Startup News
No IRS Targeting, Mr. President? GAO Report Says There Was, Still Is
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 14:45
With renewed denials of targeting at the IRS--including by President Obama on The Daily Show--a new GAO report shows that IRS audit selection criteria violate the IRS' own rules.
Apple Suppliers Blow Past Estimates, While Apple 'Watches'
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 14:41
Wednesday night, Cirrus Logic, reported numbers for its June quarter and blew the doors off Street estimates. The company beat on the top line by $12 million and came in ahead of the bottom line number by a $0.06 per s...
How to Pivot Your Business
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 23:53
According to one estimate, as many as 15-20% of startups pivot from their initial business plan. In some ways, pivoting a company can be like pressing the restart button on your laptop, and it can breathe new life into a...
Why Wall Street May Have Been Too Fast, Dumping 3D Printer Stocks
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 23:18
Disclosure: I own shares of SSYS and DDD Once the Wall Street darlings, 3D printer stocks have been out of favor recently, with industry leaders losing close to two-thirds of their market value in the last twelve mont...
Verizon will reportedly launch new Go90 mobile video service by end of summer
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 22:41
The new video service is built using the assets from Verizon's acquisition of Intel's OnCue Internet video service last year.
Xbox Live down for many gamers today
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 21:06
Microsoft's online infrastructure is giving some players errors.
Sometimes 40-year-old technology actually is the best tool for the job
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 20:45
Technology sometimes has a way of sticking around for years, even decades. Just look at how many people still listen to AM radio, buy CDs at concerts, or drive cars with internal combustion engines and four wheels. Somet...
FCC approves AT&T acquisition of DirecTV, with conditions
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 20:38
The deal could reduce the number of choices for broadband services in markets nationwide, which may ultimately push up prices.
Square has reportedly made a confidential filing for IPO
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 20:35
Because the filing is confidential, there's no easy way to verify this claim.
Google's Nest camera and smoke alarm, but not thermostat, will return to Apple stores 'in the next few weeks'
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 20:24
So Nest may be seen as a threat to Apple's HomeKit someday, but apparently that day hasn't come.
Yahoo sends out invites to unveil a 'brand new consumer product' on July 29
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 20:11
Chances are the new product will have to do with MaVeNS, or "Mobile, Video, Native, and Social."
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Hearthstone expansion and Smedley leaves Daybreak
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 19:38
Check out our entire week's worth of coverage on VentureBeat's channel for video games, GamesBeat.
Gladwell on data & marketing: the Snapchat problem, the Facebook problem, the Airbnb problem
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 19:25
Last night futurist, journalist, prognosticator, and author Malcolm Gladwell told pretty much the most data-driven marketing technologist crowd imaginable that data is not their salvation. In fact, it could be their curs...
New research on personalization finds limited efforts, big gains, and growing importance of real-time behavioral data
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 18:24
VB INSIGHT: The top objective is reaching more prospects, but most companies begin their personalization efforts with known prospects or customers.
Firefox is getting audio indicators to show noisy tabs, and will let you mute them
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 18:15
Firefox will finally let you mute noisy tabs.
Modern Tools In A Modern World: Questions From The House
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 18:07
Yesterday I testified before the House Committee on Small Business’s Subcommittee on Health and Technology. Our assigned topic was Modern Tools in Modern World and we were asked to focus on apps, or how mobile compu...
Is Google About To Be Dethroned? Social, Search, And Legal Threats Collide
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 17:49
A perfect storm of competition and legal threats is starting to impose on Google?s territory.
The Upward March Of Fin Tech - GoCardless Breaks The $1bn Barrier
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 17:45
When it comes to lending money and facilitating the day-to-day transactions that enable British businesses to function and thrive, the big high street banks still rule the roost. Yes, alternative finance in the shape ...
Rand Paul Destroys the Tax Code? Donald Trump Is Contagious!
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 17:44
I?ve predicted that it will take two years to start a serious discussion of reforming the tax laws and the agency that administers them. After watching Rand Paul?s latest video, I?ve pushed that back a decade.
Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place
Venture Beat - 24 Jul 2015 17:31
Voxel8, creators of a 3D electronics printer, has raised $12 million to develop its core technology.
How to get a business loan - Part One
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 17:27
One of the markers of this post-recession, so-called recovery has been the practice of deleveraging. Across the economy, from consumers to businesses large and small, debt has become something to get rid of.
Making the Grade: 4 Ways Retailers Can Cash In On Back-to-School
Forbes - 24 Jul 2015 17:02
Recent projections of 2015 back-to-school spending may require retailers learn some new math – the kind wherein one plus one equals numerous marketing outcomes and teens themselves factor into the equation.