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Three Things To Keep In Mind When Dealing With A Challenging Client
Forbes - 25 Apr 2017 16:39
Every business encounters difficult clients from time to time. Here are three things to keep in mind when dealing with them.
Yahoo's early investment in Snap is now worth about $97.6 million
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 07:10
Ailing internet giant Yahoo was an early believer of Snap, the parent company of disappearing photo app Snapchat. As of Monday, nearly two months after Snap’s initial public offering, Yahoo’s stake in Snap is worth a...
How Hiring Professionals Can Succeed In A Candidates' Market
Forbes - 25 Apr 2017 16:31
For hiring authorities and job recruiters, sourcing top talent is not easy in a candidates' market. Top Echelon's recent state of the industry report reveals must-know data about the current job market and what recruiter...
Dropbox is killing Hackpad on July 19 and moving users' files to Paper
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 23:45
Cloud file syncing and sharing service Dropbox announced on April 20 that it will shut down Hackpad, a collaboration-friendly application for taking notes and even maintaining wikis, on July 19. It started telling users ...
AMD's latest $1,000 Radeon Pro Duo puts 2 Polaris GPUs into one card
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 23:20
As AMD is rolling out its latest video cards for gamers with the Radeon 570 and 580, the company is now also aiming a new GPU directly at professionals who work in graphically intensive fields. The company revealed its n...
Why highways should isolate self-driving cars in special smart lanes
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 23:10
GUEST: The race is on. Tech giants like Google, Tesla and most car makers — from Toyota to Ford and Volvo — are betting billions to get intelligent self-driving cars on the road as soon as possible. Earlier this mont...
Sheryl Sandberg turns grief into action in new book 'Option B'
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 22:51
REVIEW: Nearly two years ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s life changed significantly when her partner of 11 years and SurveyMonkey chief executive Dave Goldberg died suddenly during a vacation in Mexico. As she grieved, Facebook...
Grand Theft Auto V vs. Google Earth reveals Rockstar's attention to detail
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 22:43
Rockstar’s game are often called “open-world crime simulators,” but you could just as easily call Grand Theft Auto V “virtual tourism.” A new video compares a few of the locales in GTA V’s Californian facsimi...
Is Your Website A Dead End? Here Are Four Ways To Find Out
Forbes - 25 Apr 2017 22:17
We've all heard interviews where the guest is overly promotional. As soon as we hear it, we're on to the next channel. Have you ever thought of your website the same way?
Google cuts Zync cloud media rendering prices by up to 31%
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 21:17
In conjunction with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, today Google announced cuts to the prices of its Zync media rendering services that run on servers that Google offers through its Goog...
Death of the webform, thanks to AI
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 21:10
GUEST: Ever been frustrated by the checkout process when buying something on your phone? Is your billing address not the easiest thing to thumb in? Did a hidden AutoFill demon suddenly overwrite what you tapped out, with...
Heroes of the Storm 2.0 is live with its free heroes and new loot chests
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 20:54
Blizzard is slapping Heroes of the Storm, splashing some water on its face, and telling it to get back in there. Heroes of the Storm 2.0 is now live in North America, and it will roll out to other territories throughout ...
Overwatch's D.Va joins Heroes of the Storm
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 20:48
Another Overwatch star is crossing over to Heroes of the Storm. Blizzard revealed a new character, the mech-riding D.Va, for its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). The announcement happened as Blizzard showed off He...
The Creative Potential Of (Some) Outsiders
Forbes - 25 Apr 2017 20:22
Creative breakthroughs often come from unlikely sources, whom we call adjacent outsiders - those who are an outsider to your company or industry but have acquired some relevant experience that enables them to both unders...
Why Jimmy Wales thinks WikiTribune can succeed with crowdsourcing news where Wikinews failed
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 20:00
ANALYSIS: More than a decade ago, when Wikipedia remained a new but controversial source of information, the foundation that ran it announced an effort to reinvent news using a similar crowdsourcing method. Wikinews was ...
Social Impact: Ocean Reclaimed Plastics & Kick Starter Fuel Norton Point
Forbes - 25 Apr 2017 19:46
Schoenike had the business, economics and lobbying understanding that is useful when taking on a social impact challenge. Ianelli was a serial entrepreneur with experience in eyewear and ties to Martha's Vineyard where t...
VentureBeat is hiring a Marketing Coordinator
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 19:35
VentureBeat is hiring a marketing coordinator responsible for executing marketing campaigns to promote our events, research, and other initiatives. You will responsible for most of our email marketing campaigns, includin...
Final GamesBeat Summit 2017 agenda: Inspiration for sci-fi, tech, and games
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 19:30
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...
Sensay wants to help people buy and sell anonymous advice
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 19:11
Sensay is a bot, but its job isn’t to automate human labor or hold a conversation. Every month, Sensay brings together hundreds of thousands of people for anonymous live chat, connecting people who can offer advice wit...
Paragon's new update drops just as Blizzard preps Heroes of the Storm relaunch
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 18:45
Paragon just got a little faster. Epic Games has released a new patch for its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) for PC and PlayStation 4. The update adds a new hero, Revenant, which the developer announced last week...
AMD debuts a VR experience around big India movie release
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 18:30
Baahubali is one of India’s biggest films, and it is getting a sequel called Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, which is one of the most technologically sophisticated films ever made. It is the world’s first “trillion pi...
Watch us try to do a perfect run in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's 200cc mode
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2017 18:30
One of the best things that Nintendo added to Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U is its blistering-fast 200cc racing tier, and now that the Deluxe version of this game is out soon, I’m going to attempt to conquer this mode onc...