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Why India's investors need to get over their inferiority complex
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 04:45
GUEST: Walmart's acquisition of Flipkart has created shockwaves in India, with the realization that the vast majority of its $16 billion price will go to foreign investors, namely Tiger Global, SoftBank, Naspers, and Acc...
How to design a GDPR-compliant blockchain
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 00:10
GUEST: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the far reaching personal data privacy regulation going into effect Friday, aims to give individuals more control over their personal information. Among other requirement...
Apple wins $538.6 million from Samsung in latest iPhone patent retrial (Updated)
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 23:40
Nearly six years after a federal jury awarded Apple over $1 billion for Samsung infringements of iPhone intellectual properties, a jury retrying the damages portion of the case has reached a unanimous verdict, modifying ...
ISTE 2018 Preview: Lalilo Is Your Virtual Assistant For Reading
Nibletz - 24 May 2018 21:54
Every Teacher Could Use A Hand With Reading Instruction, Lalilo Is Your Virtual Teaching Assistant Every teacher could use an extra assistant in the classroom especially when it comes to reading. However, with budgets ac...
Salesforce data scientist surveys the state of AI-assisted photography
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 20:20
Saleforce's Michael Sollami gave a talk on recent advances on computational photography at the Re-Work Deep Learning Summit.
Steam's Spring Cleaning event is a challenge to play your pile of shame
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 20:15
Valve knows that deep shame you carry with you everywhere. It knows that you’ve maybe played 20 percent of the games in your Steam library for any significant amount of time, and it wants to help you deal with that pil...
Facebook releases its U.S. political ad archive
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 20:00
Facebook’s new archive for U.S. political ads — created to give users more information about who is advertising on Facebook and who they are trying to target — went live today. The archive was first announced in Oc...
Apple knew iPhone 6 bent easily, but released it and downplayed issues
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 19:50
Apple knew before launching the iPhone 6 series that its 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch devices were considerably more likely to bend than the iPhone 5s, but continued to downplay the issue — despite charging users steep prices...
Ubisoft is saving some surprises for E3
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 19:36
Ubisoft chief executive Yves Guillemot is probably still glowing somewhere in France after fending off the threat of a hostile takeover by Vivendi and promising to bring Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege to China with ne...
ISTE 2018 Preview: Go Deeper With GoGo Brain
Nibletz - 24 May 2018 19:03
GoGo Brain Is Helping Students Listen, Focus Better and Follow Directions As teachers start digging into student performance and assessment they start to understand the whole student. While a student may be grasping conc...
Uber's self-driving car detected pedestrian 6 seconds before fatal crash
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 18:50
(Reuters) — Uber disabled an emergency braking system in a self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in March and which failed to properly identify the pedestrian, raising serious questions about i...
The IndieBeat: Tips from publishers and how to pitch to them
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 18:05
Lately, more and more companies are getting into the publishing business, and even some indie studios are trying their hand at helping their fellow developers bring titles to the market. For small teams, partnering with ...
Okta Announces Grant to Fast Forward, Technology Nonprofit Community
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 17:25
PRESS RELEASE: Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced the next grantee of the Okta for Good Fund, Fast Forward, an organization that funds and supports ...
SuperData: Digital game spending grew 23% to $9.09 billion in April
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 17:00
Digital video game sales generated $9.09 billion in revenue in April, up 23 percent year-over-year from $7.42 billion, according to analyst firm SuperData Research. The bump in revenue came from console and mobile spendi...
Alexa recorded a woman's private conversation and sent it to a random contact
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 16:38
A woman claims that her Amazon Echo recorded her voice and sent it to a random contact without her knowledge.
South Korean 5G carriers expect holograms and videos to force limited data plans
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 16:24
Though Qualcomm and 5G device makers expect unlimited data service to enable the coming 5G era, some cellular carriers are beginning to push back on the idea, Yonhap reports. South Korean mobile giants SK Telecom, KT, an...
The future of marketing belongs to the fearless
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 16:10
SPONSORED: We are data scientists, analytics experts, and creative whizzes, all on top of our traditional role of being stewards of the brand. How can we also now own the customer experience and take the lead in engaging...
Yelp Collections uses machine learning to serve up recommendations
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 16:00
Yelp's new Collections feature uses a combination of machine learning, algorithmic sorting, and manual curation to put highly rated businesses at your fingertips.
Caffeine social livestreaming platform launches monetization for broadcasters
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 16:00
Caffeine is a new social broadcasting platform for livestreamers, and today the company is launching a new monetization system built around digital items. The new monetization system, which is in a "pre-release" state, w...
Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 16:00
“Adult entertainment” giant Pornhub is entering the busy virtual private network (VPN) space with the launch of its very own VPN service. Dubbed VPNhub, the new service is available for free via native apps on Androi...
CoTrader launches a blockchain fund platform that lets you copy successful traders
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 15:30
EXCLUSIVE: Social trading platforms aren’t new, but they are few and far between. The idea is simple — to alleviate pressure for new investors, they can copy the actions of successful traders. Today, CoTrader is intr...
Rover raises $155 million to grow its dog-sitting platform in Europe
Venture Beat - 24 May 2018 15:30
Rover has raised $155 million in a fresh round of funding as the dog-sitting platform looks to expedite its expansion into Europe. The cash influx constitutes $125 million from a range of funds and accounts “advised”...