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Meet The Indian Entrepreneur Who Founded Asia's First Taxi Service For Women
Forbes - 6 Dec 2017 04:00
Realizing the demand for women drivers in India, Revathi Roy founded Forsche, Asia's first taxi service for women, run by women. Now, she's working on a new venture: She is the CEO of India's first all-female last-mile d...
Steam drops Bitcoin cryptocurrency due to volatility and $20 transaction fees
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 23:28
Bitcoin is causing too many complications for Valve, so the company has announced that it will no longer accept the digital cryptocurrency. Valve runs Steam, which is the the biggest PC-gaming distribution platform outsi...
Okta Announces Q3 Customer Wins and Expanded Deployments
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 23:25
PRESS RELEASE: Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced that new Q3 FY2018 customers CBRE, City of Las Vegas, Nordstrom and State of Arizona have chosen t...
Using Intention to Overcome Intimidation in the Board Room
Forbes - 6 Dec 2017 22:17
Robin Chase, the Founder and former CEO of Zipcar, faced the unique challenge of having absolutely no female peers in the transportation and wireless device space. But, rather than letting the men in the room intimidate ...
Steambirds Alliance is a bullet hell co-op shooter where you can play nice
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 21:30
Spry Fox has been making a new kind of bullet hell game for the past five years, and the indie studio is finally ready to show off Steambirds Alliance. And unlike other games in the genre, it’s pretty hard to grief oth...
Inside Dating App Hater's Shark Tank Deal With Mark Cuban
Forbes - 6 Dec 2017 21:19
Last Valentine's Day, Goldman Sachs alum Brendan Alper launched Hater, which matches people based on what they hate rather than what they love. Mark Cuban liked the idea on the Nov. 26 episode of Shark Tank.
WTF: How Vega Founder Charles Chang Turned Failure into a $550 Million Deal
Forbes - 6 Dec 2017 21:18
In this series, founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Brian Scudamore asks successful entrepreneurs about their biggest WTF moment.
Google DeepMind repurposed its AlphaGo AI to beat the best chess and shogi bots
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 21:16
Google-owned DeepMind put out a new paper that outlines how the team took the machine learning system that created AlphaGo and built a new system that tackled chess and shogi, beating the top programs at each game. The p...
Bridge Constructor Portal revives Valve's murderous but lovable GlaDOS
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 21:15
Crossing rivers with suspension bridges or steel rebar is folksy and quaint, but those methods are too old fashioned for Aperture Science. And in the upcoming Bridge Constructor Portal, due out December 20 on Steam and m...
FETC 2018 Preview: Do You Have a 24 Hour Homework Helper, Yup!
Nibletz - 6 Dec 2017 20:20
Yup Is Your Text A Friend For Homework Help Even at 1:00am There’s a hundred great reasons why Yup may just be a high school student’s best friend. Yup is an on demand tutoring service designed to help students with ...
The Game Awards balances revelations, gamer culture, and celebrities
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 20:15
The Game Awards takes place on at 5:30 pm Pacific time Thursday. Now in its fourth year, the event gives gamers their chance to beat their chests about their favorite games, and it lets the industry honor those who creat...
PR under pressure: Managing your company's crises (podcast)
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 20:13
GUEST: Companies that have successfully managed crisis realize that how they behave in the minutes, days, and weeks following a crisis is even more important than what actually happened. A company’s ability to successf...
YouTube's top game-trailer ads of 2017 -- Minions get more hits than Star Wars: Battlefront II
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 19:38
The various Google brands are looking back on 2017, and YouTube is revealing its top videos of the year. That includes the “game trailer” ad category, which features familiar blockbusters throughout the top 10. But i...
Baton Rouge is transforming from a college town into a gaming hub
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 19:20
GUEST: Though well-known for its diehard sports fans, excellent cuisine, and epic tailgates, Louisiana’s capital Baton Rouge has leveraged its film production industry, research university, existing tech incubators, an...
How Cryptocurrency Is Changing The Game For Startup Investors
Forbes - 6 Dec 2017 19:15
With Bitcoin and cryptocurrency going mainstream, startup founders and investors are starting to adjust their fundraising and investment strategies.
OneClickSolar Is Where You Go To Get Started With Solar Energy
Nibletz - 6 Dec 2017 19:10
Homeowners Thinking About Switching To Solar Can Quickly Get Started At OneClick Solar Solar energy is like the smart home. Millions of people want to switch to solar energy but don’t know where to start. They don’t ...
3 Tips For Building A Community-Based Business
Forbes - 6 Dec 2017 19:10
For millennials, community means business. I talk with Imani Ellis, founder of the Creative Collective NYC, about how to build a community-based business through organic growth, collaboration and making valuable experien...
Aligning Publisher Marketing Tactics With Holiday Shopping Content Preferences
Forbes - 6 Dec 2017 19:06
Brands and consumers don't appear to be on the same page when it comes to delivering relevant holiday content.
Where Thoughts Go is an anonymous VR social space on an alien planet
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 19:01
Where Thoughts Go is a social network that takes the form of an ethereal virtual reality world. Visitors leave anonymous voice logs that appear in the dreamy environment as little creatures that flit around in the air. I...
CrossCut Ventures announces $125 million fund targeting L.A. startups
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 19:00
EXCLUSIVE: CrossCut Ventures is announcing it has raised $125 million for its fourth seed fund. The Los Angeles fund will invest in a wide variety of startups, ranging from software-as-a-service to games and esports comp...
Microsoft unveils open source tools connecting Kubernetes to Azure
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 19:00
Microsoft continued its support for the Kubernetes open source project today, with the unveiling of several enhancements to systems that are designed to make it easier for developers to connect that system with the tech ...
Google brings AI to pivot tables with Sheets update
Venture Beat - 6 Dec 2017 19:00
Google’s Sheets spreadsheet application gained a number of new features aimed at making pivot tables, a powerful data analysis tool, more accessible. Users will be able to get recommendations from Sheets’ Explore tab...