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Samsung plans to 'adjust' Galaxy S6 and S6 edge pricing in response to poor quarterly earnings
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 06:19
Samsung announced its quarterly earnings today, and as a result of disappointing sales numbers in this year’s flagship Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge launch the company says it will drop the price of the two phones. The company...
Ryan Leslie Sells Out Of $5K Albums, Talks Building Brands Through True Authenticity
Forbes - 30 Jul 2015 23:57
For the release of his lifetime concept album MZRT, Ryan Leslie partnered up with Gumroad -- a direct-to-consumer selling platform that Eminem has also notably used to distribute material straight to fans. Leslie's conc...
Mozilla CEO blasts Microsoft for making it harder to keep previous settings when upgrading to Windows 10
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 23:54
Windows 10 Review Microsoft Edge will kill IE Cortana has arrived What gamers can expect Mozilla’s chief executive Chris Beard is not happy with Windows 10. In an open letter published addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya ...
Electronic Arts smashes analyst expectations with strong Q1 2016 earnings
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 23:33
EA continues to outperform Wall Street's predictions.
Whole Foods Learns A Golden Rule Of Leadership -- The Hard Way
Forbes - 30 Jul 2015 23:09
Whole Foods stock plunged 10% on early Thursday morning trade in Wall Street following disappointing financial results for the last quarter. Whole Foods Market, Inc. is a fast growing natural and organic foods retail...
Windows 10 gets four new games from Game Insight
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 23:02
Want to play some games made for Windows 10? Well, you’re in luck. Windows 10 Review Microsoft Edge will kill IE Cortana has arrived What gamers can expect Game Insight, a publisher and global developer of free-to-play...
Hands-on with Yahoo's new, awkward, ahead-of-its-time silent video-text hybrid, Livetext
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 23:00
Today Yahoo is launching a new messaging app aimed at getting video messaging right. Called Livetext, the app lets users silently video message friends while texting them. “What we think is going to happen, or what we'...
Brian Wong's Kiip Seeks To Own The Moments That Matter For Marketers
Forbes - 30 Jul 2015 22:59
A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Brian Wong, Founder and CEO, Kiip
Apple will reportedly debut a new Apple TV in September, subscription TV coming later
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 22:40
Apple will roll out a new Apple TV streaming device with a more powerful A8 chip inside at a launch event this September, but a new subscription TV service will not be coming with it. That’s according to a new report f...
Mobcrush hires ex-Apple, Google bigwigs to put mobile gamers first on its video
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 22:07
The mobile game broadcasting space is getting crowded.
LinkedIn hits 380 million members and $71M profit, $712M in revenue in Q2
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 22:06
Business-oriented social networking company LinkedIn today announced a $71 million non-GAAP profit, or 55 cents per share, on the $712 million in revenue that it brought in during the second quarter of 2015. It’s been ...
Apple patents stylus tech that recreates physical surfaces of objects
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 22:03
The Patent Office published a couple of new Apple patents today for a hand-held stylus that can accurately scan and recreate physical surfaces, and even allow the user to “feel” the texture. The first patent is for a...
Facebook's massive new drone will beam the Internet down to developing countries
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 21:55
It’s been repeated frequently that Facebook’s mission is to connect everyone around the world, but the state of the current Internet only gets it so far. Chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has decided to carry t...
Obama Administration Gambles On Supreme Court Review Of Insider-Trading Case
Forbes - 30 Jul 2015 21:52
The government takes the risky step of seeking Supreme Court review of an insider-trading case it lost.
Uber protests in Mexico turn violent
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 21:49
First Paris, then Sao Paolo, then Guangzhou, then Rio de Janeiro. Now Mexico City is the latest hotbed of anti-Uber protests. Protests against the transportation giant have popped up in cities across the globe this summe...
Will Smartwatches Spell The Death Of Mechanical Watches?
Forbes - 30 Jul 2015 21:43
Smartwatches have been described as many things over the past year or so – but to those who are so inclined, they represent the crossroads of three subjects that some people get extremely geeky about: watches, gadgets ...
Formation 8 and Foxconn bet $25M on this startup's high-quality smartphone camera
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 21:30
Cameras are standard in smartphones these days, but they’re still incredibly limited when compared to the average DSLR. Light, a startup developing multi-lens cameras for smartphones, wants to raise our expectations. T...
Samsung confirms its next Gear smartwatch will feature a rotating bezel for zooming, controlling apps
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 21:23
The pressure is on Samsung and other smartwatch makers to answer the curb appeal and functionality of the Apple Watch, and Samsung appears ready to fire its next shot. Samsung’s next smartwatch release will likely be p...
Two Entrepreneurs Fuelling Vietnam's Agricultural Ecosystem - With Chocolate
Forbes - 30 Jul 2015 20:43How Zillow employed one of the scrappiest strategies ever to become a $4.5B leader
Venture Beat - 30 Jul 2015 20:40
We’re delighted to announce that Amy Bohutinsky, Zillow’s chief marketing officer, has agreed to speak at GrowthBeat next month. She’ll explain how the company has grown into a $4.5 billion market-leading real esta...
Building A Sales Team, Part I: Hiring
Forbes - 30 Jul 2015 20:25
Building a sales team is one of the most challenging things you will ever do because people are difficult. Period. They look great on paper; they make a killer impression during interviews; yet six months later, they fai...
The Republicans Might Be Right About IRS Commissioner John Koskinen
Forbes - 30 Jul 2015 19:59
On July 27, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz said President Obama should remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, and he made it clear that if the president doesn't act, Congress could c...