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Mobile industry wants you to know it's ready to take security seriously
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 16:02
The security industry had a fairly blunt message for the thousands of brands and attendees at the world's largest mobile trade show this week: Get your shit together. Security has too often taken a backseat as the mobile...
Federal Reserve official warns of digital currency's risks
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 02:41
(Reuters) – A top U.S. Federal Reserve official on Friday raised caution about central banks issuing digital currencies as they are vulnerable to cyber attacks and criminal activities along with privacy issues that sti...
How Linkedin Uses Linkedin for Marketing
Forbes - 5 Mar 2017 02:05
The best way to learn how to market on LinkedIn is to look at what LinkedIn itself is doing.
Improbable enables small developers to create giant online worlds
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 23:05
Small developers really can create giant games. There was proof of that at the Game Developers Conference at the booth of Improbable, a United Kingdom startup that enables small companies to create huge simulations. Herm...
Form, deliver, disband: The power of temporary innovation teams
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 22:10
GUEST: When teams are firing on all cylinders, great things happen. Consider all the people and skills that came together to bring us Moonlight and La-La Land. But when a team trips over itself, the results are less grea...
How Space Ape Games more than tripled its mobile game revenue in two years
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 21:08
These aren’t easy times for all mobile game developers. But Space Ape Games is one of the exceptions that has begun to rise above the pack. From January 2015 to today, Space Ape Games grew from 10 million players to 35...
What it's like to run a company with a truly flat hierarchy
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 20:25
GUEST: Lots of companies claim to have a flat structure because everyone can approach or talk to the boss. But that's not truly flat. For complete flatness, employees must have as much responsibility as possible, and thi...
When It's Time To Dump Your Career And Pursue Your Passion
Forbes - 5 Mar 2017 20:11
Millennials often want to chase their dreams, but can be held back by their fears or constraints. They stay in a traditional job and wonder if there is ever a possibility they were meant for more. Fears aside, I've polle...
Berkshire Hathaway's Buffett Imparts Investing Wisdom In Shareholders' Letter
Forbes - 5 Mar 2017 19:45
Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway dubbed 'The Sage of Omaha', who is at the helm of the corporation and written letters to Berkshire's shareholders for 52 years now since 1964 - including the latest contained in ...
The highlights and memorable moments of GDC 2017
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 19:05
Each year, developers and aspiring game creators flock to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco like they are going to the well. It’s inspiring, and it widens their horizons. It has the same effect on me, as ...
How robotic delivery will disrupt the grocery industry
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 18:35
GUEST: Groceries is a $650 billion market in the U.S., which is not overly surprising because, unless you are a robot, you need food. This probably won't change, at least not in the foreseeable future. But what very well...
Ted Price and Mike Gallagher to speak on leadership at GamesBeat Summit
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 17:15
Our next speaker for our upcoming GamesBeat Summit event is Ted Price, the CEO of Insomniac Games, the maker of the Ratchet & Clank series and developer of the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man game. Price will talk about what...
Major Brands, Celebrities Jump On ISlide After 'Shark Tank' Gave It The Boot
Forbes - 5 Mar 2017 17:01
In 2013, Justin Kittredge kicked off ISlide -- the Vistaprint for footwear -- which he took from concept to market within six months. Through smart marketing tactics and partnerships, his slide sandals slipped onto the f...
Congratulations Bolivarian Socialists, Venezuela Caught Up With North Korea
Forbes - 5 Mar 2017 16:17
Venezuelan socialists finally did it. They helped Venezuela catch up with North Korea in economic freedom, that is.
How Epic's Tim Sweeney sees Unreal Engine shaping VR outside gaming
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 13:34
VR video games are some of the most immersive, visceral experiences to date. Travelling to fantastic worlds, going brain-to-rotting-noggin' with zombie hordes and throwing coffee mugs at floating sentient CRTs has never ...
Mars astronaut radiation shield set for moon mission trial
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 09:55
(Reuters) – A vest designed to shield astronauts from deadly solar particles in deep space is set for trials on a lunar mission ready for deployment on any manned mission to Mars, its Israeli developers said. The Astro...
2017 is PlayStation VR's growth year: over 200 games and apps in development
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 08:24
Despite big releases in the likes of Resident Evil 7 and Dirt Rally VR, it's been an undeniably quiet start to the year for PlayStation VR (PSVR), but Sony is promising that won't last long. The headset maker said this w...
Why voice assistants will become the center of home entertainment
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 05:03
GUEST: The mass adoption of the radio changed American homes forever. In 1930, more than 40 percent of American households owned a radio; a decade later, 83 percent owned at least one. The radio brought news, entertainme...
Game developers participate in Resist Jam to protest oppressive authoritarianism
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 04:04
Game developers are doing their part to resist “oppressive authoritarianism” in all of its forms through an event called Resist Jam. The jam runs from March 3 to March 11, and it included a series of talks and worksh...
What we have to learn from Uber's recent troubles
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 03:00
GUEST: Criticism of Uber continues to pile up. This week, we heard the car service was using secret software to evade government regulators and a video showed its chief executive in a verbal altercation with one of the c...
GDC 2017's 9 biggest stories on augmented and virtual reality
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 01:10
Whew, what a week. Can we sleep now? With each passing year, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) becomes more and more important to the VR industry, and 2017's iteration was no different. There have been a frankly ridic...
No, Amazon Echo's 'Skills' aren't the new branded apps
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 00:33
GUEST: Back in early 2009, many brands realized for the first time that iPhone apps could be a branding vehicle. Suddenly, there was a frenzy of activity as marketers rushed branded apps to the marketplace. In 2017, hist...