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8 Tax Tips My Clients Taught Me
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 23:25
Clients have again come to me with questions and misperceptions that have opened up new opportunities for tax planning. As we close in on the last couple weeks of the first filing deadline, I wanted to highlight eight ta...
U.S. IRS: 'Time Running Out' To Claim Over $1B In Tax Refunds
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 21:46
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has stressed that "time is running out" and fast for what it the agency estimates are more than a million taxpayers to file a 2014 tax return and claim refunds totaling $1.1 billion. Th...
Why The World Needs More Other-Focused Leaders
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 15:30Monster Prom is a quirky competitive dating sim with party games
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 23:30
The high school in Monster Prom exists in a colorful alternate dimension filled with coquettish Medusas and demon jocks -- and you (and up to three friends) must date one of them. Spanish indie studio Beautiful Glitch’...
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook needs to take full responsibility for how people are using our tools
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 23:23
On a conference call with reporters today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the social media giant’s view of what responsibility it had to educate users on how to use their tools was too limited. Zuckerbe...
Family-friendly PixArk is a smart remix of Ark: Survival Evolved
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 23:16
Of all of the survival sim games that I’ve tried, I found Ark: Survival Evolved among the most complicated and unforgiving. You would think developer Snail Games would want to tone down those elements for its family-fr...
AWS Secrets Manager plugs a major cloud security hole
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 22:26
Amazon Web Services announced a new service today that could solve one of the biggest security headaches facing users of the cloud platform. The AWS Secrets Manager will allow developers to programmatically insert the cr...
Facebook announces changes to Events, Pages, Groups, and Instagram APIs
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 21:37
As CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress next week to answer questions about the company’s privacy and data policies, Facebook announced a slew of changes to its APIs. The changes don’t come as a su...
How This Social Media Maven Pushes Through The Noise
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 21:33
Elena Hansen, the CEO behind SWIM Social and some of your favorite digital campaigns, dishes on her best practices and viable social media strategies for small business owners.
How This Social Media Maven Creates Campaigns That Break Through The Noise
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 21:33
Elena Hansen, the CEO behind SWIM Social and some of your favorite digital campaigns, dishes on her best practices and viable social media strategies for small business owners.
The Legacy of Paul Heyman: Then, Now, Forever
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 21:13
If you are a fan of the WWE or professional wrestling in general, then you have most certainly heard the name Paul Heyman. Amazingly, in an industry known for its muscle and high-flying, high-risk acrobatics, Mr. Heyman ...
Apple releases first macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 public beta
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 21:02
Lagging a little behind the beta releases of iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4, and watchOS 4.3.1, the first public beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 was released by Apple today. A release exclusively for developers arrived last night...
GamesBeat Decides 76: RIP Jeff Grubb
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 21:01
On this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast, co-host Jeff Grubb prepares for PAX East by getting a cold. As co-host Mike Minotti points out, this is probably the big one, so it’s time to start the GamesBeat Decides fare...
Leading Investors, Business Leaders, and Influencers Join BOOSTO
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 20:25
PRESS RELEASE: BOOSTO, a new decentralized application (DApp) framework that will enable a new range of services for the world of influencers, has added a strong group of leaders to their advisory committee. A group that...
Amazon launches cheap data storage tier for infrequently used information
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 20:22
Amazon Web Services announced a new low-cost storage offering today aimed at providing customers with an even cheaper way of keeping data in the cloud when they don’t need it right away. It’s based on the company’s...
Amazon expands services for AI training, translation, and transcription
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 19:41
Amazon Web Services announced today a new way for machine learning developers to build and deploy models through its cloud. The company’s SageMaker AI service gained support for a local mode that lets developers start ...
Apple pours millions into ad buy featuring band best known for tweaking Spotify
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 19:38
Variety reports today that Apple selected Vulfpeck, a band “best-known in industry circles for gaming Spotify to raise money for a tour,” to provide the music for a recent Apple Pay commercial — a feat that gave it...
PUBG Corp. is tricking quitters into playing rain and fog matches
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 19:31
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds no longer includes fog or rain matches on its stable servers. The PUBG Corporation dropped those options because a significant number of players would randomly load into a fog or rain matc...
Do Your Employees Know Your Vision?
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 19:10
While business owners may have a very clear picture of where they are going, their constituents--employees, clients, suppliers, capital providers--may not share a similar understanding about the path ahead.
'Minority Report' adviser John Underkoffler to ponder user interfaces at GamesBeat Summit 2018
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 19:09
We are delighted to report that our latest speaker for GamesBeat 2018 is John Underkoffler the CEO of Oblong Industries and science advisor for the landmark sci-fi film Minority Report. He did such a great job in both a ...
"Alexa, Turn On My Jacket"
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 19:02
Meet the coat that preheats on command and knows how to optimize your body temperature.
Far Cry 5 is the series' fastest-selling installment
Venture Beat - 4 Apr 2018 18:27
Ubisoft announced today that Far Cry 5 has become the fastest-selling game in the franchise, more than doubling the first week sales for Far Cry 4. It has earned $310 million in its first week. Far Cry 5 came out on Marc...