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Unicorpse: Why founders and investors should stop talking about unicorns
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 05:00
The current usage of the word unicorn makes me tired. I could rant about it for a while, but that would make me tired of myself ranting about it. Instead, I'd like to focus on a word that appeared a month ago by Aileen L...
LG will reportedly unveil a 55-inch 'rollable TV' prototype in 2016
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 22:24
Never mind the 111-inch double-sided TV that LG showed off at IFA earlier this month; that’s so 2015. A rollable TV, though — now that’s something I could see fitting in nicely to my pimped-out IoT living room of 2...
Matchbook Learning Claims Solution To Struggling Public Schools
Forbes - 15 Sep 2015 01:34
K-12 education in the United States just ain't what it used to be. (Please pardon my use of the vernacular to emphasize the point.)
Pinterest open-sources Terrapin, a tool for serving data from Hadoop
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2015 01:03
Pinterest today announced the availability of Terrapin, a new piece of open-source software that’s designed to more efficiently push data out of the Hadoop open-source big data software and make it available for other ...
5 Reasons Why The Sharing Economy Will Become Marketing's Biggest Customer
Forbes - 15 Sep 2015 00:22
Earlier this year, Forbes contributor Steven Ufford posted the following optimistic glimpse to the future of the sharing economy:
Zynga buys Rising Tide startup, bringing back one of its former casino game execs
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2015 00:05
EXCLUSIVE: Zynga has acquired Rising Tide Games, a free-to-play social-casino-game company started by former Zynga and Playtika executives, GamesBeat has learned. The startup is headed by Maytal Olsha, a former executive...
Women With Disabilities Face Avoidable Challenges, This Nonprofit Seeks To Help
Forbes - 14 Sep 2015 23:59
Women with disabilities face life-altering challenges in getting medical care. The Cerebral Palsy Foundation is working to find and implement best practices for improved medical treatments and outcomes. CPF CEO joins liv...
The Definitive Guide To Marketing Your Business On Instagram
Forbes - 14 Sep 2015 23:18
If you want to increase engagement with your audience, while also driving sales, you should seriously consider using Instagram. This article will walk you through exactly what you need to know to effectively use Instagra...
IDC: Android Wear market share will more than double by 2019
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 22:49
A new research report from IDC says that wearables powered by the Android Wear operating system will be more than twice as prevalent in the wild by 2019 than they are today. IDC said that while Android wearables account ...
Bitcoin's leaders don't know what's next for Bitcoin
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 22:29
Bitcoin is at a crossroads. The digital currency and its deregulated network is maturing, but members of the community are lost — they can’t decide what the network should look like when it grows up. Bitcoin is a dec...
Moto X: Pure Edition is a great upgrade, even if its size screws up my one-handed grip
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 22:18
REVIEW: We impurify MotoX: Pure Edition with a BART ride ... here's what we think
Five Reasons Why Your Biotech Comparative Value Theory Is Wrong
Forbes - 14 Sep 2015 21:59
Sometimes it seems so easy. Company X does the same thing as Company Y – and X’s market cap is a small fraction of Y’s. It’s just a matter of time before the market wakes up, collapses the spread, and rewards the...
The VLC media player is coming to Apple TV
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 21:52
The VideoLAN nonprofit organization, which makes the popular VLC media player, said today it is working on a VLC app for Apple TV. “Finally, some code to build VLCKit for the new tvOS was merged,” wrote VideoLAN’s ...
Facebook open-sources React Native for Android to speed up mobile development
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 21:24
Facebook today announced the release of React Native for Android, a new open-source software project intended to speed up the process of sophisticated native apps for Android using JavaScript. The release of the framewor...
Stripe launches Relay to help stores sell on mobile, partners with Twitter
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 21:20
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. -- Stripe is announcing a new API method called Relay that aims to drastically improve the way both merchants and consumers transact on their mobile device. With Relay, Stripe enables developers to ...
F1's Manor Grand Prix Beats Brewster's Millions By Burning Up $600 Million
Forbes - 14 Sep 2015 21:15
Formula One auto racing’s last-placed Manor Grand Prix team has spent $557.2 million since it was founded in August 2008 and has just $1.1 million of assets to show for it according to its latest financial statements. ...
He Set A Guinness World Record For PR--Should You?
Forbes - 14 Sep 2015 21:00
"I definitely made mistakes with my own PR," says world record-holder Dave Farrow. "I read every self-publicity, marketing and PR book I could get my hands on. But some things I did right."
Apple's iPhone 6s Plus reportedly delayed by screen backlight production issues
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 20:26
A trusted Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, stated in an investor note Monday that Apple has run into problems manufacturing part of the display for the new iPhone 6s, delaying the availability of the phone....
Why The New Steve Jobs Documentary, 'The Man In The Machine,' Is Unsatisfying
Forbes - 14 Sep 2015 20:19
Steve Jobs was the ultimate entrepreneur - visionary, hard charging, and difficult. And this is clear in the newly released documentary "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine."
The Entrepreneur Behind The Documentary 'Startup.com' Has Been Charged With Fraud
Forbes - 14 Sep 2015 20:17
The thing about competing with Kaleil Isaza Tuzman was it never quite made sense. Even as his company was struggling, they always seemed to have a way to buy competitors and grow. When I was running Magnify.net, the...
Del Boy Is Back And He's Running Your Small Business
Forbes - 14 Sep 2015 20:11
A new study suggests the UK's entrepreneurs have more in common with the stars of Only Fools and Horses than they may realise
Instagram's private test of app-install ads shows more engaged users
Venture Beat - 14 Sep 2015 20:00
EXCLUSIVE: Instagram ads for app installs could be a major engine for getting more engaged users. This is the upshot of a study released today by mobile attribution/analytics firm Adjust, which looked at how well users e...