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Why Are We Still Arguing Over The Facts Of The IRS Scandal?
Forbes - 18 May 2018 16:55
Professor Herzig advocates why a shift in the debate over the IRS targeting scandal under then Commissioner Lerner from a dispute over the facts to prescriptions on how to move forward is necessary.
Meet The Refugee Sisters Behind Some Of Hollywood's Most Exclusive Parties
Forbes - 18 May 2018 17:47
MVD Inc co-founder and principal Miatta David Johnson explains the business of creative marketing in Hollywood--plus what it's like to plan a party for Kayne West.
How Millennials Are Changing The Way We View Leadership
Forbes - 18 May 2018 17:05
Millennials are already become a major influence shaping the future of work. How will leadership change with this new generation taking the helm?
Valve's move to censor visual novels undoes its Steam Direct promises
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 23:21
Visual novel developers who have mature-themed games on Steam are reeling from what developer MangaGamer is calling Valve’s “sudden and abrupt policy shift.” Valve, which owns and operates the Steam PC gaming servi...
The Turing test holds no value in assessing conversational AI
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 23:10
GUEST: AI is becoming the new user interface. From self-driving cars and Amazon’s Alexa to robo-advisors and facial recognition locks, consumers are interacting with AI like never before. And this is just the beginning...
$1 Rides On Elon Musk's Space-Age Subway May Be A Stretch, But His Bricks Sound Great
Forbes - 18 May 2018 22:01
The billionaire entrepreneur offered more details on his plan to build a high-speed transit system below Los Angeles, featuring an odd idea that actually may make a lot of sense: to sell high-strength bricks made from th...
ISTE 2018 Preview: Edgemakers Gets Your Students Entrepreneurial Minds Flowing
Nibletz - 18 May 2018 21:34
Edgemakers Is Bringing Out A Students Inner Entrepreneur While some may not believe that entrepreneurship can be taught in school. Many people, myself included, believe that entrepreneurship is something that you're born...
Baidu COO Qi Lu steps down, AI chief now reports directly to CEO
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 21:01
Baidu today announced that COO Qi Lu will step down in July for personal and family reasons. Lu had been brought aboard to help the Chinese search giant become more centrally focused on AI services. Since he joined Baidu...
Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Great Franchise Owner?
Forbes - 18 May 2018 21:01
I've always viewed my franchising system as a kind of exclusive club and there are five characteristics that I look for. Entrepreneurship has taken on a glorified sheen, prettied up as a sunshine and rainbows money machi...
ProBeat: YouTube needs to be simplified, not splintered
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 19:30
OPINION: Google this week unveiled its latest plan for music, announcing a revamped YouTube Music coming on May 22 and the new YouTube Premium. There’s some progress in the company’s strategy, but overall, it’s cle...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 -- how and why Treyarch changed multiplayer combat
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 19:15
Game publisher Activision and its development studio Treyarch unveiled Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 on Thursday at an event at an aircraft hangar in Los Angeles. The leaders described the changes they made, including why th...
Meet The Entrepreneurs Pioneering The "Clean Medicine" Movement
Forbes - 18 May 2018 19:15
Meet Max Spielberg and David Johnson are two young dads who recently formed a partnership that has quickly become a revolutionary approach to making over-the-counter medicines. They offer the first organic and non-GMO br...
5 Things You Should Know About Sherrie Silver, The Choreographer Behind 'This Is America'
Forbes - 18 May 2018 19:00
Aside from choreographing "This Is America," though, Silver is an accomplished creative entrepreneur, and her journey began far before this video dropped.
Three Tips For Dealing With A Grumpy Employee
Forbes - 18 May 2018 18:46
Some employees expect someone else to solve the problems that arise. In the Hundred Acre Wood of your business, they're the Eeyores.
Fortnite on Android is finally coming this summer
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 18:41
Look out, teachers and parents. Those kids who actually pay attention and don’t try to sneak in matches of Fortnite on their phones during class or dinner are about to get in on the action as well because they aren’t...
Heartland innovation depends on net neutrality
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 18:30
GUEST: If you told me seven years ago that my friends and I would be running a software company with thousands of customers and four employees in an old refurbished Ford plant in the heart of North Dakota, I’d have sai...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 -- why Treyarch chose a different path
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 18:15
Rob Kostich manages the Call of Duty franchise at Activision Publishing. And this year, that means he is overseeing Treyarch, the studio that is making this year’s multiplayer-only Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. I’m not ...
Google's standalone AR headset is reportedly 'not unlike' Microsoft's HoloLens
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 17:56
Google is still developing a standalone augmented reality headset that can overlay digital objects on the real world, according to a report in WinFuture. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard rumors of Google develop...
How To Survive Getting A Mortgage
Forbes - 18 May 2018 17:37
Buying your first home is a mix of extreme excitement and stress. The single greatest sticking point in buying a home is whether you're going to be approved for a mortgage.
Xperiel Introduces Real World Web, An AR Enabled OS For The Physical World
Forbes - 18 May 2018 17:29
Xperiel, founded by the bothers Hertel, famous for Google wallet, plans top create a Real World Web using persistent geolocation.
PayPal Makes Its Biggest Acquisition Ever By Buying Swedish Firm iZettle For $2.2 Billion
Forbes - 18 May 2018 17:22
Stockholm emerges as Europe's hottest startup hub: only a month ago Spotify had one of the 10 largest IPOs in history, and another Swedish fintech company, Klarna, was recently valued at $2.5 billion.
The DeanBeat: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 takes a lot of risks, not all good
Venture Beat - 18 May 2018 17:00
Game development studio Treyarch is taking a lot of risks with this year’s multiplayer-only Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. And in my opinion, not all of the choices are good ones. That makes me nervous, as I’ve always be...