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Customer Service Question Of The Week: Wow Customer Service
Forbes - 23 Jan 2020 03:51
How (and why) to provide wow customer experiences as a way to elevate your customer service, engage customers, and build customer loyalty and brand ambassadorship. Customer service consultant Micah Solomon answers a rece...
Uber begins mapping Washington D.C. for self-driving vehicles
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 23:31
Uber today announced that it has begun mapping public roads in Washington, D.C. with a small fleet of self-driving vehicles.
How Olivela Is Bucking The Retail Trend: A Case Study
Forbes - 23 Jan 2020 23:23
The retail landscape has changed dramatically with more stores closing than ever before. So, how is one company bucking the trend?
ModMic USB review -- The best-sounding ModMic yet
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 23:10
The ModMic USB is the latest revision for Antlion's add-on boom microphone, and it is simple to use while still sounding great.
5 Ways Play Is A Critical Factor For The Future Of Entrepreneurship
Forbes - 23 Jan 2020 22:41
For children, free play is a critical part of healthy development. Unfortunately, many kids are not leading lives through these developmental routes. This is how a lack of play can influence entrepreneurship, and what we...
Storm8's journey from a Facebook gaming startup to a $300 million acquisition
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 22:15
Stillfront, a Nordic game company, announced it would buy Storm8 for $300 million this week. We talked with Storm8's Perry Tam and Terence Fung.
How To Run A Startup Part-Time Without Working Over Time
Forbes - 23 Jan 2020 21:30
Every startup founder knows there will be challenges. Building a startup is complex work. With a part-time availability, how do you make sure your startup is running as if you are committed to it full-time?
SuperData: Consumers spent an all-time high of $9.8 billion on digital games in December 2019
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 21:06
Market insight group SuperData, a Nielsen company, announced today that consumers spent $9.8 billion on digital games in December. This is a record high.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners debuts as marquee VR game
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 21:00
Skydance Interactive and Skybound Entertainment have launched The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners as the latest high-profile VR survival horror game.
Apple fights EU call for common smartphone charger, claiming consumer harm
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 19:42
Having sold millions of Lightning devices despite European efforts to embrace USB connectors, Apple claims a change will hurt its consumers and innovation.
Busy Entrepreneurs Can't Live Without These 10 Essential Productivity Tools
Forbes - 23 Jan 2020 19:10
Running a business can be complicated. We asked real business owners to share their favorite productivity tools they use to stay on top of everything.
Pornhub launches Tor mirror site with encryption to ensure porn-viewing privacy
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 19:00
Pornhub, a porn site with 10 million members, has launched a Tor mirror site that gives users protections when it comes to monitoring online activity.
Amazon explores a way to preserve privacy in natural language processing
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 18:50
In a new study, a team of Amazon researchers propose a novel differential privacy technique to natural language processing,
Doughees: How This Female Founder Found Sweet Success By Innovating The Cookie
Forbes - 23 Jan 2020 18:37
If you like to indulge in sugar as your vice and have a penchant for cookies, you need to get acquainted Doughees--the cookie completely reimagined.
Docomo's 5G-based 8K VR event streaming service will launch in March
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 17:52
Ultra high-resolution 3D broadcasts of live events are about to arrive on smartphones and VR headsets, thanks to the high bandwidth and low latency of 5G.
To realize the promise of CES 2020, let's address the real "I" in IoT: inefficiency
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 17:50
While CES speculates about the future, all of this is for naught if we don't address one very big "I" issue our industry is facing today: inefficiency.
Quantum Tech: esports investing hit $1 billion in 2019, revenues could be $4 billion in 2022
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 17:30
Quantum Tech Advisors says that esports could grow to a $4 billion business by 2022. That's more optimistic than other market researchers.
Phiar launches AI-powered AR navigation app in invite-only iPhone beta
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 17:00
Navigating to your location is getting easier thanks to a new app that uses AR and AI to overlay directions and points of interest on live street views.
Oculus introduces Rebuilding Notre Dame VR -- before and after fire
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 17:00
Rebuilding Notre Dame will take you back inside one of the world's great monuments, both before and after the fire that destroyed part of the cathedral.
Waymo expands autonomous truck testing to Texas and New Mexico
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 16:45
Waymo, the Google parent company Alphabet subsidiary developing autonomous vehicles, has expanded testing to New Mexico and Texas.
CloudKnox raises $12 million to protect cloud infrastructure from insider risks
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 16:05
CloudKnox Security, which helps companies protect their clouds from insider threats and poor security hygiene, has raised $12 million.
Kneron raises $40 million to grow edge AI chip design operations
Venture Beat - 23 Jan 2020 16:00
Kneron raised $40 million to grow its semiconductor design and algorithm development operations, both made specifically for deployment on edge devices.