Fidelity Writes Down Snapchat Investment

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snapchat ios icon In the latest sign that some tech startups are overvalued, Fidelity has written down the value of its stake in Snapchat by 25 percent, according to a report by Morningstar. Fidelity participated in Snapchat’s Series F round earlier this year, at an estimated $15 billion valuation. The report, first identified by the Financial Times, showed that Fidelity valued its Snapchat shares at… Read More

Twitter Sees 6% Increase In “Like” Activity After First Week Of Hearts

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hearts-for-stars1 Speaking at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco today, Twitter’s SVP of Product, Kevin Weil, shared with the crowd that the new hearts aren’t stopping activity. In fact, the activity is increased: “With the change from favorites to likes we’ve seen a 6% increase in like activity in just the first week.” –@kevinweil — Robi Ganguly (@rganguly) November… Read More

Align Uses Your Star Sign To Match You With Potential Suitors

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Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 10.37.41 AM “What’s your sign?” The question has found itself on one too many “Horrible Pick-Up Lines” lists, but in reality most people who start dating, whether they consider themselves wildly astrological or not, end up asking about star signs. Align, a dating app launching out of beta, is looking to use astrological compatibility to help online daters find a more… Read More

Slew Of New Virtual Reality Titles Available Alongside Samsung Gear VR

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Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 8.13.50 AM As we reported earlier, you can now pre-order your Samsung Gear VR. It’s a device that’s going to unlock virtual reality for a lot of consumers, even though it requires a Samsung phone to drive it. Along with the announcement of pre-order for a ridiculously low $99, a bunch of games are hitting the scene to support its launch. Land’s End by Ustwo Games, Bandit Six: Salvo… Read More

7 Lead-Off Mistakes to Avoid as a First Time Manager

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7 Lead-Off Mistakes to Avoid as a First Time Manager
By Art Petty
Establishing yourself as a credible and positive leader is important and challenging. Here are some all-too-common missteps of first-time (and even some hapless, experienced) managers. Avoid them in good health!

Leading-off with, “Things are going to change around here.” Too many managers enter into a […]

The POTUS Gets A Facebook Page

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Screen Shot 2015-11-09 at 3.53.21 PM Despite the headlines you may see today, President Obama already has a verified Facebook page. It’s this one: facebook.com/barackobama/. Obama launched another Facebook page for himself today, this time the official POTUS Facebook page.
“Hello, Facebook! I finally got my very own page,” the President wrote on the page.
Confused? So are we, but this is in line with the… Read More

Start Every Project with a Detailed Description of the Project

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Start Every Project with a Detailed Description of the Project
By Richard Morreale
Too many times I have seen Projects go bad because there wasn’t a common understanding at the beginning of what the Project was supposed to deliver – poor communication. People assume, even on small Projects, that everyone has a common understanding of the deliverable […]

Meet The LucidCam, The Future Of Consumer VR

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IMG_6451 Trying to wade through the noise and hype that surrounds VR can be overwhelming, but there are clear real-world uses that make the future of the technology exciting. Lucid flew through that noise for me. The thing that’s going to bring the “future” to the “now” is a killer app that consumers can understand and more importantly afford. That’s where Lucid… Read More

The Dangers of Poor Leadership

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The Dangers of Poor Leadership
By Sam Obitz
Poor leadership can kill an individual’s drive and turn otherwise thriving productive people into malcontents.
I have been associated with people who lost the love of their sport or job simply because of a change in coach or management. Some coaches and managers fail to feed the culture of the […]

CrunchWeek: Diversity, Candy, And Books Of Faces

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crunchweek-4-3 Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chatting about Twitter’s issues with diversity, Activision paying a lot of billions for the maker of the addictive game Candy Crush (hear Megan talk about her recovery), and Facebook’s earnings. They crushed it. So: As our resident… Read More