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How To Immigrate To The U.S. With A Start-Up Business
Forbes - 6 Jul 2018 16:45
How can a foreign investor start-up a new business in the U.S. to get a work permit and capitalize on his foreign connections? This article uses the example of a wine bar start-up to immigrate to the U.S. and then to exp...
How Rhode Island Is Sparking Another Industrial Revolution
Forbes - 6 Jul 2018 03:02
Rhode Island has recruited 24 companies in the past two years to either come to the state or expand the presence the company already has in the state. Gov. Gina Raimondo is calling it a modern industrial revolution.
7 Ways To Find More Purpose When Working From Home
Forbes - 6 Jul 2018 02:57
There's increasing evidence that flexible work policies can provide meaningful advantages for both companies and employees. Whether you are a part time remote worker or enjoy full time #WFH status, these 7 tips will help...
Pokémon Go turns 2 at the top of the mobile gaming charts
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 22:45
Niantic’s augmented reality game Pokémon Go launched in 2016, becoming an instant hit and generating over $1.2 billion in its first year. Two years later, the hype has quieted down, but the popular monster-catching ap...
How to Create a Better Brand Experience: Move Beyond the Customer Journey
Forbes - 6 Jul 2018 22:33
Companies that want to reach their full potential now need to understand the importance of maintaining a permanent presence in the lives of customers, an endless relationship not confined to separate episodes of actively...
Greenhouse Group sees AR glasses as freeing workers from office desks
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 21:07
Typewriters and computers have kept generations of office workers sitting at their desks, but augmented reality glasses could free them -- and improve their health in the process. That's the goal of a new AR productivity...
Twitter has locked out users suspected of signing up as preteens for over a month
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 20:30
After the rollout of GDPR, Twitter started locking out accounts if it suspected users were under the age of 13. Now, more than a month later, many affected users -- who say they're now old enough to use the service -- re...
AI Weekly: If Duplex is the future, then Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana should start working together
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 20:24
If Google's conversational AI Duplex is a harbinger of things to come, bot-to-bot communication will soon be critical, which is why the makers of assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant need to work together.
ProBeat: HTC should kill its phones and focus on VR
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 19:30
OPINION: Let’s talk about HTC. The struggling Taiwanese consumer electronics company announced more layoffs this week: 1,500 jobs, or around 25 percent of its workforce. This has been long overdue, but I’ll say it ag...
Pokémon Quest reaches 7.5 million downloads after launching on Android and iOS
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 18:03
The Pokémon Company International announced today that its free-to-play game Pokémon Quest has reached 7.5 million downloads on the Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android. That number was at 2.5 million on June 20. But that...
Byton's car of the future will be a 'next-gen smart device'
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 17:45
FEATURE: “We think it was perfect what Steve Jobs said a decade ago, that a revolution of the user interface will change everything,” said Henrik Wenders, marketing VP of China-based automotive startup Byton. “So j...
Top Social Media Tips For Every Platform Part 2: YouTube, LinkedIn, Snapchat and Pinterest
Forbes - 6 Jul 2018 17:22
For startups looking to make a splash on social media, keeping up with the rules and trends can be daunting. In this post, marketing maven Meliss Jakubovic shares her top tips for every platform for 2018.
The DeanBeat: Why outsiders see us better than we can see ourselves
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 17:00
When I learned that Ghost of Tsushima, an authentic samurai swordfighting action-adventure game, was under development at Bellevue, Washington-based based Sucker Punch, I did a double take. How could Sucker Punch faithfu...
Intel says 5G plans for iPhone are unchanged
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 16:25
Following yesterday's report from Israeli publication CTech that Apple has decided not to use an Intel 5G modem called "Sunny Peak" in future iPhones, Intel has denied part of the report -- and the publication has update...
Undocumented Immigrant Launches Company For Latinos In Tech
Forbes - 6 Jul 2018 16:14
Undocumented Latina Elizabeth Vilchis leads latinoTech, an organization that strengthens Latino leadership in the technology world.
Sonos files for IPO, highlighting profitability but also risks it faces with Apple, Google, Amazon
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 15:54
Sonos, maker of smart home speakers, has filed to go public as it seeks to position itself for a grueling fight against some of tech’s biggest names. Somewhat awkwardly, those deep-pocketed competitors also happened to...
HTC's June sales fall 68%, its biggest drop in over 2 years
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 15:30
(Reuters) — Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC said its sales fell nearly 68 percent in June, its biggest slump in more than two years, as the struggling firm continues to lose customers amid intensifying competition with ...
Octopath Traveler hands-on -- the march of endless beginnings
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 15:00
PREVIEW: I’ve played about eight hours of Octopath Traveler, and I have mixed feelings about Square Enix’s first role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch. It looks beautiful. The combat is creative and satisfying. A...
Angie Smets: How Guerrilla Games made Horizon Zero Dawn in 7 years
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 14:15
Horizon Zero Dawn is an epic game that you can play for scores of hours. When I finished the single-player campaign in 2017, I was only 32 percent done with the content in the post-post apocalyptic world. But the story o...
Vegan Initiatives Are Taking Off In The Corporate Workplace - And It's Good For Business
Forbes - 6 Jul 2018 14:13
Staff at Fortune 500 companies, including Facebook, General Motors and CenturyLink, are spearheading plant-based projects at their place of work that are a win for everyone, including the employers.
Lyft reportedly in talks to buy Spain's Cabify for $3 billion
Venture Beat - 6 Jul 2018 13:33
In the latest sign of its growing confidence, U.S.-based Lyft is reportedly in talks to buy Cabify of Spain as it looks to take a major step toward expanding in European and Latin American markets. Spain’s El Confidenc...
Meet Jean Yves Ollivier, The French Entrepreneur Working Hard To Bring Peace To Libya
Forbes - 6 Jul 2018 12:30
An interview with French entrepreneur Jean Yves Ollivier, founder of the Brazzaville Foundation, on his latest mission to bring about lasting change in Libya.