much better than the old one, introducing whole new ways for you to get lost on Instagram.
Apple granted patent for Beats-style gaming headset
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 22:28
The patent points to the possibility that Apple is pushing Beats technology into the gaming space.
Meet Meipai, the Chinese app with 100M users that a Facebook exec calls 'Instagram for video'
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 22:24
What will happen when Chinese app developers finally decide to start thinking globally and target U.S. smartphone users?
Meet Envoy, The Startup Everyone From Airbnb To Yahoo Is Using To Check In Guests
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 22:24
Before you can tour the offices at a big tech company in San Francisco or Silicon Valley, chances are you’ll have to sign in on an iPad first. Resting at the front desk, the device prompts you for your name and often d...
This guy ported Mac OS 7.5.5 to his Apple Watch
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 22:16
This is just one of the magical things enabled by Apple's new Watch OS 2 operating system.
How A Berlin Startup Is Attracting Millions Streaming A Christies-Ebay Mashup
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 21:54
A Berlin startup is attracting millions streaming a Christies-eBay mashup. On Saturday, Auctionata set a new world record for the highest price paid for a work of Asian art in an online auction. The late 18th century Chi...
Google Calendar for iPhone gets 7-day week view, interactive notifications, and Drive integration for events
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 21:30
Android features finally come to the iPhone.
Coworking Is Old News: Why You Should Look At Collaboration Spaces
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 21:24
Coworking's quick spike in popularity means a new coworking space will have less innovative impact than it might have 10 years ago. And it means coworking spaces have saturated the startup culture so completely that they...
Southeast Asia mobile game revenues to hit $7B by 2019
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 21:15
Frost & Sullivan says that 2014 revenues were $1 billion.
Xbox One won E3, according to Amazon U.K. and social-network data
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 20:55
People are talking about Xbox One and preordering its games.
50 Free Ways To Increase Your Google+ Followers
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 20:51
One of the challenges business owners face is understanding how to consistently grow their audience. This article will help by providing 50 ways you can grow your Google+ followers and increase engagement on the platform...
iWin acquires PC casual game site JenKat Games
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 20:45
iWin expands its reach into casual PC online games.
The Marijuana Market: Everybody Wants A Piece
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 20:42
At regular intervals throughout the year, just about every industry takes time out to get its ranks together to network, entertain potential clients and show off new products. The burgeoning U.S. cannabis industry is no ...
Turkey's Gram Games bet everything on the success of puzzle game 1010!
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 20:00
EXCLUSIVE: The Tetris-like game has become a hot title.
Is Your Initial Response The Best One? When You're Running A Business, Maybe Not
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 20:00
Dealing with Difficult Situations In my company’s early years, I ran into an issue over a deal we had worked out with a networking group. The deal involved paying them a fixed amount each time we closed from their conn...
Tips For Marketing An eCommerce Business
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 19:58
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman once said “Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.” And marketing is all about good communications. So how do you communicate the value and desirability of your e-c...
Tax Geek Tuesday: Navigating The Multiple Definitions Of Nonrecourse And Recourse Liabilities
Forbes - 23 Jun 2015 19:51
I bitch about the Internal Revenue Code (a lot), but I'm smart enough to realize that courtesy of the complexities it contains, I will never run out of topics for Tax Geek Tuesday. If anything, my greater fear is that ...
Use your brainz: Nonprofit GlassLab creates an educator's version of Plants vs. Zombies 2
Venture Beat - 23 Jun 2015 19:45
The game includes a dashboard that teachers can use to find out a student's problem-sovling progress in real-time.