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Jeff Bezos, A Man Who Knows His Amazon Customers, Sees Their Synergy With Whole Foods
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 16:57
Jeff Bezos knows his Amazon customers. And he probably knows they already shop at Whole Foods.
Five British Food And Drinks Companies Cooking Up A Storm
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 16:47
Britain is one the best places in the world for and drink. When you take a step back and consider our historical place in the history of food and drink, this is quite astonishing. In this article, Philip Salter catches u...
The Female Founder Who Changed My Town
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 15:00
Judith Faulkner founded Epic Systems 40 years ago. Today it's given the town I love a completely new life.
The best Unreal Engine games of E3 2017, selected by GamesBeat
Venture Beat - 16 Jun 2017 23:24
Once again this year, GamesBeat teamed up with Epic Games and Nvidia to find the best Unreal Engine 4 design teams at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Our staff spent much of our time at the show floor c...
How Amazon Just Changed The $800 Billion Supermarket World
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 23:19
In the supermarket boardrooms discussion across the land today, there is one theme that must trump all. Move.
79 Websites To Get Freelance Jobs Fast
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 22:20
Here's a list of 79 current, active sites you can visit to find freelance job opportunities now. Shop around and find the ones that post freelance opportunities that you're best suited for.
Facebook Accidentally Revealed Moderators' Identities To Suspected Terrorists
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 22:09
A software bug reportedly caused some of the company's own moderators to find themselves at risk on the platform.
ISTE 2017: Shmoop Takes The Pain Out Of Learning
Nibletz - 16 Jun 2017 21:56
ISTE ’17: Learning Shouldn’t Feel Like A Root Canal, That’s Why There’s Shmoop What’s a shmoop? Shmoop is a verb that means, move things forward a little bit and that’s what the folks at shmoop.com are doing....
Google open-sources object detection tech that powers Nest Cam, Image Search, and Street View
Venture Beat - 16 Jun 2017 21:41
Google handed a new set of intelligent object detection capabilities over to the open source community as part of continued development of its TensorFlow framework. The TensorFlow Object Detection API gives data scientis...
Entrepreneurs say 'faux AI' hype hurts marketing efforts
Venture Beat - 16 Jun 2017 21:10
GUEST: The public is riveted by artificial intelligence, but most people don’t have a clue what “AI” actually is. Media hype and populist stories confuse rather than clarify. How does popular perception affect the ...
Today's Amazon discount: Grocery-chain stocks
Venture Beat - 16 Jun 2017 21:02
ANALYSIS: Amazon’s proposed $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market caught stock market investors off guard. Their initial reaction — bidding up share prices of the two companies and selling off those of grocery...
Joel Contartese Shares 5 Lessons On The American Dream
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 21:00
The dream of coming to the United States and working diligently to better himself and his family is another inspirational tale of the American Dream offering success to those who work for it. Here Joel Contartese's story...
Innovating For The Mass Affluent: A Q&A With JetSmarter CEO Sergey Petrossov
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 20:39
Most consumer tech startups try to make inexpensive services for a broad market - but a few take the opposite approach. JetSmarter, founded by CEO Sergey Petrossov, has reached a $1.5 billion valuation following that opp...
Offer B2B Fintech Solutions To Help Clients Grow Their Sales
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 20:17
Help your B2B customers sell more, and you'll become an indispensable partner. Fintech can make that happen.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: all the news and impressions out of E3
Venture Beat - 16 Jun 2017 20:02
Welcome to our big E3 GamesBeat weekly roundup! We saw many of the show’s biggest games, including Super Mario Odyssey, Far Cry 5, and Star Wars: Battlefront 2. We also covered the big news and game reveals from the bi...
Why One CEO Believes Myanmar Will Become A Tech Leader In Southeast Asia
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 19:45
"I don't see any reason at all why Myanmar won't be able to get on par with, and maybe overtake, some neighbors in the region -- like Thailand or Vietnam -- in terms of providing an ecosystem, in terms of providing cutti...
ProBeat: Netflix's net neutrality non-news
Venture Beat - 16 Jun 2017 19:30
OPINION: There are many ways to measure how Netflix has matured in the past three years — but its relationship with net neutrality could be the most telling. In April 2014, the company revealed it was paying Comcast an...
6 Reasons You Need A Side Hustle
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 18:41
A side hustle will give you more freedom and happiness in your every day life. So, if you've been wanting to start something on the side, this is the article to give you the motivation to start!
Ubisoft CEO reflects on one of the company's best E3 events ever
Venture Beat - 16 Jun 2017 18:30
Yves Guillemot is riding high this week. Ubisoft held a big event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) where it showed off a lot of big titles. Those games included a new version of Assassin’s Creed after a one-ye...
Pivotal Cloud Foundry aims to thwart hackers with ever-changing passwords
Venture Beat - 16 Jun 2017 18:13
EXCLUSIVE: What if an application could automatically repel attackers by rotating its access credentials every day, thereby making every stolen password useless in a short amount of time? That's the idea behind CredHub, ...
Amazon's 5 biggest acquisitions of all time
Venture Beat - 16 Jun 2017 18:06
Amazon revealed it was entering the grocery market in a big way today, with news that it plans to acquire Whole Foods Market for a whopping $13.7 billion. But where does the deal sit on the grand scheme of Amazon acquisi...
This Cincinnati Foundation Offers Residents $100,000 To Quit Their Jobs And Make A Difference
Forbes - 16 Jun 2017 18:02
What if you could quit your job to make a difference on your community - and were given $100,000 to do it? That's the question on the minds of the team at People's Liberty, a 5-year initiative to invest in the residents ...