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Peter Thiel reportedly is donating $1.25 million to Donald Trump
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 15:18
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is donating $1.25 million to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign, The New York Times reported. This is the first time Thiel has donated to Trump, according t...
4 ways A.I. and bots can't help the sales process
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 03:04
GUEST: If robots haven't taken your job, they've taken something else: all of the headlines. A.I. will transform work as we know it — in fact, it already has. Whether your business is in technology, finance, agricultur...
Air Berlin, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, and more ban Galaxy Note7 phones from flights
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 04:03
The bans come in response to numerous reports of the devices catching fire.
Customer service chatbots miss the big picture
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 23:10
GUEST: With all the hype around bots and the messaging economy, it's easy to see why most people would miss the bigger picture. The harsh truth is that bots in isolation will not deliver any benefits to the enterprise; t...
8 Influencer Marketing Trends That Will Lead You To Success
Forbes - 16 Oct 2016 22:47
Influencer marketing has skyrocketed in the past year, but you can't just start throwing money at the strategy without understanding the trends that shape it.
How to make ChatOps work at enterprise scale
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 22:05
GUEST: ChatOps was birthed from one of the more notorious plagues afflicting the modern operations team: information overload. Ongoing digital transformation initiatives, the relentless accumulation of data and alerts, a...
Entrepreneurship In Gynecology: Tracking Four Innovations In Women's Health
Forbes - 16 Oct 2016 21:35
Tomorrow I’m off to the 2016 meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), which I’ve attended almost every year since 1988. As a fund manager I’ll be looking for innovations and trends in early...
Chatbots have a superpower over apps
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 21:10
GUEST: Most of us are building bots the same way we built apps and sites: We are still building products for groups of people. But bots finally have a superpower. They can now personalize and customize content in a scala...
4 ways founders can avoid an investor coup
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 20:08
GUEST: In late July, augmented reality startup Skully ceased operations. How did it go from the most successful wearable tech Indiegogo campaign to defunct in less than two years? Its investors threw out its founders. Th...
'Rock Hall Of Famer' Jerry Harrison Launching Red Crow Equity Crowdfund Platform
Forbes - 16 Oct 2016 19:30
Angel investor and ‘Rock & Roll’ hall of famer Jerry Harrison, most widely known for his work with the Talking Heads, is set to launch equity crowd funding portal Red Crow this November, which will initially target �...
At Notre Dame CMO Summit, GE's Linda Boff Keynotes Event Designed To Bridge Practice, Academia
Forbes - 16 Oct 2016 19:08
World-class marketing leaders recently descended on South Bend, Indiana, for the first-annual Notre Dame Chief Marketing Officer Summit, presented by the Mendoza College of Business and Forbes CMO Network.
Quill lets you create 3D illustrations in virtual reality
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 19:05
At the recent Oculus Connect event, some virtual reality applications didn’t fit into any category. Quill was one of those, part interactive comic book, part VR film, and part VR creation tool. It’s not really a game...
IBM Earnings: What Wall Street Expects From The Technology Giant
Forbes - 16 Oct 2016 18:29
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has been turning the corner recently, as revenues from emerging business segments have begun to make up for losses in declining business segments. Big Blue has exceeded both top and bottom line analyst es...
Zero Is The Loneliest Number, At Least For Presidential Candidates And Their Taxes
Forbes - 16 Oct 2016 17:37
When it come paying taxes, how much is too little? The answer depends on whether you're running for president. Ever since someone leaked portions of Donald Trump's 20-year-old state tax returns, people have been speculat...
Can A Board Of Directors Really Help My Company?
Forbes - 16 Oct 2016 17:12
What should you expect from a high performance board? What role does a board play in the strategic planning of your business? Use your board of directors to anticipate problems. Don’t wait until the fire starts to ...
Gears of War 4, Titanfall 2 lead Microsoft's TV advertising charge in September
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 17:02
GUEST: Consoles remind your smartphone where the best experience lives. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real-time, to bring you a monthly report on how gaming brands are spending. ...
Shark Tank Mompreneur's Accidental Invention On Way To Being The Next Big Thing
Forbes - 16 Oct 2016 16:01
Some kids and temper tantrums go hand in hand like Big Bird and yellow when you try to wipe the mess off of their faces. Stay-at-home mom Danielle Stangler accidentally discovered it could be a fuss-free feat when she wi...
Battlefield 1 multiplayer impressions: It's tough to survive in your first match
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 15:00
Battlefield 1 is here at long last, for some of us. I played my first multiplayer match on the Xbox One as the first servers went live. This game is one of the biggest titles from Electronic Arts and its DICE studio sinc...
Small Business Tech News This Week: Facebook Wants To Help, But Amazon Just Wants To Compete
Forbes - 16 Oct 2016 13:00
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
China to launch manned space mission Shenzhou 11 on Monday
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 12:55
President Xi Jinping has called for China to establish itself as a space power, and it has tested anti-satellite missiles, in addition to its civilian aims.
Japanese asset management startup WealthNavi raises $15M
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 09:15
Tokyo-based WealthNavi, the company offering a technology-based asset management service under the same name, announced on Wednesday that it has fundraised 1.5 billion yen (about $15 million) in a series B round. Partici...
European-led Mars lander to start descent to red planet
Venture Beat - 16 Oct 2016 07:24
A Mars lander is due to leave its mothership on Sunday and head toward the red planet's surface to test technologies for Europe's planned first Mars rover, which will search for signs of past and present life.