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A new study in the UK suggests that we now have four million people working from home in some capacity - full time, part time, they're doing it. In a country whose entire population was just heading to 64m in December, a...

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Guest Post: A few weeks ago, there was a piece in AdAge that spoke to the strategic advantages of selling online digital advertising fraud-free. It's easy to be cynical about such an idea — it will never happen, people...

Today, a company called Power Japan Plus came out of stealth mode to unveil a new battery chemistry, with both electrodes--anode and cathode--made of carbon.

A new regulatory filing from Rackspace shows the potential outcome for a company struggling as Amazon and others grow bigger in the cloud business.

Tasting Season in New York arrives in cycles, roughly every May and September. Distributors, importers, and portfolio managers host tastings -- all over town and at all hours of the day and night -- to introduce new wine...

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After a year of development, consumer finance company Circle is ready to launch its digital currency management service in an attempt to make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin mainstream. Circle, founded in 2013, publicly la...

VentureBeat’s DataBeat event is coming up next Monday and Tuesday, May 19-20. We’ve got a monster lineup of 80 top data visionaries, and they’re all coming with brand new insights, strategies, and case studies desi...

What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! A former iPhone user is suing Apple for not delivering her ...

While plenty of music artists have pointed out how streaming music service aren’t very lucrative for them, deadmau5 could be an exception. Why? Well, it’s because the electronic dance music artist Joel Thomas Zimmerm...

Social media has fundamentally changed the way companies communicate with their customers. Make sure you understand the basics of analyzing, contributing to, and managing your social media campaigns.

Every culture and community puts pressure on its members to follow the norms. Even young people who start out wanting to be different are called “freaks,” and most are slowly bent back into the norm by the time they ...

Montreal-based BusBud is aiming to radically change the way the world books bus tickets.

Don't like paying taxes? Me either! And, man, do I have a deal for you.

Web companies and search giants have pledged their allegiance to deep learning to improve user experience, and now Baidu is shelling out for a luminary.

Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng is scaling back his involvement with the online-education pioneer to become chief scientist at Baidu, the Chinese web services company. Ng, who is also a professor of computer science at Sta...

Lulu, the app that lets women multiple-choice rate guys, now has a semi-functional men's app.

Tessamae's: innovative disruptor in customer service, the customer experience, and... ketchup: Social media and other customer service ideas from the new innovator at Whole Foods, Safeway, Wegman's, and more, an

'You can't replicate Seamless or OpenTable for another industry,' says Payal Kadakia, CEO and cofounder of fitness class subscription startup, ClassPass, which pivoted and rebranded this year.

The founders of APR Energy applied unorthodox methods from the rock n' roll touring industry to build and grow their company.