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Google now offers search information cards on more than 900 diseases
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2015 20:52
Google is making it possible for users to find out more about health conditions that may be plaguing them or their community. The company announced that it is updating its health feature to provide information on more th...
Messing With The Markets: Using The Tax Laws To Influence Economic Behavior
Forbes - 3 Sep 2015 18:34
I shudder every time I see a state government use the tax law as an incentive for a business to do or not do something. I shudder a lot. States provide these incentives so businesses can create jobs, make investments, lo...
Samsung has shown it's serious about Tizen, but is it yet 'The OS of Everything'?
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2015 07:22
OPINION: Samsung hasn’t had an easy start with its Android-replacement operating system Tizen, though by now many more tech consumers should have at least heard of its name — and perhaps even used it without realisin...
Keys to the next iPhone's success: Better photos and video, and a lower price
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2015 01:19
The new iPhone 6S — as we expect it to be called — is by no means a surefire hit. Like every other phone launched into the market, the new iPhone 6 will have to contain some legit improvements over its predecessor, t...
Entrepreneurs Need Patent Reform
Forbes - 4 Sep 2015 01:09
It's time to figure out a way to get rid of the trolls.
Meet New Belgium Brewing's Newest Employee Owners
Forbes - 4 Sep 2015 01:00
When I ran the post a few months ago entitled, Do You Want A Job At New Belgium Brewing? Read This First, it stirred up quite of interest on social media. It seems that more than a few people are intrigued by the idea of...
How Microsoft enlisted a Native American tribe to design a Killer Instinct character
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2015 00:30
SEATTLE — When Microsoft announced a few years ago it would reboot the Killer Instinct fighting game, fans were ecstatic. The original game came out in 1996, but now it would come out as a free-to-play game on the Xbox...
New Research: The Role Of Communications In The C Suite Is Rising
Forbes - 4 Sep 2015 00:30
Interestingly, just five years ago the CEO of a long-established PR agency I know suddenly gave up the ghost on public relations and diverted his agenda to marketing instead. After the shift, he wryly noted that when CEO...
Amazon buys video processing company Elemental Technologies to bolster AWS
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2015 00:17
Public cloud provider Amazon Web Services today announced that it has acquired Elemental Technologies, a startup with video processing services to repurpose traditional video content into digital formats. Terms of the de...
Chrome's latest performance improvements mean the browser uses less memory and battery life
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2015 00:00
Google has once again made improvements to its browser that translate into less memory and power used. Chrome will now load your most commonly used tabs first, use idle time to clean up unused memory, and auto-pause non-...
Twitter open-sources Diffy, a tool for automatically spotting bugs in code
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2015 00:00
Twitter is today announcing the availability of Diffy, a new piece of open-source software that developers can use to spot bugs when they’re making updates to certain parts of code. Twitter uses the code internally. No...
4 Things To Never Lose Sight Of When It Comes To Content Marketing
Forbes - 3 Sep 2015 23:54
According to Smart Insights, content marketing is the most important digital marketing trend for 2015. Chances are, you’re fully aware that content marketing is where it’s at and you’ve already been implementing it...
What Makes a World's Most Innovative Company?
Forbes - 3 Sep 2015 23:43
Hal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, shares how to build an innovative culture and how The Innovator's DNA (with Credit Suisse HOLT) ranks the World's Most Innovative Companies based on the Inn...
Google Compute Engine launches Autoscaler out of beta
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2015 23:14
Google today announced that the autoscaling feature for its Google Compute Engine cloud infrastructure service is now out of beta and generally available to everyone. Google first announced the Autoscaler back in Novembe...
The next Apple TV: Everything we know so far
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2015 22:59
Apple is holding an event on September 9 in San Francisco where it’s expected to unveil the iPhone 6S, iPad Pro, and yes, the next-generation Apple TV. Since its release in 2007, Apple’s TV box has served as a comple...
Bloomlagoon enters the collectible-card fray, announces Spirit Hunters for iOS
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2015 22:56
Bloomlagoon, the Finish studio founded by former Angry Birds developers, is releasing its third game this fall. Spirit Hunters is an action role-playing game in which cards are your main resource. Collect cards and craft...
10 Business Lessons From The Success Of The Kardashians
Forbes - 3 Sep 2015 22:54
What Business Lessons Can Be Learned From The Success Of The Kardashians? This question was originally answered on Quora by Leonard Kim.
Find The Joy: The Case For Unrelenting Positivity
Forbes - 3 Sep 2015 22:39
There are countless things that keep business founders and leaders awake at night. Clients, employees, investors and everything in between can, and often do cause terrible stress and anxiety. The unconscious negativity t...
Samsung releases Gear S2 SDK, watch ships with Uber, ESPN, Yale, Nike, CNN apps
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2015 22:03
Samsung’s new Gear S2 smartwatch will ship with Uber, ESPN, Yale, Nike, CNN apps on board. Those app developers, and others, were given early access to the Gear S2 software development kit (SDK), which Samsung official...
Facebook launches Parse IoT SDKs for Atmel, Broadcom, Intel, and TI hardware
Venture Beat - 3 Sep 2015 22:00
Parse, Facebook’s mobile app development platform, is announcing today the availability of new software development kits (SDKs) for more types of Internet-connected devices. Now there are SDKs for hardware containing p...
Sage Accounting Software Grows Ecosystem To Bring New Technology To Small and Medium Businesses
Forbes - 3 Sep 2015 21:42
I interviewed Stephen Kelly, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Sage Group, a company that works hand-in-hand with small and medium business owners to help make their businesses accessible from in their store, and on...
Is The Google Knowledge Graph Killing Wikipedia?
Forbes - 3 Sep 2015 21:35
Wikipedia exists solely to give people information, and if Google's Knowledge Graph is consistently beating them to the punch, what does that mean for the website's future?