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Why my kids will learn to code as a second language
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 22:23
GUEST: Being a dad of two young boys, I have thought a great deal lately about what the world will look like for them in the future. When they hit high school, and it’s time to choose a second language, given today’s...
We're entering the era of the full-stack CEO
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 17:24
GUEST: We're used to talking about full-stack developers — people who can do front end as well as back end development, understand the layers of both hardware and software, and know how to access (and make accessible) ...
In His Spare Time, Immigrant Noubar Afeyan Has Started 38 Companies In America
Forbes - 19 Mar 2016 21:19
Starting one successful company is a fine achievement. How does one describe someone who has helped found 38 companies?
Hulk Hogan Wins $115 Million Sex Tape Verdict Against Gawker, IRS Wins Too
Forbes - 19 Mar 2016 15:50Facebook and Twitter are reportedly competing for live TV rights
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 06:12
Facebook and Twitter are vying to buy rights to stream conventional TV programming, the New York Post reported on Thursday.
A VC's survival guide to an economic downturn
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 21:15
GUEST: Economic uncertainty often hits young companies with a double whammy: Investor money dries up and customers rein in spending. But it turns out that economic downturns are good times to start businesses. First, the...
Shark Tank: Kevin O'Leary and Lori Greiner Buy Into Millennial Firm Revolutionizing Vending Machines
Forbes - 19 Mar 2016 20:51
If a digital billboard and a vending machine really, really loved each other and had a baby, it would look like a Vengo -- the revolutionary brainchild of 32-year-old Brian Shimmerlik. His wall-mounted, flat-screen, touc...
PlayStation 4 & Xbox One adopting Nintendo's handheld update strategy makes sense to analysts
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 20:18
ANALYSIS: Your Xbox One is obsolete. Your PlayStation 4 is junk. But if these consoles are starting to feel old, Microsoft and Sony may step in to sell you the same thing all over again with something extra sprinkled on ...
Shark Tank: Mark Cuban Invests In 'Rednecks' Taking Beer Industry By Storm
Forbes - 19 Mar 2016 19:44
At his day job, attorney Michael Robb seeks reparations for those wounded by asbestos exposure. At all other times, the president and CEO of Pittsburgh, Penn.-based Cold Can Innovations rectifies the injustice of drinkin...
What Killed Avon's Business Model?
Forbes - 19 Mar 2016 18:36
For more than three decades, Avon Products was a great consumer brand that appealed to “Avon ladies,” consumer-entrepreneurs who sold these products door to door to other consumers. That was a long time ago, when...
Read the submitted proposal for Jobs family's new Silicon Valley estate
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 18:03
FEATURE: Laurene Powell Jobs has proposed building 15,689-square-foot estate on land her husband, Steve Jobs, acquired in 1984. While the original proposal was submitted almost a year ago, the plans are moving toward app...
Steve Jobs and the strange afterlife of the historic Woodside mansion he demolished
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 18:02
FEATURE: Steve Jobs hated the historic Jackling House that he bought in 1984 so much that he spent a tremendous amount of time and energy in his final years trying to have the Woodside mansion torn down. After a decade o...
Here's why King gave away its 2D mobile game engine Defold
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 17:30
‘Tis the season of giving for game engines. King Digital Entertainment acquired the Defold game engine back in 2014 to make two-dimensional mobile games. It enhanced the engine and published Blossom Blast Saga using De...
Car2Go car-sharing service drops electric cars for gasoline models
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 17:01
When Car2Go launched its car-sharing service in San Diego about five years ago, its entire fleet was composed of electric cars. It was a move that made San Diego officials smile, as the city is undertaking an ambitious p...
10 Reasons Organizations Fail To Deliver Great Customer Service
Forbes - 19 Mar 2016 16:00
Many studies are indicating that customers aren't seeing the results of company investment in customer service. How can this be? Here is a short list of 10 reasons why companies fail to deliver great customer service.
In Business, Risk Never Goes Away; It Simply Evolves
Forbes - 19 Mar 2016 15:19
One thing I've learned along my entrepreneurial journey is that business is evolutionary. Risk in particular, never really goes away. In just evolves and takes new and different forms. To understand the evolutionary natu...
Uber's quest to catch the tourist buck
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 15:14
ANALYSIS: Uber announced an interesting little nugget this week when it unveiled UberPassport — a new cross-border service that takes travelers from San Diego in southern California into the Mexican city of Tijuana, 20...
How Diablo found inspiration in hockey, Star Wars, and X-Com
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 14:00
This year, the original Diablo turns 20 years old, and its creator talked about the gothic game’s creation during a talk at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. David Drevik, now at Graybeard Games, w...
Consumers hit gadget-overload in 2016
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 13:14
GUEST: Do you sometimes feel there are more gadgets than you can actually use - and that the technology you own has failed to follow through on its life-changing promises? Well you're not alone. Despite a seemingly endle...
Anti-Trump protesters: patchwork of people and Facebook pages
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 11:22
Donald Trump has called them thugs, professional organizers and supporters of Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders.
U.S. and Russian crew arrives at International Space Station
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 09:19
A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, ending a nearly six-hour flight, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
The 10 biggest European tech stories this week
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2016 07:33
This week, Tech.eu tracked 17 technology M&A transactions and 63 funding deals (totalling €162 million, or about $182.5 million) in Europe and Israel.Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free week...