Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Rethinking Your Mission - Business 2 Community


Rethinking Your Mission
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Here is where a shift in mission makes sense – from business to consumer to business to business, turning the focus to the business writing from the consumer writing. You may still do some resume work, but this may only be a small portion of the ...

AT&T Snaps Up Assets, Talent From Carrier iQ, Phone Monitoring Startup Goes Offline

magnifying glass, explore Remember Carrier iQ? In the years before Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseen monitoring of everything that you do on a smartphone on behalf of carriers and phone makers — allegedly in the name of better user experience. Now the company appears to be no longer. TechCrunch has confirmed that AT&T has… Read More

Hoverboards: Ban won't stop the wheels

Richard Bulliet: The self-balancing vehicles that are fast becoming a craze are illegal in the United Kingdom and banned in New York City, but here to stay.









DJ Khaled On Technology, Entrepreneurship And Snapchatting His Keys To Success

khaled-snapchat If I told you that the hottest person on social media right now is a rap producer telling fans that eating egg whites and drinking a gallon of water a day is the key to success, would you believe me? What if I told you that the same person regularly has over 2 million people view each of his snapchats, with the first 500,000 people watching it within 5 minutes of him posting? Read More

Flashback 1977 CES Chicago: Why CES Is Now in Las Vegas - CEPro


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Flashback 1977 CES Chicago: Why CES Is Now in Las Vegas
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(Remember, these were business-writing shows.) In January 1974 the first Winter CES was born in the ballroom of the massive Chicago Hilton hotel. It unofficially spilled over to other grand hotels on or near Michigan Avenue like the Drake, the Palmer ...

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Slack’s New TV Commercial Is Adorable And Effective

Screen Shot 2015-12-30 at 10.41.22 AM If you’re in the tech world, then you know exactly what Slack is and does. As you eke outside of our little techosphere, however, you might get some puzzled faces when you talk about your favorite work communication tool. Read More

Credit Karma Acquires Innovative Mobile Notifications Startup Snowball

creditkarma-bar Credit and finance management platform Credit Karma, known best as the startup that offers free, no-strings-attached credit scores, has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired the makers of the mobile application Snowball, with plans to leverage the team’s expertise in mobile notifications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the Snowball app will be pulled from… Read More