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Legion is World of Warcraft's best expansion ever
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 23:30
REVIEW: World of Warcraft: Legion just gave the world’s leading paid-subscription massively multiplayer online role-playing game a massive boost in the right direction. The expansion pack’s enormous scope and nearly ...
See Zelda as a Studio Ghibli film in this fan trailer
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 23:15
Nintendo has dabbled in mediums outside of games. Fans have seen television shows, books, and even a Hollywood Mario Brothers movies. But animator is working to help us all imagine what it would look like if the publishe...
Blizzard games are suffering from another DDoS attack
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 22:46
Update: Battle.net is working again, according to Blizzard. Warcraft has as much a problem with cyberattackers as it does with demons. Blizzard’s games are currently experiences problems because of another distributed ...
Jill Stein Puts Financial Transactions Tax Front And Center At Northampton Church
Forbes - 20 Sep 2016 21:34
Jill Stein in Northampton on September 18 - The only part of the tax program that she mentioned is a financial transactions tax, which she characterized as making Wall Street pay sales tax. A "tiny tax" of 50 basis point...
Driving Tourism: F1's Mexican Grand Prix Unveils 90% Sell-Out Driven By Smart Marketing Strategy
Forbes - 20 Sep 2016 21:32
Organizers of Formula One’s Mexican Grand Prix have revealed that the race is already 90% sold-out despite capacity being boosted by 10% and the race not taking place until 30 October.
On Silicon Valley, Immigration, and American Greatness
Forbes - 20 Sep 2016 21:29
I wish more Americans had the opportunity to view immigration through this lens, and to viscerally appreciate the uncountable, extraordinary ways that new and recent arrivals contribute every day to American greatness.
7 Ways To Break Out Of Your SEO Plateau
Forbes - 20 Sep 2016 21:29
You aren't losing ground, but you aren't moving forward. How can you move past this SEO plateau? Here are seven ways.
Where Is The Uber Of Retail?
Forbes - 20 Sep 2016 21:28
The shared economy is expected to reach $20 billion by 2020, yet retail's contribution is evolving. A key challenge is mastering both on-demand service and inventory needs. I suspect the Uber of retail is out there, but ...
10 A.I. tools to help your business
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 21:10
GUEST: Many of the big players in IT are taking an interest in artificial intelligence nowadays. A.I. has already become a part of our daily lives and has the potential to penetrate further to fulfill our day-to-day need...
Andreessen Horowitz-backed AllSet raises $2.35 million to cut your restaurant wait in half
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 20:51
AllSet, an app that promises to cut restaurant wait time in half by allowing customers to book tables and preorder meals, announced today that it raised a $2.35 million investment led by New York-based VC firm Metamorphi...
Google Maps for Android now more precisely shows which direction you're facing
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 20:33
The latest Google Maps for Android update (9/16) contains a small but important change that isn’t mentioned on the change log: the direction arrow, which represents the user’s position on the map along with their bea...
Gamblit will bring The Brookhaven Experiment VR game into casinos
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 20:30
Gamblit Gaming has teamed up with Phosphor Games to take the virtual reality shooter game The Brookhaven Experiment into land-based casinos as part of an attempt to target younger gamblers. Younger folks visit casinos of...
Tumblr now supports Live Photos on the web, open-sources JavaScript library
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 19:46
Last year, Tumblr announced it would support Live Photos on its mobile apps. Fast-forward 10 months and the company is bringing that feature to the web. Now when someone has posted a Live Photo to any Tumblr site or prop...
How Google Trips automatically builds itineraries
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 19:00
The Google Trips mobile app, which Google launched yesterday, is smarter than you might realize. Behind the “Day plans” tile for the top 200 cities in the world, the app provides automatically generated itineraries f...
Google Search launches AMP support out of developer preview
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 19:00
Google today is announcing that it’s now going to start directing mobile web traffic to fast-loading Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) from Google search results whenever those pages are available. About six weeks ago Goo...
Apple starts rolling out macOS Sierra to all users
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 18:52
Apple is rolling out the latest version of its Mac operating system to all users today. People partaking in Apple’s public and developer betas have been able to try early versions of this release since July. Now, the o...
Google Drive now supports natural-language search
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 18:31
Google today announced the release of new features for its Google Drive cloud file syncing and sharing service. Now the tool will offer suggestions for misspelled words when you type in the search box. And also, you can ...
Making Incubators Productive And Relevant Without Subsidies!
Forbes - 20 Sep 2016 18:20
The reason why incubators face an uphill battle is the high failure rate and because no one can forecast the future. I am amazed that a major part of the world rotates around the view that some seers can forecast the fut...
Firefox 49 arrives with Reader Mode improvements, offline viewing on Android, and removes Firefox Hello
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 18:05
Mozilla today launched Firefox 49 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version includes expanded multi-process support, improvements to Reader Mode, and offline page viewing on Android. The built-in voice and vi...
Pokémon boss says that Pokémon Go could be heading to China and South Korea
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 17:45
Pokémon Go is trying to get into some key Asian territories. The Pokémon Company president and chief executive officer Tsunekazu Ishihara said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that he hopes to bring the loc...
Mark Organ, bad Kardashians, and the benevolence of Facebook - VB Engage
Venture Beat - 20 Sep 2016 17:19
Episode 20. XX. Veinte. (Or Venti, if you’re in Starbucks). A score. Twenty. Yep — we’ve made it this far, and we’ve got a great episode for you today! This week, Stewart and Travis talk about influencer marketin...
5 Things You Should Know About Interest Rates
Forbes - 20 Sep 2016 16:54
To understand how interest rates will change in the future, let’s look at the trends we’ve seen since 2010: Interest rates fell to historic lows, and buyers enjoyed those low rates on new mortgages. Rates bottomed ou...