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8 Ways Company Culture Drives Performance
Forbes - 3 Aug 2017 17:01
The right cultural foundation and the right priorities now could help your organization realize significant performance improvements. It might also deliver some of your strongest value propositions that can place you dec...
Crash Bandicoot and StarCraft Remastered reboots could boost Activision Blizzard's results this year
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 23:53
Activision Blizzard could benefit from a strong response to its franchise reboots, including Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and the upcoming StarCraft Remastered. The two games — as well as last year’s reboot Call o...
Oli Gardner, computer vision, and 102 million reasons AI will change everything -- VB Engage
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 23:35
This week, Travis and Stewart discuss the implications of the largest AI funding round in history, let alone one of the biggest Canada has ever seen. They also dig into eBay’s foray into computer vision, how image sear...
King's player numbers are down, but they're spending more in Candy Crush and other games
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 23:20
Fewer people are into Candy Crush Saga these days, but those that are still playing have shown they have a strong sweet tooth. In an earnings report, Activision Blizzard said today that though its mobile gaming King divi...
How bots will change the way we shop
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 23:10
GUEST: If you’ve used the internet or interacted with Alexa lately, you’ve come in contact with some form of artificial intelligence (AI). And if you’ve chatted with Pizza Hut via Facebook Messenger, you’re inter...
Overwatch and Hearthstone help Blizzard hit a record 46 million active monthly players
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 23:05
Blizzard continues to be one of Activision’s biggest assets, as the publisher proved when it revealed its second quarter results for year 2017 today. It noted that Blizzard has an all-time high number of monthly active...
Rewired launches $100 million robotics fund
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 22:47
Rewired.ai has launched a $100 million investment fund and venture studio, the company announced today. Investments will be targeted at applied science and tech that explores a machine’s ability to interact with and un...
Call of Duty: Black Ops III's Zombie Chronicles shuffles new players to a 2-year-old game
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 22:34
Activision Blizzard said that Zombies Chronicles drove monthly active player growth for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, a two-year old game. The boost in the second quarter ended June 30 showed the value of live operations,...
Facebook now uses Caffe2 deep learning for the site's 4.5 billion daily translations
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 21:57
Facebook announced today that it has started using neural network systems to carry out more than 4.5 billion translations that occur each day on the backend of the social network. Translations carried out with recurrent ...
Accidental Queens builds on A Normal Lost Phone's 100,000 sales success with a successor
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 21:40
The indie studio Accidental Queens has announced that it’s releasing Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story later this summer on Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s a narrative-driven puzzle game that’s similar to the studi...
New Budgeting App Aims To Be Both 'Fun' And Sensible
Forbes - 3 Aug 2017 21:34
Can a new app help millennials manage their money better? Four college dropouts are betting on it.
Why the education sector needs an AI reboot
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 21:10
AI is not part of the daily conversation in schools right now. I know, because I sometimes work with students at a collegiate level, mentoring and training them and helping to create a better cross-pollination between th...
How Long Will Links Be The Gold Standard For SEO?
Forbes - 3 Aug 2017 20:54
Will links one day become obsolete? And if so, what could replace them?
PUBG's hotpants are selling like hot cakes on Steam
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 20:00
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is one of the hottest games around, so maybe we shouldn’t be too surprised that its in-game items are becoming a big commodity the day that loot crates become go on sale. But it’s stil...
Hamilton 68 website tracks Russian-backed propaganda on Twitter
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 19:40
(Reuters) — A website launched on Wednesday seeks to track Russian-supported propaganda and disinformation on Twitter, part of a growing non-governmental effort to diminish Moscow’s ability to meddle in future electi...
Has This Mother Of Five Created The Next Net-a-Porter For Kids?
Forbes - 3 Aug 2017 19:25
Nathalie Genty, the founder of Melijoe.com, the uber popular website for children's fashion knows a thing or two about managing chaos. Not only has she created an online marketplace from the ground up to serve millions o...
Social casino game king GSN rolls dice on a new CEO: Mark Feldman
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 19:15
Social casino gamemaker Game Show Network (GSN) announced it has appointed Mark Feldman as its president and CEO. In picking Feldman, the developer of the Wheel of Fortune slots and Bingo Bash games has chosen an insider...
Amazon may not be the stable employer the Heartland needs
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 19:04
ANALYSIS: Among the thousands of people from Hebron, Kentucky to Kent, Washington who stood in line yesterday to speak with recruiters at Amazon’s fulfillment centers, their thinking was clear: Amazon is their ticket t...
Star Wars VR attraction coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World in 2017
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 18:46
We’ve seen Star Wars experiment with VR, but the sci-fi brand is going to become a full virtual experience at Disneyland and Walt Disney World later this year. The Walt Disney Company is partnering with VR studio The V...
Minecraft's community marketplace is now selling dungeons and more from 4 top creators
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 18:37
The Minecraft Marketplace is where the open world, block-building game’s fans can sell their creations to other players. Today, Minecraft developer Mojang is releasing new content from notable Marketplace creators — ...
ESG Reporting -- The 'Analytical Fuel' For Better Performance
Forbes - 3 Aug 2017 18:30
Investors are always looking for an edge: More data means more analytical fuel, more ways to discern value that other investors may have overlooked.
For Honor's third season brings new heroes and maps
Venture Beat - 3 Aug 2017 18:15
For Honor is one of the most successful games of the year. It’s been the third best-selling title of 2017 so far in the U.S., and now Ubisoft is releasing a major content update that can keep its players engaged and ha...