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Why You Should Launch Your Hardware Startup In Shenzhen
Forbes - 29 Sep 2016 05:38
Its reputation as a global manufacturing hub gives this city an amazing edge in developing hardware related startups.
This chart shows why Pokémon Go's server collapse was inevitable
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 23:25
When Pokémon Go launched in July, it was nearly unplayable at times due to overloaded servers. Now, Google is giving a look behind the scenes to show fans exactly why that was unavoidable. Pokémon Go generated 50 times...
3 workplaces where human assistance bots can improve daily life
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 23:10
GUEST: As technological advancements power a new age of artificial intelligence (A.I.), automation, smart living, and the like, the range of roles that robots can play in the workplace has broadened beyond mere novelty a...
Zynga hires former EA executive as its chief financial officer
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 22:05
Social mobile game publisher Zynga is announcing today it has hired games industry vet Gerard Griffin as chief financial officer. Griffin spent the past 10 years at Electronic Arts, where he served as the No. 2 finance e...
The FCC is making emergency alerts longer... and adding links
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 21:22
You may start to get longer, more detailed messages in the future from the government or law enforcement when danger is afoot. The Federal Communications Commission voted today to change rules related to its Wireless Eme...
Forget millennials: 5 reasons the 'new generation' will love chatbots
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 21:10
GUEST: At Sure, we design our product, a bot that recommends food and drink spots in London and Copenhagen, based on the millennial perspective. Rather than calling out millennials or Gen Xers, however, our friends at re...
Women In Tech: Sorry, John Greathouse, You're Wrong
Forbes - 29 Sep 2016 21:01
Now, how do you disprove a prejudice? You put it to the test. If I told you the sky was green and you weren't quite sure, you should probably go outside and look up. Boom, prejudice destroyed. If I told you men were bett...
Ubisoft sheds more details on its victory over Vivendi at annual meeting
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 20:55
Ubisoft shed more light on its annual meeting where its slate of directors was elected despite a looming takeover battle with French media company Vivendi. Ubisoft said the shareholders expressed “massive support for t...
Google updates Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides with machine intelligence features
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 20:54
Today in conjunction with Google’s Horizon business-oriented cloud computing conference where it announced the formation of the Google Cloud brand, Google introduced new features for some of the Google apps that are no...
Epic Games dishes out $50,000 in Unreal developer grants
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 20:00
Epic Games has announced a new wave of recipients for its Unreal Dev Grants, which gives no-strings-attached funding to people, groups, and developers that work with Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 design tools. The developer p...
Google reorganizes cloud services under new 'Google Cloud' brand
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 19:24
Today at its Horizon business-oriented cloud computing conference, Google announced the launch of the Google Cloud, which includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, but also Google Apps for Work, ent...
This Millennial Turned His Spooky Passion Into A $1M Horror Show
Forbes - 29 Sep 2016 19:08
Dalton Dale discovered he loved spooking people as a child, while helping out on a haunted house his family ran for fun in North Carolina. At one point, it attracted more than 5,000 people in one day, he says.
Amazon launches $2.5 million Alexa Prize for college students building bots
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 19:04
Amazon announced the Alexa Prize this morning, a new annual challenge to create chatty bots. College students who build the best ‘socialbot’ will win a $500,000 prize. The bot that does the best job maintaining an en...
Fig's non-accredited game-investment platform is now SEC-approved
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 18:45
It worked. It really worked. The raving mad folks over at Fig said they could turn anyone into an investor, and now that United States government has validated that plan. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
Higher Logic raises $55 million to help organizations create online communities
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 18:32
Cloud-based community platform provider Higher Logic has raised $55 million from JMI Equity. Founded in 2007, Virginia-based Higher Logic is essentially a white-label CRM platform that lets any online organization build ...
How To Hire Better Engineers: Ignore School Degrees And Past Projects
Forbes - 29 Sep 2016 18:03
For most, the process of evaluating and hiring an engineer is something of an inexact art. Companies try to insert their own quantitative measures into the process, but they're often misguided or not implemented with con...
Titanfall 2's cinematic trailer examines the aspirations of a lowly grunt
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 18:00
We’re a month away from the launch of the sequel to one of this generation’s most notable new franchises, and publisher Electronic Arts is amping up the marketing. Titanfall 2 received a new trailer this morning in t...
Cell Design Labs, Little Partner of Kite Pharma, Pushes T-cell Engineering Frontier
Forbes - 29 Sep 2016 18:00
Engineered T cells are powerful emerging tools of cancer treatment. But scientists are still very much trying to figure out how to best keep these powerful cancer-killing cells from proliferating to dangerous excesses, k...
Get More Done: Productivity Tips From Work-At-Home Pros
Forbes - 29 Sep 2016 17:57
Only seven percent of workers name their office as their most productive venue when they've got work to do, according to a recent FlexJobs survey. But working at home can be equally distracting. Here's some advice on get...
Small business burdened by ever-growing pile of regulations
Forbes - 29 Sep 2016 17:51
Small-business owners are feeling burdened by the growing list of government regulations, according to the newest release of the NFIB Research Foundation’s quadrennial Small Business Problems and Priorities survey. The...
Ubisoft claims win over Vivendi's hostile takeover in board election
Venture Beat - 29 Sep 2016 17:49
Ubisoft evidently won a victory today over French media company Vivendi in its attempt to thwart a hostile takeover, as the French publisher’s board of directors approved its slate of candidates in the annual meeting. ...
How Umi's Founders Are Using Tech To Bring You The Comfort of Mom's Home Cooking
Forbes - 29 Sep 2016 17:32
Hallie Meyer, Khalil Tawil, and former Tumblr VP Derek Gottfrid are empowering a handful of New Yorkers to share their home-cooked grub with hungry urbanites through their newly launched company Umi Kitchen.