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How Leaders Kill Collaboration - Even When They Say They Want It
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 23:28
It really doesn't take much to make people feel left out - and little body language blunders can have a big impact on collaboration.
Don't build a mobile app (a message from the app graveyard)
Venture Beat - 13 Dec 2015 23:00
GUEST: A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, something called Birdly Mobile used to exist. It was a mobile app: something you could download on an App Store and use on your smartphone just by tapping on an icon. ...
How hiring my own boss made me a better entrepreneur
Venture Beat - 13 Dec 2015 22:00
GUEST: One of the hardest days of my life was the day I decided to hire my own boss. I cofounded Looksharp six years ago and had been through the trenches. From cutting founder salaries and narrowly raising a seed round ...
Marketers: 5 technologies you should watch for at CES 2016
Venture Beat - 13 Dec 2015 21:00
GUEST: The 2016 Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in just a few weeks, and we marketers will get a glimpse of new technologies that will impact how we talk to our audiences. Here are 5 trend territories to keep an eye ...
Apple Pay and other mobile payments: Why we still don't use them
Venture Beat - 13 Dec 2015 20:00
GUEST: When Apple Pay was first announced back in September 2014, I was very enthusiastic about it. Finally, a dream come true! Someone, and not just someone but the biggest company in the world, had come up with a new g...
Britain's Fintech Stars Make The Big League
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 19:34
Britain's fintech stars continue to dominate the European marketplace, with three businesses in particular making it big on the world stage
Competing On Design Thinking
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 19:30
Steve Jobs famously said, “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Design thinking takes this notion further and provides a set of tools to power innovation through design. Desi...
A lesson from Famo.us' fall: Lean or fat, you can still fail
Venture Beat - 13 Dec 2015 19:00
GUEST: Famo.us raised $25 million last year, bringing its total funding to over $30 million. Fifteen months after its most recent raise, the company "laid off a big chunk of the team, including its VP of Engineering, Hea...
A map of Israel's growing IoT landscape
Venture Beat - 13 Dec 2015 18:00
GUEST: In the 2014 movie Transcendence, Johnny Depp plays a super powerful virtual sentient being with limitless power. In one scene, scientists examine a sample of rainwater under a microscope only to realize that it is...
Why Millennials Don't Want To Work For You
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 17:00
Millennials will represent 40% of the total workforce by 2020. Like it or not, they are critical to the success and sustainability of your business. If they don’t want to work for you, your organization will die.
The Real Travel Risks For 2016
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 16:37
In the aftermath of the recent high profile terrorist strikes in Paris, San Bernardino, Calif., and a knife attack in a London subway station, many people may be on high alert about when and where it will be safe to trav...
Four More Reasons Why Investors Should Nix The Pfizer-Allergan Merger
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 16:35
In January 1999, as big pharma was rocked by several mergers, Pfizer’s CEO William Steere dismissed them, claiming that “mergers in this industry are done out of weakness… We’re not weak”. Later that year, he a...
HSBC Says Women Entrepreneurs Are More Likely To Be Successful In Asia
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 16:30
But why -- if women are in fact more likely to become entrepreneurs in Asia -- are there still so few self-made female billionaires on FORBES' World Billionaires list?
Next Week's Discussion In New York Could Shape Internet Governance For The Next Decade
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 16:22
Starting on Tuesday, the U.N. General Assembly will hold a two days discussion that could, in principle, have a huge influence on how the Internet is governed for the next decade.
The #1 Way To Spot Weak Leadership
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 15:15
You can spot a weak leader a mile off by simply looking at the types of decisions they make. Not surprisingly, weak leaders pander to public opinion, they manage the routine rather than the extraordinary, and they worr...
Leverage The Fuzzy Front End Between Accepting And Starting A New Job
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 15:00
jump-start your approach, stakeholders, message, relationships, set up and 100-day action plan.
Vadim Grigorian Talks Art, Culture, Absolut Vodka and His New Tenure With Royal Salute
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 12:37
A few months ago Vadim Grigorian left his role as director of creativity and luxury at Pernod Ricard, where he was responsible for the contemporary art push of Absolut Vodka, and started working with the Scottish whiskey...
The Evolution Of Fintech
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 12:35
This article is part one of a two part series. Part one summarizes the evolution of fintech since the 1950s and examines the role of banks in the context of current fintech developments.
Drone Bird is a project to map areas hit by natural disasters
Venture Beat - 13 Dec 2015 09:58
Drone Bird was selected out of 139 application entries for a project-collecting campaign on the ReadyFor crowdfunding site last year.
Beyond the hype: When data collaboration really matters
Venture Beat - 13 Dec 2015 07:01
GUEST: The rate of data creation today is already simply mind-boggling. And it's speeding up more every day. IDC's latest Digital Universe study predicts about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every secon...
Strike Up The Band -- Why Did N. Korea's Girl Group Exit Beijing Before Giving A Concert?
Forbes - 13 Dec 2015 05:58
Oh dear, how could it be? Privileged Chinese won’t be seeing North Korea’s celebrated all-girl Monanbang band after all. The shocking news came just as the media was salivating with anticipation over the prospect of ...
Microsoft could build a life-sized Cortana for HoloLens
Venture Beat - 13 Dec 2015 05:01
One of the more interesting parts of the Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality initiative is the way Microsoft is listening to the public to direct some of its early-stage app development for the platform, through the...