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Samsung Pay on TV lets you buy apps and games with your credit card, debit card, and PayPal
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 05:49
Samsung has introduced a new way for people to pay for content right through their television. Called Samsung Pay on TV, it supports major credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, and other mobile billing options. At first, us...
Here's how Mode's viral hit '100 Years of Fashion' bagged 50M views
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 20:14
EXCLUSIVE: Mode Media launched a video two months ago called “100 Years of Fashion in 2 Minutes” that has surpassed 50 million views, which the company says makes it the most-watched fashion video ever created. The c...
GE launches Predix Cloud service, says it will become available in 2016
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 06:01
GE, a company that sells consumer appliances as well as jet engines and other complex industrial equipment, today announced Predix Cloud, a version of its Predix machine data analytics software that will be accessible to...
Fintech's future is fast and furious
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 03:00
GUEST: Fintech is hotter than ever with investment tripling to $12.21 billion in the past year, according to Accenture's 2015 report. Recent Jobs Act legislation is fueling this trend, with deregulation of crowdfunding l...
Elio Motors 'Tests The Waters' And Finds $27 Million
Forbes - 5 Aug 2015 23:17
Elio Motors used the recently issued Regulation A+ rules to test the waters and discovered $27 million waiting in those waters.
Warner Bros. game revenue rises 135% in Q2
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 23:15
Batman: Arkham Knight and Mortal Kombat have delivered big returns for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The video game company’s parent, Time Warner, reported that second-quarter revenues were $727 million, up 1...
The Pot Industry: A Hotspot For Women Entrepreneurs
Forbes - 5 Aug 2015 23:11
WomenGrow wants to guide women entrepreneurs to the top of the cannabis industry.
Reddit finally begins to address its racism problem
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 23:06
Reddit CEO Steve Human announced an update to the company’s content policy. In the announcement, Huffman detailed a new “quarantining” method of community management that he’d alluded to over the past week: One n...
Box is shutting down Crocodoc Personal and WebNotes on November 1
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 23:01
The Crocodoc Personal tool for sharing and annotating documents and the WebNotes tool for annotating websites will cease to be available on November 1, Crocodoc announced today. The news comes two years after Box acquire...
Cash, hires, growth: Mobile marketing automation is heating up (even more)
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 22:50
Leanplum just closed almost $12 million in new funding today. Kahuna just finished hiring an all-star cast of new executive talent, including veterans of Salesforce, Cisco, and Zendesk. And another mobile marketing autom...
Fitbit's first earnings since IPO reveals $400M in revenue and 4.5M wearables sold in Q2
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 22:25
The health wearables company Fitbit today announced its first quarterly earnings since it went public in June, and the results are surprisingly good. The company reported earnings of 21 cents per share for the second qua...
Swrve's predictive marketing boosts mobile gaming play by 28%
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 22:04
A new service could help your mobile game hold on to players — and make more money. Swrve unveiled its predictive marketing for games today. The mobile game marketing firm said an initial study showed it increased play...
Girls Education In India To Provide Test Case For Innovative Financing
Forbes - 5 Aug 2015 21:54
An innovative financing tool called a development impact bond has been launched as a prototype for development finance. The case study: girls' education in India.
Virtual realty will make Burning Man even trippier -- if you Kickstart this project
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 21:27
PRESS RELEASE: You might now be able to experience the wonders of virtual reality while being high in the middle of a desert. Burning Man, an annual week-long festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, gets its first-ever VR...
Facebook launches live-streaming video, but only for VIPs
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 20:45
It looks like Facebook won’t be buying Meerkat after all. The company has launched Facebook Live, a live-streaming feature reminiscent of Meerkat and Periscope. Currently, the feature is available only to VIPs, which F...
Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 20:22
Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Hybrid storage maker Tintri raises $125M Tintri, a company that sells storage boxes packing both fast so...
Submerged lets you explore a captivating waterlogged city
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 20:15
REVIEW: Check out our Reviews Vault for past game reviews. Submerged is a poignant and melancholic experience that is a joy to partake in. Out now for PlayStation 4 and PC and August 7 for Xbox One, indie studio Uppercut...
Atlanta has the best wireless service in the land, Denver and L.A. among the worst
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 20:05
Atlanta and Chicago have the best wireless service performance in the United States, says a new report from RootMetrics, while Denver and Los Angeles have among the worst. The study ranked the nation’s largest 125 citi...
Think you know your customers? Collecting and unifying customer identity data (webinar)
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 20:05
VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, August 27 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register for free. When so much data is easily available, the pressure on marketers to personalize communications is in...
Google Slides for Android now lets you share presentations via a Hangout video call
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 20:00
Google today updated Google Slides for Android with support for streaming via Google Hangouts; you can download the new app now directly from Google Play. The company also updated Google Keep for Android with an option t...
Facebook introduces tools for Page admins to respond privately to customer concerns
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 19:53
If you’re an administrator of one of the 40 million Pages on Facebook, today’s announcement will concern you. Until now, when a user reached out to a business via Facebook, the only way that the administrator could r...
Google announces Nexus devices will now receive monthly over-the-air security updates
Venture Beat - 5 Aug 2015 19:13
Mere hours after Samsung shared plans to issue over-the-air (OTA) security updates “about once per month” for its Android devices, Google has announced pretty much the same strategy. Starting this week, Nexus devices...