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Judy Robinett, known for years for her titanium rolodex, has recently shared her secrets for power connecting in her new book, How to Be a Power Connector: The 5-50-150 Rule. Social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders ne...

People purchase tons of concert tickets through StubHub, so the ticket reseller is giving them their own special mobile app. Today, the company announced that it’s launching a new music-focused app that is taking care ...

From time to time founders approach the board and investors of a private company and ask to sell stock. This is an understandable request, but it creates multiple risks and conflicts of interest for the company. It's a t...

Humanity maybe plunging into a post-apocalyptic climate change disaster hellscape as rising temperatures spark disastrous....did someone say new Apple fronts?

The Supreme Court rejects a theory of patent infringement that requires third parties to do the infringing.

The trend toward coworking space and virtual offices has risen in tandem with the growth of startup culture. Sometimes these office enclaves specialize in certain industries. One of the more unique such spots is the newl...

Cash Kings newcomer Wiz Khalifa has turned his affection for marijuana into a moneymaking marketing tool -- and in the process, transformed himself into a lucrative lifestyle brand. Here are some of his hottest-selling i...

I’ve never actually heard advertising people mention the AIDA principle but I’m sure they know about it. To Direct Marketers, AIDA can be the almost fail-proof road map to great ads and direct mail pieces. (Any commu...

It’s always a great show of solidarity when two organizations with similar values figure out a way to support each other, and that’s exactly what the Linux Foundation and Code.org are doing. Today, the Linux Foundati...

In Silicon Valley, deep learning ranks as one of the hottest technologies. Now, this startup sees a chance to let lots of developers incorporate deep learning into their apps. Deep learning essentially drives computers t...

Apple dives into the smart home arena.

Sponsored Post: Mackinac Partners, a leading financial advisory and turnaround management firm, is pleased to announce that Matt Beresh, a Managing Director for the Company, has been presented with a top "Service Provide...

The Draper University of Heroes prepares students for the the chaos of tech industry with lectures from all-star CEOs, a crash-course curriculum on business creativity, and supplementary lesson plans on dealing with unce...

Apple is launching a series of products later this year, and they all point in one direction: They want to replace Google. For the most part, Google is an everyday utility. We look up movie times, call a friend, download...

I had the good fortune to speak at a conference where Captain Phillips was the keynote speaker. For those who don’t recall the incident, a U.S. merchant marine cargo ship was attacked by Somali pirates; and, in order t...

Not content with driverless cars, mobile platforms, or its Internet-dominating search engine, Google is now planning to connect the unconnected parts of the world with small satellites. According to a story in yesterday�...

The new platform can improve 3D rendering by 10X for games.

Apple today announced a new programming language native to both OS X and iOS: Swift. Speaking at Apple’s annual developer conference, software engineering VP Craig Federighi called the new language “fast, modern, and...

Apple had lots of good news for developers here at WWDC today, but one of the standouts was new development platform called CloudKit that will simplify app creation. Developers usually must perform client-side and server...

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As expected, Apple jumped into the health information business today, launching both a new health app and a cloud-based health information platform. The new app, called simply “Health”, will collect a number of body ...