Startup News
Why Immigration Is So Important In The Global Race For Talent
Forbes - 17 Dec 2019 14:28
In the face of growing pressure from nationalists to shut down borders and restrict the mobility of talent, business school leaders and entrepreneurs urge politicians to resist the urge to prevent talent from coming in t...
Meet The Woman Who Built Two Multi-Seven Figure Businesses Helping Creatives Cash In On Their Expertise
Forbes - 17 Dec 2019 18:00
Meet Toby Fairley, an award-winning interior designer and business consultant whose mission is to help creative women become millionaires--and beyond--while having a great quality of life.
Oto raises $5.3 million to improve speech recognition with intonation data
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 17:00
Oto, a startup combining intonation with acoustic speech data to bolster language processing, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding.
Startups Tackling The Plastics Challenge Can Win The War For Talent
Forbes - 17 Dec 2019 16:48
Hiring the right talent is always a challenge for startups, but those in the sustainability sector seem to be bucking the trend.
Warcraft III: Reforged launches January 28
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 23:52
Blizzard announced today that Warcraft III: Reforged will launch for PC via Battle.net on January 28. It will cost $30 for the base version.
EA and Respawn unveil Apex Legends Global Series esports competition with $3 million in prizes
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 23:45
Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment have unveiled the Apex Legends Global Series, a set of esports tournaments with $3 million in prizes.
Springboard raises $11 million and partners with Microsoft to combat global tech talent shortage
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 20:05
Springboard has raised $11 million to tackle the global tech talent shortage, and it has partnered with Microsoft to help.
Steam November top 20: Star Wars, Terminator, and Age of Empires II
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 20:00
Here's the Steam November top 20 list. It includes all of the best-selling new game releases on Valve's digital distribution platform.
2020's GDC Ambassador award winner is Kate Edwards
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 19:17
Organizers for the Game Developers Choice Awards announced today that Kate Edwards will win its 2020 Ambassador Award.
Google releases details of cloud-native security system BeyondProd
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 19:00
BeyondProd is Google Cloud's cloud-native security architecture. The company is releasing details of the protocols to help others adopting microservices.
Ryff raises $5 million for virtual product placements
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 19:00
Ryff has raised $5 million for an advertising business that places virtual objects in a movie or TV show so that they seem like part of the scene.
Hands-on: Oculus Quest hand tracking looks cool, and sometimes even works
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 18:43
Recently added as an experimental feature for the popular VR headset, hand tracking can change the way people interact with virtual worlds -- if it works.
How Whisk is using its food genome to turn recipes into smart shopping lists
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 18:25
Samsung-owned smart food platform Whisk is expanding into the consumer realm with a handful of new products panning web, mobile, and voice platforms.
Pokémon Go's Buddy Update brings a new way to play with your monsters
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 18:10
Niantic revealed today that the Buddy Adventure update for Pokémon Go is coming in 2020. It will give players new ways to interact with their favorites.
Streamlabs' fundraising platform helps streamers raise money for charities
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 18:00
Streamlabs, a division of Logitech, has launched a new fundraising platform aimed at making it easier for streamers to raise money for charities.
Investing In Survivor Wealth
Forbes - 17 Dec 2019 18:00
Financial insecurity is the number one threat to an abuse survivor's safety, says Sonya Passi. She started FreeFrom to address this.
Facebook's Structure for Scale: How to prepare for automated media buying
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 17:50
It's time to rethink how we manage Facebook advertising campaigns, and Facebook has a new framework to do it with: Structure for Scale.
Why eBay believes in open-sourcing Krylov, its AI platform
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 17:42
eBay spent years building Krylov, its machine learning platform that's designed to help get ML projects into production -- and open-sourced it.
Sony reveals new PlayStation DualShock 4 Back Button attachment
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 17:28
Sony revealed the DualShock 4 Back Button attachment today, which (as the name implies) adds buttons to the back of the PlayStation 4 controller.
Hugging Face raises $15 million to build open source community for cutting-edge conversational AI
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2019 17:00
Hugging Face has raised a round of funding to make state-of-the-art conversational AI available to more developers and manufacturers.
What Makes a Successful Founder
Forbes - 17 Dec 2019 17:00
We're excited to share a data-driven look at what makes successful founders. We've surveyed VCs and distilled characteristics that differentiate successful founders from not so successful ones. What's your founder superp...
Looking For Purpose At Work? Be An Intrapreneur
Forbes - 17 Dec 2019 16:51
The person sees an opportunity and rallies resources from an established company...The three things you need are a market need, a company need and passion.