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Your Step By Step Content Marketing Strategy
Forbes - 10 May 2016 17:00
Since content marketing is still a relatively new methodology – at least when we’re talking about digital marketing – it should come as no surprise that one of the most common searches associated with it is “cont...
Save Money And Reduce Carbon Emissions From Business Travel
Forbes - 10 May 2016 16:30
Despite what some journalists and news media would have you believe, the vast majority — almost 100% — of credible climate scientists and scientific associations agree that climate change is happening, that it is alm...
EA: 55M PlayStation 4 and Xbox Ones sold through 2015; 25M more should sell in 2016
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 23:57
Electronic Arts claims it is the top publisher on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and if it can keep that title through the end of this year, it’ll have a significantly larger audience. The publisher noted that Sony and Mi...
PopCap shoots for a mobile comeback with action-packed Bejeweled Stars
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 23:00
King’s Candy Crush Saga has ruled the “match-3” game category on mobile for several years now. But that title once belonged to match-3 pioneer PopCap Games and its Bejeweled title. Now, Electronic Arts’ PopCap Ga...
Disney Infinity canceled: The entertainment company pulls out of console-game publishing
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 22:46
Disney is hitting the ejector-seat button on its interactive-gaming-toy business. The company told investors today that it is ending its Disney Infinity gaming franchise. This gaming series enabled players to buy physica...
Star Wars: Battlefront has sold over 14 million copies
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 22:23
This feat is almost as impressive as making the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs. Publisher Electronic Arts revealed during its 2016 fiscal year earnings release today that the online shooter Star Wars: Battlefront has sol...
SEO Needs A Visualized Data Revolution -- Here's Why
Forbes - 10 May 2016 22:13
The strongest need in the SEO community is in data analysis, and the best way to address it is through a data visualization revolution.
Star Wars: Battlefront's ongoing success helps EA earnings beat Wall Street's expectations
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 22:06
Electronic Arts reported better-than-expected results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, thanks to the strength of the Star Wars: Battlefront shooter game. EA’s results are closely watched as a bellwether fo...
Mozilla launches Test Pilot, a Firefox add-on for trying experimental new features
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 21:13
Mozilla today launched Test Pilot, a program for trying out experimental Firefox features. To try the new functionality Mozilla is offering for its browser, you have to download a Firefox add-on from testpilot.firefox.co...
How Successful Entrepreneurs Build Opportunity Funnels
Forbes - 10 May 2016 20:28
The most successful entrepreneurs don't rely on luck, and they certainly don't rely on the first opportunity that falls into their laps.
Cameron is right: Afghanistan and Nigeria are fantastically corrupt
Forbes - 10 May 2016 20:10
The British Prime Minister David Cameron is embroiled in a scandal after describing two countries as corrupt during a diplomatic event. Although the press is feigning shocked dismay around this supposed gaffe, his statem...
Weather-Proofing Small Farmers In India
Forbes - 10 May 2016 20:07
Social enterprise Kheyti wants to help small farmers in India grow crops in greenhouses.
Redis launches modules to add extensibility to the open source database
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 20:05
EXCLUSIVE: Redis, a type of open source NoSQL database known as a key-value store, is getting an important but long delayed addition. Today at the 2016 RedisConf conference in San Francisco, Redis creator Salvatore Sanfi...
Medical billing startup Simplee collects $20 million from Social Capital, Amex Ventures, and others
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 19:59
Social Capital and American Express Ventures backed Simplee, a startup that aims to facilitate medical bill payments, in its latest $20 million funding round. Simplee says it works with over 900 hospitals and physicians ...
How Sound Will Shape The Advertising Industry
Forbes - 10 May 2016 19:19
“The internet was designed to replace infrastructure. Everything that I can buy in a store I can now buy online...So when new advances in technology require new infrastructure...I always worry there is something off th...
FreshGrade's $11.6M funding is all about making it easier to talk to your kid's teacher
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 19:15
Education and collaboration tool FreshGrade announced today that it scored an $11.6 million funding round to grow its reach in the United States. FreshGrade works as an online portfolio that allows teachers, parents, and...
How Sound Will Shape The Advertising Industry
Forbes - 10 May 2016 19:10
What if you could replace all the hardware-requiring proximity marketing tech with simple audio tones? That's the promise of Lisnr, a startup changing how brands are thinking about interacting across the entire consumer ...
Microsoft's next Azure data center regions will be in South Korea
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 19:00
Microsoft today is sharing its latest plans for expanding the Azure public cloud. Next stop: Korea. There will be not one but two regions of data centers coming online in South Korea, including one in Seoul, a Microsoft ...
You can now use your Slack account to sign into other apps, starting with Quip
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 19:00
Slack is making it easier to sync up with all the third-party applications that are tied in with the productivity messaging service. The company announced the release of a “Sign in with Slack” button that performs th...
Box and OneDrive now let you open PDFs in Adobe Acrobat
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 19:00
Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader just got more useful for those who store files across an array of cloud storage services. Adobe today is announcing that all users can now open and edit PDF files stored inside Box and Mi...
Mass Effect: Andromeda prepares for a big pre-E3 showing
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 18:50
Few new game franchises have matched the ambition of BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy, and Electronic Arts might laugh a whole new generation of Mass Effect games before anyone else can really compete with that scope. The...
ProofPilot launches with $1.85 million to help researchers run scientific studies
Venture Beat - 10 May 2016 18:30
ProofPilot, a startup that helps researchers design and manage scientific studies, launches today after a $1.85 million investment from CueBall Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, among others. The New York-based start...