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Launch your subscription biz on the world stage (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 23:50
VB LIVE: With the subscription model, the potential ROI for global expansion is wide open. Learn about the best practices to expand your subscription business into new countries including managing local payments, tacklin...
Magic Leap will hold a dev conference in October -- should you care?
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 21:28
OPINION: Magic Leap apparently doesn't think it's too early to hold its first developer's conference, complete with "a live-streamed keynote, more partnership announcements and plenty of demos on stage." Should anyone c...
The 3 blunders of Nvidia's RTX 2080 video card event
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 21:03
Nvidia kicked off this excruciatingly long week on Monday morning with an event in Germany to debut its upcoming GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards. The RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti start rolling out in September, and I...
ProBeat: Don't get FOMO over AI
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 19:30
OPINION: It's OK if your company isn't going all-in on AI. It's not OK if your company is blindly adopting AI.
AI took center stage at VentureBeat's inaugural Transform event
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 18:30
VentureBeat's Transform 2018 summit featured tech luminaries from Samsung, Pinterest, Google, and others. Their AI prognoses? There's a lot to look forward to.
Certain Affinity is ready for the limelight with games as a service model
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 17:55
SPONSORED: "Most of the huge success stories these days are games that operate as a service," says Certain Affinity president and founder Max Hoberman. "They're not one and done, or one and for the sequel. They really ar...
Triple-screen concept could shape future Apple or Galaxy watch designs
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 17:34
Chanmi Lee has a vision for the future of smartwatches: a three-screen device that could improve both the functionality and power efficiency of future wearables.
The DeanBeat: Yep, I'm still playing Pokémon Go
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 17:00
I’m one of those people who is still playing Pokémon Go, the location-based mobile game that set the world on fire in July 2016. If you ask me why, I’ll have to say that I really don’t know why. It’s not because...
Alex Tapscott interview: Taking stock of the blockchain revolution
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 15:30
Punditry runs in this family. Don Tapscott has been writing about business strategy for decades, doing everything from pontificating about Wikinomics to giving Ted Talks about the future of money. And now his son, Alex T...
SEC to review decision rejecting bitcoin ETFs
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 14:43
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (By Trevor Hunnicutt and Michelle Price, Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday it will review a decision by its staff to block nine bitcoin-based exchange-traded fu...
B21 creates app to educate people about cryptocurrencies
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 14:00
B21 has launched its free B21Life mobile app for Android and iOS to educate mainstream people about cryptocurrencies. The company’s first app will educate newcomers about cryptocurrencies, the technology behind them, a...
Convicted of leaking Russian hacking docs, Reality Winner gets unlikely champion: President Trump
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 13:49
Ever since former NSA contractor Reality Winner was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking secret documents related to Russia’s effort to hack the 2016 election, countless people on social media have noted the s...
Waymo sets up subsidiary in Shanghai as Google plans China push
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 08:03
(Reuters) — Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo has set up a subsidiary in Shanghai, according to a business registration filing, the latest sign that the U.S. internet giant is attempting to make new inroads into Chi...
Fortnite's growth has slowed, but here's why its peak is yet to come
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 01:44
Fortnite is already one of the biggest games in the world after months of astronomical growth, but its rate of growth is beginning to slow down, according to the estimations of research firm SuperData. Of course, that’...
AI can predict if you musical taste is more Ice T ... or Vanilla Ice
Venture Beat - 24 Aug 2018 01:23
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, a research team described a system that considers a person's listening behaviors and, using machine learning algorithms and psychological models, infers their musica...