Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 16:36

PRESS RELEASE: Philip Rooke, CEO of Spreadshirt, the e-commerce platform for spreading ideas on something tangible, has unveiled the grand plan for the company in 2017. The mission for the global enterprise includes a hy...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 16:00

Twitch has attracted a Microsoft veteran. The streaming site announced today that it has hired Matt McCloskey as its new vice president of commerce. McCloskey previously worked at Microsoft, recently as the chief operati...
Forbes - 12 Jan 2017 23:50

Nobody reaches the pinnacle of success alone. As entrepreneurs, we are constantly learning more about business. Many successful CEOs attribute their success in large part to mentors--men and women who have guided, encour...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 23:35

Reuters — iPhone app purchasers may sue Apple over allegations that the company monopolized the market for iPhone apps by not allowing users to purchase them outside the App Store, leading to higher prices, a U.S. appe...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 22:42

Cloudflare, a startup offering a content distribution network (CDN) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation services for websites, today announced that its customers can now choose to implement a technology c...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 22:10

GUEST: Virtual assistants and chatbots are here to make our lives easier. Want help finding gifts? Retailers ranging from Nordstrom to DSW and Sephora offer chatbots to find presents for your friends and family through F...
Forbes - 12 Jan 2017 21:54

Hiring a consultant: It's a decision that many growing businesses make at some point in their history. Whether it's to tackle thorny challenges or to develop plans to chase new opportunities, getting the advice from a tr...
Forbes - 12 Jan 2017 21:51

Image: campaignmaster.co.uk If your B2B startup has graduated from spreadsheets to a CRM (contact relationship management) system, congratulations. You've made great strides in managing relationships with prospects and c...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 21:30

Tonight, we’ll learn more details about Nintendo’s home console/portable hybrid, the Switch. We’re expecting information like launch date and price, but Nintendo could show off unknown features and new games during...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 20:15

GUEST: It’s been less than a year since the Messenger Platform launched, and we’ve seen amazing results in a short amount of time. Throughout 2016, developers built engaging experiences while my team focused on build...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 20:01

There was a time when computer chip makers had no interest in car electronics. But times have changed as self-driving cars and the artificial intelligence used to pilot them have taken off. Now those cars are set to cons...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 20:00

Pinterest today is announcing that it’s now using a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning to recommend Related Pins, one of the most important features of its app for saving images and other content to b...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 19:25

We may have to wait until the end of the year to see Episode VIII, but you can get a new Star Wars experience on your mobile phone right now. Publisher Netmarble launched Star Wars: Force Arena today for iOS and Android....
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 19:01

About 50 percent of game developers believe that the Nintendo Switch will outsell Nintendo’s previous game console, the Wii U, according to the fifth annual State of the Industry survey by the Game Developers Conferenc...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 19:00

North Americans are 260 percent more likely than European gamers and 94 percent more likely than Asian gamers to make in-app purchases, according to a report from user acquisition firm Liftoff. The report from Palo Alto,...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 19:00

Microsoft today is announcing the general availability of its StaffHub scheduling app. It’s available on Android, iOS, and the web for customers of Microsoft’s Office 365 K1, E1, E3, and E5 plans. Microsoft first int...
Forbes - 12 Jan 2017 18:58

As a therapist, the first African American women to go through acclaimed incubator, Y Combinator and the founder of the first online therapy business, Bea Arthur has learned a lot about business, relationships and going ...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 18:46

PC gamers can finally get into some new wrestling action. Publisher 2K announced today that WWE 2K17 will come out for PC on February 7. It released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 last October. I...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 17:37

PRESS RELEASE: An innovative check out method completely different from the traditional one, which was first seen at Apple Retail Store, is now being applied at Innisfree outlets - using Mobile POS to offer a personalize...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 17:37

PRESS RELEASE: Urgent.ly - the company reinventing the roadside assistance market for premier global automotive, insurance, mapping, and parking brands as well as roadside assistance professionals and consumers - continu...
Venture Beat - 12 Jan 2017 17:14

Amazon has pledged to increase its U.S. headcount over the next 18 months to 280,000 employees, an increase of around 55 percent. The ecommerce titan has said that these will be “full-time, full-benefit” positions, l...
Forbes - 12 Jan 2017 16:45

Is all that time on social media really adding value to your career? If you apply your heart and soul to your Instagram feed or your YouTube videos, keep at it. But if you're mindlessly posting content online, take a lon...