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As Russian troops roll in, Ukraine's second-richest man, Victor Pinchuk, must choose between his head and heart.

I am a woman who straddles two seemingly opposing worlds, technology and fashion. Yet they are not so different from each other. Both have creativity at their core, both rely on the ability to imagine the impossible, bot...

Shutterstock is buying WebDAM, maker of brand management and marketing tools, to expand its enterprise footprint. As detailed in the company’s press release, Shutterstock shares that this deal will allow it to “deepe...

Ahh…the Academy Awards. Undoubtedly the biggest night in Hollywood (and, apparently, Twitter), the ceremony brings together some of the most talented and entertaining people in the world. As I watched the Oscars unfold...

With every big leadership change, there's inevitably a big shakeup among those at the top -- and that's no different for Microsoft.     

Marcus Goodfellow of Matello Wines in Portland, Oregon demonsrates an urban winery business model. The focus is on peer support, cost sharing, and managing a very tight financial leash.

Disclosure: I own AMGN and GILD stocks

Investing in private companies is not easy. These are risky, illiquid, long-term investments, so you need to do a lot of work upfront to increase your odds of success. I’ve spent my entire career either investing into ...

Video game rental service Gamefly has launched a new movie rental business that will take on Netflix’s disc-by-mail business. Gamefly began notifying its current customers about the service via email today, according t...

Opower uses data and social pressure to help its customers conserve electricity. The company does this, in part, by comparing your energy consumption to that of your neighbors'.     

The ad spend is still heavily tilted toward TV, with $78 billion spent on TV ads last year, compared to a projected $5.72 billion this year for online video. Obviously, TV gets most of the attention.     

Sponsored Post: MobileSputnik Direct File Sharing™ supports new collaboration scenarios of corporate tablet users and provides easy and secure document sharing between meetings or conference participants in real time. ...

Samsung is nothing if not opportunistic. Just like with Android, the Korean electronics giant saw a huge opportunity in Google’s Chromebook platform, which turns the Chrome browser into a full-fledged operating system ...

Heed the sales advice of this self-made, billionaire entrepreneur with two billion-dollar brands to his name.

Billionaire, and known daredevil, Richard Branson concedes that not every (uncalculated) risk is worth taking.

Why be a general-interest cloud? Rackspace is hereby going after the marketing world.     

Nothing will stop the Tennessee Startup Bus, not even ice. Or, as our hosts at Start Co say: #neverstop

Tom Shoes' Blake Mycoskie on starting up again and again.

The idea of self-destructing messaging applications is nothing new, but no one has really mastered the concept yet, which means there’s lots of room for innovation. Wickr is an app that lets you send messages in many d...

Cisco, Dell, IBM, and HP are among the tech giants that have apparently come to terms with the fact that they can't be No. 1 in the public-cloud business. Now they're moving toward a cloud-management play.     

Stop complaining about how difficult it is to encourage well-mannered, highly educated, civilized professionals to work together. Instead, consider how difficult it would be to transform twelve convicted felons, with an ...

The Zynga CEO is putting his stamp on the company, starting with three new mobile versions of flagship games.