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Seattle's Riveter, Co-Working For Women, Raises $4.75M For Expansion
Nibletz - 21 Mar 2018 17:40
Riveter, The Co-Working Spaces For Women, Have Raised $4.75M For Expansion We were around in the beginning, when WeWork was just expanding out of New York City. We knew they were onto something. Co-Working was already a ...
Pandora to acquire digital audio adtech company AdsWizz for $145 million
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 15:49
Music streaming company Pandora made a rare foray into acquisitions today with the news that it has snapped up adtech startup AdsWizz. Pandora is doling out $145 million in total to secure AdsWizz, “at least” 50 perc...
Is Social Media Stressing You Out? Here Are 9 Self-Care Tips
Forbes - 21 Mar 2018 23:33
We are more informed than ever, but we're also more anxious, less trusting and addicted to the 24/7 news cycle. How can we successfully manage our social media, while staying creative and sane?
Alexa's laughing bouts highlight a fatal flaw in bot development
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 23:10
GUEST: The news about Amazon’s Alexa bursting out in spontaneous laughter would have been funnier if it hadn’t cast a spotlight on what’s wrong with the current approach to chatbots and virtual assistants. Amazon r...
AR games live and die by location
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 23:01
Augmented reality gaming is in its infancy. It wasn’t until July 2016 and Pokémon Go‘s release that most people had even experienced it. Fast-forward to 2018, and game designers are trying to figure out how to adapt...
February 2018's top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: city life and teens
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 22:31
February saw a huge jump in downloads in the Minecraft Marketplace. Players on PC, mobile, and Xbox consoles downloaded 372,509 pieces of content from various creators, which is up from 239,062 downloads in January. Mult...
5 Ways CMOs Can Navigate Digital Transformation
Forbes - 21 Mar 2018 22:30Facebook to audit apps following Cambridge Analytica trainwreck
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 22:23
In the continued fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook today said it’s taking new steps to tighten its control on how app developers can use the Facebook Platform. All apps that were given large amount...
Women in tech: Time's up, but are we there yet?
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 22:17
OPINION: The discussion around women’s rights has accelerated this past year with movements like the Women’s March, #MeToo, and #TimesUp. And yet, I find myself asking: Is anything actually changing for women in tech...
Damages And 'Blurred Lines' Copyright -- Court Says 'You Got To Give It Up'
Forbes - 21 Mar 2018 22:00
Intellectual property law permits, and even encourages, individuals to learn from what people have written, invented or created before. The key is always knowing where to draw the line...
Aden + Anais And Founder Raegan Moya-Jones Part Ways
Forbes - 21 Mar 2018 21:55
The 'passion founder' of popular aden + anais baby brand tells Mergermarket she's been let go from the company as its private equity owners work to scale its boutique cache into an omni-channel titan.
Bill Letting More People Making Under $200K Invest In Startups Clears First Hurdle
Forbes - 21 Mar 2018 21:49
Congress took the first step today in opening startups to investments by more people making under $200,000 per year
Siri's poor performance has opened iOS to every AI assistant from Alexa to Watson
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 21:20
Siri was already coming off a bad year. Then HomePod’s messy release cast a spotlight on its many failings as a digital assistant. Now the floodgates are open: Former Siri executives and engineers are openly discussing...
Conversational commerce is no longer a one-person show
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 21:10
GUEST: When a small-to-mid-sized business first implements a new technology, it’s often only one person inside the company who owns the entire product. In the early ’90s when the web was in its infancy, my role inclu...
How This Company Is Turning Itself Around To Deliver 'Clean' Cleaning Products
Forbes - 21 Mar 2018 20:44
When Peter Resnick bought CleanWell, he had no CEO experience, and frankly was not looking to be an entrepreneur. Rather, he wanted to invest in a business that was eliminating toxins and chemicals from everyday cleaning...
Fishers, Indiana hopes to build a tech hub in the suburbs with the state's first IoT Lab
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 20:15
The cities angling to become a tech hub in the Midwest typically fall into one of two categories. There are college towns, like Columbus and Ann Arbor, and traditional hubs of Fortune 500 activity, like Chicago and Minne...
Atari biopic producers use cryptocurrency to fund Nolan Bushnell tale
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 20:00
Nolan Bushnell, cofounder of Atari, is the godfather of the video game industry, and the producers at media company Vision Tree are making a biopic about him and Atari. And they’re announcing today they are funding it ...
GamesBeat Decides 74: No robot mayors
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 19:51
Almost everyone on the GamesBeat team is at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, and we’re going to have some audio dispatches from that event later this week. For now, since I’m all alone, I de...
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney on creating believable digital humans
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 19:45
Epic Games stunned everyone a couple of years ago with the realistic digital human character Senua, from the video game Hellblade. And today, the maker of the Unreal Engine game tools showed another astounding demo, dubb...
Uber's Disaster Movie
Forbes - 21 Mar 2018 19:37
This is not about the death of a woman run over this week by an Uber driverless car. This is about what happened before the tech ever got deployed in the vehicle in the first place. It had to be stolen first.
Maria Shriver, Christina Schwarzenegger, Alison Klayman, & AlternaScript Take On Adderall Abuse in New Netflix Documentary 'Take Your Pills'
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 19:25
PRESS RELEASE: AlternaScript, the leading provider of premium health supplements, is on a mission to eradicate America's fastest growing epidemic: off-label prescription drug abuse. This press release features multimedia...
Epic Games shows off amazing real-time digital human with Siren demo
Venture Beat - 21 Mar 2018 19:22
Epic Games, CubicMotion, 3Lateral, Tencent, and Vicon took a big step toward creating believable digital humans today with the debut of Siren, a demo of a woman rendered in real-time using Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 techno...