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IRS Chief Counsel Notice Highlights Tax Court Procedure Changes Due to PATH Act
Forbes - 18 Feb 2016 16:40
The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015, which was signed into law on December 18, 2015, affected several Tax Court procedural matters. A recent IRS Chief Counsel Notice addresses some of those changes...
Why I Won't Give Free Advice And Why You Shouldn't Either
Forbes - 18 Feb 2016 16:40
Recently I took the time to finally reply to a long stash of emails I had filed away for a rainy day. The reality is, however, that rainy day will never come because it costs me too much to check out of my business - no ...
Fallout 4 maker Bethesda is working on 3 new games
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 23:35
LAS VEGAS — Todd Howard deserves a bit of a break. His Bethesda Game Studios and parent ZeniMax shipped 12 million copies so far of Fallout 4, the blockbuster postapocalyptic role-playing game for PC and home consoles....
Sign Here: How e-Signatures Make Sales Teams More Productive While Reducing Risks
Forbes - 18 Feb 2016 22:29
Way back when organizations started adopting computers to support business, many observers predicted that the 21st century would see the dawn of the “paperless office.” Yet, as anyone who works in an office can testi...
Kanye West is reportedly considering legal action against The Pirate Bay
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 22:25
Kanye West apparently has a new mission: to sue The Pirate Bay. Last weekend, West announced that his new album, The Life of Pablo, would be sold exclusively as a download from his website and the artist-driven streaming...
7 Tools To Personalize Sales And Marketing Communications At Scale
Forbes - 18 Feb 2016 22:24
At the start of a new venture, most entrepreneurs want to do it all to keep costs low. Early stage employees will be wearing many hats for quite some time while doing a lot of the work in-house.
Tomb Raider's writer shows the rise of storytelling's importance in gaming
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 22:20
LAS VEGAS — In 33 years of playing video games, writer Rhianna Pratchett has seen the value of story go through its own creative arc. Back in the day, Pratchett noted, game guru John Carmack noted that story in games w...
Big Companies Must Embrace Intrapreneurship To Survive
Forbes - 18 Feb 2016 22:03
It has been well-documented that big companies typically struggle with innovation. Once companies get to a certain size, their investors become more conservative, their leaders less entrepreneurial, decisions are manag...
Yahoo warns of industry-wide 'pause' in mobile growth for 2016
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 21:53
SAN FRANCISCO -- In the midst of turmoil within the Yahoo organization, the company held its second mobile developer conference in the San Francisco Bay Area. While there were several announcements in terms of product up...
LG places massive bet on G5 launch at MWC to revive flagging smartphone business
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 21:31
ANALYSIS: BARCELONA, Spain — While thousands of companies are about to descend on this seaside city for Mobile World Congress, arguably none has more at stake than LG Electronics. The South Korean electronics maker pla...
Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1 billion hours played, and 66 versions
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 21:20
LAS VEGAS — Civilization is one of the gods of strategy games, where you oversee the creation of a whole society in competition with other civilizations. It debuted in 1991, and now at 25, it has become one of the cult...
Apple rolls out iOS update to restore devices bricked by 'error 53'
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 20:50
Apple today announced that it’s coming out with an update to iOS 9.2.1 that’s intended to fix the “error 53” issue that disabled some iOS devices. Apple is directing people to an explanation on a new support page...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Cortana, Edge, and Skype improvements
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 20:36
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a slew of improvements. The latest build includes tweaks to Cortana’s music feature, the Edge browser, and Skype integration. Windows 10 is a service. As w...
Google Play Games drops Google+ integration
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 20:00
You no longer need a Google+ account to enjoy the benefits of connected gaming on Android. Google is introducing Gamer IDs to its Google Play Games service for players and developers. This enables anyone to claim a uniqu...
The Best Growth Strategy You're Probably Overlooking
Forbes - 18 Feb 2016 19:45
We?ve hit the halfway point of Q1 2016. By now, quarterly or yearly outlines have been assembled and budgets proposed. Many have shifted gears from ?planning? to ?executing.? But it?s important to take a step back and co...
Twitter launches customer feedback tool and direct message deep links for businesses
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 19:32
Twitter today announced two tools that could help brands improve their customer service workflows on the social network. As of today, businesses that use Twitter can have deep links to direct messages show up underneath ...
The Tribeca Film Festival is (technically) accepting submissions via Snapchat
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 19:27
To our surprise, the Tribeca Film Festival — the institution cofounded by Robert De Niro — has put out a call for “the best Snapchat Stories across the U.S.” “Best,” we’ll assume, is a relative term. The or...
Small businesses seek IRS-seized cash
CNBC - 18 Feb 2016 19:03
A dairy farmer and a convenience store owner are fighting to get back money they say was wrongfully seized by the IRS.
Google launches Cloud Vision API in beta following limited preview
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 19:00
Google today announced that its Cloud Vision application programming interface (API), which can give applications new image recognition capabilities, is now available in beta for anyone to use. For the past two months it...
Hands-on with LinkNYC: the free Wi-Fi hub and tablet that killed the payphone
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 19:00
In New York City, the payphone is out and, slowly but surely, the Link is in. Link is the city’s name for its new kiosks — tall, narrow structures with slick ads on either side, a small tablet in the center, and a be...
8 Habits That Make Millennials Stressed, Anxious And Unproductive
Forbes - 18 Feb 2016 18:57
Millennials experience more stress and are less able to manage it than ever. Eight day-to-day behaviors that incite anxiety:
We're one step closer to a world with non-removable SIM cards
Venture Beat - 18 Feb 2016 18:45
A world without removable SIM cards is closer to becoming reality today with the news that Samsung is preparing to launch the Gear S2 classic 3G smartwatch — the first GSMA-compliant device to sport a non-removable, pr...