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Hearings To Impeach IRS Commissioner Loom
Forbes - 16 May 2016 14:48
Lois Lerner won't be prosecuted, but the IRS Commissioner could still be impeached over the IRS targeting scandal and alleged obstruction.
YouTube Gaming is awash in gaming rap videos
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 23:01
You’ve got a lot of options if you want to be a video game influencer. On YouTube Gaming, one of the increasingly popular ways to do create a rap video about your favorite game. YouTube Gaming has collected a number of...
LinkedIn open-sources Ambry, an object store for media files
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 22:55
LinkedIn today announced that it has open-sourced Ambry, a piece of software it built to store and serve up media files like photos, videos, and PDFs. The system is available on GitHub under an open source Apache license...
3 Types Of Grants For Your Small Business To Consider
Forbes - 16 May 2016 21:43
Investigate all of your options to fund your business, whether it's a grant, loan, crowdsourcing campaign, or something else entirely. Good luck!
Minecraft's price on PC is going up in many markets -- but not in the U.S.
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 21:35
Building your digital, blocky worlds is about to get more expensive for much of the world. Minecraft developer Mojang revealed today that the price for the PC version of its block-building game will be going up in many m...
Twitter will reportedly stop counting photos, links in 140-character tweet limit
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 21:11
Twitter might be making it easier to compose tweets, according to Bloomberg. It’s reported that the company will soon no longer count photos and links against its 140-character limit and that this plan may happen in �...
Xbox Live is giving away nearly 1 million dead gamertags on May 18
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 20:50
You could finally get that new Xbox Live name you’ve always wanted. Microsoft revealed today that its making about 1 million gamertags available for registering though a 24 hour period on May 18. These are old user nam...
Aspiring Millennial Coaches: This Mistake Is Keeping Your Business From Taking Off
Forbes - 16 May 2016 20:49
Do you have a coaching business or are you aspiring to start one? Learn a common mistake many millennial coaches make when they are starting out that keeps them from getting the traction they deserve.
How Not To Fix Social Security
Forbes - 16 May 2016 20:48
Using chained-CPI to adjust retirement benefits for inflation is like buying auto insurance that declines in value as the car wreck gets worse.
Lionsgate and Fifth Journey get tight with movie-based mobile games
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 20:00
Hollywood and games haven’t always gotten along. Consider the fact that Disney just pulled the plug on its toy-game Infinity series. Getting a movie-based game right isn’t easy, and that’s why movie studio Lionsgat...
HYPR launches App Blaster to put you in front of 1 billion social users
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 19:48
EXCLUSIVE: So you’ve built an app. With over 2,300 launching on the two major app stores every day, how will you make sure people see the digital embodiment of your blood, sweat, and tears? We have been analyzing mobil...
Apple releases iOS 9.3.2, lets you use Night Shift and Low Power Mode at same time
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 19:36
Apple today rolled out a key update to iOS 9.3. Version 9.3.2 solves one niggling problem with iOS 9’s Low Power Mode for extending the lasting power of the last 20 percent of an iOS device. In that mode, the Night Shi...
Musicians' Network Gigmor Stakes Its Future On Crowdfunding As New Rules Go Live
Forbes - 16 May 2016 19:23
The S.E.C.'s long-awaited crowdfunding rules take effect today, but the waiting continues as platforms rush to launch offerings.
Sony Mobile plans to consolidate product lines under Xperia X brand
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 19:01
Sony Mobile East Asia executives revealed a plan to consolidate the company’s disparate handset lines under the Xperia X brand, in a presentation to reporters (via Phone Arena). First introduced at Mobile World Congres...
MobileBeat 2016 will be the first major event to tackle the world of bots
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 18:25
VB EVENT: A new paradigm is rocking the mobile world. It's the unstoppable shift to artificial intelligence and messaging and away from apps as we know them. It's changing the way we use our devices, and it's allowing br...
How Investor Immigrants Could Help Canada Build Its Economy
Forbes - 16 May 2016 18:18
In a recent spate of negative articles about investor immigrants in Canada, particularly highlighting their impact on the Vancouver housing market, the media has focused on the government benefits their families are enjo...
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has amassed $1 billion of Apple stock
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 18:15
(Reuters) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Monday revealed a new stake in Apple in a bet that the stock’s price could rebound after iPhone sales fell for the first time. Berkshire held 9.81 million Apple sh...
What Will The City Of The Future Look Like?
Forbes - 16 May 2016 17:52
The way that cities evolve impacts our lives, personally and professionally. Jonathan Reichental works as the Chief Information Officer for the city of Palo Alto, reinventing sectors of the government that are struggling...
How This Online Design Company Got Google Ventures Funding -- On The First Pitch
Forbes - 16 May 2016 17:45
This entrepreneur is all about designing her own life. Armed with a Harvard MBA, stellar network and international upbringing, she breezed through her seed round of fundraising and is on her way to an even more exciting ...
Google's Waze pilots new carpooling service in Bay Area
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 17:41
Google-owned GPS driving app Waze is trialing a new carpooling service in the Bay Area, following a similar pilot it launched in Israel last summer. The new service, which is backed by the brand new Waze Rider app for An...
Apple v. Google v. PayPal: Who Will Win The $4.5TN Mobile Wallets War?
Forbes - 16 May 2016 17:29
Mobile wallets are an area of vital strategic interest for tech, retail and banking firms--and competition is heating up like never before.
IDC: Wearables grew 67.2% in Q1 2016, Fitbit still first as Xiaomi passes Apple for second
Venture Beat - 16 May 2016 17:11
Fitbit isn’t relinquishing its crown. Despite expectations that big tech companies will dominate wearables just as they have with smartphones and tablets, the little guy continues to hold on. In Q1 2016, Fitbit took fi...