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Adblock Plus owner Eyeo acquires micropayments service Flattr
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 16:18
Eyeo, the Germany-based company behind perennially popular adblocking service Adblock Plus, has today announced that it has acquiredFlattr, a micropayment and microdonation service headquartered in Sweden. Terms of the d...
Girls in Tech and S&P Global team up on tech online education course
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 16:00
Girls in Tech, a global nonprofit dedicated to eradicating gender disparity in technology, and S&P Global together announced the launch of Global Classroom, a comprehensive online technology program. The eight-week cours...
Why Business Owners Should Never Pay Bills On Time
Forbes - 5 Apr 2017 23:38
In the New York Times Best Seller, "Profits Aren't Everything, They're The Only Thing," American Management Services founder, George Cloutier, made the bold statement "Never pay your bills on time!" This is why.
One Step Ahead: The Importance of Inventory Planning for SMBs
Forbes - 5 Apr 2017 23:30
As a small business, it can be hard to compete on same-day or next-day shipping with the giant e-commerce companies. Kevin Gibbon walks readers through the value of inventory planning and how to efficiently plan inventor...
Teardown reveals Nintendo Switch costs $257 to build
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 23:20
The Nintendo Switch game console costs about $257 for Nintendo to build, according to a report by Japanese teardown firm Fomalhaut Techno Solutions. That’s pretty close to the console’s retail price of $300, and it l...
5 distractions that cloud our thinking about AI
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 23:10
GUEST: One of the main arguments the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari makes in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is that humans differ from other species because we can cooperate flexibly in large numbers, united ...
Indian Firm Acquires Kenyan Cancer Care Center For Almost $1 million
Forbes - 5 Apr 2017 22:53
Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd (HCG), a chain of Indian cancer treatment hospitals, has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in a Kenyan cancer care center.
Overwatch's new digital comic shows us what life was like before the hero group fell apart
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 22:45
Who would have guessed Tracer got her catchphrase from Torbjörn? Blizzard has released the newest issue of its Overwatch digital comic series, showing players a rare glimpse of how the team operated and interacted with ...
Everything we know about the Xbox Scorpio console reveal
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 22:30
Microsoft will reveal details of its Project Scorpio video game console tomorrow with Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry site. Microsoft officials confirmed that they have given an exclusive on the news to Digital Foundry, de...
How Panera's Ron Shaich Made Nearly $400 Million Pretax -- And Beat Buffett Along The Way
Forbes - 5 Apr 2017 21:31
Panera Bread founder and CEO Ron Shaich scores big on the $7.5 billion sale of the fast-casual eatery.
Advancing Social Good With Mission-Related Investing: Ford Foundation Pledges $1B
Forbes - 5 Apr 2017 21:22
Innovation is a buzzword in 2017 in business circles, but also with institutional investors keen to see it used to best effect. A commitment by the Ford Foundation to give $1B to an innovative new type of impact investme...
Nier: Automata surpasses 1 million copies shipped or sold digitally
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 21:15
Not only are developers and publishers debuting one amazing game after another in 2017, most of those releases are finding huge audiences as well. Nier: Automata, a sci-fi action role-playing game from Square Enix, has s...
How chatbots will make voice the primary user interface
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 21:10
GUEST: Computers, like many other technologies, were originally made for the 1 percent. More than 50 years ago, people would be as likely to touch a computer as to perform brain surgery. It wasn’t until Apple created t...
Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle passes 150 million downloads globally
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 20:30
Now if only we knew what a “dokkan” is. Bandai Namco announced today that its mobile game Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle has passed 150 million downloads globally. The free-to-play title launched for iOS and Android in...
5 Tips On How To Fire An Employee Gracefully
Forbes - 5 Apr 2017 20:29
As a small business owner, you're in charge of making sure your company grows. If you have an employee who is dragging your business down, you might need to let them go. Learn the graceful way to fire an employee with th...
Tax Reform Is The Shot In The Arm We Need, But Is It Attainable?
Forbes - 5 Apr 2017 20:21
Tax reform, now the priority of the Trump administration, is necessary and welcome. Most Americans are in agreement that our tax structure is too complex, and changing the model could have a real, substantial impact on c...
The next Google Home will reportedly support Wi-Fi mesh networks
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 20:11
The next generation of Google smart speakers may include mesh Wi-Fi, an anonymous source told The Information. Mesh Wi-Fi strings a Wi-Fi connection together with the use of multiple routers to create a more consistent c...
Double Fine kicks off Amnesia Fortnight game jam where fans vote for best idea
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 20:00
Double Fine Productions will kick off another Amnesia Fortnight game jam soon, and this time it will do so with fan voting enabled by Humble Bundle. By purchasing the Amnesia Fortnight 2017 Humble Bundle (a package of ga...
Sharethebus becomes Bus.com and raises $5 million for on-demand charter service
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 20:00
In the world of on-demand services, everything is available at your request, be it cars, house cleaners, food delivery, parking valets, or a place to stay. So why shouldn’t there also be a place to do instant bus renta...
The Ford Foundation Is Committing Up To $1 Billion To Mission-Related Investments
Forbes - 5 Apr 2017 19:56
The Ford Foundation is committing up to $1 billion from its endowment for Mission-Related Investments (MRIs) over the next 10 years, giving a big boost to impact investing.
Mayfield's Tim Chang to interview sci-fi author Eliot Peper at GamesBeat Summit 2017
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2017 19:30
Venture capitalist Tim Chang and science fiction novelist Eliot Peper will speak about the inspiration that happens between real-world tech and science fiction at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, an...
Can You Handle Dimension Data's Uncomfortable Truth About Customer Experience?
Forbes - 5 Apr 2017 19:22
Dimension Data's 2017 Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report will make uncomfortable reading for many leaders and customer experience executives. Can you handle the truth?