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Say what you will about IBM, they are constantly trying new ways to generate business, and their latest initiative involves helping professional sports team modernize stadium operations and update the way they interact with fans. The project is two-fold. The first part is the Sports and Entertainment Global Consortium, a group of companies coming together to drive infrastructure updates… Read More... →

LightSpeed POS is announcing that it has acquired SEOshop, an Amsterdam-based maker of e-commerce software. As the name implies, LightSpeed’s offerings for brick-and-mortar retailers and restaurants include a point-of-sale system, as well as inventory management, a customer database and more. It also offers tools for creating a web store, but founder and CEO Dax Dasilva said the… Read More... →

Режиссер сняла праздничный фильм со звездами для Netflix... →

NEW YORK (By Melissa Fares, Reuters) – Facebook Inc said it erroneously disabled the personal account of a user named Isis Anchalee for about a day, an action the user claims was due to her name being spelt the same as the acronym used for the Islamic State extremist group. Anchalee, a software developer in […]... →

Фонд AddVenture и анонимный частный инвестор вложили  $4 млн в сервис доставки продуктов с рецептами «ШефМаркет». Об этом Firrma рассказал партнер фонда AddVenture Павел Теретьев. По словам Терентьева, AddVenture инвестировал 95% от этой суммы, а 5% вложил частный инвестор, которому с начала 2015 года принадлежало 1,5% в проекте. Еще около миллиона долларов вложил основатель стартапа Сергей Ашин. Постинвестиционная оценка проекта составила $25 млн. AddVenture уже дважды инвестировал в стартап. Впервые – в д... →

Look past the smiles, the exuberance and the sales patter – you may just catch a fleeting glimpse of something that is silently destroying them, eating them away from the inside in a slow, deterministic drift towards destruction. Read More... →

Amazon is suing 1000 fake reviewers who sell reviews for as low as $5 on such sites as Fiverr. The lawsuit was filed on Oct 16th in Washington state court. The post Amazon Sues 1,000 Fake Reviewers by @submitexpress appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Most GED credential recipients say they take the test to further their education — not end it. In fact, 65 percent of GED credential holders indicated they wanted a job that requires further education or training after passing the test (as reported by GED Testing Service). Unfortunately, fewer than 12 percent went on to do just that. Read More... →

Match Group, which owns a group of internet dating sites including Tinder, says it will sell 33.3 million shares of its common stock at $12 a share. The shares are expected to begin trading on tomorrow, November 19, on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “MTCH.” Match Group says it also gave its underwriters a 30-day option to purchase an […]... →

Match has priced its IPO at $12 per share, raising $400 million . The company will begin trading on the Nasdaq tomorrow, under the ticker symbol ‘MTCH.’ The $12 per share is at the bottom of the anticipated $12 to $14 proposed price range. Square, which is also going public tomorrow, just priced its IPO at $9, below the $11 to $13 price range. Match owns a group of… Read More... →

Tinder CEO Sean Rad broke the quiet period before the IPO of parent company Match Group when he gave a revealing interview to a web publication called the Evening Standard. Rad talked about everything from being stalked by models to his awkward childhood to his taste in automobiles. But the Match Group was more concerned about […]... →

Match.com, which is expected to price its IPO tonight, has just filed an updated document with the SEC, saying that it did not condone Tinder CEO’s Sean Rad interview with the London Evening Standard. The controversial interview, in which Rad misused the word “sodomy,” occurred in the weeks leading up to an IPO, when companies are not supposed to promote their stock to… Read More... →

Square’s somewhat conservative pricing earlier this month just got a lot more conservative. Square today priced its initial public offering at $9, giving the company a valuation of $2.66 billion. The last time the company raised money, it was valued at $6 billion, and earlier this month gave a range of $11 to $13 per share, valuing the company at $4.19 billion. Needless to say, this is… Read More... →

Square has set its initial public offering at $9 per share, effectively raising $279 million ahead of its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. The company had hoped to raise between $350 million and $400 million. The company officially filed for its public offering last month with a guided pricing of between $11 and $13 per share, which would […]... →

Posted by ronell-smith (Image source) When the client asked to "go mute" during our monthly client call, there was no reason to sound the alarm. After all, being able to talk through what they've heard as a team, in private, was normal. But when the always-skeptical global marketing director said the COO (who has been in the room for the 10 minutes of analytics discussion) wants to take the discussion offline for a bit, but wants you to hold on, I knew things had likely gone off the rails. "Thanks for holdi... →

Microsoft sill stop supporting Windows 10 IoT Core — the version of Windows designed for Internet-connected devices — on Intel’s low-cost Galileo boards on November 30. Designed with the maker community in mind, Intel’s Arduino-compatible Galileo boards ship with Intel Quark SoC X1000 chips. Intel and Microsoft are traditionally closely aligned, but on these boards […]... →

By Heather Somerville Mobile payments company Square Inc (SQ.N) is set to price shares for its initial public offering late Wednesday in what is expected to be a harbinger for how other highly valued tech companies are received in their public debuts. San Francisco-based Square, run by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, is one […]... →

Even though Rohit Prakash was a dual MD and PhD researching optogenetics at Stanford University, his entrepreneurial itch kept returning him to his family’s small business roots. He and his co-founder Nipul Patel began researching the travails of small business owners, interviewing countless entrepreneurs, trying to figure out what their risks were or what caused them to fail. (About half… Read More... →

Lyft is raising a half a billion dollar round, but its financials look wobbly. According to Bloomberg, the ridesharing startup took a net loss of $127 million in the first half of this year, off less than $47 million in revenue. It’s not clear if these numbers are GAAP or non-GAAP, but let’s presume those are cash numbers and do not take into account non-cash expenses. So on a… Read More... →

BuzzFeed is hiring a new executive to lead recruiting and human resources — Lenke Taylor, who’s currently Google’s head of people operations for business functions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The company has added several people with “chief” in their title this year, including Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown and Chief Marketing Officer Frank Cooper.… Read More... →