After being targeted during the Gamergate controversy, Felicia Day says the majority of the gaming community is positive and open to diversity. The actor, author and gamer speaks with Forbes contributor Todd Kenreck in the fifth of a seven-part series.

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Forget everything you knew about sales and marketing. Today, the customer is in the driver’s seat of digital transformation.

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By Jerry Janda, Senior Writer, SAP 

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Hyperloop Technologies, a startup aiming to commercialize Elon Musk’s vision of 700mph pods hurtling people and goods all over the world through steel tubes, announced today that it’s naming former Cisco top executive Rob Lloyd as its new CEO effectively immediately. Lloyd was considered a front-runner to replace longtime Cisco CEO John Chambers, but lost out in the end to Chuck Robbins, himself a 17-year Cisco veteran. Hyperloop also today named former Snapchat COO Emily White to its board of directors.

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Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal featured a front page story headlined, “Worries Rise Over Global Trade Slide.”  Its gist was that we’re in for trouble if globalization rolls back in favor or more regional or local supply chains. The implication is that far-flung manufacturing and sourcing strategies are better for business profits, economic growth and productivity gains.  This may have been true between 1980 and 2010 but the world has changed and I think it’s for the better.

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Disruption is certainly a common theme in capitalization, which goes back for several centuries. Hey, just look at the horse-and-buggy business, right?

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Everything you need to know about Apple’s major new version of iOS…

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The new College Scorecard is a milestone in higher education’s shift from an Economy of Reputation to an Economy of Data.

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Many business owners see storytelling and data as polar opposites. One seems “fuzzy,” emotional, and imprecise; the other seems hard, clear, and exact. However, when it comes to business growth, storytelling and data are two sides of the same coin. They both lead to business success.

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