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How To Find The Best Support For Your Food & Ag Startup
Forbes - 3 Apr 2017 15:00
Finding support for your startup can be overwhelming and time consuming, particularly as the number of resources available in the food and ag industry continues to grow. Here are a few questions you should ask that may h...
How 970 million voicebots shipped by 2020 will change sales forever
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 07:19
GUEST: Stephen Hawking famously said, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Before that happens, however, the emergence of AI-driven sales technology will almost certain...
Facebook, Mozilla, Craig Newmark, others launch $14 million fund to support news integrity
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 06:36
Facebook, Mozilla, the City University of New York, and other tech industry leaders, nonprofits, have joined together to launch a $14 million fund dedicated to advancing news literacy. The money will be invested in the N...
Are You A Tesla Or A Ford?
Forbes - 3 Apr 2017 23:31
How you can facilitate greater innovation so you don't go the way of the horse and buggy.
How To Become A Strong Leader Taking These Positive, Creative Steps
Forbes - 3 Apr 2017 23:14
Not all of us feel that we are natural born leaders. But does that mean we can't successfully lead? Research showed me that with work, practice and nurturing, leadership can become a muscle I could successfully build. I ...
Why Chat OS is the next logical step for team communications
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 23:10
GUEST: Technology has evolved at a lightning pace during the past two decades, affecting the way we communicate, collaborate, and perform tasks. Just as we started to get over our excitement about the mainframe/PC operat...
Technology has eaten the world
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 23:05
GUEST: A few years ago, Marc Andreessen first declared that "software is eating the world." We have been mostly inclined to intuitively believe the trend he was referring to, but we were missing undisputable proof. Now w...
Alibaba cloud adopts Microsoft's open source networking software
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 23:05
At the Open Networking Summit conference in Santa Clara, California, today, Microsoft and Alibaba are announcing that Alibaba’s public cloud is starting to use Software for Open Networking in the Cloud, or SONiC, which...
AOL and Yahoo will become Oath following Verizon deal
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 22:55
When the acquisition of Yahoo by Verizon concludes later this year, the storied Yahoo name will be no more. Instead, the core assets of the search engine company will be merged with AOL to become a new entity known as Oa...
How Opportunity International Is Working To End Poverty In Our Lifetime
Forbes - 3 Apr 2017 22:06
An interview with Vicki Escarra and Atul Tandon of Opportunity International, a dynamic social enterprise that provides financial services and other sustainable solutions to help millions of families around the world bre...
Stop Selling Widgets, Start Selling Wisdom!
Forbes - 3 Apr 2017 21:28
If you really want your business to take off, stop selling "widgets" and start selling "wisdom". Widgets are competitive commodities in a race to the lowest price. And, Wisdom is actionable insights clients pay premiums ...
Gupshup InterBot tool makes bots that speak to each other
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 21:25
EXCLUSIVE: Bot and messaging communication company Gupshup announced today the beta release of InterBot, a tool for bot-to-bot communication. InterBot can be used to share, create, and launch bots that speak to each othe...
AWS will let everyone use Amazon Go's real-time video search tool
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 21:19
EXCLUSIVE: In December, Amazon made headlines for Amazon Go, a futuristic concept store in its Seattle home turf where employees can walk in, scan their phone, grab the items they want, and walk out. Now, Amazon is looki...
Blizzard teases new Overwatch content in video on social media
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 21:05
Something is coming to Overwatch, and it’s a secret until later this month. Blizzard Entertainment has uploaded a video that teases something mysterious for the world of Overwatch, the developer’s sci-fi hero shooter...
Free Drink App Hooch Is Growing A Market By Giving Its Products Away
Forbes - 3 Apr 2017 21:04
For the scrappy startup team behind Hooch, PR is a critical strategy for market acceptance and growth.
Apple releases iOS 10.3.1 with security fix, 32-bit support
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 20:44
Apple today started rolling out iOS 10.3.1, a minor update to iOS 10.3, which became available to everyone last week. Today’s update, which is numbered 14E304, appears to be small in size. For those who updated to iOS ...
Jak and Daxter PlayStation 2 classics are coming to PlayStation 4
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 20:40
The Jak attack is coming back. Sony announced today that many of the games in the Jak and Daxter series are coming to PlayStation 4. Specifically, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II, Jak 3, and Jak X: Combat Ra...
FCC reverses Obama rule that fostered cable competition
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 20:31
(Reuters) — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to reverse a requirement imposed under the Obama administration that Charter Communications extend broadband service to 1 million households already serv...
Small Businesses Adopting Technology Is Key To Raising Productivity
Forbes - 3 Apr 2017 20:27
Permanent changes in productivity are driven by technological change. How ambitious our small businesses are at embracing technological innovation will be fundamental to our net economic growth and standard of living.
Digital Invisible Cash And The Value Of Money
Forbes - 3 Apr 2017 20:22
President of San Francisco technology design studio NewDealDesign and the designer behind the Fitbit, Gadi Amit, showcased his new conceptual currency Scrip at London's V&A which attempts to reintroduce the value of mone...
EA wants fans to vote on Stuff Pack expansion for The Sims 4
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 20:15
Electronic Arts is tapping its fans to create content for the upcoming Stuff Pack expansion for The Sims 4 game. EA’s Maxis division is calling on fans to contribute for the first time to help create the Stuff Pack. Pl...
Updated agenda for GamesBeat Summit 2017: Games, tech, and sci-fi
Venture Beat - 3 Apr 2017 19:45
Here’s the updated preliminary agenda for our GamesBeat Summit 2017 event coming on May 1 and May 2 at the historical Claremont resort hotel in Berkeley, California. The event is GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-f...