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Auberge Resorts: How A Small, Family Company Became A Player In Ultra-Luxury Hospitality
Forbes - 21 Sep 2017 21:04
Auberge Resorts Collection is a small, family company known in the hospitality industry for developing and operating ultra-luxury inns and resorts across the Americas, competing against companies many times its size, as ...
ChainLink raises $32 million to connect blockchains with external data
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2017 05:30
Blockchain startup ChainLink has pulled in $32 million through its presale and initial coin offering, which closed yesterday. The company provides middleware to enable “smart contracts” running on a blockchain to acc...
Amazon's new smart goggles might make sense, if Alexa is everywhere
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2017 01:40
I'm not a fan of smart goggles, the awkward device Google tried to pawn off on us a few years ago for a high price tag. Google Glass failed because it didn't really offer that much functionality, and Google didn't actual...
This Is What It's Like To Attend A Conference For Creative People
Forbes - 22 Sep 2017 01:19
I may have been a touch cynical at first about the idea of a conference geared toward creative-types, but what I discovered was a community of like-minded individuals interested in various passions and pursuits -- yes, m...
Building a future of friendship between humans and bots
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2017 01:10
GUEST: How do you actually become friends with someone? Is it a slow process of getting to know each other or is there a moment when you just hit it off? Do we enjoy staying friends with people who have become part of ou...
Advrty brings native ads to virtual reality
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2017 00:41
Advrty wants to offer a new avenue of monetization for virtual reality developers, which doesn’t involve full field-of-view pop-up ads. Instead, it’s a platform aimed toward designing and incorporating nonintrusive p...
Ardor could fix key blockchain weaknesses -- if it can get its message out
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2017 00:15
GUEST: In 2013, Jelurida, the team behind open source blockchain platform NXT, ran the second ever ICO. Although not a very successful token sale, raising a mere $6,000, the small team managed to build and launch NXT, wh...
How One Tech Engineer Built A Company Around Doing Good
Forbes - 21 Sep 2017 23:57
For years Kristen Ransom worked as a hardware and software developer at big companies like Harley Davidson, but when she was on maternity leave, she started to ask herself what it was that she wanted from her career.
SteamWorld Dig 2 is impossible to put down
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2017 23:47
I just wanted to play for about an hour or so to get a taste of SteamWorld Dig 2 before I went to bed. I ended up going to sleep at 3 a.m. I don’t do that with every game. It takes something special to keep me up into ...
The Instant Edible Selfie Cookie, Already A Crowd Favorite At Twitter And Google Events
Forbes - 21 Sep 2017 23:21
This edible selfie startup wants to eclipse the 'played out' and 'boring' rental photo booth industry.
VC data looks at why companies buy AI startups
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2017 23:10
GUEST: The recent acquisition of Blue River Technology by John Deere is an artificial intelligence deal at its best. It shows the impact AI can have across various industries, as well as the scale of that impact. Leaders...
Intel partners with Blueprint Reality to show off VR content
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2017 22:52
Blueprint Reality launched a tool dubbed MixCast VR in February that both game developers and consumers can use to create their own mixed reality videos from within VR. Those videos can show someone else what the person ...
New Research: Diversity + Inclusion = Better Decision Making At Work
Forbes - 21 Sep 2017 22:18
New research shows how inclusive decision making contributes directly to the bottom line. Leaders can drive meaningful improvements in months by focusing on the diversity of people already employed in their organizations...
Middle Market M&A -- Selling A Company? What's My Company Worth? Part 4
Forbes - 21 Sep 2017 22:00
Selling a company? Even if you have GAAP-compliant financial statements, you might be unwittingly undermining the sale value of your company. Don't shoot yourself in the foot with these mistakes.
Equifax Was Linking Potential Breach Victims On Twitter To A Scam Site
Forbes - 21 Sep 2017 21:27
The revelation that Equixfax has been sending consumers to an outside 'phishing' page follows news that the firm suffered another breach earlier this year.
Ron Gilbert's Thimbleweed Park is now out on Switch
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2017 21:25
The retro point-and-click adventure game Thimbleweed Park is now out for the Nintendo Switch. It comes from Ron Gilbert, the man who created many classics while working at LucasArts in the late ’80s and early ’90s, i...
Business Planning With Austrian Economics: The Role Of The Individual
Forbes - 21 Sep 2017 21:13
The Austrian economics approach to studying human action can help in business planning. Methodological individualism, the subject of this article, focuses on actions by people, rather than corporate departments or divisi...
Adblock Plus can now protect your computer from being hijacked to mine cryptocurrency
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2017 21:08
Adblock Plus wants to protect you from sites using your computer resources to mine cryptocurrency. The team has released a filter that users can add to their Adblock Plus browser extension in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and...
HTC Vive will share 100% of holiday app revenues with developers
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2017 21:00
HTC may be selling its Pixel smartphone team to Google, but it’s keeping its HTC Vive virtual reality headset business. And today, the Taiwanese company is announcing a few things that it hopes will attract more develo...
Facebook's M now shares GIFs and movie ticket recommendations in Messenger
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2017 21:00
Facebook Messenger is now giving intelligent assistant M new ways to respond to messages you receive. Starting today in the U.S., M will suggest things like sharing GIFs, buying movie tickets, and sending quick text resp...
10 Tips To Get Rich By Your 30th Birthday
Forbes - 21 Sep 2017 20:40
Who wants to be a millionaire? Here's how to get there.
Hironobu Sakaguchi's Terra Battle 2 launches on iOS and Android
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2017 20:20
Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker studio announced today that Terra Battle 2 has launched for iOS and Android in the U.S. and Japan. The free-to-play role-playing game is also coming out for PC at an unspecified date. Th...