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Kenyan multi-millionaire and manufacturing magnate Manu Chandaria, the chairman of Comcraft Group, plans to list some subsidiaries of his conglomerate on a stock exchange.

Former SBA Administrator Karen Mills is now at Harvard, where she is researching access to capital through a framework she calls a job-creation playbook.

Smart home platform provider iControl bought the maker of the do-it-yourself home security device, Piper. Here's why and what this means for the smart home and home security markets.

A week doesn't go by without some news org touting one city or another as the next Silicon Valley.  Here's a random sampling: Singapore Aims to Become Southeast Asia's Silicon Valley (Wall Street Journal, Feb 26, 2014) ...

I thought that we small business entrepreneurs could learn a lot from studying the Forbes annual ranking of brands (The World’s Most Valuable Brands), but I wasn’t sure what. Especially since there are so few surpri...

Living Cities, a financing vehicle for social impact backed by 22 Foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, is investing in projects that serve communities in the U.S.

Guest Post: The rising tide certainly makes all boats rise, but my fear is that not all of today's boats are "ocean-ready."

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. Facebook’s bid to take over your homescre...

Bloomberg, who regards Big Coal as he does the gun and tobacco industries, noted that he gives "a lot of money to the Sierra Club" to battle that industry.

The millions of people who play Minecraft should change their passwords as soon as possible. Minecraft developer Mojang’s web servers were among those exposed by Heartbleed, a loophole in the Open SSL security platform...

Dropbox achieved that engineering feat without a superstar on its team. Box nabbed Sam Schillace, the man behind Google Docs, so Box Notes was much easier to create with him on board.

"Most of the marketing executives that I encounter talk about their systems in terms of some kind of frustration ... and know they can be doing much more with it."

"Amazon would say that they charge on usage ... But they charge for the size of the server you're running, not the use of the server you're running."

Auto-swipe learns from your interactions with your email and suggests actions next time a message arrives from the same sender (or possibly even domain).

Kngine is a search startup that — like many forward-looking search entities — is working on a natural-language approach to search. The company has just filed with the SEC for its first funding: a proposed $650,000 mi...

This is showing us that Dropbox is thinking about its consumer users; why they are still using other cloud-storage services; and most importantly, how to replace those services.

Guest Post: You wouldn't want someone hunting through your trash, real or digital. So stop looking through the window and instead ring the doorbell.

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When I evaluate companies in the consumer and retail space, one of the most important questions I try to answer is “Who will acquire this business in 5-7 years?”

"We have a Ferrari engine. ... People who understand JavaScript adopt Famo.us within twenty minutes."

Amazon Web Services is boosting its ability to show how much people spend on its cloud.

Sponsored Post: Booker, a leading cloud-based platform that unifies operations and automates marketing to help service businesses run and grow successfully, today announced a partnership with online maps and directions p...