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U.S. court reinstates Apple $120 million patent win over Samsung
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 05:15
(Reuters) — A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a $120 million jury award for Apple Inc against Samsung, marking the latest twist in the fierce patent war between the world’s top smartphone manufacturers. Th...
Federal Reserve governor says blockchain is revolutionary, but still has to prove itself
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 12:03
(Reuters) — The technology behind the controversial bitcoin electronic currency could lead to sweeping improvements in how financial transactions are carried out worldwide, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said o...
Amazon changes some users' passwords following leak
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 23:33
Amazon today sent some of its users an email informing them that it has changed their passwords. Amazon made the move after discovering a list of email addresses and passwords that had been published online and suspectin...
Samsung says Apple wants a Supreme Court patent ruling 'that stifles innovation'
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 22:12
Following yesterday’s U.S. appeals court ruling upholding a jury decision in favor of Apple and against Samsung over Samsung’s infringement of Apple patents, today Samsung issued a statement saying that it’s “loo...
Landfall brings old-fashioned top-down shooter action to Oculus Rift and VR
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 22:00
Landfall is a new Oculus Touch-based top-down shooter game where you get to view an entire sci-fi battlefield and maneuver your soldier through it. It is one of a wave of good-looking titles coming for the Oculus Touch c...
5 Marketing Lessons You Can Learn from the Presidential Election
Forbes - 8 Oct 2016 21:49
The presidential election is almost at an end and most of the country couldn’t be happier at that fact. But businesses might be looking at the presidential election in a different way. There are a lot of marketing less...
The FDA's 5-year delay on automated medicine must end
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 21:10
GUEST: Just as cars are beginning to drive themselves, healthcare decision-making is facing its own automation ramp up. Soon, patients will be able to enter their current symptoms through a portal, with the help of an in...
Watch us play PlayStation VR games, Round 2: Batman, London Heist, and a dance party
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 20:30
I’ve lived in the harsh light of reality for too long. It’s time for me to return to go back into the simulation. Earlier this week, I shared my early thoughts about PlayStation VR and did a livestream on Facebook sh...
A startup founder's playbook for transforming big industry
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 20:10
GUEST: Agile development, rapid learning, granular instrumentation, a large-scale compute and data infrastructure, cutting-edge machine learning — these are the ingredients that give innovative companies their edge. Bu...
7 Things Every Partnership Agreement Needs To Address
Forbes - 8 Oct 2016 18:45
If you are running your business with one or more partners, having a clear and complete partnership agreement in place is essential for those moments when the group doesn't quite see eye to eye.
Slack bot builder Howdy now supports Microsoft's Bot Framework
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 18:15
The main set of tools used to create Microsoft and Slack bots now work together, the companies told VentureBeat this week. The integration means Microsoft Bot Framework users will be able to make bots for Slack, and Botk...
10 Tips To Use For Your Next Marketing Interview
Forbes - 8 Oct 2016 18:06
Preparing yourself for a marketing interview requires a bit more work than most other positions. Millennials have found themselves emerged with the digital marketing world, so any job involving marketing requires some te...
Destiny: Rise of Iron suffers from The Taken King's excellence
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 17:00
It’s not easy to keep people playing the same game for years. To do so, you need a lot of content. You studios have to make so much stuff that you might overlook creating anything interesting. Destiny: Rise of Iron is ...
Lone Echo multiplayer is like Quidditch, Ender's Game, and Tron in VR
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 15:00
PREVIEW: Lone Echo is one of the interesting virtual reality games coming for the Oculus Touch. Set in outer space, it gives you a real feeling of moving through zero gravity on a space station, and it looks like it will...
Can A Recruiting Video Make You Cry?
Forbes - 8 Oct 2016 14:30
With the rise of video eating into our attention span, it's becoming increasingly difficult for companies leveraging videos to help them recruit. Five years ago a recruiting video was a differentiator. Today it's become ...
How Pocket Gems' Episode has seen 700% growth -- appealing to Gen Z
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 14:25
GUEST: Many entertainment platforms have attempted to reach Generation Z (people born in the 1990s to mid-2000s), but few have succeeded. Snapchat and YouTube are good examples of companies who are popular with Gen Z …...
Growing a Startup Without Funding: How 5 Entrepreneurs Made Bootstrapping Work
Forbes - 8 Oct 2016 13:59
Bootstrapping a company takes a lot of courage, especially when you’re going up against industry incumbents in an increasingly-crowded SaaS market. Those successful companies have time and experience on their side. The...
Yahoo facing lawsuit alleging job reviews discriminated against men
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 08:30
(Reuters) — A Yahoo Inc media executive fired from the internet company last year has filed a lawsuit claiming a job review process implemented by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer was used to cut men from executive ranks ...
Apple mysteriously banned a popular app from the App Store, and a lot of programmers are mad
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 07:01
Apple has banned a popular app for programmers from its app store, as well as deleted the app developer’s account, the developer says. The app, called Dash, is for Macs and iOS. It’s been around for years. It lets de...
Twilio files paperwork for $400 million secondary offering
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 03:05
Twilio has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise an additional $400 million from the public market. The company said that it will not receive any proceeds from this transaction and tha...
PSVR needs more games that simulate low-tech social spaces
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 03:01
I’ve put a lot of time into PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift (and compared them to one another), and I’ve learned that I don’t want these headsets to try to re-create the kinds of experiences I play on a T...
Too many buttons spoil the bot
Venture Beat - 8 Oct 2016 01:10
GUEST: Dashbot.io, a tool for analyzing bots, recently surpassed 70 million messages processed. One of the questions that comes up often for developers is buttons. What performs better: free-form text input or button-dri...