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From Command-And-Control To Employee Engagement: How Tasty Catering Communicates Its Values
Forbes - 25 Feb 2016 23:45
Case study: How Tasty Catering, one of America's Best Small Companies, learned to communicate its values effectively to employees.
Leada pivots its data science training program from academics to the enterprise
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 23:18
Weeks before he got on stage in front of investors at a Y Combinator demo day, entrepreneur Brian Liou made a massive change in his company. Leada originally set its sights on helping students apply their data science kn...
Apple files to vacate order, says 'the Constitution forbids' what FBI seeks
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 23:10
Apple today filed a motion to vacate U.S. Justice Department attorneys’ order to compel the tech company to help the FBI unlock the iPhone 5c that belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. The attorneys fi...
Niantic raises $5 million to forge ahead with Pokémon Go
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 22:00
Niantic, the former Google division that is working on a Pokémon Go location-based mobile game, has raised $5 million in an expanded seed funding round. The new investors include Alsop Louie, former Havas boss David Jon...
This Millennial Is Upending The Transportation Industry And She Needs Your Car
Forbes - 25 Feb 2016 21:57
28-year-old Jessica Scorpio is the co-founder of Getaround -- think Airbnb for your car. With $40 million from big name investors like Eric Schmidt and Marissa Mayer, it could become the largest on-demand car sharing com...
Pac-Man: Puzzle Tour is another Candy Crush clone
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 21:02
Pac-Man is one of the first gaming franchises that fans turned into a phenomenon. But these days, the yellow pizza-shaped hero is spending more time chasing other hit games than his own power pellets. Bandai Namco releas...
Beachbody Coach? Rodan & Fields Consultant? At Tax Time, Beware The Hobby Loss Rules
Forbes - 25 Feb 2016 20:57
If your Facebook feed is anything like mine, videos of clumsy toddlers and unlikely animal pals have recently given way to a relentless string of friends pushing side businesses. Whether it's Beachbody or Rodan & Fields...
Eastern Europe: Where Two Civilizations Collide
Forbes - 25 Feb 2016 20:48
This article was originally published at Stratfor.com.
Capcom boosts its rerelease strategy with Resident Evil 4, RE5, and RE6 for PS4 and Xbox One
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 20:43
Evil is ready to reside in 2016. Capcom announced today that Resident Evil 6, RE 5, and RE 4 are coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One throughout the year as digital downloads. They’ll each cost $20. The series has sold...
U.S. aviation regulator starts rule-making process for public drone flights
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 19:59
WASHINGTON (By David Morgan for Reuters) — The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday said it would develop drone regulations allowing some unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to fly over people, an authorization eage...
Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast turns iconic metal band's mascot into a mobile gaming star
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 19:38
Few bands could probably inspire a mobile role-playing game, but Iron Maiden has always been special. Since forming in 1975, the heavy metal group has created 16 studio albums, including The Book of Souls just last year....
The Two Key Questions Every Brand Needs To Ask Itself
Forbes - 25 Feb 2016 19:02
No Suspense. No build up.
YouTube now lets you blur out anything in a video
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 19:00
Google today announced the launch of a smart feature people can use once they’ve uploaded videos to YouTube. Now you can draw a box around the thing you want to blur in a video, and YouTube will automatically keep that...
Facebook AI Research is donating servers to European academic researchers
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 18:42
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab today announced a new partnership program that will benefit academic researchers in Europe. It’s not just that Facebook will work in lockstep with the academics ...
How Bruce Shelley brought a board gamer's view into designing Civilization
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 18:30
Before he worked on Civilization with legendary game designer Sid Meier, Bruce Shelley was a board game designer at companies such as Avalon Hill. He designed games on paper back in the 1980s and 1990s, and it was easier...
Email multivariate testing: What it is and why you need it
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 18:10
SPONSORED: At a time when email volume has increased by almost 25 percent year over year, you simply can't afford to not be testing and determining what will make your customers click.
Mobile virtual reality on track to hit $861M in revenues this year
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 18:00
You’re going to need a big ol’ pile of cash if you want to get into high-end virtual reality on the PC, but that is creating an opportunity for Samsung and Google to sweep up entry-level consumers. Mobile VR is on tr...
Bandai Namco brings permadeath dungeon crawler Necropolis to consoles
Venture Beat - 25 Feb 2016 18:00
andai Namco Entertainment America has teamed up with Jordan Weisman’s Harebrained Schemes to bring Necropolis, a permadeath dungeon-action game, to home gaming consoles. Longtime game creator Weisman, the chief creativ...
Why Entrepreneurship Education Does Not Work
Forbes - 25 Feb 2016 17:59
I know dozens of entrepreneurship professors at campuses around the country and they’re almost universally great guys (they are typically male). I love what motivates them. They’re truly dedicated to developing you...
Lessons I Learned From Leaving A Six-Figure Job
Forbes - 25 Feb 2016 17:43
Four years ago, I left a cushy job six figure job and the security of a regular paycheck for the unpredictable world of entrepreneurship.
Neutrogena's Attempt To Empower Women Backfires
Forbes - 25 Feb 2016 17:23
Neutrogena this week launched a "dramatic" new film designed to - you guessed it - empower women. Why not? Everyone else is doing it. Which would be fine if there were a new angle, a new insight, or new executional quali...
Hey CEOs Who Want Growth: Stop Asking Your Team To Play Pin The Tail On The Donkey
Forbes - 25 Feb 2016 17:22
Many CEOs of private midsize companies are reluctant to share financial details of their firms with the rest of the company. But opening the books can be rewarding and here's one approach to sharing financial details tha...