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When Is A Loss A Gain?
Forbes - 1 Feb 2016 19:54
When it comes to one industry, addition by subtraction is the name of the game and, in fact, the long-term health of a given brand in this industry is nearly completely dependent on addition by subtraction.
Ant Simulator canceled after crowdfunding money spent on liquor and strippers
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 21:30
[Updated with Kickstarter response 11:48 am Feb. 1 2016] Ant Simulator, a game that raised money through crowdfunding, has allegedly been canceled because the company’s leaders spent the money on liquor, restaurants, a...
Alphabet passes Apple as the most valuable company on Earth
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 23:17
Google’s parent company, Alphabet (GOOG), is now the most valuable company in the universe, with a market cap of about $570 billion in after-hours trading after reporting a stronger than expected Q4 FY2015 earnings rep...
Beyond Google: Alphabet's Other Bets saw $3.6 billion operating loss on just $448 million in revenue for 2015
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 23:11
For the first time, Google owner Alphabet (GOOG) has shared the numbers behind its various moonshots and side businesses. As part of the company’s latest quarterly earnings announcement, Alphabet revealed today that it...
VideoLAN celebrates 15 years of VLC, the media player that plays everything
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 21:58
VideoLAN today announced that VLC, the world’s most used media player, has turned 15 years old. The history is a bit complex here, but the anniversary is being celebrated in relation to when all VideoLAN software was r...
How mobile data will blow your email campaigns wide open (webinar)
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 21:55
VB WEBINAR: Missed it? You can still view our email engagement webinar and and learn how today’s customer mobile behavioral data will blow your current email results out of the water. Access the webinar on demand right...
Google Compute Engine now offers 64TB of storage for a single virtual machine
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 21:37
Google’s public cloud, which other companies can use to run applications, is now offering virtual machines (VMs) — slices of physical servers — with a lot more storage space than before. As of today, you can assign...
How This New Podcasting Platform Pulled Off The Perfect Product Launch
Forbes - 1 Feb 2016 21:35
In the world of technology startups, it seems many people look to a few select sites to figure out what products are new and exciting. Product Hunt is one of those sites. At the time of this writing, Product Hunt has 4,0...
Tom Clancy's The Division is getting an open beta, according to Xbox Italy
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 21:25
Ubisoft isn’t done testing its upcoming online shooter, according to a leak from one of Microsoft’s social-media accounts. Xbox One will get an open beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division starting February 16, accordin...
How To Raise Venture Capital In A Down Market
Forbes - 1 Feb 2016 20:56
How to raise venture capital in a tough market?
12 Ways Under 30s Overcome Obstacles In Business
Forbes - 1 Feb 2016 20:38
How do Under 30s overcome obstacles in business? We asked our elite community of Under 30 influencers, innovators and inspiring young founders to tell us their next big obstacle and how they plan to overcome it.
Facebook's News Feed will now surface content you want to see and also engage with
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 20:33
Facebook has once again tweaked its News Feed algorithm with the goal of improving the articles, posts, and stories that are most relevant to you. Starting today, the social networking company said it’s looking at two ...
Legal US pot sales soar to $5.4B in 2015
CNBC - 1 Feb 2016 20:17
Legal U.S. cannabis sales soared to $5.4 billion for 2015, up 17.4 percent from $4.6 billion in 2014, according to the ArcView Group.
Synaptics and Valeo unveil tech for sensing force and touch in automobiles
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 20:10
Touchscreen tech maker Synaptics and automotive supplier Valeo are unveiling a technology aimed at making it easier to control an automotive touchscreen. Beyond enabling a touchscreen in a car, the Synaptics ClearForce t...
Google adds real-time U.S. election information directly to search results
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 19:34
As the United States kicks off the 2016 election cycle to find out who the next president will be, Google wants you to be kept informed about not only the candidates, but also the whole political process. The company is ...
BlackBerry: 'The Priv device is essentially our transition to Android'
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 19:06
A BlackBerry senior director has gone on record to The Economic Times with some of the most definitive language yet in acknowledging the end of the road for the BlackBerry 10 platform. The employee also revealed that the...
How Going Big Can Actually Reduce Risk
Forbes - 1 Feb 2016 18:52
In our professional lives, we often find ourselves launching something new. It could be a new product, service, ad campaign, recipe, geographic expansion, process overhaul, sales contest or even an internal cultural shi...
PlayStation Network down for many gamers around the world
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 18:43
Sony’s online infrastructure is going through another hiccup this morning. PlayStation Network isn’t working for everyone right now. An outage is preventing gamers from logging into the service to play games or use a...
A New Gig For Bees
Forbes - 1 Feb 2016 18:15
Bees and other pollinator insects are critical for the production of 15-30% of the crops on which we depend. Honey bees also supply us with delicious honey. There is yet another service that we may soon be getting throug...
The top 3 data challenges your business will face in 2016
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 18:10
SPONSORED: Though the obvious need to create value from data is driving massive BI adoption, companies today can't afford to enter into the data world unprepared to embrace the new data challenges businesses will face in...
Office Space And A Growing Company: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Work Environment
Forbes - 1 Feb 2016 18:01
As a business leader, many of your most difficult decisions are driven by how quickly your company grows. Decisions like whether or not to move to a larger office space are delicate balancing acts between investing in ke...
China's Linekong Interactive to invest $20M in North American mobile game business
Venture Beat - 1 Feb 2016 18:00
EXCLUSIVE: Like other Chinese mobile game companies, Linekong Interactive wants to go global. That’s why the company is announcing today that it is investing $20 million in a new subsidiary in the U.S. In making this m...