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Nigeria Is Building A $300 Million Smart Mall In Aba City
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 16:07
Paul Obanua, a 43 year-old Nigerian businessman, is betting $300 million to build Nigeria's first smart mall community
Telling The Story Of Your Startup In A Video
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 16:37
Startup founders need to know how to tell a compelling story not only about their company, but about the context of their space. Find out how to make a startup video that tells a story from start to finish.
Chicago Paying The Price For Junk-Bond Status
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 17:19
Chicago is already feeling the pain of May's credit downgrade, in the form of higher borrowing costs.
Google, Facebook And More Are Backing Samsung In Patent Fight With Apple
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 16:38
Samsung is currently embroiled in a legal battle with one of its greatest possible foes, Apple, over patents. But some powerful tech companies are coming to Samsung's defense.
Costco, Sam's Club, others halt photo sites over possible breach
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 08:06
Costco, Sam's Club and a handful of other large retailers have disabled their online photo printing stores in recent days, on concerns about a possible data breach ...
Investor Control Dooms Private Placement Life Insurance Policy In Webber
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 06:19
Jeffrey T. Webber is a venture capital and private-equity fund manager. Seeking, like the rest of us, to mitigate the taxes on his investments, Webber ended up in 1998 in the offices of an estate planner by the name of W...
Trailer: 'Bazillion Dollar Club', a new SyFy show about Silicon Valley startups
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 23:41
SyFy is gearing up for the debut of their next show to highlight Silicon Valley. The cable television network announced that The Bazillion Dollar Club, a docu-series featuring 500 Startups‘ Dave McClure and Highway1‘...
Apple Plunges On Light iPhone Sales, Weak Outlook
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 23:23
Apple reported earnings that sound great -- but they disappointed investors. Its shares fell as much as 8.8% in after-hours trading on July 21.
The Sharing Economy's Increasingly Exposed Liabilities And Hidden Assets
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 23:08
There is road full of hazards ahead for the newly chic sharing economy. There is no signal in sight that employee and regulatory assaults on the foundations of this business model, also called the "gig economy" and "coll...
Apple iPhone sales pop 35% to 47M units in Q3, while iPad sales slip 17%
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 22:39
Apple's earnings and revenue track record is nearly flawless on paper, despite declining iPad sales -- all because of the iPhone.
Apple reports strong Q3 earnings driven by iPhone 6 sales, but investors aren't happy
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 22:32
Apple stock is down 6.9 percent in after hours trading at the time of this writing. Apple misses analyst expectations on revenues.
Microsoft reports strong $22.2B in revenue as Surface sales surge 117% to $888M
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 22:26
Microsoft today reported that it brought in $22.2 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, which ended on June 31. Analysts were expecting $22.06 billion in revenue for the quarter. Meanwhile, Mi...
Microsoft sold 1.4M Xbox systems last quarter
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 22:24
Xbox One still makes a lot of business sense for Microsoft.
Why Embracing Uncertainty Is Critical To Your Success
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 22:15
Ten years from now there will be people who have achieved extraordinary success. They won't be those who've resisted uncertainty or played it safe and and stuck to 'business as usual'. Rather, they will be those who have...
Apple releases new developer betas for Watch OS 2, iOS 9, and OS X El Capitan
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 20:46
Apple announced the new operating systems at WWDC, delivering developer advanced beta versions regularly since.
Xbox boss says keyboard-and-mouse support isn't 'far away'
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 20:45
Xbox president Phil Spencer may also consider streaming Windows 10 to Xbox Ones.
3 Marketing Tasks You Should Be Automating Right Now
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 20:32
Growing a business is hard work. Each day, you perform many tasks that take time and consume precious energy and resources that could be better used elsewhere. You could design a robot, like Johnny Five from the movie Sh...
Facebook now gives video publishers more control in how content is seen and distributed
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 20:22
Enhancements for content creators include an update to Facebook's video upload system and a new Video Library.
Adtech platform Smaato joins battle to automatically detect fake ad traffic
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 20:10
EXCLUSIVE: With traffic and ad fraud the bane of the digital ad industry, another ad platform is fighting back.
Sharethrough now enables importing publisher content automatically into native ads
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 19:40
Sharethrough adds new tools for publishers and advertisers interested in native ad placements.
Google acquires Pixate, a Y Combinator-backed mobile app prototyping tool
Venture Beat - 21 Jul 2015 19:38
As a result of this deal, Pixate will make its Studio product free and reduce the cost of its cloud service.
'Don't Write Business Plans': Advice For Startups From One Of Silicon Valley's Top Seed Investors
Forbes - 21 Jul 2015 19:25
“Don’t write business plans,” warns venture capitalist and angel investor, Dave McClure, of 500 Startups. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, McClure and many of his colleagues has a pedigree from Facebook and PayPal....