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PayPal saw nearly $1 billion in charitable donations over the holidays
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 15:00
PayPal has tallied up all the charitable donations it processed during the recent holiday season. The online payment processing company announced that 8 million PayPal users from 181 countries donated $971.21 million to ...
Marijuana Industry Fears If Sessions Is Confirmed, Dispensaries Could Get Shut Down
Forbes - 10 Jan 2017 15:00
Marijuana industry players fear that if Jeff Sessions is confirmed as the next Attorney General he will shut down dispensaries with six months.
This Travel Startup Places Rich Asian Families In Their Dream Vacation Homes
Forbes - 10 Jan 2017 07:19
Afini is, first and foremost, an exclusive club. People apply to become a member and this gives them access to the company's collection of 25 large, luxury properties in 12 countries.
Why Garmin gave creative a seat at the marketing table (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 23:30
VB LIVE: The heart of your campaigns is effective creative — but are your campaigns being stunted by siloed departments? Learn more about how personal tech leader Garmin reshaped their marketing department to gain huge...
Upcoming HTC 'Ocean Note' pictured with secondary ticker display
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 23:19
HTC is holding a launch event on Thursday where it will reveal several phones it plans to release this quarter. One of those handsets, codenamed “Ocean Note,” leaked on Weibo today (via Android Police) with a surpris...
Xbox One gets new backward compatible games: Dragon Age, Battlefield, and more
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 23:15
Get ready to dig through your collection of Xbox 360 games. Microsoft has made more Xbox 360 hits backward-compatible with the Xbox One. This means that you can put in a disk for a 360 game inside your newer Xbox One con...
Flipboard chases Chinese luxury market with launch of Flipboard China
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 23:00
Flipboard, to further its appeal among users in China, has established a separate business unit in the Asian country called aptly Flipboard China. The new entity is a joint venture with communication group BlueFocus and ...
Here's How Working Women Can Advocate For Themselves During Trump's Presidency
Forbes - 10 Jan 2017 22:44
There are several concrete ways women (and their allies) can advocate for themselves at work, in spite of resistance -- and even hostility -- from on high.
Force Protection Video Receives Orders from the Arizona Indian Nation, and Multiple International and Domestic Law Enforcement Agencies
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 22:34
PRESS RELEASE: Force Protection Video Equipment (OTCQB:FPVD) which sells HD body camera systems and accessories for law enforcement announced that it has received orders from an Indian nation in Arizona, additional stock...
The Most Exciting Consumer Drone News From CES 2017
Forbes - 10 Jan 2017 22:19
Drones that patrol property, drones that snap together like LEGO and drones for fishermen were unveiled at CES 2017 -- heralding the year that drones take over? Here's what you need to know in the year of the drone.
CBRE Acquires Floored: Real Estate Tech Poised For A Big 2017
Forbes - 10 Jan 2017 22:18
CBRE, the largest commercial real estate company in the world, made an interesting acquisition last week. The mega property development, management, and financing firm purchased Floored, a technology startup focused on i...
GoFundMe Buys Rival CrowdRise
Forbes - 10 Jan 2017 22:13
"There is a perfect synergy between GoFundMe's brand of person to person social fundraising and CrowdRise's expertise in fundraising for charities through peer-to-peer, race events and corporate campaigns," said GoFundMe...
The crazy, scary, wonderful future of connected cars
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 22:10
We were driving at a normal speed in a parking lot in Las Vegas. A sensor in an old and boring minivan was connected to a receiver located on a traffic light, which was also in the trunk of another minivan. The driver wa...
Hearthstone hears you: Designers will answer fan questions in January 13 stream
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 21:45
Fans have concerns, and Blizzard is ready to listen. Blizzard announced today that Hearthstone’s developers will host a live question-and-answer stream at 9 a.m. Pacific on January 13 on Twitch. Blizzard plans to share...
The creator of Apple's Swift programming language is leaving the company
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 21:37
Chris Lattner, the creator of and project lead for Apple’s Swift programming language, today announced in a mailing list email that he will be leaving Apple later this month. Lattner has been at Apple since 2005 and is...
Virtuleap hackathon generates a bunch of WebVR projects
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 21:30
Virtuleap is running a global WebVR Hackathon that is yielding a wide variety of projects that allow virtual reality apps to be viewed via web browsers. The organizers created it to jumpstart the VR industry by making it...
The 13-Year-Old Entrepreneur Changing The Face of Business In Detroit
Forbes - 10 Jan 2017 21:11
VideoAsia Newsom started her business, selling candles she bought wholesale from a distributor when she was 5 years old. She's now 13, producing her own candles, and projecting that her company will earn $100,000 in reve...
The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world's most revolutionary phone
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 21:05
FEATURE: It looked nothing like an iPhone, or anything Apple might dare to make. On September 10, 2013, the day Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S, Dutch designer Dave Hakkens uploaded a video to YouTube to promote his college...
GoFundMe acquires CrowdRise to go deeper into the charitable giving space
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 21:00
GoFundMe on Tuesday announced the acquisition of CrowdRise, which will see the social fundraising platform extend to charities and nonprofits. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but CrowdRise will remain ful...
Plume Labs' Flow tracks the air quality indoors and outdoors
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 20:30
Plume Labs unveiled its Flow air-quality tracker last week at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. It is one of many air-quality trackers, but this one has an interesting twist. One Flow device can scan the qu...
7 Underutilized Traffic Sources You Must Pay Attention To
Forbes - 10 Jan 2017 19:50
No matter what kind of business you're in, one of your main online marketing goals has to be driving traffic to your website. Your sales, conversions, brand awareness, email subscriptions and more depend on it. Chances a...
Microsoft's new privacy dashboard lets you manage location, search, browsing, and Cortana data
Venture Beat - 10 Jan 2017 19:45
Microsoft today launched a privacy dashboard that lets you manage and review all the activity data collected about you through its various products and services. The company also detailed privacy improvements coming as p...