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Some entrepreneurs think they need to spend, borrow or raise a lot of money to start their own company. This is an urban legend since according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, most companies can start for about ...

As your business develops you quickly realize that your skill set is not enough. You need experts. Where is the natural place to turn for help? Your best friends.

Facing pressure from content owners and competing browsers, Mozilla today detailed plans to support digital-rights management (DRM) technology natively in Firefox. Five years ago, this wouldn’t have happened. We’ll g...

It's only fitting that an app that delivers mobile messages would disappear when a big tech company buys it.

Several news reports over the weekend noted that Tesla’s contract to supply Toyota with electric powertrains for its RAV4 EV crossover would end next year. In the words of Tesla’s latest quarterly report, cited by Bl...

Seeking to restore the days when you could loan out your copy of a new DVD to a friend, Walmart-owned digital movie store Vudu is changing the way it permits viewers to share its movies. Today, the service rolled out .....

Designed with businesses in mind, the device will cost several thousand dollars when it becomes available in the second half of this year.

At our DataBeat event next week, we've handpicked many of the most astute “big data” investors to join us in debate about how companies can use data to achieve more profitability. The list of investors is below. They...

Columbus, OH startup Heroes2U creates memorable conversations around meaningful causes.

Rumors of an initial public offering from Good Technology have been swirling around for at least a year. Now the company has finally decided to go for it. Today, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company submitted a public fil...

The Chinese online-gaming behemoth gobbled up $3 billion in revenue in the first three months of 2014.

Big data meets patent litigation in legal analytics firm Lex Machina’s report about 2013 in review.  The report, which was released earlier this week, trots out interesting, though unsurprising, statistics.

Today Mark Zuckerberg is turning 30 years old. Congratulations are in order, for both the notable personal milestone and for what Facebook’s co-founder and CEO was able to build in his 20s.

There is a lot of buzz about a proposal in Pennsylvania to completely repeal the property tax. SB 76, which Sen. David Argall (R) introduced last year, would eliminate all property taxes in the state and replace the reve...

Get ready for Edward Snowden, the movie. Glenn Greenwald has signed a movie deal with Sony for his book “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U. S. Surveillance State,” the NY Times reports. Curiously, M...

This article is by Kristian Chronister, CEO at Pearls.com, and former CMO at Jewelry.com.

Any of these 10 things will instantly boost your startup's social media profile.

The truth is that America's startup engine is sputtering. Eight priorities for Washington to help unleash innovation and the American entrepreneur.

I don't crowdfund. I invest in consumer products companies. For true investors and those who focus on maximizing returns and managing risk — this is an important distinction that I think many people overlook in enthusi...

A few weeks ago, I attended the F8 conference -- and for the most part, it was well organized and provided lots of useful information (now I have a better idea why Facebook has been doing so well with mobile!)

Some observers expect Apple to offer a display mode that triples the "base resolution" of 568 x 320 pixels, resulting in a 1,704 x 960 resolution for the Apple iPhone 6.

Connections are so important than Judy Robinett recalls one investor actually saying to an entrepreneur, "If you can't figure out how to get to me, you can't figure out how to get to a customer. I won't fund you."