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When The Lowest Price Is Not The Best Deal
Forbes - 26 Jan 2016 16:25
There are many instances when the lowest price is not the best deal. This is particularly true when buying and selling business services. I firmly believe price matters when the seller believes price matters most. It see...
State Of The CMO 2016: Perspective From Spencer Stuart's Greg Welch
Forbes - 26 Jan 2016 23:38
Executive recruiter and Spencer Stuart Senior Partner Greg Welch forever has his finger on the pulse of what’s happening in terms of CMO moves and trends. Moving into the new year, he offered suggestions for marketing ...
De-Bunking Three Myths That 401(k)s Are Not Right For Small Businesses
Forbes - 26 Jan 2016 21:39
The IRS describes 401(k)s as "a feature of a qualified profit-sharing plan that allows employees to contribute a portion of their wages to individual accounts." Beyond this fairly black and white overview, 401(k)s also p...
Apple says it now has 1 billion 'active' devices
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 23:54
Apple has announced its Q1 FY2016 earnings, and while it may have beat expectations, there’s some concern as sales of its iPhones have slowed down. But amid all of its financial disclosures, the company revealed that i...
Apple reports record $18.4 billion profit as iPhone sales slow
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 23:41
Apple just reported the largest quarterly profit of any public company in history, again. With profits of $18.4 billion for its first fiscal quarter of 2016, Apple beat the record it set last year by $400 million. Apple�...
Apple sees iPhone sales grow just 0.4% to 74.8 million in Q1 2016, iPad sales decline 25%
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 23:40
The iPhone continues to carry Apple, but sales are flat for the first time in the device’s history. As part of the company’s latest quarterly earnings announcement, Apple revealed today that it sold 74.8 million iPho...
Buying The Business Was The Easy Part
Forbes - 26 Jan 2016 23:26
About a year ago, the relatively small and obscure company I run called Daddies Board Shop, bought a much larger business, CCS, from one of the biggest companies around, Foot Locker.
Everything You've Heard About Millennial Employees Is Baloney; Here's The Truth And How To Use It
Forbes - 26 Jan 2016 22:14
Generational conflict in the workplace (Millennial employees vs. Gen X, Boomer employees vs. Gen X, and so forth) has become a growth industry lately for consultants, speakers, and authors. But industry's central premi...
What Just Changed In Google's Core Ranking Algorithm?
Forbes - 26 Jan 2016 22:11
Earlier this month, when people started noticing some major volatility in search rankings, the SEO community got excited--was this the Penguin update we were waiting for all last year? Something to do with Panda? Some ne...
Slack forms Search, Learning, & Intelligence Group focused on 'mining the chat corpus'
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 22:04
Team communication app Slack has hired Foursquare executive Noah Weiss to head up a new Search, Learning, & Intelligence Group for Slack, which will be part of the well-funded startup’s new New York office. “The focu...
Apple plans to offer subscription content through News app
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 22:02
Apple is working to make subscription content available through its News app, giving publishers with paywalls a new way to control who sees their articles, two sources familiar with the matter said.
Why Entrepreneurship Is Like Raising A Child
Forbes - 26 Jan 2016 21:50
I recently became a parent for the second time. And I’ve now started several companies – one that failed, one that did all right, and one that is currently ongoing.
Intel's Curie captures the motion of snowboarders at ESPN X Games
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 21:45
Intel plans to measure competitive snowboarders like never before as they plunge down runs and perform tricks in the skies at ESPN’s 2016 Winter X Games this week. The marriage of real-time analytics and sports is a fi...
Think you know content marketing? In 2016, you better (webinar)
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 21:26
VB WEBINAR: Content marketing isn't just another arrow in your quiver — our panel of top marketing professionals argue that when it’s used correctly, it's a nuclear-grade weapon in the war for customer engagement and...
Chrome gets a security panel to help developers deploy S
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 20:50
Google today launched a new security panel in the DevTools section of Chrome 48, promising it will roll out over the next few days. The goal is to help developers deploy S on their websites and services. S is a more secu...
5 Proven Ways To Improve Your Company's Communication
Forbes - 26 Jan 2016 20:35
Effective internal communication is incredibly important to any company, and any entrepreneur. But skillful communication is so much more than that: communication can mean the difference between your business succeeding ...
Funding Daily: Memeni raises $2.5 million seed round
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 20:34
EXCLUSIVE: Memeni, a social tool for brands to create their own communities, announced today that it closed a $2.5 million investment from angel investors. The Los Angeles-based startup said it wants to help brands to �...
Uber, Lyft put more pressure on taxi companies
CNBC - 26 Jan 2016 20:10
San Francisco's largest taxi operator, Yellow Cab Cooperative, is scheduled for its first bankruptcy hearing.
Almond growers wish list: Rain and bees
CNBC - 26 Jan 2016 19:51
Prices of mighty almonds are down amid El Nino-related cold and rain that could dampen pollinating activity and crop yields.
Juniper acquires networking company BTI Systems
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 19:22
Juniper Networks, a major player in the world of data center networking hardware, announced today that it has acquired BTI Systems, a company with hardware and software-defined networking (SDN) tools. Terms of the deal w...
Microsoft launches Azure Stack technical preview for on-premises data centers
Venture Beat - 26 Jan 2016 19:00
Microsoft today announced that on Friday, January 29, it will release the first technical preview of Azure Stack — a package of cloud-computing services that are similar to what’s available on the Microsoft Azure pub...
Four Trends That Could Make This a Great Year for Women Entrepreneurs
Forbes - 26 Jan 2016 18:59
By Jacqueline Prause, Senior Managing Editor, SAP Women make up the fastest growing segment of business owners in the United States today. That doesn't mean success is given, however. In comparison to their male counterp...