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It's Daunting Being A Hospitality Icon: How One NYC Hotel Meets The Customer Service Challenge
Forbes - 3 Jun 2018 03:18
It's tricky being an icon of hospitality-like the Essex House on Central Park (the subject of this article) or Nordstrom, Apple, Disney, et. al. It carries the mixed blessing of heightened customer expectations. How the ...
It's time to treat Amazon like Walmart
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 23:33
GUEST: In order to get the company to come to town, local government and economic developers gave it billions of dollars in in incentives In return, the local workforce received jobs that sometimes paid so little they we...
CarBlock Joins Leading Automotive Organizations in Consortium to Explore Blockchain Technology for New Mobility Ecosystem
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 23:25
PRESS RELEASE: CarBlock, the world's first blockchain-based transportation solution built on data generated by smart devices announced today that it has joined MOBI, the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative, to explore bl...
Game Thinking book trains product designers to think like game developers
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 20:08
In her first career, Amy Jo Kim made hit games like The Sims, Ultima Online, Rock Band, and Covet Fashion. And in her second career, she has coached startups and product teams at major companies like Netflix, The New Yor...
You Should Have An Estate Plan For Your Facebook Account
Forbes - 3 Jun 2018 19:33
We often overlook the most obvious things until we are faced the with consequences of these oversights. As you incorporate new technologies into your personal and financial lives, be sure to not sabbatoge your well laid ...
Graveyard Keeper is a medieval Stardew Valley with skeletons and sorcery
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 19:25
Graveyard Keeper is like Stardew Valley … but with 100 percent more skeletons. It’s a farming-slash-mortuary simulator where players must run a cemetery while planting cabbages, fighting slime monsters, fishing, and ...
Clean Up Your Foreign Reporting Deficiencies Before It Is Too Late
Forbes - 3 Jun 2018 19:18
IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program is closing. If you have been waiting to clean up failure to report foreign accounts, you should stop procrastinating and act now.
How Total War developer pushes its games forward -- and fans can push back
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 18:05
Creative Assembly has survived for nearly 31 years because it has listened to its fans — and pushed them in a direction they didn’t always know they wanted to go. The division of Sega makes the hardcore real-time str...
5 Things Founders Often Overlook That Can Kill Their Startup
Forbes - 3 Jun 2018 17:46
Whether you're in business or just starting out, it's important to pay attention to even the small details. Here's a rundown of five often overlooked items that can cause big problems down the road.
The Secret History of Mac Gaming: How SimCity led to Seaman
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 15:00
GUEST: The following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Secret History of Mac Gaming, “Simulated.” In 1985, at the suggestion of a neighbor from across the street, professional city planner Bruce Joffe, Will Wright ...
The 2018 Summer Reading List For Marketers
Forbes - 3 Jun 2018 15:00
Here's list of this summer's must reads for marketers.
Early Stage Startups Are Struggling, While VC Investment Dollars Are At All Time High.
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Forbes - 3 Jun 2018 13:00Firewall: Zero Hour wants to be VR's next great shooter
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 12:34
When developers first started theorizing the modern era of virtual reality headsets, I'd wager that shooters were a big part of the design discussions. Most of the great shooters are first-person games, which naturally l...
Casual Connect Indie Prize goes to Super Gravity Ball
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 05:15
Casual Connect Europe’s best-in-show audience prize went to Super Gravity Ball by American developer Upside Down Bird. The Indie Prize is an international scholarship program created by the Computer Games Association f...
MixCast 2.0 ditches green screens for VR livestreams
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 04:03
Today Blueprint Reality is announcing the release of MixCast 2.0, which is now available for download. The biggest barrier to more people recording and streaming amazing mixed reality videos like this Beat Saber one is t...
Luminar's lidar gives self-driving cars laser vision
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2018 01:41
Luminar invited us to see its cutting-edge lidar sensor in action. After crusing around Midtown Manhattan with CEO Austin Russell, we can confidently say that it measures up to expectations.