General Motors finally may have figured out the best way to extract value from its OnStar brand: by using it to shareall sorts of valuable informationbeing generated by the car as well as its driver. Besides benefiting OnStar subscribers, of course, the new OnStar Go portal with IBM’s Watson will […]

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VideoTwitch is the top live streaming platform for gamers, but up until recently the company did not have an in-house way for supporters to donate to their favorite streamers. That is all changing with theadoption of Cheering, Twitch’s micro transaction service. According to stats released at TwitchCon, there were 166,148,917 bits […]

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Apple has become very accurate with its gross margin guidance the past four quarters.

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Just when we thought we were beginning to understand this puzzling feature, a new mystery emerged.

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Forrester believes that CMOs will invest in building emotional, one-to-moment connections with their customers as 2017 brings a post-digital climate where customers are interested in product usage over ownership.

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Earthquakes and asteroid impacts could provide the energy needed for microbes to survive on many different planets.

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If you want a vibrant media business, it doesn’t come for free – somebody has to pay for this. And there are two major sources of funding media content – consumers (for example, subscriber fees) and marketers (through advertising). But the FCC’s new privacy regulations (focused only on consumer information […]

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