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How Social Media Is Polarizing Your Audience (And What To Do About It)
Forbes - 22 Jun 2017 20:28
Your social media audience, along with the rest of society has become polarized. But rather than seeing this as a threat, you should see it as an opportunity. Here's how.
How To Prevent Chief Marketing Officer Failure
Forbes - 22 Jun 2017 06:13
Over the past 9 years, I have collected a lot of data--from more than 400 interviews to multiple CMO-based surveys to CMO resumes to secondary data to job announcements. This article summarizes research conducted to unde...
26 VR startups debut at HTC's Vive demo day
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 04:00
HTC has bet big on virtual reality with its HTC Vive VR headset. It continues to believe in the market, and it showed off technology from 26 new companies today at its Vive X accelerator demo day in San Francisco. HTC ha...
Help wanted: Americans don't need more degrees, they need training
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 23:33
GUEST: America has more than 6 million vacant jobs, yet the country is "facing a serious skills gap," Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta recently said. And last week his boss, President Donald Trump, said he wants to cl...
How chatbots are shaping the sharing economy -- and vice versa
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 23:10
GUEST: In the past few years, we’ve seen industries become upended and disrupted by the “sharing economy.” This new landscape is built on personal connection, identity, a focus on tangible experiences, and personal...
Happy Employees Increase Profits
Nibletz - 22 Jun 2017 23:10
Whether you own a Fortune 500 company or have a startup company, your overall success greatly depends on your employees. It’s not just about the money. While it does play a big role in finding the right talent, what ha...
Super Mario Odyssey's interdimensional travel is one of its best visual tricks
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 22:15
I got to play around 40 minutes of Super Mario Odyssey at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) trade event in Los Angeles last week, and while it was a blast overall, the best part is that each moment is often bursting...
Taking risks with AI? We want you on stage at MB 2017
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 22:02
VB EVENT: MobileBeat 2017 is not here for the dreamers — it's built by the doers. And this year they're getting the spotlight, too. We're offering the MobileBeat stage to the established brands that aren't resting on t...
An All-In-One Platform Designed With Cambodia's Microfinance Pros In Mind
Forbes - 22 Jun 2017 21:41
Before he cofounded Morakot, a banking platform for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia, Sophorth Khuon worked in microfinance himself. He knew the challenges of micro-loan management, so he and his team created...
Blizzard doesn't want duplicate Legendary cards in Hearthstone
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 21:02
Being lucky enough to get one of Hearthstone‘s rarest cards should make you feel great, but getting one you already have is infuriating. Blizzard is going to fix that. Starting with the next Hearthstone expansion (whic...
Creative's Sonic Carrier megasoundbar was the most impressive tech at E3
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 20:45
Gaming is reaching a point where its most bleeding edge technologies are challenging to demonstrate to a remote audience. At last week’s E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo gaming trade event) in Los Angeles, PlaySta...
Facebook gives up on making the world more open and connected, now wants to bring the world closer together
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 20:23
Facebook announced a massive change today. CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared the company with nearly 2 billion monthly active users has a new mission statement: Give people the power to build community and bring the world clo...
Overwatch is improving its highlights and loot boxes
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 20:10
In a new developer update, Overwatch lead designer Jeff Kaplan detailed changes coming to Blizzard’s hit team-based shooter. Players will be able to bookmark their own highlights while they play the game, and they can ...
Social Media Haters: Friend Or Foe?
Forbes - 22 Jun 2017 19:47
Trolls and haters online can make any business owner uncomfortable. What's the best way to react? I share our take on what nasty commenters are doing for your brand and how to respond.
Warner Bros. opens New York office to support games like Injustice 2
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 18:45
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is setting up shop on the East Coast with WB Games New York to provide additional backend support for their online games. The new branch is focused on cloud-based backend technology...
How the ubiquitous game actor Troy Baker plays Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 18:15
Troy Baker is the ubiquitous video game actor. He’s coming back this year as the voice of Talion, the hero known as The Bright Lord in Warner Bros.’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War. He returned to the Electronic Entertai...
How A Professional Women's Group Jumpstarted This Fertility Care Company
Forbes - 22 Jun 2017 18:06
Future Family co-founders Eve Blossom and Claire Tomkins met through a professional women's network in Silicon Valley. They credit the group with helping provide mentoring, introductions, & support in launching their fer...
ISTE 2017: Even Elementary Students Can Learn To Build Laptops
Nibletz - 22 Jun 2017 17:32
pi-top Is Not Only Teaching Kids Coding, and About Computers, But Teaching Them To Build Them As Well The days of going with mom or dad to Sears and buying a computer you had to “put together” are long gone. Laptops ...
Days Gone will be an open world full of fast zombies, wolves, and bears
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 17:15
Days Gone is one of Sony’s big games coming for the PlayStation 4. It had a riveting demo last year, and it showed up again as a much different game at the 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last week. Last year, ...
ISTE 2017: zSpace Redefines Mixed Reality In The Classroom
Nibletz - 22 Jun 2017 17:10
ISTE 17: zSpace Offers Teachers An Immersive and New Way To Teach zSpace, a Sunnyvale California mixed reality startup is redefining mixed reality in the classroom. They’re offering teachers an entirely new way to teac...
Kingsway triggers a lizard brain panic that only screen addicts can appreciate
Venture Beat - 22 Jun 2017 17:02
We already spend most of our time staring at screens, so you know what would be great? If we could stare at some screens … on our screens. Kingsway is a cheeky new “OS role-playing game” where everything takes plac...
7 Uber App Updates Coming This Year
Forbes - 22 Jun 2017 16:40
Uber hopes to improve driver relations with 180 Days of Change.