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Apple analyst Gene Munster exits on a positive note
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 09:01
Gene Munster, the best known of all Wall Street analysts who follow Apple, wrote his 874th and final research note on the company Thursday night, predicting more big things from the tech giant. Apple was a much smaller c...
Sweden's Starbreeze buys India's video game studio Dhruva Interactive
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 16:00
Sweden’s Starbreeze, publisher of games such as Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, has acquired 90.5 percent of Indian game maker Dhruva Interactive for $8.5 million in cash and $1.5 million in stock. It’s one more sign o...
Chrome OS alone will not perfect Lenovo's Yoga Book
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 15:13
The strangest device I’ve used this year is Lenovo’s Yoga Book, specifically the Android variant, which costs $499. Without question, the two-in-one tablet is worthy of praise for being distinctive. But what makes it...
Play Pong on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar with this app
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 12:01
If you have a new MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, then there’s a great new game for you to play. It’s a variation on Pong, the Atari classic from the 1970s. But instead of controlling the location of your paddle with a...
You Wouldn't Hate Marketing If You Got More Revenue And Higher Valuation
Forbes - 18 Dec 2016 11:01
Stop asking your marketers to guarantee what they do and free them to take risks on more informed hypotheses. That's the stuff growth and exponential value comes from.
A first-time investor's guide to equity crowdfunding
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 22:10
GUEST: Over the last year you’ve probably seen a variation of the headline, “Anyone can now invest in startups!” With the birth of equity crowdfunding, we’ve seen the launch of new platforms, including one by Ind...
How AI could eliminate the job interview
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 01:18
We're about to hand over the keys to the kingdom. If you ask Elon Musk, it's possible we already have. That's right: Artificial intelligence is creeping into every area of our lives. It's more than just robots vacuuming ...
SimilarTech's profiler tells you all of the technologies that web companies are using
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 19:33
SimilarTech crawls the web to analyze what technologies are popular among web site operators. The company can track all of the technologies that a web site uses, and it ranks the web technologies in order of popularity. ...
Korea's startup scene begins to diversify, reach beyond its own borders
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 20:25
GUEST: South Korea's startup scene finally looks ready to go international. The Korean government is extending Korea's international reach in startup circles through initiatives like its fintech bridge with the UK. It's ...
LinkedIn resets some Lynda.com users' passwords following data leak
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 05:01
Online learning company Lynda.com, which is a subsidiary of LinkedIn, which is now officially a subsidiary of Microsoft, today sent out an email to some users alerting them to the breach of a database that includes conta...
Nintendo Switch patent shows off a VR-style headset
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 18:35
Nintendo continues to play with our emotions. The company has yet to outright state if its upcoming console, Switch, will support VR, but patents uncovered today suggest that it's certainly possible in the future. NeoGAF...
Fishbowl VR: Netflix, Hulu come out ahead of most 360-degree video apps
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 02:41
A lot of companies would have you believe 360-degree video is the future of storytelling. It's why 20th Century Fox just signed a deal with Felix and Paul, and IMAX is bringing VR stations to cinemas around the world. Bu...
Expertise Matters. Shocking, Right?
Forbes - 18 Dec 2016 21:20
We pride ourselves on being a scrappy company. At CCS, the skate shoe, apparel and skateboard businessI run, we bootstrap where we can, learn as we go, make mistakes, address them, and improve (hopefully). We like bringi...
How memes conquered our hearts and News Feeds
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 00:33
When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is reach for my phone (surprise, surprise). For years, I had always found the same kinds of notifications, usually texts from my mom nagging me to call her, work emails...
Jockeys trump horses in race to secure VC funding
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 19:05
GUEST: The average venture capital investor evaluates 200 companies in a given year. They invest in just four. Even once those four have been selected, completing the deals is labor-intensive, taking an average of 83 day...
Spoilers: Rogue One's computer-generated human fooled me
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 21:08
Spoiler alert. I stayed deliciously ignorant of the press around Rogue One: A Star Wars Story before I saw it last night. I’d agree with VentureBeat’s Chris O’Brien that it is one of the best Star Wars movies ever....
10 Small Business Website Errors That Drive Customers Away
Forbes - 18 Dec 2016 17:33
These tips can help ensure that the first experience with your website inspires prospects to contact you--not your competition.
When Will Jerry Jones And The Dallas Cowboys Reconsider Tony Romo?
Forbes - 18 Dec 2016 20:59
All it took for one bad outing by rookie quarterback Dak Prescott for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to open the door for Tony Romo's return. Cartoon by Rob Tornoe.
Side Hustle: A New Dance Or A Way Of Life For Millennials?
Forbes - 18 Dec 2016 18:30
Millennials may have dubbed their part-time, extra work as "side hustles," but they are not the first generation to take on odd jobs for financial survival. Baby Boomers like me understand it all too well and we are even...
Will Europe Also Turn Red?
Forbes - 18 Dec 2016 08:30
Ever since Brexit and the US elections, European café chatter has been about whether a similar alt-right turn-about could happen here. It could.
3 roadblocks chatbots face
Venture Beat - 18 Dec 2016 03:00
GUEST: While we think of them as the latest thing in tech, conversational interfaces have been around for quite some time. From Cleverbot and Smarter Child to labyrinthine phone trees ("say REPRESENTATIVE"), we have been...
Two Firms With Dodgy Software. One Went To Market. The Other? To Congress
Forbes - 18 Dec 2016 19:00
Zane Benefits openly defied the I.R.S. when it tried to sell its health reimbursement arrangements to small business. WEX Health tried a different tack.