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Elevate Provides Safe Credit To People Banks Can't Serve With FICO
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 16:19
Elevates AI and machine learning make it possible to lend safely to subprime borrowers and help them build a credit history. It lends directly or through banks which are taking a new look at this market as regulators red...
Castbox raises $13.5 million as podcast investment boom continues
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 16:10
Podcasting startup Castbox has announced a fresh $13.5 million round of funding via a series B round led by SIG China, with participation from IDG Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, and GSR Ventures. This latest cash inje...
Taking On The Trolls - UK Tech For Good Startup, Lightful, Aims To Reclaim Social Media
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 18:04
The Cambridge Analytica controversy has raised new doubts about the way data is used to target content on social media. Against this backdrop, a UK startup, is aiming to help charities get their message across above the ...
Can A Small Business Survive Tragedy?
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 02:32
After the sudden death of Anne Hed's husband and co-founder, the success of Hed Cycling rested squarely on Anne's shoulders. When tragedy strikes, how does a small business survive?
4 Tips for Listening (That Even an Extrovert Can Master)
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 23:18
I didn't need the numbers to tell me about the benefits of talking less and listening to my team - I see it in my interactions with the team. Here, I share a few best practices I've learned while zipping it up and leanin...
Why AI can't fix your broken customer service model
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 23:10
GUEST: I recently had a very interesting conversation with an air passenger whose flight had been delayed 12 hours by the “Beast from the East,” a cold snap that was sweeping across Europe at the time, bringing some ...
Video: U.S. Activists Have An Increasing Interest In The U.K. Market
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 23:02AMD earnings confirm it's biting into Intel's market share
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 22:33
Advanced Micro Devices is on a comeback and is stealing market share from archrival Intel, based on earnings results reported today. The Sunnyvale, California maker of PC processors and graphics chips reported revenue of...
Why Debating Pros And Cons Is the Wrong Way To Make Decisions
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 22:30The RetroBeat: Hemingway helps me explain why I like retro games
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 21:40
I don’t only play video games during my spare time. Well … OK, I do. Almost exclusively. I was beginning to feel a bit bad about just how much video games dominated my life. Don’t get me wrong, I love them! But sur...
U.S. reportedly investigates Huawei over Iran sanctions violations
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 21:37
(Reuters) — Federal prosecutors in New York have been investigating since at least last year whether Chinese tech company Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. violated U.S. sanctions in relation to Iran, according to sources f...
How To Balance On-site And Off-site Content Marketing Efforts
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 21:27
What's the optimal way to allocate resources between on-site and off-site content in your content marketing campaign?
How Women Entrepreneurs Can Succeed And Still Be Nice
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 21:22
Women entrepreneurs can be successful and still be nice, says Fran Hauser, author of 'The Myth of the Nice Girl.' Here are her five tips on how to do it.
How To Double Your Website Traffic And Rank Higher On Google In 5 Simple Steps
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 20:19
In 2017, 79 percent of all global desktop search traffic came from Google -- and if you follow these five steps, your blog content and landing pages will benefit from increased organic search engine rankings, too!
PC Building Simulator rigs up more than 100,000 in sales
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 20:11
People love to build virtual PCs, and that has propelled PC Building Simulator to sales success on Steam. The Irregular Corporation, which developed the business-management game, revealed today that it has sold 100,000 c...
Key To Effective Marketing: Acting Quickly On Opportunities
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 20:07
Having a marketing strategy is important, whether you're a small mom-and-pop business or a major corporation. But just as important is the ability to act quickly when great marketing opportunities present themselves. It'...
iOS 11 adoption hits 76% as Android Oreo rests at 4.6%
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 19:18
Apple’s support page for the App Store, which chronicles the adoption levels of various iOS releases, today shared a new milestone for iOS 11: As of April 22, iOS 11 is on 76 percent of iOS devices, compared with 19 pe...
Selling A Small Business While Keeping Your Job: A Win-Win Story For This Auto Repair Shop Owner
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 19:12
From full-time owner to now employed contractor, this local auto repair owner of over three decades is still doing what he loves, without the hefty responsibilities of small business ownership. Here's how he made the tra...
Gfycat for gaming lets you share your greatest GIF moments
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 19:00
Gfycat has made a platform for creating short-form looping content, and today the company is making it easier to create imagery from games. The Gfycat for Gaming platform makes it easy to create, browse, and share game c...
Fortnite is broadcasting an emergency alert
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 18:41
Epic Games continues to tease its massive Fortnite audience with in-game events and posts on social media. For weeks, a comet has hovered over the battle royale shooter’s map and threatened … something. Now, the in-g...
Customer Lifetime Value Revisited
Forbes - 25 Apr 2018 18:39
Costly perils loom when it comes to projecting Customer Lifetime Value. See how CLV minefields are easily detonated... and easily avoided.
Apple needs to double down on entry-level products, not discontinue them
Venture Beat - 25 Apr 2018 18:25
OPINION: There’s no job as thankless as Apple punditry. Even if Apple listens to customer requests, it rarely acknowledges them, and its new engineering initiatives take so long that there’s no clear cause and effect...