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Entrepreneurs need a framework for finding the crucial germ of a business idea

The ‘Inventure Cycle’ model provides a scaffolding of skills, beginning with imagination, leading to a collective increase in entrepreneurial activity.

Uber continues in Germany and states iOS downloads increase

Uber continues its services and does not fear the €250,000 ($323,068) per-trip penalty for violating the ban.

Yes, a ‘build your own Uber for X’ kit costs only $400

Mowares’ product is exactly what it sounds like — all the basic tech underlying Uber’s business, all bundled up for you to purchase and use.

Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe donates $31M to stoke virtual reality studies at University of Maryland

Iribe’s mother and colleague will donate another $7M to fill out the computer science department.

Can’t decide between the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus? Here are some tips

It’s iPhone pre-order night and confusion reigns across the land.

Pandora signs deal with BMG to stream hits

The music industry and music rights holders are trying to come to terms with online consumption of music.

GM’s connected car strategy shifts gears, will use Apple’s CarPlay & Android Auto

General Motors has decided not to move forward with its connected car tech MyLink, a platform allowing developers to build Internet-connected apps for the company’s line of vehicles. Instead, the automaker will integrate upcoming technology from the likes of Apple and Google, according to GigaOm.

Funding Daily: Mooncake edition

Today we hear of new funding rounds for Vericode, Looop, Volumental, and Instaclustr.

August 2014 NPD: PS4 outsells Xbox One for 8th straight month

Madden topped the software chart with Diablo III and Minecraft right behind it.

AppLovin ‘deep linking’ mobile ad experiment pulled by OpenTable

An “experiment” in mobile advertisement goes sideways. Why this will actually help the industry grow.

In 2008, the government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it didn’t hand over user data

In 2008, the U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it didn’t hand over user data as part of the NSA’s controversial PRISM program, according to court documents released today.

Fishing is a huge business, but does it need disruption?

FishingBooker.com, a site that helps people book charter boats for fishing trips, won an award at a tech conference. Does this mean fishing needs more tech — or is it just the same playbook Uber used, now being applied to a new market?

Peter Thiel goes after net neutrality, Uber, Bitcoin, and Hollywood (in 4 quotes)

The contrarian takes on Silicon Valley’s big issues.

HP buys private-cloud software player Eucalyptus in a nod to Amazon

It’s an interesting move for HP that acknowledges that sometimes companies might want to use an OpenStack-friendly public cloud and sometimes they want to tap the market-leading Amazon public cloud.

Looop raises $1.8M to make company training less of a snooze

Training workshops or long emails about company policies tend to go in one ear and out the other.

Kony Wins First Place at 2014 CTIA MobITs Awards

Kony, Inc. the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced the Kony Experience Cloud was named the first place winner in CTIA’s MobITs Awards in the Mobile Applications, Development & Platforms category. CTIA-The Wireless…

Ranking colleges by employment, Stanford is #2 and Harvard is #9

My new favorite college ranking system released a fresh report this week, and the results show why Stanford is gaining a reputation as the best college in the country. Salary database startup PayScale ranks colleges by market outcomes of graduates and found that technology-obsessed schools are the best bang for the college buck.

Hands-On: Mark Zuckerberg and Code.org teach kids to code in new website

Professor Mark Zuckerberg on hand to teach loops

How to hire unicorns (aka tech-savvy marketers)

Most traditional marketers don’t know how to beef up their digital skills, a recent Adobe study found. But marketing is becoming more and more digital, which means that finding the right people to manage marketing automation, multivariate campaigns, or digital attribution campaigns isn’t always easy.

Apple Watch is what Apple innovation in the post-Jobs era looks like

Since the passing of Steve Jobs, many have wondered whether Apple would be able to innovate in a new product category again.

Denied moon cakes, Chinese iPhone workers strike

Chinese workers at a plant making iPhone and iPad screens strike after being stiffed for promised moon cakes and $100 raise

Google brings Evernote, Vine, and other Android apps to Chromebooks

Google said at Google I/O in June that it would port over Android mobile apps to its Chromebook laptops. Now the tech giant has successfully finished the first chapter of that work, having completed the transition for a few popular Android apps.

Y Combinator-backed Eventjoy joins Ticketmaster

After acquiring Belgian ticketing company Sherpa.be yesterday, Ticketmaster has bought one more: Eventjoy, a little startup that provides do-it-yourself tools for event organizers.

Yahoo News Digest launches on iPad with exclusive Katie Couric segments

The news people consume on a daily basis usually consists of whatever is blasted out on social media by friends. But it’s not always easy to find the most important news of the day.

MapR Technologies Appoints Patrik Svanström Vice President, EMEA

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced the appointment of Patrik Svanström as vice president, EMEA. Svanström will be responsible for MapR business activities…

CloudBees ditches its cloud, will help devs send code elsewhere

It’s not easy to compete with the biggest clouds today. Instead, CloudBees will focus all of its efforts on making Jenkins easier for developers to use when they want to test and run their application code.

The Intel smart dress: Are you bold enough to wear it?

Intel turned to fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht to create the “synapse dress.”

Google buys popular polling service Polar for Google+, will shut it down this year

Google today announced that it has acquired polling startup Polar and plans to shut the service down by 2015.

Atlassian buys Wikidocs and the tech to make websites and apps collaborative

“Wikidocs technology is pretty much unique [and] really changes the playing field,” ex-Wikodocs exec Erik Bovee told us.

GamesBeat 2014 mainstage agenda is best ever: With 101 speakers, 27 CEOs, 7 game VCs, and dozens of press

Our biggest GamesBeat ever kicks off on Monday, Sept. 15.

Dropbox transparency report: 268 law enforcement requests, up to 249 national security requests (updated)

Dropbox announced its first six-month transparency report today, revealing 268 law enforcement requests “for user information” and between 0 and 249 national security requests from January to June 2014.

Square Analytics gets a new partner for its analytics tool: SumAll

Cash register and small business management software company, Square is pretty picky about what applications it works with. So, it may be worth noting that today, the company is adding a new partner called SumAll to integrate with its analytics platform.

BlackBerry buys Movirtu to offer separate business & personal phone numbers on one device

UK-based Movirtu allows for separate business and personal phone numbers on one BlackBerry, iOS, or Android device, splitting billing and profiles between a personal and corporate identity.

How Instagram’s drug deals go undetected

It’s no secret: Instagram has a drug problem.

Former Obama advisor: ‘Apple Pay could make you poorer’

Cass Sunstein, legal scholar and former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, said that Apple’s new simplified payment system could lead consumers to overspend.

Building BI into your 2015 budget

Disorganization and chaos, scattered and large data sets. That’s often what gets companies thinking about investing in business intelligence (BI). Things like manual reporting in Excel, pulling from multiple data sources, and not being able to make sense of the data. Here’s a primer on how to go about making a BI investment.

SETI announces game jam to enlist developers in the search for alien life

SETI welcomes the “gamification” of the search for extraterrestrials.

Why Apple, Google, and Samsung want to be inside your home

Your home is about to become the next tech battleground.

Uber pilots on-demand product delivery in Sweden — powered by its new API

Today Uber announced a product delivery pilot test in Stockholm in partnership with Swedish ecommerce platform Tictail.