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Mobile Marketing Automation Moves
Forbes - 20 Aug 2016 18:25
Mobile Marketing Automation technology will be a growing area of the on-going digital evolution of Marketing. Kahuna a vendor to watch in this space has just brought in a new CEO, Sameer Patel, to help grow their leaders...
The 10 biggest European tech stories this week
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 08:44
This week, Tech.eu tracked 11 technology M&A transactions and 37 funding deals (totalling €159 million, about $1.8 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items fo...
Bots better smarten up ... fast
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 22:45
GUEST: You can’t offend a bot. Most of them don’t have enough of a personality to be offended. Not only that, few of the bots available today are smart enough to debate with anyone. There are plenty of bot developmen...
VR: Bigger than reality, eventually (part 1)
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 17:02
GUEST: The day their son took his first steps, Mark Zuckerberg's parents did what most anyone would do in 1985: they wrote it down. Fast forward to when Zuckerberg's sister documented the first steps of her sons: she use...
The Statutory Problem With IRS Firearms
Forbes - 20 Aug 2016 05:57
I never thought that there was any legal question about the authority of IRS criminal investigators to be armed. There are quite a few specialized federal law enforcement organizations. Their officers have arrest power...
4 takeaways from the bankruptcy sale of Gawker Media
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 03:48
Univision is acquiring Gawker Media for $135 million, news reports confirmed this week, beating out Ziff Davis in an auction for the media company's assets. Nick Denton founded Gawker in 2002, after selling an early news...
Why Silicon Valley and mobile operators are putting their eggs in the bot basket
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 23:30
GUEST: "Hey Siri! Why did Apple make you?" Even if you haven't tried it, everyone knows about Siri, Apple's speech interpretation and recognition personal assistant. The bot is available at the touch of a button or voice...
Why the New York Times sent this chatbot creator a cease and desist
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 21:10
It’s probably not a good idea to use the word disintermediating on a Saturday. Yet the legal term might be one you should learn if you are developing a new chatbot or already have one available. In a recent post, Chris...
Diving into the Samsung app store: soup, superheroes, and doodling with the devil
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 20:00
FEATURE: Follow along on the next leg of my Samsung app store travels, as I uncover a devil stronger than a god, a restaurant that caters to off-putting cardboard people, and a handful of surprisingly competent licensed�...
SmartBiz Helps SMB Entrepreneurs Lower Cost Of Capital With Faster SBA Loans
Forbes - 20 Aug 2016 19:19
Have you tried to get an SBA loan? Solutions--those tied to traditional lenders--are emerging to provide faster, less risky finance options with a lower cost of capital.
Game execs recommend 32 practices for fostering creativity and diversity
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 17:02
A lot of executives say they believe in diversity and creativity, but they don’t always know how to promote it inside their companies. At our GamesBeat 2016 conference, a panel of game industry veterans talked about ho...
Deep work: how to prevent collaboration clusterf*#k
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 16:15
GUEST: The workplace dynamic is always changing to maximize performance. First, it focused on the individual: HR does performance reviews for individuals, we are hired as individuals, fired as individuals, etc. A few yea...
Want To Boost Your Content Marketing Strategy? Try Striking Up Controversy.
Forbes - 20 Aug 2016 14:00
There are real benefits to stirring up controversy with your content. Here's how to do it effectively within your content marketing strategy.
Massachusetts adds tax to ride-hailing apps, will give 5 cents per ride to taxis
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 06:32
(Reuters) – Massachusetts is preparing to levy a 5-cent fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such asUber and Lyft and spend the money on the traditional taxi industry, a subsidy that appears to be the first of its kind in...
Fox News launches a Facebook Messenger bot you can't talk to
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2016 01:28
Fox News has launched a Facebook Messenger bot, and it takes advantage of a change in Facebook Messenger policy made earlier this week. Facebook Messenger Product Manager Seth Rosenberg announced Monday that in addition ...
Meet The Hacking Tribes Of The Tech World
Forbes - 20 Aug 2016 00:10
Silicon Valley is home to some fantastic subcultures. These are the ones you need to know about.