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Meet The 27-Year-Old Behind Staud, The Newest It Girl Clothing Brand
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 15:30
27-year-old Sarah Staudinger and partner George Augusto are the cofounders behind Staud, a vintage-inspired women's clothing brand. Staudinger is the former Fashion Director of Reformation, and along with Augusto, she la...
Gboard arrives on Android, replacing Google Keyboard
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 20:50
Google today announced the availability of its Gboard virtual keyboard for its Android mobile operating system. The app effectively replaces Google’s standard-issue Google Keyboard in the Play Store. Gboard actually ca...
Metropolitan Capital Opens East Region Office in New York
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 01:05
PRESS RELEASE: Metropolitan Capital, a universal bank serving clients in 44 states, is pleased to announce the opening of its East Region office in New York City. Since its founding in Chicago in 2005, Metropolitan Capit...
Customer sues IRS to stop probe into Coinbase bitcoin accounts
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 08:00
A Los Angeles attorney is asking a federal judge to halt an IRS probe into more than a million customer accounts at Coinbase, a popular site for buying and holding the crypto-currency bitcoin. In a complaint filed Tuesda...
Super Mario Run's internet-connection requirement is dumb
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 00:45
Nintendo is bad at the internet. Remember Friend Codes? Well, they’re back in the publisher’s first Mario game for mobile devices. But that’s not the biggest problem with one of the most anticipated iOS games of th...
Marketers, Here's How Your Customers Feel About Privacy
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 19:23
Forrester introduces its Consumer Privacy Segmentation to help marketers understand how their customers react to privacy.
8Bitdo's wireless NES Classic controller solves the cable problem without losing the nostalgia
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 03:30
Nintendo has one of the hottest holiday gift items of 2016 with the NES Classic Edition (our review), but that system’s short controller cable has created an opportunity for third-party peripheral makers to flourish. A...
17 Key Lessons For Entrepreneurs Starting A Business
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 18:05
Starting a new business can be a daunting task. Before you make your dream of business ownership a reality, be sure you understand these important issues.
November 2016 NPD: Pokémon has its biggest debut in franchise history
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 01:30
November gave us the PlayStation 4 Pro, the PlayStation VR, and the NES Classic Edition, but spending is still down. The video game industry generated $1.97 billion in revenues in the United States in November, according...
Higher Purpose Leadership: A Year of Lost and Found
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 01:31
I lost my father last winter and my mother died the previous spring. With the pain of two goodbyes in quick succession, it's taken me a while to embrace the celebration of life and legacy. My emotions still ebb and flow,...
Another Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Artificial Turf Maker
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 00:50
This is the second major suit against FieldTurf within several days.
How To Creatively Celebrate Your Team's Wins
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 20:24
When celebrating your team's wins, it's important to let your culture shine through. At BodeTree, that means a Star Wars celebration.
Super Mario Run is the top-grossing iOS app in 30 countries (update)
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 17:00
Nintendo has the biggest game on iOS right now. Super Mario Run is No.1 on the iOS download and grossing charts in the United States, according to intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That’s abnormally high for a game witho...
Almost 70% of CEOs now expect CMOs to lead revenue growth
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 15:15
A decade ago marketing leaders could be Don Draper. Today, the three-martini lunch and afternoon golf is off the table, and replacing it is an expectation that marketing will lead top-line revenue growth. Goodbye brand a...
A Navy SEAL's 10 Principles For Navigating Organizational Change
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 19:29
There are plenty of resources on change management and oodles of "expert" consultants companies can higher. So why do so many organizations get it wrong? In a 2013 Strategy& and Katzenbach Center survey of global senior ...
Can Turo Do For Automobiles What Airbnb Has Done For Apartments?
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 02:27
Airbnb has grown from a stunt to make money renting out airbeds during a tech conference in San Francisco into the world's biggest hotel operator by available rooms. Now Turo is attempting to do the same with cars.
How To Identify The Most Dangerous Person In Your Company
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 23:14
Disrupters are absolutely necessary, but not if it means damaging a company's core values.
Nintendo Switch goes on tour: It may be coming to a city near you
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 19:40
March can feel like a long way away for Nintendo fans dying to try the company’s new system. Well, if you’re lucky enough to live near one of North America’s biggest cities, you’ll get to try it before then. Nint...
4 takeaways from Oracle's earnings call
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 18:45
For its second quarter ended Nov. 30, database software giant Oracle posted revenue of $9.07 billion, up 1% compared to the year-ago quarter, just missing analyst expectations of $9.14 billion. Once again, the key metric...
KickassTorrents is back thanks to original KAT staff
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 16:45
vThe KickassTorrents website (also known as Kickass Torrents, or just KAT) has been resurrected. A group of the original staff, which first brought the community part of the site back at katcr.co, have now relaunched the...
Open-Xchange raises $5.2 million and teams with Qwant to develop email with new privacy protections
Venture Beat - 16 Dec 2016 14:28
Berlin-based Open-Xchange, a long-time provider of white label email, is taking a giant leap into the consumer space by developing a service designed to strike a new balance between privacy and advertising. During a Fren...
Why Retention Will Be The Biggest Talent Challenge Of 2017
Forbes - 16 Dec 2016 20:00
As companies continue to focus on recruiting and talent attraction strategies to compete in today's talent market, are they missing a key component that may undermine that work? Retention will be the key to a successful ...