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Ten Tax Questions That Must Be Answered At Tonight's Presidential Debate
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 16:12
In just a few short hours, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump are set to square off in the first presidential debate of the 2016 campaign, in an event that is sure to be remembered for the mutual admiration and respect the ...
Better Business Loans: Wirefund Revamping SME Finance Industry
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 16:14
A new UK startup wants to change how business loans are issued. It's removing personal guarantees, late payment penalties and
How to watch the U.S. Presidential debates online
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 00:58
Clinton versus Trump: How to livestream the 2016 debates online.
The original Pikmin is coming to Wii U's eShop
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 23:55
Nintendo wants to give you all another chance to control the little critters in your garden. Pikmin, the original 2001 Gamecube strategy puzzler, is heading to the Wii U’s eShop for $20 on Thursday. This adventure puts...
Can You Make Teleworking Work For You?
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 23:51
Here's a scenario that every small business owner fears: A key employee resigns because he or she cannot continue to come to your place of business to work for reasons out of their control, such as an illness or a family...
Microsoft will release a 'relationship assistant' for Dynamics CRM in November
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 23:44
Microsoft will incorporate into its Dynamics CRM customer relationship management (CRM) software a mobile-friendly “relationship assistant” that will recommend actions for salespeople to take. The feature will ship i...
How 4 chatbots responded to random, unrelated questions
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 23:10
GUEST: Chatbots are not new, especially for this generation. In fact, back in 2000, if any of you had ever been an avid user of AOL Instant Messenger, you probably tried chatting with its bot, SmarterChild. I did. I used...
Overcharge adds Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube integration to Twitch's esports livestreams
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 22:55
A new startup wants to improve the Twitch esports experience with an information-rich platform for competitive gaming fans. Overcharge is a new platform for watching live esports from Twitch. The site is up now, and it a...
What Google, Apple, And The World's Best Ice Cream Stand Know About Customer Service
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 22:43
Providing great customer service requires you to do business on the schedule of your customers: stretching yourself to meet a customer's timing needs even when it means rearranging your workflow in ways that are messy an...
Microsoft launches Azure Monitor public preview, H-Series VM instances
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 21:58
Microsoft today announced the launch of a new type of compute-intensive virtual machine (VM) instances for its Azure public cloud, along with a public preview for a new cloud infrastructure monitoring service called Azur...
How Playboy grew its social presence from 11M to 29M -- the answer isn't nudes (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 21:55
VB LIVE: Want to tap the tremendous millennial opportunity on every social channel? Hear from Playboy's Chief Digital Officer and CRO how a revamp of their social strategy dropped their average user age from 47 to just 3...
Why Ugly Shoes Are Having A Moment In Fashion
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 21:45
The emergence of 'ugly' shoes in fashion says a lot about how today's brands vie for our attention.
Empire: The Distribution Company That Turned Music Streaming Pennies Into Profit
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 21:35
Ghazi Shami's Empire Distribution was a small startup in 2010. Now it's a go-to digital distribution company for independent artists and record labels to get their music out onto major platforms.
The Nintendo 64 is now 20 years old
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 21:30
FEATURE: This story originally published during the Nintendo 64’s 20th anniversary of its Japanese launch. September 26, 1996 was when it came out in the U.S., so we’re highlighting this piece to help celebrate. Twen...
How machine learning can help the security industry
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 21:10
GUEST: Machine learning (ML) is such a hot area in security right now. At the 2016 RSA Conference, you would be hard pressed to find a company that is not claiming to use ML for security. And why not? To the layperson, M...
Plex can now organize and play your movies from Amazon's cloud
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 20:50
Plex wants you to have all your digital movies available on your Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nvidia Shield whenever you need it without having to maintain expensive storage drives and finicky routers. The company reveal...
Today's Must-Reads For Entrepreneurs: WhatsApp And Messenger Change The Way Businesses Talk To Customers
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 20:38
News and insights for business owners from around the web, including whether an owner who creates a board of directors is still in control.
Microsoft is killing Yammer Enterprise in January 2017, will start integrating Office 365 Groups first
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2016 20:33
Microsoft today provided new information about how it will be integrating Office 365 Groups into its Yammer enterprise social network. The integration will make it possible for people to make Word, Excel, and PowerPoint ...
IRS Announces Private Collection Firms - They Start In The Spring
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 20:29
Given the sad and deteriorating state of IRS collections, this move is probably a free lunch for the government, since the accounts would likely otherwise expire with the ten year statute of limitations on collections. T...
Hillary Clinton's Phantom Tax Relief Plan
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 20:28
Hillary Clinton would like voters to believe she's the candidate most likely to help working Americans. After a surprisingly difficult primary fight with a socialist senator from Vermont, Clinton has adopted a lot of pop...
How One Self-Funded Home Decor Brand Is Challenging Big Box Retailers With Their Supply Chain
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 19:45
Last month, Target decided to pull all the bedsheets, manufactured by one supplier in India, Welspun Inc. Could this be the beginning of a transparency revolution at big box retailers? “I’m surprised that Target was ...
How To Find The Right Person For The Job
Forbes - 26 Sep 2016 19:42
The conventional wisdom is that hiring is hard for small businesses because of what they supposedly lack: some combination of not being able to offer high enough wages, sufficient benefit packages, or fulfilling career l...