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Obama's parting gift to foreign entrepreneurs: A new way to stay in the US
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 06:32
GUEST: Back in 2014, when it was clear that Congress was not going to pass bipartisan immigration reform, President Obama vowed to take whatever steps he could, short of legislation, to advance his immigration agenda, in...
Nintendo Switch projected to easily outsell the Wii U
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 19:15
Nintendo looks to be avoiding having another console flop. Market research and consulting firm DFC forecasts that Nintendo’s upcoming Switch system will reach 40 million consoles sold by 2020. That’s almost three tim...
7 Free Resources Veteran Entrepreneurs Will Use to Crush It In 2017
Forbes - 20 Jan 2017 01:23
Free education, training, and grant money. Veteran Entrepreneurs are using these free tools in 2017.
Apple's Beats1 lineup is still one big experiment
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 05:36
Apple today announced the coming of another show for Beats1 radio, which is one of the key pieces — albeit the free part — of its Apple Music streaming service. The latest Beat1 star is Marc Kinchen, whom the Guardia...
Vampires? Meh. Focus Home Interactive's next role-playing game turns you into a werewolf
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 23:05
Focus Home Interactive is cornering the market on dark role-playing games from Europe. Today, the publisher announced a deal with White Wolf Publishing for Werewolf: The Apocalypse for PC and consoles. The Cyanide studio...
Real Estate Game Works Expands Simulation for Continuing Education
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 22:41
PRESS RELEASE: The Oregon Association of Realtors has just committed to offering the next generation of CE products, developed by Real Estate Game Works (REGW), for real estate agents in the state of Oregon. Real Estate ...
This Week In Credit Card News: Amazon Rules Mobile Shopping, Many Feel Threatened By Debt Collectors
Forbes - 20 Jan 2017 22:23
A roundup of everything that happened this week in the credit card industry.
How Writing An Article A Day Will Change Your Life (And Your Business)
Forbes - 20 Jan 2017 22:11
If you're looking for a way to improve your business, and improve yourself in the process, take the challenge to write an article every day.
As AI advances, 4 potential risks emerge
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 22:10
GUEST: Imagine a marketing executive, late at night, flipping through a slide deck from a company that promises to use artificial intelligence to automate many of her lead generation and lead scoring processes, optimize ...
Minecraft Realms gets new maps with class-based brawling and a music light show
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 21:25
Minecraft isn’t all building houses and digging holes. Mojang has announced new content out today for Minecraft Realms, a subscription service for the block-building game on PC that costs $7 a month. It allows players ...
ProBeat: Google is buying Fabric, but Twitter is still up for grabs
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 20:30
Covering tech is wonderful. Often we get a breaking story that nobody saw coming. Last year, rumor after rumor suggested Twitter was going to be acquired, with one of the likely suitors being Google. Then, one by one, al...
Track Trump monitors the president's policy changes for the first 100 days
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 20:18
Donald Trump is officially the 45th U.S. president, and there are millions of Americans eager to see him fulfill the promises that he made during the campaign. But with all the blustering activity taking place in Washing...
Why This Tech CEO Is Promising To Pay Customer Refunds From His Own Paycheck
Forbes - 20 Jan 2017 20:00
Basecamp CEO has a radical plan for handling customer returns: he's promised to pay every refund out of his own pocket for 2017. Here's what the founder hopes to accomplish by the experiment--and why he hopes more compan...
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney to receive lifetime achievement award at GDC
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 19:00
As CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney has been a graphics wizard and a leader of the game industry since the 1990s. And he hasn’t been afraid to rattle the cages of the powers that be, as evidenced by his clash with Micros...
Trump is President. What's Silicon Valley going to do about it?
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 18:53
ANALYSIS: On a drizzly Friday afternoon in Washington — Today. This very afternoon. -- Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States. The Trump era officially begin...
5 Ways Trump Could Affect The Marijuana Industry
Forbes - 20 Jan 2017 18:46
Here are the 5 possible scenarios for the marijuana industry under President Trump.
PART 2: What's So New About The New Heartland
Forbes - 20 Jan 2017 18:46
When people think of the Heartland, they only include the traditional flyover states in the Midwest. In evaluating our research for two studies on understanding middle-American consumers, it became very clear that values...
The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for games in 2017
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 18:01
Every year I make wildly inaccurate predictions about the future of games, and that time has come again. I go through this exercise not only to suffer great embarrassment, but but also to sharpen my thinking by looking b...
Oculus' 'Dear Angelica' VR film debuts at Sundance Film Festival
Venture Beat - 20 Jan 2017 18:00
VR films are getting serious and artistic. That’s what we’ll discover with the launch of Dear Angelica, a new virtual reality film from Oculus Story Studio, the VR film division of Facebook’s Oculus. Dear Angelica ...
Business Lessons From Ray Kroc "The Founder" -- McDonald's Story
Forbes - 20 Jan 2017 17:51
Ray Kroc's story as the purported founder of McDonald's is crisply told in this excellent biopic. Along the way Kroc provides bracing insights into a controversial business style.
Driving Revenue With Great Customer Experience
Forbes - 20 Jan 2017 17:39
Forrester makes a case for investing in CX.
How Culture Drives Atlassian's Ambitions To Be The Collaboration Platform For All Companies
Forbes - 20 Jan 2017 17:38
Australian born, Atlassian cofounder and co-CEO, Scott Farquhar has a maniacal attention to culture, which the colorful Farquhar summarizes as "Don't f#*k the customer." This is the story of the company's founding and Fa...