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Publicity is one of the most powerful forms of marketing. A brand without a face or voice lacks visibility, especially in a competitive marketplace.  We get decision fatigue: decisions as simple as what kind of toothbru...

The story of the rise of the business economist from Düsseldorf Robert Gentz to becoming the boss of the e-commerce success Zalando starts on a beach in Guatemala. Gentz was vacationing there at the beginning of 2007 an...

Sponsored Post: Rotation Medical, Inc., a medical device company focused on developing new technologies to treat rotator cuff disease, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administ...

Apple cofounder Steve Jobs wanted to reinvent photography. Today, his company took a potentially major step toward making smartphones into much better cameras, receiving a patent for interlocking bayonet mounts to hold i...

The recent occurrence of faulty ignition switches in General Motors cars should serve as a wakeup call to companies that lack good visibility into their global supply chains. But most have failed to implement adequate su...

Guest Post: In the fiercely competitive mobile chip market, Qualcomm faces many battles.     

I recently caught up with Biz Stone, who released his first book today called Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind. It's part memoir and part entrepreneurship advice book. Stone has been there a...

Not too long ago I attended a meeting of one of the local tech networking groups to see a presentation from one of my acquaintances at the New York Times. Part of his presentation included time for some of the local busi...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are Monsanto, Texas Industries, and General Motors.

Apple is apparently interested in improving its display technology.     

Sponsored Post: Back for its second year on April 22, the Flurry-organized Source14 is a 500-person summit that gathers the best minds in mobile to share what's working and what's next.     

How can big data and smart analytics tools ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco. There are only 20 tickets left at the lowest rate! Big data, meet rap music. In a curious ... ...

Cloud infrastructure is an increasingly tricky business. So Velocity is now focusing more on applications, and today it bought another cloud-software operator to become a bigger player in that business.     

Alignable CEO Eric Groves thinks local businesses do better when they work together.     

Gil Hyatt wants justice from the USPTO, which has kept him waiting for decades.     

Devs have GitHub. Now data scientists have more tools to help them work together.     

Upworthy is already spreading mixed messages.     

Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...

The company is making its SDK publicly available today for Android and iOS. Its technology inserts ads, in the form of survey questions, into mobile apps and generates money for app developers opening up their userbase t...

Top tech entrepreneurs and financiers are not necessarily queuing up to kick off an enterprise in Rwanda. That said, sub-Saharan Africa is on the radar of private equity firms and the country is one of five taking the bu...

The young men who are running Africa.

Chui is a facial-recognition doorbell and security system. It's being crowdfunded and currently has 110 percent of its raise locked down.