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Meet The Most Intelligent, Secure, Automatic Pill Dispenser, RxPense In Eureka Park at CES 2018
Nibletz - 7 Nov 2017 17:05
Eureka Park Preview: MediPense Is Bringing Digital Health To The Aging Population Starting With The RxPense The future of healthcare looks brighter and brighter thanks to technology. Over the last four years, the Interne...
5 Techno Shocks for 2018 (& a Bonus Shock)
Forbes - 7 Nov 2017 04:11
5 seemingly unlikely techno shocks of 2018 that could disrupt not just a corporate business model or two, but an entire industry. Are we ready for some unlikely but potentially huge shocks -- like major infrastructure ha...
Grand Theft Auto V sales climb past 85 million, increasing by 5 million since May
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 23:50
Grand Theft Auto V came out in 2013, and it is still selling millions of copies. Take-Two revealed today as part of its financials for the second quarter that total sales for the open-world game are now at over 85 millio...
Zynga pays $100 million for Peak Games' casual card game studio
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 23:05
Zynga has acquired the mobile card game studio of Turkey’s Peak Games for $100 million in cash. The move is one of the biggest acquisitions Zynga has made under Frank Gibeau, who became CEO in March 2016. It’s also a...
Salesforce shows how to bypass a key bottleneck in AI translation
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 22:54
Salesforce Research unveiled a new technique today that’s supposed to speed up machine translation using AI by doing away with one of the historical limitations of those systems. Instead of translating word by word, th...
IO Interactive says the 'next Hitman' is still coming
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 22:31
IO Interactive is launching the GOTY Edition of its 2016 Hitman action adventure today, and the independent studio is using this as an opportunity to update fans on the state of franchise. IO left Square Enix this past s...
3 tactics to successfully integrate AI into your enterprise
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 22:10
GUEST: AI investments are expected to surge 300 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, yet most of these businesses will fail to get it right. My team recently partnered with Fortune Knowledge Group to survey 300 senior execu...
Millennial Budgeting App MonzoIs Morphing Into A Bank
Forbes - 7 Nov 2017 22:04
The app that's fast become a popular way for Brits to track their spending is inviting its users to become current account holders.
Telltale Games cuts staff by about 25 percent
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 21:53
Telltale Games has let go of 90 staff members, about 25 percent of its total workforce, as GamesIndustry.biz first reported. The game publisher and studio is famous for its episodic, story-focused games based on hit fran...
Nearpod Is Making Science More Accessible In The K-12 Classroom
Nibletz - 7 Nov 2017 21:31
FETC 2018 Preview: With Nearpod, The Future Is Now Nearpod was the first company to bring virtual reality into K-12 classrooms at scale. They make VR affordable to schools at the local and district level and with that, o...
Switch happens: Ubisoft's bottom line feasts on Nintendo's new console
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 21:10
When Ubisoft Entertainment announced Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, everyone thought it was bizarre. But sometimes bizarre works. Ubisoft released its earnings for the first half of fiscal year 2018 and it’s showing ...
4 Surprising Mistakes Founders Make When Seeking Funding
Forbes - 7 Nov 2017 20:53
Fundraising as a young startup can be hard. Golden Seeds managing partner Jo Ann Corkran shares four common mistakes founders make -- and how to fix them.
Assassin Creed: Origins doubles Syndicate's first 10 days of sales
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 20:48
It looks like taking that year off was good for the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Ubisoft revealed as part of its yearly financials today that Origins’ first 10 days of sales were 100 percent better than the last Assas...
Facebook brings Messenger payments to France and the U.K.
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 20:19
Facebook Messenger extended its peer-to-peer payment system to millions of users by making payments possible in Euros and British pounds in France and the United Kingdom respectively. This is the first time P2P payment i...
B2B Sales Insights For Commoditized Markets
Forbes - 7 Nov 2017 20:19
Markets tend to commoditize over time. Differentiate your offerings by competing on value instead of price, doing the math for your customers, and avoiding no-win contests to see who can be the first to go out of busines...
Mojiworks raises $2.77 million for messenger games
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 20:07
Mojiworks raised nearly $2.77 million (£2.1 million) in a Series A round of funding for its messenger-based games. The round is led by Balderton Capital, which previously invested in companies such as Wooga, NaturalMoti...
League of War: VR Arena is arcadey take on strategy games for PSVR
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 19:30
League of War: VR Arena debuts as an exclusive on PlayStation VR. It’s an arcade combat strategy game where two players duel with each other. Those players can battle each other inside virtual reality via the PSVR, or ...
Forget Memory, Try Imagination
Forbes - 7 Nov 2017 19:24
Can we imagine new responses to dementia and memory loss that unlock creative expression and foster community? This changemaker says yes and is showing how.
Everything You Need To Know About Sophia, The World's First Robot Citizen
Forbes - 7 Nov 2017 19:22
What does being a 'robot citizen' entail?
Grand Theft Auto Online gets a taste of WWII with Dogfights and new plane
Venture Beat - 7 Nov 2017 19:21
Grand Theft Auto Online‘s newest multiplayer update adds a new plane and competitive mode. The World War II-inspired P-45 Nokota is the new flier, while Dogfights has teams of aviators taking turns at 1-vs.-1 plane bat...
By Buying Flatiron, WeWork Is Putting Itself Front And Center In The Future Of Work
Forbes - 7 Nov 2017 19:10
In order to succeed, the office-sharing company needs to create more entrepreneurs. Coding school can increase the influx of workers.
Not Everybody Gets A Pony From Santa Trump This Tax Cut Christmas
Forbes - 7 Nov 2017 19:00
Massive tax cuts are being paid for with a host of smaller increases.