Startup News
How to Avoid Being Victim to the Retail Apocalypse
Forbes - 2 May 2019 23:44
If your company doesn't want to become a casualty of the "retail apocalypse," you need to pay attention to two important aspects of your business: Customer experience and your brand's reputation.
Telemedicine startup CirrusMD raises $15 million to connect patients with doctors
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 14:00
CirrusMD, a Denver, Colorado-based 'chat-first' virtual care provider, has raised $15 million in venture capital, it announced.
How Two Millennial Women Disrupted The Bridal Industry And Landed Serena Williams As Investor
Forbes - 2 May 2019 02:23
Floravere, a direct-to-consumer wedding dress company, is the brainchild of Molly Kang and Denise Jin, two friends who set out together to disrupt the traditional bridal industry and quickly brought on board Serena Willi...
Why Epic Games called an open platform truce with Microsoft
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 23:10
We interviewed Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney about why the company decided to support Microsoft's HoloLens 2 augmented reality platform.
Microsoft debuts Azure SQL Database Edge and IoT Plug and Play
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 23:00
Microsoft today debuted Azure SQL Database Edge and IoT Plug and Play, a pair of complementary services targeting edge devices.
Microsoft launches fully managed Azure Blockchain Service
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 23:00
Microsoft announced its own fully managed blockchain service. The Azure Blockchain Service is launching in preview, but some companies are already using it.
Microsoft simplifies AI model creation in Azure Machine Learning
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 23:00
Ahead of its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a slew of new features heading to its Azure Machine Learning service.
Microsoft's Azure Cognitive Services adds reinforcement learning for recommendations and doodle recognition AI
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 23:00
Microsoft's Azure Cognitive Services introduced new AI tools today including Peronalizer, which uses reinforcement learning to improve recommendations.
Microsoft's HoloLens 2 for developers will get Unreal Engine 4 support in May
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 23:00
Epic Games will launch Unreal Engine 4 support for the HoloLens 2 mixed reality and augmented reality hardware by the end of May.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is keeping fans engaged better than WWII did
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 22:49
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is doing a better job of keeping players than its predecessor, WWII, according to Activision Blizzard's Q1 financial report.
Activision Blizzard beats its Q1 earnings expectations
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 22:33
Activision Blizzard revealed its earnings for the first quarter of 2019, a period that ended on March 31.
4 Brutal Truths About Early Mornings Few Are Willing To Admit
Forbes - 2 May 2019 22:33Making Eyecare And Vision Screening Accessible To All
Forbes - 2 May 2019 21:32
Peek Vision's mobile technology makes vision screening possible for people living in rural areas outside the reach of health systems.
China dusts the U.S., Finland, and South Korea with 34% of key 5G patents
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 21:15
Even if Chinese companies aren't allowed to sell 5G gear in multiple countries, they could earn a third of all 5G patent licensing royalties.
Lessons From The 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies
Forbes - 2 May 2019 21:09
Diversity, networking, and agility are the tools of successful women.
Kongregate CEO and cofounder Emily Greer is leaving the company
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 20:00
Kongregate announced today that its CEO and co-founder Emily Greer will be leaving the publisher to start a new gaming venture.
GamesBeat Summit: Watch all the Day 2 talks
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 19:15
Here you can watch all the video from the second day of sessions at GamesBeat Summit 2019. We talk more about communities and reinvention.
New Business, New Worries: Seven Concerns Entrepreneurs Overcame When They First Started Out
Forbes - 2 May 2019 19:15
From finding and keeping customers to how to present the new company to potential hires, here are some worries entrepreneurs faced when they were first starting out.
Self-Empowerment Comes Through Heightened Self-Awareness
Forbes - 2 May 2019 19:14
'Whether I'm working with entrepreneurs or other people who need some kind of emotional adjustment, it all comes down to self-reflection,' stated mental healthcare specialist, counselor and coach Taylor Wilkins. 'Self-re...
"Best Of" The CEO Boot Camps - Core Insights & Frameworks
Forbes - 2 May 2019 18:59
Own the purpose, the vision, the values. Be the chief inspirer.Delegate almost everything else, focusing on enabling, linking and integrating.
Racing Form: Our Fifth Handicapping Of Kentucky Derby Horse Names
Forbes - 2 May 2019 18:52
But when you select a name, you need to think of all of the possibilities - upsides and downsides. And if you think you've been copied, you have to go through the same exercise. What are similar connotations? What are th...
Microsoft's TORC will let you feel squeezable objects in AR and VR
Venture Beat - 2 May 2019 18:26
Conveying the elasticity of an object in AR or VR could made the difference between carrying a virtual ball and actually feeling its texture in your hand.