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PC Gaming Weekly: Early Access success for Fornite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 07:47
The big rumor last week was that Tencent, the biggest game company in the world, had bought a 5 percent stake in Bluehole Studio, the South Korean developer behind one of the most talked-about games of 2017: PlayerUnknow...
AverMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus adds 4K passthrough support to a great capture card
Venture Beat - 7 Oct 2017 01:37
The PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X are a headache waiting to happen for people who capture a lot of gameplay footage off of consoles. That’s because those systems support Ultra HD 4K resolution, and that can cause er...
Autonomous cars could drive auto insurance to extinction
Venture Beat - 7 Oct 2017 01:10
GUEST: In a 2015 interview, Elon Musk pointed out that recent advances in auto technology could lead to human-operated vehicles becoming illegal someday. While this may seem ludicrous to some, it could play out sooner th...
Forza Motorsport 7 wants you to care about your driver, too
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 23:47
Forza Motorsport 7 has drawn criticism since debuting earlier this week for an in-game economy that seems to put a throttle on your progression to encourage you to buy loot boxes. Forza developer Turn 10 Studios has not ...
17 Brilliant Quotes From the Coolest Moms in Business
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 23:29
Mothers are hungry for a new way to fit into the workplace. The In Good Company Conference convened 400+ entrepreneurial women for a gathering like no other.
Five Life Lessons For Entrepreneurs
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 23:22
What advice do leading entrepreneurs have for one another? Here's five great tips they share
Israel: 'Startup Nation' -- the good, the great, and the one fatal flaw
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 23:20
OPINION: Like many small countries across the world, Israel punches well above its weight in the global startup ring. Until my recent visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to find out why Israel was doing so well, I — like m...
AI innovations have an inevitable effect on human emotions
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 23:10
GUEST: Artificial intelligence is spreading around us. Be it targeted advertising on social media, filtering applicants for a job, determining air ticket prices, controlling your central heating through voice recognition...
This Week In Credit Card News: 1 Worker Caused Equifax Breach; Yahoo Hack Hit All 3 Billion Accounts
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 23:07
What took place this week in the credit card and payment industries
Rivals of Aether developer asks Twitter if they would buy a Switch version of his fighter
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 22:20
Dan Fornace, the independent game developer behind Rivals of Aether, asked his followers on Twitter today via a poll if they’d be interested in a Switch version of the game. Rivals of Aether is a fighting game that tak...
Angels Go Above And Beyond To Support Puerto Rico Startups -- And The Economy
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 22:01
Angels, accelerators and entrepreneurs helped in extraordinary ways to support the startups affected by recent hurricanes. R. Stewart Thompson is bringing 70 employees of Puerto Rican startups to Calgary. Supporters can ...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Sony's game boss steps down, and the Switch's golf RPG is an ace
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 21:50
Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we played some of the most anticipated games for the rest year: Middle-earth: Shadow of War (which has you killing things in an open-world Mordor) and As...
ProBeat: Google did not learn from Apple's headphone jack removal
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 21:30
OPINION: I was pissed off in August when my colleague, Evan Blass, revealed this year’s Pixels would not have a headphone jack. It’s October, and I’m pissed off now, as indeed the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL don’t hav...
A Village Mother Pivots Her Failing Paper-Plate Business To Meet Customer Demand
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 20:43
A mother from a small village in India pivots her failing paper-plate business to meet the demands of her customers, and forever changes her family's destiny in the process.
Five Ways to Market Your Startup With Little or Zero Budget
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 20:27
Most startups don't have the budget to hire a full-time marketing person, and don't have money to invest in marketing initiatives that may or may not move the needle. So what can you do in the interim? Here are five simp...
SpecialEffect raises $391,470 for gamers with physical disabilities
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 20:14
SpecialEffect, the U.K.-based charity that helps people with physical disabilities play video games, raised $391,470 (£300,000) during its fundraising event last week. That well exceeded its goal of $130,460 (£100,000)...
How This Education Intellect Took A Leave From College And Got A Job With Gary Vaynerchuk
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 19:57
This college student took a leave from school and now works with Gary Vaynerchuk every day. He's also a budding entrepreneur who is set on changing the education narrative. Learn how he landed a job with Vaynerchuk, and ...
Fighting Seasonality And Amazon, Balsam Brands Built A $100 Million Business On Fake Christmas Trees
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 19:55
After noticing his in-laws' fake Christmas trees didn't look like the real thing, Stanford business school grad Thomas "Mac" Harman sensed there could be a market for high-end artificial trees.
AIM is shutting down on December 15 after 20 years
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 19:29
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), a chat service first launched in 1997, will shut down on December 15, Oath announced today. Following the acquisition of Yahoo by Verizon, AOL and Yahoo became Oath. “If you were a 90’s k...
The Future For Oil Supply And Prices After The 'Amazon Effect' Stimulates Shale 2.0
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 19:14
A phalanx of forecasters now expect the American shale revolution to peter out, but what happens when, not if, the digital revolution comes to the oil and gas industry? Will we see a repeat of the 'Amazon effect'?
The DeanBeat: Middle-earth: Shadow of War is the revenge of the nerds
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2017 19:00
Sometimes the GamesBeat staff is a microcosm of the world of gamers and other real people. This week, Jeff Grubb, our PC gaming editor, called the rest of us nerds because we were talking knowledgeably about Shelob, a ma...
Exclusive: Meet The Chef Behind Vespertine--L.A.'s Otherworldly New Dining Experience
Forbes - 6 Oct 2017 18:52
Talking to chef Jordan Kahn about his audacious new Los Angeles restaurant, Vespertine.