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Guest Post ProfitBricks, a global cloud infrastructure provider, has big ambitions despite not yet having widespread name recognition. The Boston-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company this week announced the l...

Scott Goodson is the founder of StrawberryFrog and author of Uprising (McGraw 2012).

Wall Street and Apple are not cozy bedfellows this morning. Apple's stock is down another $20 billion this morning in early trading on reports of iPhone component order cuts and softening demand.

Intuit is turning vast volumes of data about small business finances into tools to help its customers save time and money.

Foundations have been slow to embrace L3Cs as investment vehicles. But a still-under-the-radar social enterprise, one with plans to give communities new tools with which to revitalize neighborhoods and take on other proj...

The U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that would take the teeth out of online and mobile stalking by creating new rules for location privacy.

Yes, it is nonsense when used primarily as a self-promotional tool. But it is not nonsense when used to describe a focus on understanding and improving growth of a product. In this case it is, however, poorly and inaccur...

These are 20 women, all aged under 45, who wield enormous influence in African business, technology, policy and media. They are change makers, trendsetters, visionaries and thinkers, builders, and Global Young Leaders. T...

This is a guest post by Magatte Wade, a Senegalese serial entrepreneur and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader

What a shock: Google Maps is not going to be available on Amazon's Kindle Fire. Instead, Skobbler is launching ForeverMap2 on Kindle Fire -- and Nook - to take its place.

This is such a great time of the year isn't it? I mean with all the parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting and caroling out in the snow. This time of the year is also time for fearless forecasts, the ones w...

It has barely been eight months since VeriFone announced its Sail mobile payments system, but the company is already retreating from the market.

The past 12 months have been a coming-to-fruition of a few key endeavors the Mozilla Foundation has been putting its heart and soul into for years.

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Guest Post While it may seem like a great idea, focusing all your attention to build a presence on a single social network could actually be a huge risk.

Taking a step toward helping customers control cloud costs, Amazon has added detailing billing reports that show usage by the hour.

Waves of change in the game business could either sweep you aside or take you to a new shore.

This holiday season, giving back to our communities becomes top of mind -- which charities to donate to, and how to lend a hand to those in need.

Quick show of hands: How many of you actually enjoy doing homework? That's more or less what I figured. (I don't see anyone with their hands raised).

What makes a great leader? Erika Andersen – fellow Forbes contributor and author of Leading So People Will Follow – says we have an almost instinctive knowledge, thanks to thousands of years of evolution...

When I walked into Fishbowl Inventory I immediately noticed something unusual for an office: happy people. The reception area features both a ping pong table and a foosball table—each was occupied by employees ent...

Economists fear we’re racing towards another trillion dollar bubble of student loan debt. But there is a simple way to stop the madness now, before we blow any more taxpayer dollars — or our kids pay an eve...