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This California Resort Lets Lexus Cars Be The Tour Guide
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 18:05
Parked in front of Terranea, a sprawling oceanside resort along Los Angeles’ Palos Verdes peninsula that is so grand it looks like it belongs in the south of France, is a fleet of Lexus cars waiting for guests to tak...
Elon Musk seeks 'hardcore' engineers to beef up Tesla's self-driving car software
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 05:31
In three tweets late Thursday, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said he’s on the look out for “hardcore software engineers” to “achieve generalized full autonomy” for his line of electric cars. The latest additi...
15 random stats about how to market to millennials
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 01:35
There’s no shortage of research about how to market to millennials. As brands work to understand how to market to the demo, as many research firms and other companies are publishing insights. Being service-oriented, I ...
Zite will shut down on December 7, asks users to migrate data to Flipboard
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 05:00
If you’re a user of the personal news magazine Zite, you’re going to want to pay attention. The app is being shuttered and all data should be migrated over to Flipboard before December 7. The move should not be a sur...
Recent Linkups By China-Israel VCs And Tech Startups Spell More Opportunity Than Risk
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 04:46
Israel and China are exploring a new silk route together from Tel Aviv to Beijing that boost startups, VCs and tech in both places.
10 Leadership Traits That Predict Higher Engagement And Lower Burnout
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 23:23
Key traits that can make the difference between your best employees staying or leaving.
Intel snatches an Internet of Things exec from Qualcomm
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 23:15
The Internet of Things has become a battleground for big companies. A case in point is Intel’s hiring of Venkata “Murthy” Renduchintala today as president of a newly created division for the Internet of Things. The...
Watchdog Says IRS Audits Of Rich Should Target $600,000 Plus Crowd, Not Those Earning $200,000
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 22:37
Is the IRS?s high-income taxpayer audit strategy aiming too low?
This Week In Credit Card News: Slow Card Readers May Spur Mobile Pay, Who Buys Digital Gift Cards?
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 22:29
Why Your Merchant Clients Should Offer Digital Gift Cards, All Year Long
Airbnb is reportedly raising $100M, forecasts $900M in revenue for 2015
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 22:23
Airbnb has reportedly raised at least $100 million in a new funding round, the Wall Street Journal reported. The investment leaves the unicorn’s valuation unchanged, according to the Journal, at $25.5 billion. This new...
12 Spectacular Hard Ciders You've Never Heard Of
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 22:23
Hard ciders are having a moment?and Hotel Vermont?s Matt Canning found the best hard cider brands to try right now.
Sources: Snapchat ad campaigns now start at $100K, down from $700K a year ago
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 22:06
Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging app favored by millennials, is becoming a more accessible advertising medium for marketers, but the cost of entry is still high. Two sources who routinely buy ad placements on popular ap...
Y Combinator-backed Convox launches Grid service to automate code deployment
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 22:04
EXCLUSIVE: Convox, a startup seeking to simplify the deployment of applications on the Amazon Web Services public cloud, is launching today a new web service for automatically running new versions of applications as new ...
Why Business Leaders Make Time to Write a Book
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 21:49
Being a published author is the quickest path to becoming an expert who attracts new clients. So why doesn’t every business leader have a book?
Reddit details privacy policy update, starts rolling out Do Not Track support
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 21:34
Reddit has announced it will be updating the privacy policy for its online discussion board “in a little over a month.” Company chief executive Steve Huffman took to the site to explain the changes that will be takin...
Thompson Creek Metals' Chicken And Egg Dilemma
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 21:31
By Kyle Younker
5 High Tech Ways Companies Are Tackling Food Waste During The Holiday Season
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 21:30
In 2013, Americans threw away 204 million pounds of turkey, according to the NRDC. That's $277 million worth. Or put another way: the resources it took to grow those turkeys is the equivalent to the amount of water neede...
iPad Pro and Surface Pro 4 productivity showdown: Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 21:13
You can do a lot of things with the iPad Pro. One of my favorite things to do is to write, so naturally, once I got my hands on one of these fancy new tablets from Apple, I wanted to do some writing. So I installed Micro...
Cause and Effect Meets Humanity and the World Changed
Forbes - 20 Nov 2015 21:09
This is Jim’s traditional Thanksgiving column.
Yahoo says blocking ad-block users from their email is just a test
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 21:06
News broke yesterday that Yahoo is stopping ad-block users from accessing their Yahoo Mail accounts. These individuals can’t get to their inboxes without first disabling their ad blockers, and they’re unsurprisingly ...
Sports training startup VoltAthletics bulks up with $1M investment
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 21:02
VoltAthletics, the company behind a sports and body resistance training software platform, announced today that it scored over $1 million for its latest funding round from undisclosed investors, according to a Form D fil...
You can now follow profiles from within Twitter Moments
Venture Beat - 20 Nov 2015 20:56
When perusing through Moments within Twitter’s mobile apps, you can now follow the account that is being showcased. If you find a tweet interesting and you want to follow what that person is talking about — perhaps m...