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Stop copying and start innovating: Why you must define your own niche market
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 15:10
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Murka. Novelist Herman Melville once said, “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” While that may suggest you'll have to stom...
Evernote is getting a major revamp, launches new notetaking beta app for Mac and Windows
Venture Beat - 23 Sep 2015 01:28
Evernote has plans to rebuild itself from the ground up, and some users will begin to see changes to the infrastructure starting this week. The productivity app company revealed that it has spent the past two years worki...
Instagram passes 400 million users, now sees 80 million photos shared per day
Venture Beat - 23 Sep 2015 01:18
Today Instagram announced that it now has more than 400 million users who share 80 million photos per day. In less than a year, the Facebook-owned photo sharing app has added 100 million new people to its platform. The a...
Perfection Is Overrated -- Here's What You Need To Be Striving For Instead
Forbes - 23 Sep 2015 00:37
Perfection doesn't create success, vulnerability actually does.
Watch people try virtual reality porn for the first time
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 23:41
Virtual reality porn is here. Over the summer Internet porn purveyor Badoink.com handed out free cardboard virtual reality headsets (modeled on Google’s Cardboard) to help VR enthusiasts get access to equipment and to ...
5 critical takeaways from agile marketing experts: Agile Roadshow September 24
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 23:28
VB EVENT: On Thursday, September 24th, VB is bringing together an esteemed group of marketing and creative thinkers who have successfully integrated Agile methodology into their teams with phenomenal results. This rare e...
Firefox 41 arrives with Hello instant messaging, Account profile photos, and multiple search engines on Android
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 23:02
Mozilla today launched Firefox 41 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include instant messaging via Firefox Hello, profile photos in Firefox accounts, and different search providers in ...
Business Plans: The Roadmap To Procrastination
Forbes - 22 Sep 2015 22:52
“Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible wi...
Geolocation & marketing: how mobile is changing everything
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 22:45
VB WEBINAR: 2.6 billion people have smartphones today. That’ll be a staggering 6.1 billion by 2020, just five short years from today. But we literally have almost no understanding of how radically this will change almo...
GamesBeat 2015 puts a lens on mobile, motion capture, and virtual reality
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 22:15
VB EVENT: Sony PlayStation Magic Lab's Richard Marks, Survio's James Iliff, Digi-Capital's Tim Merel, and Resolution Games' Tommy Palm will take to the GamesBeat 2015 stage in an extensive VR panel.
GamesBeat 2015's brings mobile, motion gaming, and performance capture vets into the VR discussion
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 22:15
VB EVENT: Sony PlayStation Magic Lab's Richard Marks, Survio's James Iliff, Digi-Capital's Tim Merel, and Resolution Games' Tommy Palm will take to the GamesBeat 2015 stage in an extensive VR panel.
Meet The Britons Getting Rich From The Sharing Economy
Forbes - 22 Sep 2015 21:52
The sharing economy is capturing Britons' imagination much more quickly than is understood, with many people now earning substantial sums
Playboy and Gamblit Gaming partner to make real-money betting mobile games
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 21:50
Gamblit Gaming and Playboy Enterprises have announced a partnership where they will jointly make games for real-money wagering on mobile devices. The move will take Playboy into the crossroads of the $30 billion mobile g...
"Game Zone" showcases select indie devs and their games at GamesBeat
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 21:45
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by TrialPay. With rising user acquisition costs and increasing competition in the App and Play stores, it’s increasingly more difficult for an indie developer to get their app...
Initial reviews: iPhone 6s is a killer phone, but not necessarily worth the upgrade
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 21:39
The first reviews of Apple’s latest iPhone are up, and there are no big surprises. The iPhone 6s offers some material upgrades in the larger cameras, faster chip, and 3D Touch input feature. It is an evolutionary devic...
The Most Counter Intuitive Model To Provide Energy And Sustainability To Small Businesses
Forbes - 22 Sep 2015 21:27
When Alexander Bashinov launched his startup company at UVA's i.Lab incubator at the Darden School of Business, he had a dream: to help small businesses get a grip on their electric bills. Two years later, DreamPower i...
The Most Exciting Jobs for Network Engineers
Nibletz - 22 Sep 2015 21:14
Are you a network engineer? Otherwise known as a network architect, a network engineer is responsible for designing and implementing computer networks. In order to call yourself a network engineer, you first need a two-y...
Why Steve Jobs Was The Exception And Not the Rule
Forbes - 22 Sep 2015 21:09
Recent news of the latest iPhone release reminds us all of just how brilliant Steve Jobs was. He imagined — and brought to life — products that revolutionized technology and changed the world. And If you’re the hea...
Good time to be an entrepreneur: COO
CNBC - 22 Sep 2015 21:06
Softbank President and COO Nikesh Arora, discusses his confidence in Softbank's future, and why India will be a big market going forward.
Gmail now lets you block specific email addresses, unsubscribe from newsletters in the Android app
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 20:58
Google today added a new feature to Gmail that other email providers have had for years: blocking. Gmail now lets you block specific email addresses with the click of a button — the feature is rolling out today to Gmai...
A week in the life of a creative marketing team (webinar)
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2015 20:56
VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, October 8 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. The devil may be in the details, but for many creative teams, the devil lies in process — pro...
Bill Tai Interview Part 2: "The Structural Unlocking Of Spirits: Artists As Entrepreneurs"
Forbes - 22 Sep 2015 20:54
Venture Capitalist and humanitarian, Bill Tai discusses the spiritual unlocking that comes from the gesture of entrepreneurship.