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Rafat Ali discusses his new start-up Skift and his impressions of the travel space today in general.

Guest Post: The collaborative economy requires efficient and effective resolutions in order to scale. And trust is essential.

In a new ad, Uber solicits users to do its dirty work. For $250 in free rides, all you have to do is intro a Lyft driver to Uber. Uber’s Twitter ad [below] marks the company’s latest attempt to undermine ...

Cash outflows for bank loan funds expanded to $1.2 billion in the week ended June 11, from $1.1 billion last week and $475 million two weeks ago, according to Lipper. This is the sixth consecutive outflow, for a net $3.7...

Today, the Supreme Court has ruled that Coca-Cola’s Minute Maid subsidiary is not permitted to use FDA regulations to shield it from a lawsuit by the makers of POM for unfair competition.

Several European banks, especially France's BNP Paribas, are caught in a legal quagmire and have discovered that there is a new world order. Global foreign policy is set in Manhattan. Not at the United Nations in New Yor...

GrowthBeat, VentureBeat’s brand-new event on the data, apps, and science of successful marketing, is coming up on August 5-6 at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. Today we’re excited to announce that nominations are open ...

Forget about monitoring your thermostat with Nest and following Jimmy Carter's advice of putting a sweater on, try a new ceiling-mounted heating system that uses motion tracking to create personal climates.

"ClickHole prefers to think of you and every other person on earth as nothing more than an empty vessel existing purely to share content with other empty vessels."

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The Japanese publisher is learning how to balance a meme with restraint.

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Okay, I’ll be honest here. I’m neither a big gamer nor avid paintball fan. I don’t love the graphic violence on video games, and paintball–well, those things hurt! But, both pastimes are obviously very popular, a...

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The change in decor represents a bold, altruistic declaration from the electric car maker, which will permit anyone to use its electric-vehicle technology, patents be damned.

Job recruitment site Zhaopin became the 9th China startup to list in New York this year, as all eyes are on Alibaba. Zhaopin got its start thanks to Australia's Seek.

With its smartphone sales shrinking, BlackBerry is pivoting to enterprise services in order to stay afloat, and now it sees mobile payments as its next big opportunity. BlackBerry has signed a three-year deal with mobile...

The battle for your home's OS is brewing.

7 Entrepreneurship Lessons from Music Mavens   Entrepreneurs can learn a ton from musicians. And musicians are now learning to tap into their skills to become better entrepreneurs. This is the message from Panos Panay...

Office managers have to keep up with all the activity in an office, the employees, and pretty much everything else about the company — which is not an easy task. Enter Pingboard, a service that seeks to become the most...

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Sometimes we build tools to track things we already obsess over; and sometimes we build them to track things we’ve been ignoring. Justin Lee believes that the liquids we put in our bodies fall into that second camp. He...