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How This Startup Pivoted Away From A Talent Agency To A $10 Million Per Year Technology Company
Forbes - 13 Jul 2017 17:19
How does a business pivot from being a small talent recruitment agency to generating $10 million per year as a sales technology company? Manny Medina, CEO and Co-Founder of Outreach did just that and this is the story of...
Why strategic VC is a secret weapon in healthcare
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 17:10
SPONSORED: Presented by Providence Ventures Before coming to Providence Ventures, I helped life science and tech entrepreneurs build business cases around their product ideas to fix healthcare problems. Included in that ...
More Than A Million Mercedes Diesel Cars Could Lose Their Type Approval, Court Said
Forbes - 13 Jul 2017 16:54
As Europe turns its backs on diesel, old Mercedes diesel cars are threatened with a loss of their registrations.
Box offers companies free tools for building apps on its platform
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 18:00
Box announced a new initiative today that's aimed at providing developers with a set of tools for building apps that use the company's platform capabilities. Called Box Elements, the program will encompass user interface...
AMD's Threadripper CPUs undercut Intel chips by up to $1,000
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 17:45
Advanced Micro Devices announced pricing and availability for its Ryzen 3 and Ryzen Threadripper consumer desktop processors, and the chip maker touted prices that undercut Intel’s comparable central processing units (...
Howell Benefit Technologies LLC Expands Its Group Insurance Technology Platforms
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 17:25
PRESS RELEASE: Howell Benefit Technologies LLC (HBT), a provider of group benefit insurance software, has announced the availability and sale of ancillary employee benefits in each of the 50 states through its RATECentri...
How This Founder Is Building a Dictionary For The Digital Age
Forbes - 13 Jul 2017 17:07
In 2009, Erin McKean founded Wordnik - the world's largest online dictionary. While she continues to run Wordnik, she is a Developer Evangelist at IBM, a published author and is steadily working toward her goal to descri...
Shadow.LoL provides analytics and visualization for League of Legends esports teams
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 17:00
Berlin esports startup Dojo Madness has launched Shadow.LoL, an analytics and data visualization platform for professional League of Legends teams. The esports phenomenon has become a big business, with growth expected t...
NPC 17: The Internet of Things Has Come To Chaperoning
Nibletz - 13 Jul 2017 16:50
National Principal’s Conference: 40MEE Creates Chaperoning For The 21st Century When I was in elementary school we wore little yellow fish with our names on them, around our necks, every time we went on a field trip. I...
Eyes On The Prize - Opportunities For Startups As Europe Climbs The Payments League Table
Forbes - 13 Jul 2017 16:27
Payments industry startups have thrived in Africa, Asia and Latin America, with entrepreneurs taking advantage of gaps in the banking marketplace. But according to a new report, Europe has become the world's number two r...
iBeat, the Lifesaving Smartwatch, Extends Seed Round to $4.5 Million; Builds Out Executive Bench with Hires from Apple and Stanford
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 16:25
PRESS RELEASE: iBeat, a wearable technology company empowering people to live longer lives, today announced it has closed another $3 million in funding, bringing its total seed stage funding to $4.5 million. New investor...
Campus Tech 17: Echo 360 Is Powering The Modern College Classroom
Nibletz - 13 Jul 2017 16:10
Campus Tech 17: Echo 360 Is Engaging College Students In Unprecedented Ways The college classroom can be overwhelming for the professor and the students. If you thought getting K-12 students engaged was a hard task, then...
Here's how Apple Park is already impacting Cupertino's economy
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 16:00
ANALYSIS: Even before Apple Park opened its doors this spring, the massive new headquarters loomed large over the economy of its hometown. A recent story by the New York Times noted that housing values in surrounding nei...
The True Cost Of Cybercrime For Businesses
Forbes - 13 Jul 2017 16:00
Data can often be restored and lost money can be atoned for, but brands can take decades to build.
BMW Wants You To Skype And Email The Office From Your Car
Forbes - 13 Jul 2017 15:42
BMW and Microsoft are cozying up to allow drivers to make calls using Skype in the car. But that's not all...
Startup WorkRamp's Marketplace Helps Train Employees Like At Airbnb And Uber
Forbes - 13 Jul 2017 15:36
Startup WorkRamp has a new marketplace for employee training that shares best practices from companies like Airbnb and Uber.
NPC 17: Who's Teaching The STEM Teachers About Robotics?
Nibletz - 13 Jul 2017 15:30
National Principal’s Conference: Robots.education Is Teaching The Teachers About Robotics and STEM STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and it’s fraternal twin STEAM (Science, Technology, Education, Arts,...
You can now book Airbnb directly through Concur's expense management platform
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 15:04
Airbnb has announced that businesses using Concur will now be able to make accommodation bookings without leaving the expense management platform. The move represents an extension of an existing partnership between the t...
Peter Molyneux's The Trail: Frontier Challenge is coming to Steam
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 15:00
Kongregate and 22cans announced they will launch Peter Molyneux’s The Trail: Frontier Challenge to PC via Steam this summer. The exploration title from the charismatic game designer and his 22cans studio debuted in Nov...
The PC market isn't sinking like it once was, here's why
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 14:39
The fact that the personal computer market isn’t sinking as fast as it did just a few years ago is good news for the world's biggest PC makers. Worldwide shipments of PCs declined 3.3% year-over-year in the second quar...
Why A Bold China-First Strategy Paid Off For Two British Gaming Entrepreneurs
Forbes - 13 Jul 2017 14:28
A London-based tech startup is creating millions of Moments of Joy for shoppers in China's expanding consumer market
DraftKings and FanDuel drop fantasy sports merger after FTC pressure
Venture Beat - 13 Jul 2017 22:36
(Reuters) — Daily fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings scrapped a plan to merge on Thursday following a legal challenge by U.S. antitrust enforcers. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in June that it wou...