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Meet The CEO Who Holds Business Meetings During His School Lunch Break
Forbes - 22 Mar 2018 15:32
Meet the successful entrepreneur, not yet a teenager, who has big plans for his business, no fear of failure, and bags of advice for other budding young business owners
Making NBA Jam -- winning over the NBA, scouring magazines, and a secret tank game
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 23:40
NBA Jam is one of the most memorable sports games ever made. Midway created a ’90s icon when NBA Jam hit arcades in 1993, with console versions for Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo shortly following. Developers Mark Tur...
Blockchain, IoT, and the future of seamless transactions (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 23:20
VB LIVE: The business potential of connected devices is huge, but so are the challenges the IoT ecosystem faces. Blockchain technology seems to hold the potential to unlock new use cases — and significant ROI from them...
Why Entrepreneurs Should Never Stop Being Curious
Forbes - 22 Mar 2018 22:57
They say curiosity killed the cat, but continuously being curious about why and how things are done (and who's behind it) is what leads to great new ideas that solve today's problems.
Google's François Chollet: AI researchers with a conscience shouldn't work at Facebook
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 22:56
Facebook is under fire from a lot of critics this week as fallout continues from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, including from an unexpected source: Google. In a series of tweets published Thursday, Google researcher F...
Five Social Enterprises Team Up To Create A Subscription Box For World Water Day
Forbes - 22 Mar 2018 22:53
Greg Pittman, the Social Capitalist and CEO at Cause Roast, believes partnership and collaboration can solve some of the world's most challenging problems. So he's proving it -- with The Water Box.
Here's what Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner MARS looks like in 4K
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 22:31
Konami is still releasing video games, and it is going to keep that trend up at least through September when it launches the updated Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner – Mars for PC and PlayStation 4. This reworked ver...
These Women Are Dictating Where You're Traveling
Forbes - 22 Mar 2018 20:55
Meet the female founders of J Public Relations, the top luxury travel agency that's dictating where you're going next.
The Messenger is a Ninja Gaiden homage that is more than it appears
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 20:46
Shovel Knight is one of my favorite indie games. IT manages to capture the magic of 8-bit classics like Mega Man and Castlevania with tight platforming and beautiful pixel graphics. The Messenger is accomplishing many of...
Mobile credit company Juvo hires two female execs in gender parity push
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 20:18
EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley has a well-documented problem: There are not enough women in executive roles. The reasons are many and varied, and far more nuanced than sometimes they appear to be when reading article after ar...
Lily Trotters Are Not Your Grandma's Compression Socks
Forbes - 22 Mar 2018 20:14
It takes a special person to make compression socks badass. Meet Susan Costa-Walston, founder of Lily Trotters, who is changing the industry and helping women stay on their feet.
What Zuckerberg Should Have Said About Cambridge Analytica
Forbes - 22 Mar 2018 20:07
Facebook's CEO should have apologised in his note but instead, we got something quite different. Here's what he should have said.
Greymatter: Treat your startup like a poker game and take educated risks (podcast)
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 20:03
GUEST: Poker is a game of variance and probability. You can be dealt the best cards and play every hand perfectly until the river, the final card dealt in a poker hand, is played and shifts the game completely to the opp...
Jack Tretton's post-Sony career has changed his view of game platforms
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 19:15
Last week, former Sony U.S. games chief Jack Tretton announced he had started a new venture capital fund, Interactive Gaming Ventures, to invest money in promising indie developers. That means the world looks different t...
Ubisoft announces new studios in Mumbai and Odesa
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 19:00
In what’s beginning to become a tradition, Ubisoft is using the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to announce more studios are joining its sizable crop of global offices. Today, the French game publisher unve...
FCC votes to streamline 5G small cell approval process, paving way for 2018 rollouts
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 18:55
As expected, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved an order today to streamline the national approval process for deploying small cells, advanced radio hardware required for next-generation 5G cellular netw...
The Curse of Monkey Island is easy to buy again thanks to GOG
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 18:43
The Curse of Monkey Island is a beautiful, hand-drawn point-and-click adventure game from LucasArt’s golden age. It’s also been nearly impossible to buy, as the 1997 classic hasn’t been available on digital stores....
Sixth Continent Integrates Amazon Pay
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 18:25
PRESS RELEASE: Sixth Continent, a digital gift card provider allowing users to earn credits when they make purchases, now offers members of its community a new, fast payment solution thanks to the introduction of Amazon ...
How Microsoft and Databricks crafted a unique partnership for AI data processing
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 18:22
EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft is bringing its Azure Databricks cloud service out of beta today to help its customers better process massive amounts of data, powered by a partnership unlike anything the tech titan has done before....
A Way Out review -- a jailbreak that doesn't f*** the Oscars ... but comes close
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 18:00
REVIEW: I’ve finished playing the new two-player co-op game A Way Out from Electronic Arts and development studio Hazelight. Josef Fares, the writer director of the game, comically told me that “you can break my legs...
Bad North shows that even bloody Viking battles can be artsy and cute
Venture Beat - 22 Mar 2018 18:00
Bad North is a real-time strategy game that features adorable vikings and hectic terrain-based combat. It’s the debut game from indie studio Plausible Concept of Sweden, and Raw Fury will publish it this summer on PC, ...
Making Money Online: When Is It Smart To Buy An Existing E-Commerce Site?
Forbes - 22 Mar 2018 17:13
Consider these important points if you're thinking about buying an existing website as a way to launch your own business.