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he Future Of Real Estate Tech: How We Got Here And What's Next In An Exploding New Ecosystem
Forbes - 13 Feb 2018 19:55
Real estate is one of the fastest-growing areas of tech. The former COO and CFO of Compass and a top VC break down how we got here and what comes next in the category.
How To Give Your Business A Social Media Makeover For The Year Ahead
Forbes - 13 Feb 2018 16:00China Wants To Turn The Indian Ocean Into The China Ocean
Forbes - 13 Feb 2018 03:07
After Sri Lanka, China is turning Maldives into another trading outpost.
Bill Gates to Apple: Help investigators access phones or risk regulation
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 23:20
Bill Gates rarely shied away from confronting Apple when he was Microsoft’s CEO, and new comments to Axios today suggest that he has a new issue with Cupertino: unbreakable encryption. Without mentioning Apple’s name...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bring heroes in a half-shell to Injustice 2
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 23:10
NetherRealm Studios’ fighting game Injustice 2 is serving up some half-shell power in its newest DLC. Folks who own Injustice 2 Ultimate Edition, Injustice 2 Ultimate Pack, or Fighter Pack #3 can play as the Teenage Mu...
Evolutionary algorithms are the living, breathing AI of the future
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 22:20
GUEST: AI is no longer some abstract dream for the future. It is here, now and bringing change across industries. According to the Forrester AI Readiness Study, 40 percent of the 717 businesses surveyed said they were pl...
eBay hires Jan Pedersen from Twitter to spearhead its AI efforts
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 22:06
eBay has announced a major new hire in its push to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) across its ecommerce platform. The company announced that it has lured Jan Pedersen from Twitter as its new VP and chief scientist ...
Zendesk's Tiffany Apczynski to discuss finding Heartland talent at VentureBeat's Blueprint event
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 21:45
VB EVENT: Zendesk VP of public policy and social impact Tiffany Apczynski is one of the speakers at VentureBeat’s inaugural Blueprint conference, taking place on March 5-7 in Reno, Nevada. At Blueprint, speakers includ...
GamesBeat Decides: January 2018's best game
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 21:06
For the GamesBeat Decides podcast this week, we kicked off a new monthly segment where we pick the best game of the month. January had some incredible new releases, and hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti talk about the...
Adam Draper's Boost VC closes new fund to become the 'Y Combinator of sci-fi startups'
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 20:03
EXCLUSIVE: Sentiments about cryptocurrencies are as fickle as the price of a token. But everyone can agree on one thing: Cryptocurrency is a hot topic. A year ago, however, before initial coin offerings (ICOs) became a t...
Want To Better Manage Your Business? Take Flying Lessons
Forbes - 13 Feb 2018 19:53
Rob Clarfeld explains how becoming a pilot helped him become a better business owner.
SXSWedu Preview: Kiwi Is Preparing Today's Middle School Students For Coding
Nibletz - 13 Feb 2018 19:39
Kiwi Compute: BecauseEvery Child Needs An Opportunity To Learn To Code Coding is the language of the future. When students learn to code it opens up opportunities for their future. Many believe that coding is becoming mo...
One Small Q4 For Tesla, One Giant Launch For Elon Musk
Forbes - 13 Feb 2018 19:38
After an impressive, nearly perfect launch of his SpaceX - Falcoln Heavy rocket last week, entrepreneur Elon Musk was brought back down to earth by the sobering reality that Tesla had lost $675 million during the last qu...
Kerbal Space Program's 'Build Fly Dream' video is still the best fan-made trailer ever
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 19:10
Almost five years ago, Kerbal Space Program mod creator Shaun Esau uploaded his own trailer for the space-flight simulator. The video recently hit 1 million views on YouTube, and I still consider it one of the best gamin...
Want Long-Term Success in Life and Business? Choose Integrity
Forbes - 13 Feb 2018 19:07
It's interesting to me how much we sometimes tend to overcomplicate life and business. I have always treated them as inseparable, mainly because I have never been a big fan of compartmentalizing business and life. I have...
How Disclosing The $4.27 Zipper Price Led To A Fashion Empire
Forbes - 13 Feb 2018 18:49
After first launching a collection of luxury bags in July 2016, Millennial CEO/founder Scott Gabrielson has just closed $1.2 million in funding to expand his label into footwear. The Minneapolis-based brand plans to rele...
Grand Theft Auto Online celebrates Valentine's Day with a hot ride
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 18:40
Grand Theft Auto Online has introduced a new car, the Vapid Hustler, to help celebrate Valentine’s Day. The multiplayer open-world game is also offering double in-game currency bonuses (GTA$ and RP) in select modes fro...
Okta Strengthens and Deepens Executive Team With Hires and Promotions Across People, Partnerships and Corporate Development Teams
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 18:25
PRESS RELEASE: Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced the hiring of Monty Gray as senior vice president of Corporate Development, Patrick McCue as senio...
Spring CUE 2018 Is Almost Here
Nibletz - 13 Feb 2018 18:20
Amazing Weather, Excellent Speakers and The Best EdTech Exhibitors Turn The Attention Of The EdTech Community to Spring CUE 2018 In Palm Springs If you skipped the Texas edtech conferences we can’t you missed a lot, bu...
Snapchat's Marketing API is now available to all developers
Venture Beat - 13 Feb 2018 18:00
Snap is opening its Marketing API for all developers to use, the company announced today. Snapchat first opened its API to a limited number of advertisers back in 2016, enabling third-party technology and creative compan...
SXSWedu: Brackitz In The Classroom Is Breathing New Life Into Science
Nibletz - 13 Feb 2018 17:50
Brackitz Inspire Creativity, Collaboration, Problem Solving and Engineering Chances are if you’re as old as I am, learning about pulleys in science class looked something like the picture above. Sure it was pretty cool...
Do You Need A Degree To Work In Marijuana?
Forbes - 13 Feb 2018 17:37
As commercial cannabis grows in the U.S., legal pot companies are on the hunt for workers with advanced degrees, especially biology, chemistry and business. In fact, Yale School of Management will host the largest legal ...