Startup News

Your company's social media strategy isn't just for publicity or customer service -- it can actually help boost your share price, a new study suggests.

Facebook opened its voting polls up today for users to vote on proposed privacy changes, perhaps for the last time. Facebook users have seven days to vote on a updates to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibiliti...

Y Combinator just cut its startup class size down from 84 to a little fewer than 50 -- nearly halving the amount of accepted startups, just like it recently halved the funding each company receives after graduating theÂ...

"Where no one has gone before" -- a spacecraft from Earth ventures outside our own solar system for the first time ever.

Phorce, the smart messenger bag/briefcase/backpack that also charges your phones, laptops, and tablets met its $150,000 funding goal today.

Wilson Kriegel was a part of Zynga’s high-profile OMGPOP acquisition and equally high-profile executive departure spree, and he has popped back up on the tech executive landscape. This time, he’s joined for...

Enterprise collaboration platform Smartsheets raises $26 million to reimagine the spreadsheet.

Facebook chat, notifications, and updates that follow you everywhere you go on the web, right in your web browser, is a cool idea. What's even cooler is how Mozilla and Facebook actually built it.

Credit reports leader Equifax has agreed to buy the credit services unit of Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) for $1 billion in cash.

Is your ecommerce site getting its fair share of the $43 billion spent in online shopping each quarter? Not likely if you?re not actively monitoring your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as cost per sale, cost per ...

Are you ready to leave your corporate career behind to find work at a nonprofit? I applaud you. But I also have a warning: If you don?t take the time to learn about the unique needs, expectations and culture of the nonpr...

When you live to make your customers happy, nothing can be more harrowing than trying to make up for a delayed shipment. In most cases, your product ? developed, marketed and produced with such care ? is already out of y...

I?m Pat Hull and I?m an accidental entrepreneur. Actually, this wasn?t my plan.

Four years ago, I started a company based on the notion of wearing t-shirts for living, IWearYourShirt.com. More recently, I set up an auction for a business to buy the rights to my last name, BuyMyLastName.com.

More and more major online retailers are offering free and convenient returns, and the experience is creating return customers. It's no simple feat, since returns are an integral part of doing business.

@johngreathouse For the past five years, Kerri Pollard, President of Commission Junction, has been victorious in her ongoing battle with Google.  Like most powerful business principles, Kerry's secret for building ...

Take out your list or little black notebook of ideas. You don't have one? And you're (supposedly) an ideas/vision guy? Fine, start one. Choose the smallest one. Or, if all you have are big ideas (aww look at you, you're ...

A Swiss hotel high in the Alps filled with wealthy philanthropists suffering from a peculiar affliction. What sounds like the setting for a mystery thriller is the scene for a revealing discussion about giving and invest...

Part 1 of a 3-part Series on How to Create a Strategic Framework for a Multi-Million Dollar Practice...

India is home to rows of businesses that look exactly the same. Tea stalls that line city bus stands, vegetable carts that offer identical produce, and mechanic shops that stretch on for blocks with little to distinguish...

Having computer savvy increasingly is becoming an imperative for  anyone who needs a job. What's more, grooming a new generation of smart coders also is vital to overall economic growth. But U.S. schools have been slo...

It has often been said that the success of your business is dependent upon the quality of the people in your organization.  Your ability as a leader to create and sustain momentum is a function of knowing how to enabl...