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Ursula von der Leyen is in line to become the first woman to head up the European Union's powerful executive and Christine Lagarde to lead the European Central Bank.

Two major European carrier launches have given Germany its first commercial 5G service and U.K. customers their first unlimited 4G/5G data plans.

Getting acquired is a complicated process and fraught with pitfalls. Here are a four key strategies to maximize offers and get the best value when you sell your business.

Opec, the oil producers cartel, is struggling to deal with rising U.S. oil production and slowing global growth

Miller Lite won a last-minute betwith Budweiser when the USWNT beat England 2-1 in the Women's World Cup semifinals.       

Dodge barbs on the path to reaching your marketing goals with a little inspiration from industry peers.

High above Stockholm's skyline, Sweden's EQT Partners is plotting the next chapter in its rapid rise from a Nordic-focused investor to the world's seventh-biggest buyout firm, with a focus on growth in the Asia Pacific r...

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has organized a boycott July 4-5 against the likes of Facebook, Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube division, Twitter and other virtual properties he claims are exploiting the data of billions of pe...

Sonic brands deserve your attention but do they provide ROI? Here's who is getting it right (and wrong).

That is one sick kick. Social media challenges are a mixed bag. They can make you dance with your friends, fear for your children’s very souls, or lament not having your life together enough to have a bucket handy. Rea...

Investors returned to bonds on Wednesday, setting off another slide in benchmark debt yields, amid fears of a global trade war and recession, bets central banks will cut interest rates and falling oil prices.

An interview with Christie Pitts, CEO of Backstage Capital, on how diversity and innovation are more linked than you might realize

A U.S. judge on Tuesday said he would reduce an $80 million damage award against Bayer AG to $50 million or less in the case of a man who blamed his cancer on glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup.

VentureBeat is pleased to announce its first ever Women in AI Awards at Transform 2019, honoring the changemakers in the field of artificial intelligence.

If you want to see an example of how failing to properly regulate a new technology can be bad for companies, users, and communities, look no further than Paris. Last year, the city allowed dockless electric scooters to b...

If you want to do good in the world and have the freedom to make the right decisions quickly, create a startup, not a non-profit, and then take your profits and do good.

Ride-sharing company Lyft detailed Disaster Relief Access Program, the protocol it uses to evaluate -- and respond to -- disasters.

More than 7,500 and 1,600 users reported issues with Facebook and WhatsApp, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Saber Interactive has released a free update for World War Z that adds a new difficulty option for its existing chapters.

Nearly a dozen countries demanded that Apple remove allegedly illicit apps from the App Store during the second half of last year, and it largely complied.

Mentors provide a wealth of knowledge and experience to us, they guide us through challenges and increase our likelihood of success, they lift us up and take our success personally. They are invaluable. So why do only 37...

Before the cult of the modern corporate chief, the late Chrysler leader fused his identity with his company's, helping him sell cars and win over Washington.