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EDUCAUSE Preview: MindAppster Is Blowing Up The "Filing Cabinet" Approach To Knowledge Management
Nibletz - 4 Sep 2017 19:35
MindAppster Is Disrupting Knowledge Management Through Social and Integration When you ask somebody to define Knowledge Management, chances are you are going to get a wide range of answers. Most of those answers will rev...
Royal Blood: How Gamevil is betting big on a mobile MMO
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2017 06:17
Few projects are as ambitious as Royal Blood, a massively multiplayer online fantasy role-playing game for smartphones and tablets. Gamevil plans to release the title later this year, and it’s already clear that it rep...
The Elder Scrolls Legends and card master Pete Hines face the dragon
Venture Beat - 5 Sep 2017 00:47
Daenerys Targaryen wishes her dragons had an iota of the power that my draconic minions show in The Elder Scrolls: Legends. Of course my wyrms are beefy and fiery and soar over the battlefield. But they also make my foes...
5 games with memorable falling to celebrate fall
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2017 21:25
Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the crisp weather and the beautiful colors. I thought I would celebrate autumn’s coming by writing about my favorite games that reminded me of the season … but I couldn’...
Edgemakers Is Teaching Innovation And Entrepreneurship To Kids
Nibletz - 4 Sep 2017 20:30
We Talk With Edgemakers About Bringing Out A Child’s Inner Innovator There’s much debate about whether entrepreneurship can be taught. But, most of that debate occurs in college. Self made millionaire and entrepreneu...
Roku IPO stands a fighting chance in a market hostile to tech offerings
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2017 20:02
ANALYSIS: Anyone who’s watched promising enough brand-name startups go public and promptly flounder in public waters this year — Hello, Snap. Hello, Blue Apron — would have reason to think that Roku, the next IPO c...
Bio-Sig ID: Ultra Secure Authentication For The Classroom
Nibletz - 4 Sep 2017 18:20
We Spoke With BioMetric Signature ID About The Most Secure Authentication Available For Classrooms Did you know that passwords and pins are the least secure authentication tool out there? Fingerprints, or rather fingerpr...
American McGee tests the waters for third Alice game
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2017 18:15
American McGee is best known for his American McGee’s Alice video game, a nightmare version of Alice in Wonderland published in 2000. And now he is testing the demand for a third game based on the Alice franchise. In a...
Mercedes-Benz enters European ride-sharing market with $50 million investment in Via
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2017 17:25
Mercedes-Benz announced today that it has created a joint venture with U.S.-based Via to launch a new ride-sharing shuttle service in Europe that will debut in London later this year. The Daimler-owned German automotive ...
Why Stardock wanted to show up early to the Vulkan graphics API party
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2017 17:01
Stardock updated its Ashes of the Singularity strategy game with support for the Vulkan graphics-rendering API in August, and that introduced some serious performance improvements — especially for players who aren’t ...
Tanoshi is an Android laptop for kids with Google's parental control Family Link app pre-installed
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2017 15:26
There is no shortage of tablets and computers aimed at children, but one Silicon Valley startup is betting its bootlaces that kids and parents will lap up its new Android-powered laptop-tablet hybrid. The Tanoshi is tout...
Automated mortgage broker Habito raises $24 million from Atomico, others
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2017 13:23
Habito, a U.K.-based online mortgage broker, has raised £18.5 million ($24 million) in a series B round of funding led by Atomico, the venture capital (VC) giant set up by Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström. Existing inv...
China bans ICOs, calls it 'illegal fundraising'
Venture Beat - 4 Sep 2017 12:11
(Reuters) – China on Monday banned individuals and organizations from raising funds through initial coin offerings (ICO), saying the practice constituted illegal fundraising. ICOs have become a bonanza for digital curr...