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How To Be The Worst Boss Possible -- Part 2
Forbes - 6 Nov 2015 18:31
Part two of a continuing series, which outlines how you too can become a truly awful manager instead of just mediocre. (Why write such a series? It's fun.) See Part one here.
China and India driving $3T consumer electronics boom, smart home devices growing fastest
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 08:23
Populous countries in Asia Pacific — most notably China and India — are leading a nearly-$3 trillion boom in the consumer electronics market between now and 2020, with smart home devices growing the fastest of any se...
Flights Cancelled Across Indonesia Due To Rinjani Eruptions
Forbes - 6 Nov 2015 22:23
For the third day in a row flights have been grounded across Indonesia due to ongoing eruptions from Mount Rinjani.
Google acquires video and photo editing startup Fly Labs
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2015 01:42
Google has acquired Fly Labs in a move that will likely see the startup’s media editing technology be integrated into the Google Photos app. Fly Labs announced the move on its website, saying that it’ll be “pouring...
The Fallout From Valeant And Theranos Threatens The Healthcare And Biotech Rally
Forbes - 7 Nov 2015 01:03
Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Theranos serve different segments of the healthcare sector. Valeant is a publicly traded company that develops, manufactures, and markets pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter products, and med...
Where The TPP Misses The Mark For Small Business And Entrepreneurs
Forbes - 7 Nov 2015 00:15
In a world where innovation and entrepreneurship are being rapidly adopted as a leading strategy for economic development, it is somewhat odd that the negotiators of TPP included so little for high-growth entrepreneurs.
Zuckerberg: Newark schools investment has helped improve graduation rates 13%
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2015 00:03
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has revealed some results from his high-profile investment in Newark, New Jersey public schools. In a post on the social network, he shared that graduation rates in the city have ...
Adobe is bridging the gap between its Creative and Marketing clouds
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 23:37
EXCLUSIVE: Aviary, the photo editing software development kit Adobe bought last year, has found a home inside Adobe’s social media marketing service. Specifically, Aviary will now power photo editing inside Adobe Socia...
Samsung backs Interlude to change the way we watch movies in VR
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 23:31
EXCLUSIVE: Virtual reality is slowly pushing film into an evolutionary split. To one side are the traditional linear narrative techniques. To the other sits the multipath nature of interactivity. Interlude, a content pro...
Activision Blizzard's strategy for world conquest
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 23:15
Activision Blizzard has become the No. 2 publicly traded game company in the world, second only to China’s Tencent. It has done so by being singularly committed to making the world’s biggest video game franchises and...
7 SEO Practices That Will Become Obsolete By The End Of 2016
Forbes - 6 Nov 2015 22:42
Though we're still more than a year away from the actual end of 2016, I've compiled a list of effective practices today that I think will be completely gone by next year's end.
Activision Blizzard is counting on Call of Duty: Black Ops III to return series to growth
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 22:30
The hype around Call of Duty: Black Ops III couldn’t be bigger today as the game formally launches. Players around the world attended midnight store openings so they could be the first to get the adrenaline rush of the...
The secrets to successful F2P ad monetization (webinar)
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 22:24
VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, November 24th at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. Everyone loves free things. How can you not? It's free! So, of course when it comes to the m...
Apathy Runs Amok Between Global Sports Fans And Brands
Forbes - 6 Nov 2015 21:43
Fans are the soul of sport. Without them, sports don’t exist. That’s why it was such unsettling news when we discovered that global sports fans feel a growing disconnect from professional sports.
Who Needs Groupon?
Forbes - 6 Nov 2015 21:41
There have been better days and worse for Groupon. The better days were back when the company’s business model promised to change the consumer coupon industry: unite consumers to get a big discount from participatin...
Mobile personalization: How to become your customer's best friend (webinar)
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 21:40
VB WEBINAR: Watch this webinar now on-demand. Access it for free right here. For Jesse Grittner, one of the biggest pitfalls mobile marketers fall into is the shiny penny syndrome. It’s the idea that there’s always s...
Yahoo will now show your Flickr photos in image search results
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 21:39
Yahoo is expanding its search results to pull in photos that you’ve uploaded to your Flickr account. If you’re signed into your account on the photo social network and happen to run an image search on Yahoo, the syst...
From the Ground Up, Focus Your Business Efforts on 'Giving Back'
Forbes - 6 Nov 2015 21:19
I’ve written before about the importance of building a business with a strong sense of social responsibility. It’s a topic that’s close to our hearts at WebpageFX, so I thought I’d contribute a few more thoughts ...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Activision-Blizzard buys King, and Halo 5 sells big
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 21:05
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! Activision-Blizzard sent shockwaves through the gaming industry this week when it bought King for $5.9 billion. We also covered the quarterly earnings for tons of gaming compa...
Studio City Star Power Fails To Ignite Macau As Casino Slump Reaches 17 Months in October
Forbes - 6 Nov 2015 21:03
Galaxy?s top market share and Melco Crown?s $3.2 million Studio City highlight hopes for a Macau rebound.
Take-Two cans Borderlands Online -- 150 people lose jobs as 2K China studio closes
Venture Beat - 6 Nov 2015 20:50
Take-Two Interactive has shut down a 150-person game studio in China and stopped development on Borderlands Online, which would have been a free-to-play online game in the Asian market. The move is another sign that taki...
Why millennials are buying more vinyl records
CNBC - 6 Nov 2015 20:24
Seeking a more "tangible" music experience, more millennials are buying vinyl records and driving U.S. production and sales not seen in decades.