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Privacy Shield pact would permit Apple, Google and Intel to move EU users' data to U.S.
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 07:03
(Reuters) – U.S. officials will travel to Brussels this week to drum up support for a transatlantic data transfer pact agreed last month that will facilitate billions of dollars worth of online business but which must ...
Tencent earnings: Revenue up 45% in Q4, profits miss estimates, no plans to spin off WeChat
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 13:23
China’s Tencent Holdings said today that it saw a big surge in revenue for the fourth quarter but missed profit estimates as its investment in video and other content ate into the bottom line. Most notably, however, Te...
Shark Tank Preview: Lawyer Brews Solution To Beer Problem
Forbes - 17 Mar 2016 23:45
By day attorney Michael Robb seeks justice for victims of asbestos exposure in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. By nights and weekends, he saves victims from warm-beer exposure with his invention -- the Beer Blizzard -- l...
Adobe sees 'record' $1.38B revenue in Q1, adds 798K paying Creative Cloud subscribers
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 22:33
Today Adobe reported its first quarter earnings for 2016, yet again revealing “record” quarterly revenue. This time the company raked in revenues of $1.38 billion and $0.66 earnings per share (non-GAAP). Adobe has se...
How To Survive This Year's Stone-Cold Venture Financing Market
Forbes - 17 Mar 2016 22:25
Market clearing prices have moved a long way fast. If you try to fight for last year's terms, you risk disaster. Make a deal with the right investment partner for the right reason, and move ahead.
Sony will reject PlayStation VR games that aren't at least 60 frames per second
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 22:06
SAN FRANCISCO — If you make a PlayStation VR game that dips to around 55 frames per second, Sony is not going to accept it. The company took the stage at the Game Developers Conference today to detail how it is approac...
Zendesk's Pathfinder helps customer service reps see what you're searching for
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 21:46
Zendesk has launched a new app to help a company’s service agents better respond to support tickets. Called Pathfinder, it arms them with insights, data, and context about the customer’s “journey” on the site so ...
13 Key Intellectual Property Issues In Mergers And Acquisitions
Forbes - 17 Mar 2016 20:53
A summary of the most significant activities and issues relating to intellectual property connected with a typical acquisition of a privately held company.
Watch us throw people into a pachinko machine in Nintendo's Miitomo mobile game
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 20:20
I just dropped a friend of mine into a pachinko machine to help me win a cat outfit. This is Nintendo’s first mobile game, and I don’t think I really need to tell you anything else about it … but I will. The publis...
How RetailMeNot and Hotel Tonight create massive user loyalty (webinar recap)
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 19:30
VB WEBINAR: Missed it? You can still hear our power panel of mobile marketers share secrets from the front-lines about turning casual users into die-hard customers who stay engaged and purchase again and again. Access th...
Twitter is killing TweetDeck for Windows on April 15
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 19:29
Twitter has announced that it will no longer support the Windows version of its TweetDeck application. The company said that this change will take effect on April 15 and says that you can still use TweetDeck, but just on...
Are Online Grocery Businesses Doomed?
Forbes - 17 Mar 2016 19:27
Is there any reason to believe that online grocery now is a better business than when Webvan and Peapod failed? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jonathan Brodsky.
5 Video Marketing Predictions To Guide Your Content Strategy
Forbes - 17 Mar 2016 19:25
Let's look toward the future of video marketing. What technologies will become available? How will consumer interests change? And most importantly, how can you start preparing for these developments?
Google is reportedly looking to sell robotics company Boston Dynamics
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 19:05
Google is reportedly looking to find a buyer for Boston Dynamics, the robot research lab that it acquired in 2013. It’s believed that executives with the parent company Alphabet are questioning Boston Dynamics’ place...
Geoblink raises $1.1 million for its location-based marketing technology
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 18:57
Location intelligence startup Geoblink announced today that it closed a $1.1 million round led by Spanish VC Naut Capital. Based in Madrid, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup helps businesses with physical stores u...
Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 10 Mobile to Windows Phone 8.1 devices
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 18:36
As we revealed yesterday, Microsoft today started rolling out Windows 10 Mobile to existing Windows Phone 8.1 devices. Specifically, Microsoft is starting with the following 18 phones: Lumia 1520, 930, 640, 640XL, 730, 7...
How A High School Dropout Built A Business That Saves Companies Millions By Analyzing Their Spending
Forbes - 17 Mar 2016 18:05
Dan Schneider, 35, is founder and CEO of SIB Cost Reduction, a Charleston, SC-based firm with 75 employees who help businesses cut expenditures on everything from garbage collection to telecom bills. Companies pay no up-...
YouTube star network Fullscreen acquires StageBloc to help creators manage their online presence
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 18:00
Multi-channel network Fullscreen has acquired StageBloc to extend the musician-centric digital marketing company's services to its group of creators. Financial terms were not disclosed, but StageBloc's team and technolog...
Kickstarter's first acquisition: Music fan community Drip snapped up 1 day before closure
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 17:41
Kickstarter just announced its first ever acquisition — the crowdfunding company is snapping up music-subscription service and fan community Drip for an undisclosed amount. Drip was founded in 2012 as a service that co...
How Marketers Can Avoid Blind Spots [10-Minute Podcast]
Forbes - 17 Mar 2016 16:58
Finding your blind spots and learning how to avoid them will have a huge impact on your marketing campaigns. This interview with Jennifer Adams Bunkers, CEO of TruKid, the experts in children's skin care, dives into the ...
Hands-on with Rebellion's chaotic Battlezone on PlayStation VR
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 16:00
Battlezone was one of my favorite arcade games when I was growing up. But the old Atari game that debuted in 1980 was just a wireframe vector-graphics model with a green landscape and red specks that you fired at other t...
Mobile analytics company Kochava strikes deal to give 80K Chinese apps access to U.S. ads
Venture Beat - 17 Mar 2016 16:00
The Chinese app economy has been exploding, but so far most of the country's apps have needed help to market abroad, in part because of the huge differences between China and other large markets, like the U.S. No Chinese...