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"A Chef's Life": Celebrity Chef Vivian Howard Launches Her Brand On William Sonoma Today
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 20:19
I’m a junkie for obsessive entrepreneurs whatever they’re striving for or their means of getting there. Some of my entrepreneur friends always knew what they wanted from life (not me). Others’ paths remain explorat...
How To Dig Out Of A Million-Dollar Hole
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 16:25
We had it all worked out.
An Entrepreneur's Beauty Business Elevates Her Homeland
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 16:00
In January of 2010, an earthquake rocked the small Caribbean nation of Haiti. Its effects were horrific -- death tolls soared well over 100,000 and many buildings were reduced to rubble.
How Corporate Anthropology Can Help Women Drive Change
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 22:53
The real challenge is the need for women and men to have the right mind set and tool kit to uncover new ideas and effectively turn them into successful innovations. To this end, "a little anthropology" can indeed help wo...
Watch me set up the HTC Vive for room-scale virtual reality
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 22:25
Oculus Rift is out today, but maybe you’re waiting for some virtual reality that enables you to get up out of your chair to walk around. For that, you’re gonna need the the HTC Vive and SteamVR. GamesBeat has messed ...
Wevr's TheBlu delivers a mesmerizing deep sea experience in VR
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 22:00
I keep trying out new virtual reality apps on family members using the HTC Vive Pre. And the latest to catch our attention was TheBlu: Encounter, an undersea VR experience from Wevr. This kind of VR experience fits in th...
Kuvee raises $6 million for smart wine bottles, sells out preorders in 3 hours
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 21:44
Drink up! Or not. Now, you can save as much wine as you want for up to 30 days after opening a bottle — if you drink out of Kuvee‘s new smart wine bottle. The Boston-based winery startup announced today that it serve...
Signs of Springtime Growth in Business
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 21:32
Spring is a time of growth. In nature, dormant bulbs peek their heads and trees begin to bloom. In business, the capital necessary to spur business growth is still flowing -- and at low interest rates.
Learn how to use data to boost engagement at Mobile Summit
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 20:47
VB EVENT: Small, medium, and large companies alike are overwhelmed with data, much of it being siloed for use by different teams for varying purposes. That’s why we’ve committed a deep-dive session at next week’s V...
Why Doesn't India Take Advantage Of Its Deep Ties With Silicon Valley?
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 20:35
Nearly every other country in the world yearns for the deep relationship that India has with Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Austin and all the other entrepreneurship hubs in the United States.
GitHub's Atom text editor hits 1 million monthly active users
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 20:30
GitHub today announced that its Atom text editor last month had more than 1 million active users. Usage is three times what it was when all of Atom become available under an open source MIT license and the software hit v...
Five Social Musts For CMOs
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 20:21
This article is by Joel Dollar is principal, digital marketing at Commerce House.
LinkedIn will let Connectifier live on, but changes are coming to the recruiting service
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 20:12
LinkedIn today announced its initial plan for integrating recruiting service Connectifier, which LinkedIn acquired earlier this year. Connectifier will get to live on as a standalone service, with some changes. “We’v...
How to bypass the Oculus Store and play SteamVR games on Rift
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 20:05
Oculus VR has its own store for the Rift virtual reality headset, but you don’t have to use it. The first wave of Rifts are heading out today to people who preordered and backed the crowdfunding project on Kickstarter,...
Virtual Desktop for Oculus Rift enabled me to spend an entire day in VR without enraging my boss
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 20:00
Most virtual reality experiences are over after about 20 minutes, so of course I just spent six hours doing my job inside of a simulated computer environment. Virtual Desktop is an upcoming PC program that will enable an...
How To Build A Marketing Team That Gives You Goosebumps
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 19:09
Today, we have 15 marketing employees on staff. In 2013, I was a marketing team of one.
Car Dealers Are Much More Fun Than You Thought
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 19:07
Car dealers are supposed to be the worst. Maybe it was true once -- but no more. How many buyers really must complete a transaction on line?
Oculus Rift starts shipping today to more than 20 countries
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 19:01
Facebook’s Oculus Rift began delivering Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets today to customers in more than 20 countries and regions. The first units are going out to the fans who backed the Kickstarter crowdfunding c...
IRIS 4.0 Tackles 'Metrics Gaps'
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 18:45
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently announced the latest upgrade of IRIS, aimed at fleshing out "metric gaps".
Evidence grows for a Samsung Galaxy S7 Active
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 18:37
For the past three years, Samsung has built an elements-resistant version of its annual Galaxy S flagship, and the first official evidence of a Galaxy S7 Active just appeared in a Google Play Store app listing. The purpo...
25 years of covering games: My views of then and now
Venture Beat - 28 Mar 2016 18:30
This is one of those posts where you get to hear a lot of what I think about gaming, from my own perspective. As a journalist, I often interview people about their perspectives on the game industry, and I keep my own vie...
Don't Make Social Media Your Company's Mouth - Make It Your Eyes And Ears
Forbes - 28 Mar 2016 17:45
I've heard social media described as a company's mouthpiece, but if you only focus on this function of social media, you'll be missing out on some of the most valuable opportunities social media has to offer your brand.