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Private companies confident, but reportedly unprepared for cyberattacks
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 05:44
(Reuters) – The chief executives of some of the worlds’ leading private companies are confident about their firms’ prospects and plan to recruit more staff, but are ill-prepared for cyberattacks, according to a rep...
Amazon puts Alexa inside its main iPhone app
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 17:44
Starting today and available to all iPhone users next week, you can talk to Amazon’s intelligent assistant Alexa while using the Amazon app. Naturally, the voice assistant is able to shop and track packages, but it can...
How Start-Up Companies And Funds Can Raise Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars
Forbes - 16 Mar 2017 12:56
Single-family office consortiums are providing hundreds of millions of dollars to individual start up companies, hedge funds, and private equity funds. Connecting with single-family offices, however, is a challenge.
How AI will help us decipher millennials
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 23:10
GUEST: Let’s talk about the millennial generation — the demographic segment so coveted that marketing managers from all over the globe are fighting over them. Are they really such a complex generation that we must re...
Adobe's record revenue streak persists: $1.68 billion in Q1 2017
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 22:52
Adobe made $1.68 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2017, continuing the growth trend the company kicked off when it stopped selling software and started renting it as monthly and annual subscriptions. That $...
I hate the beards in Mass Effect: Andromeda
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 22:45
It looks like the characters in Mass Effect: Andromeda can’t grow facial hair and have been watching fake-beard make-up tutorials on YouTube instead. The facial hair in Mass Effect: Andromeda is awful, and I hate it. E...
Google says Google Home's 'Beauty and the Beast' ad is not an ad
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 21:37
Google Home users heard an advertisement today along with their daily update; however, Google denies the statement was an ad. The audio clip lasting roughly 15 seconds was removed from Google Home by Thursday afternoon. ...
How natural language interfaces can solve workflow problems
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 21:25
GUEST: If you’ve ever worked in a big company, you carry the scars of processes and workflows. Even in the most advanced companies, most processes are not what I would consider delightful. When presenting about UX, I a...
74 Tech Leaders, Led By Tumblr CEO Karp, Urge Congress To Back Planned Parenthood
Forbes - 16 Mar 2017 21:11
The group, led by Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp, includes industry bigwigs Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital; Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield; Reddit's Alexis Ohanian; Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz, and Cowboy Ventures par...
Xbox One's backward compatibility resurrects sleeper indie hit Poker Smash
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 21:05
I care more about Microsoft’s efforts to bring Xbox 360 games to the Xbox One than I thought I would when the company first announced it, and one of the games the company added today is a big reason for this. Xbox One ...
Square's payment and merchant services are down
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 20:34
Square’s merchant authentication service is currently down, meaning that if you want to buy that coffee or get lunch from a food truck, you probably might want to carry some cash with you. The company has identified th...
Snap falls below $20 for the first time
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 20:12
Snapchat parent company Snap slipped below the $20 per share mark for the first time today, two weeks after the company started trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $24 per share. Up-to-the-minute stock alerts don�...
How Marketers Can Plug These 3 Leaky Areas Of E-Commerce Abandonment
Forbes - 16 Mar 2017 20:07
Marketers should consider the journey after clicking through an email from the consumer's perspective.
Top Media Mistakes By Small Business Owners, And How To DYI PR Like A Pro
Forbes - 16 Mar 2017 19:52
Small business owners don't have to invest in expensive PR firms to get media attention. But heed this advice from the experts before attempting to DIY.
Apple releases iOS 10.3 public beta 7
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 19:22
Just three days after Apple came out with the sixth beta release of iOS 10.3, a new update to iOS 10, today Apple started rolling out the seventh beta release. That Apple chose to put out a seventh build before making iO...
Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner resigns; cofounder Dan Connors takes over
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 19:07
The developer responsible for bringing deep narrative gameplay to the worlds of The Walking Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Minecraft is getting a new boss. Dan Connors, who cofounded Telltale Games and worked as its ...
Panel will buck the status quo at GamesBeat Summit
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 19:01
Our next speakers for our upcoming GamesBeat Summit event will talk about “Bucking the status quo: Redesigning leadership for diverse talent, perspectives, and products.” They will speak at our event entitled GamesBe...
Immersion: A Brands' Path To Understanding The New Heartland
Forbes - 16 Mar 2017 18:55
Brands need to immerse themselves into the culture of their target consumer to truly understand them.
Horizon Zero Dawn sells 2.6 million copies in first two weeks
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 18:30
Sony said that its consumers have bought more than 2.6 million copies of its PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn in its February 28 release two weeks ago. The open-world adventure from Guerrilla Games received a hi...
Koho's mobile banking service for millennials launches in Canada
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 18:00
While many peer-to-peer payment and personal finance services are geared toward the U.S., a new one has emerged to buck that trend. Koho is launching to the general public — starting in every province in Canada except ...
WordStream founder Larry Kim leaves, starts new marketing bot company
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 18:00
What do you do after founding a company that manages a billion dollars in annual adspend and is Google's largest and fastest-growing partner? Start a new marketing AI company building chatbots, of course. Larry Kim, the ...
Indie publisher Elephant Mouse launches Twisty Sky endless climber on iOS
Venture Beat - 16 Mar 2017 18:00
You’ve heard of endless runners. So indie game publisher Elephant Mouse is turning that idea on its head with an endless climber. The Cary, N.C.-based publisher is releasing Twisty Sky on iOS today as a free download. ...