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Manifest Escapes Wants To Become A Private Jet Vacation Travel Club
Forbes - 19 Mar 2019 01:42
The former CEO of Exclusive Resorts, Surf Air and Frontier Airlines believes the best vacations are in nearby places that are hard to get to. By curating experiences and using private jets for travel, he believes his new...
Family Businesses: Social Capital Is Key To Successful Succession Planning
Forbes - 19 Mar 2019 23:32
The process of passing down a business from one generation to the next can be difficult, which is why you need the right advisor who understands how to support the existing social capital, as well as provide an outside p...
How One Brand Reverse-Engineered Brick-And-Mortar Success
Forbes - 19 Mar 2019 23:10
CarbonKlean's physical retail strategy involves using e-commerce to pilot proof-of-concept and getting niche before casting a wide net.
Google positions YouTube as Stadia's killer app
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 22:42
Google is launching Stadia this year. And while it hasn't revealed any original games, it does have YouTube, which it plans to leverage.
DOL Proposes Increase In Salary-Level Threshold for White Collar Exemptions
Forbes - 19 Mar 2019 21:32
The Department of Labor has proposed an increase to the salary-level threshold for white-collar exemptions to $35,308 per year from $23,660. What does this mean to employers? Employees who are classified as exempt must m...
AI identifies which primates could be carrying the Zika virus
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 21:07
Researchers at IBM and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies used machine modeling techniques to predict likely primate carriers of Zika.
How Sextech Pioneers Are Outsmarting Conservative Gatekeepers
Forbes - 19 Mar 2019 21:03
When mainstream tech outlets ban sextech, they create their own irrelevance.
Google's Stadia uses Style Transfer ML to manipulate video game environments
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 20:17
A component of Google's Stadia game streaming service allows developers to map colors and textures from artwork to game environments.
How Google's Stadia Controller eliminates some input lag
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 20:17
Google introduced its Stadia game-streaming service today, and that includes a Wi-Fi enabled game controller that connects to games in the cloud.
Jade Raymond will head Google's own game studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 20:03
Jade Raymond will head the new Google game studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment, to make games for Google's Stadia cloud gaming platform.
Google's Stream Connect tech for Stadia will bring back split-screen games
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 19:59
Google's Stadia cloud gaming platform is so powerful that it can stream multiple interactive streams. And one of the things this enables is split-screen gaming.
Crossing The Pond - Why A European Company Used Y Combinator To Crack The U.S. Market
Forbes - 19 Mar 2019 19:50
Amsterdam's Messagebird was already building a global customer base when it joined a Y Combinator cohort. So why did a European founder commit three months to an accelerator program when the business was already moving a...
Millas Lunch Founder Opens Up About Instagram Clones, Body Image And Daredevil Delivery Riders
Forbes - 19 Mar 2019 19:45
Millas Lunch founder Milla Jupp tells Forbes about the drawbacks of launching a business on Instagram and why she had to get out of London.
Waymo plans to open 85,000-square-foot technical service center in Mesa, Arizona
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 19:10
Waymo says it'll open an 85,000-square-foot technical service center in Mesa, months after it expanded a separate service center in nearby Chandler.
The Top Five Ways To Ruin Your Contracts
Forbes - 19 Mar 2019 18:51
Good contracts are handshakes with teeth. Done correctly, they capture the parties' deal. Your company's contracts can be tremendous assets that lock down your rights to money, goods and services. But, you can ruin all o...
Pinterest CTO Vanja Josifovski hops to Airbnb, in latest AI talent grab
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 18:50
Vanja Josifovski has left Pinterest to join travel and accommodations company Airbnb, where he will be CTO of Airbnb Homes, VentureBeat has learned.
Google Cloud Talent Solution gets cycling and walking search filters
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 18:00
New search filters in Google's Cloud Talent Solution make it easier to surface job listings no matter your native language.
Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs is coming to iOS
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 18:00
Rovio Entertainment and Resolution Games are teaming up to bring the Angry Birds franchise to mobile augment reality with Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs.
Patreon now offers creators 3 plans, with fees ranging from 5-12%
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 18:00
Patreon has announced a major deviation in its monetization model with 3 new membership plans that charge creators varying fees for their online content.
Sinespace teams up with Unity to sell do-it-yourself VR items in asset store
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 18:00
Sinespace has teamed up with Unity Technologies to make its virtual reality marketplace objects available in the Unity Asset Store.
HP unveils $599 Reverb VR headset with super pixel density and 114-degree FOV
Venture Beat - 19 Mar 2019 17:37
One of the highest-definition VR headsets for consumers is about to start shipping, delivering 4K resolution across two eyes.
Purpose at Work: How the Tesla Model 3 Is Driving Humanity Forward
Forbes - 19 Mar 2019 17:36
The Model 3 standard edition comes with a range of 220 miles per charge. The $35,000 price point is a landmark for Tesla. The more affordable price is critical to Musk's mission to scale adoption of electric personalized...