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This Entrepreneur Is Killing It And Raising More Money For Nonprofits In the Bargain
Forbes - 18 Oct 2016 23:54
Tim Kachuriak, founder of NextAfter, recently listed on the Inc. 500, helps nonprofits increase donations by using scientifically sound economic principles and statistics. The company expects to reach $4 million in sales...
10 things I hate about the Google Pixel's Assistant
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 23:07Nielsen: Mobile games live and die on how fast developers can crank out new content
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 23:05
Mobile gamers can be insatiable. And that appetite is the key challenge for developers trying to maintain momentum for a popular app. Nielsen, the intelligence firm that studies consumer media behavior, has released rese...
Even Houston College Of Law Seems To Ignore The Secret To Preventing Trademark Litigation
Forbes - 18 Oct 2016 22:52
There is a secret to preventing trademark infringement litigation. But on a weekly basis, we see that the secret appears to be hidden in plain sight. It's a secret which might escape even law school administrators. One t...
Microsoft says its speech recognition is now on par with humans
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 22:51
Trained neural networks at Microsoft are now as good at recognizing the human voice as humans, researchers announced today. In a report released Monday, researchers pitted its NIST 2000 automated system against professio...
Microsoft sends invites for November 2 Office event in New York
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 22:28
Microsoft today sent out media invitations for an event at 11 a.m. Eastern on November 2 in New York where chief executive Satya Nadella and Office corporate vice president Kirk Koenigsbauer will speak. The executives wi...
Yahoo reports solid $1.31 billion in Q3 revenue as Verizon deal moves forward
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 22:18
Yahoo ($YHOO) has declared its earnings for its third quarter, generating in $1.31 billion in revenue and an earnings per share of $0.17. Wall Street analysts had been expecting the company to report $1.31 billion in rev...
Intel reports better-than-expected earnings as data center chips grow 13% to $4.5 billion
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 22:14
Intel reported third-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates, driven by revenues from data center chips and the Internet of Things. And it sounds a lot more bullish than it had about its core PC chip market. Intel h...
Stealth Bastard developer Curve Digital brings in VR specialist as new studio head
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 22:05
Indie studio Curve Digital is aiming to take on the virtual reality market, and that has it bringing in new talent. The developer announced today that it has appointed former Sony Interactive Entertainment London Studios...
How To Deal With Stress: Tips For Small Business Owners
Forbes - 18 Oct 2016 21:13
“As much as you want to have everything work perfect in your organization, it’s probably not going to work perfect,” says Jim Sever President/CEO of PSC Crace & Rigging, in the video above.
3 ways chatbots deliver ROI for customer service
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 21:10
GUEST: Marketing pros always like to talk about the cool factor. In advertising it drives curiosity. In a new product it creates demand. But with the cool factor for customer engagement, the proof is in the plateau — t...
5 Ways Brands Can Improve Customer Service Via Technology
Forbes - 18 Oct 2016 21:04
Brands would be wise to use technology as a competitive advantage when it comes to customer service.
Hearthstone Arena: crazy stats from 157 million hours of playtime in 2016
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 21:03
Dr. Boom might have been kicked out of Hearthstone’s Standard format, but the powerful Legendary is still terrorizing players. Blizzard Entertainment has released an infographic sharing stats for the Arena mode of its ...
Indian-Americans Poised To Make History In Upcoming Congressional Elections
Forbes - 18 Oct 2016 20:37
Here is a closer look at three Indian-American candidates most likely to win this November and why they are so close to victory.
Facebook's Storyful-powered newswire service shutting down on October 18
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 20:30
Facebook’s FB Newswire service is shutting down on October 18 after more than 2.5 years as a resource for journalists to understand what’s being talked about on the social network. A specific explanation for its demi...
Prey clip details an alternate timeline where JFK survives his trip to Dallas
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 20:00
The new Prey game isn’t just rebooting that franchise — it’s also rebooting real-world history. Bethesda released a video today for the shooter from Arkane Studios that dives into the lore of the sci-fi world. Whil...
Google Cloud Shell now includes a browser-based text editor
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 19:49
Google today announced that it has added a web-based text editor to its Google Cloud Shell tool for managing Google public cloud resources from the Google Cloud Platform’s online console. As a result, you can now easil...
iOS 10.1 may fix your iPhone 7's Bluetooth issues
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 19:45
Despite Apple’s vision of a wireless future, the company’s new flagship phones have been riddled with Bluetooth connectivity issues. The issues are caused, at least in part, by a bug in Apple’s implementation of a ...
Instagram adds Stories to search and explore tab
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 19:29
Two months ago, Instagram launched its Snapchat Stories feature, which lets users create candid snapshots of their day. Now after more than 100 million people have become daily viewers, Instagram is making stories more v...
Chrome for Android gets its own bleeding-edge Canary channel
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 19:23
Google has announced that it’s expanding its bleeding-edge Canary channel for Chrome to Android. Historically, Google has introduced early versions of Chrome upgrades to the early adopter / developer fraternity, who pu...
Watch Dogs 2 delayed 2 weeks on PC
Venture Beat - 18 Oct 2016 19:15
Ubisoft is notorious for treating the PC versions of its games as if they aren’t nearly as important as their console counterparts. Or that’s at least how many PC players feel. Well, now the French publisher is attem...
Content Marketing For Specific Industries: eCommerce
Forbes - 18 Oct 2016 19:13
The next industry I want to cover in this series of articles is eCommerce. Mind you, eCommerce is more of a medium rather than an industry. But for the purpose of this article, we’ll consider these strategies as workin...