Startup News
Are Enterprises Taking On More Cloud Services Than They Can Handle?
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 06:08
Does it make sense to have a lot of clouds doing different things for the enterprise? A recent study suggests enterprises may be taking on more cloud services that they can handle. What is a solid threshold for cloud se...
Bernie Sanders Releases Tax Plan, Nation's Rich Recoil In Horror
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 04:42
Democratic Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders took a break from yelling at clouds long enough to release his tax plan today, and it's, how should I put this...aggressive. Sanders proposes a top rate on individual inco...
Huawei plans to launch four P9 smartphones, including a dual-camera variant
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 23:30
EXCLUSIVE: Huawei will be launching no fewer than four handsets as members of its family of P9 flagships this year, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s plans. Although detailed specifications were not...
Synthetic biologist discusses the ethics of designing life to save nature
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 21:25
Synthetic life — or the design of nature, animals, and other living creatures — is not so far away. It’s not necessarily a new subject, but the degree of what’s possible in the industrialization of nature is star...
5 Ways To Instantly Increase Your Leadership Presence
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 21:02
Leadership presence needs to be rooted in your basic values and based on your authentic best self. But often a single attitudinal or behavioral change can have an instant and powerful effect on how others perceive you.
Tokyo VR Startups sets up an incubator and funding for Japanese virtual reality
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 20:45
Tokyo VR Startups has launched a incubation fund program with leading virtual reality figures as mentors. The Tokyo-based incubator will invite Japan-based startups to develop prototypes of VR products and services in a ...
Employees Have Dreams Too
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 20:09
Who could forget Martin Luther King, Jr's., I Have a Dream speech? Yet everyday, we forget that employees have dreams as well. Here are but a few of the dreams that employees everywhere are having.
It's too early for HTC to put all its eggs in one virtual basket
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 20:02
ANALYSIS: This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas served as a stage for the latest version of HTC’s ambitious virtual reality headset, the HTC Vive. While the company received largely positive coverage for...
Netflix: Is 'Making A Murderer' A New Genre In Film?
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 19:46
Making A Murderer, Netflix's long-form non-fiction series, is a slow, deep, detailed exploration that is hypnotic in its tick-tock rhythm. It draws you in, revealing its story in no particular hurry and with none of tele...
Building Better Entrepreneurs: Why Venture Capital Isn't The First Step To Developing Successful Startups
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 19:31
Successful venture development needs better entrepreneurs, and really successful venture development needs high-potential entrepreneurial leaders -- before the need for VC
Neura raises $11 million to create digital identities from consumers' connected lives
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 19:00
Neura, an Israeli Internet of Things startup that pulls together data from users' connected devices, has raised $11 million to expand its “business reach and make the service ubiquitous.” The Series A round was led b...
Car Wars - UK Startup Aims To Be A Google For The Used Car Market
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 18:20
On the face of it, internet entrepreneurs don't have a huge amount more to give to that vast community of consumers who are busily searching online for 'the right' used car. This is, after all, something of a mature mark...
Apple is investigating iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus battery-percentage bug, offers temporary fix
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 18:10
For months now, some iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus users have been complaining about their devices displaying an incorrect battery-life percentage. An Apple Support Communities post titled “iPhone 6s Plus battery percen...
Why WhatsApp scrapped its $1 annual subscription fee
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 17:48
Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp announced earlier today that it’s ditching its $1 annual subscription fee, and will instead monetize by developing a service that allows companies to communicate with their cus...
How 'Micro-Innovations' Can Drive Breakaway Resuts
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 17:40
The concept of innovation can be completely overwhelming. Images of Edison inventing the light bulb or Henry Ford revolutionizing manufacturing push the idea of innovation outside the reach of us mere mortals. If we defi...
Here Are Five Articles About Mexico's Drug War That Are Actually Worth Reading
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 17:11
Sean Penn has admitted that his article for Rollingstone fell short of his expectations. “Let me be clear: my article has failed,” he allowed. The piece, a strange sort of longwinded gonzo journalism, has been widely...
How To Effectively Market Your Business In The World Of Mass Information
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 17:00
“Content marketing is dead!” or so some say.
Google builds local version of YouTube just for Pakistan to circumvent 3-year ban
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 16:32
ISLAMABAD (By Tommy Wilkes, Reuters) – Pakistan said on Monday it had removed a three-year ban on YouTube after the Google-owned video-sharing website launched a local version that allows the government to remove mater...
The Richest 62 People Are As Wealthy As Half The World's Population Combined [Infographic]
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 14:21
A new report from charity Oxfam has drawn attention to the extent of financial inequality across the globe, highlighting the massive gulf between rich and poor. It found that in 2015, 62 individuals owned as much wealth...
Black Friday: The Disease
Forbes - 18 Jan 2016 14:00
Like lemmings stampeding to the edge of the abyss, most of the legacy retailers in the US have yet again done themselves in on a day that once signified the color of their P&L turning from red to black. No more. Black Fr...
There are now 229 unicorn startups, with $175B in funding and $1.3B valuation
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 13:48
Tales of the tech unicorn's impending demise might be somewhat exaggerated. Spoke Intelligence and VB Profiles released a report recently that counted more than 208 of the mythical creatures, not to mention an additional...
'Minecraft' is one of Pornhub's fastest-growing search terms
Venture Beat - 18 Jan 2016 23:45
Think back to when you were a kid. You probably had a crush on a cartoon character. Well, today’s teenagers and college-aged kids have grown up with Minecraft … and they have some strong feelings about those blocks. ...