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While China and India have increasingly become hotspots for venture capital, Russia has also seen a lot of activity. Russian investor Yuri Milner’s DST Global closed its fourth fund earlier this week, and now Runa Capi...

Millionaires. Centimillionaires. Billionaires. Every one of them gathered together in the desert at the ?Entrepreneur Of The Year? gala hosted by Ernst & Young and sponsored by The Kauffman Foundation For Entrepreneurshi...

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a summit meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday at Seoul, hoping to strengthen commercial and diplomatic ties. Meanwhile, Japan eases sanction against North Kor...

A small team of developers in Kiev are beta-testing their iBeacon restaurant app as war rages to the east.

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left! The...

Running a startup or small business today typically entails monumental workloads, so we forgive companies that forget to tweet at their followers every day. But Audrey Melnik won't, because her service makes it stupidly�...

How much is your reputation worth? For online reputation startup Traity, the idea of helping your maintain your reputation — or check out others’ — is worth a first institutional funding round of $4.7 million. The ...

This article is by Glen Hartman, global managing director of digital transformation for Accenture Interactive, a business unit dedicated to delivering integrated marketing, technology and analytics solutions for the digi...

Google’s new design language is a rip-off! Twitter is small potatoes! These and other rosy little rays of sunshine in this episode of What to Think. Plus, we delve into a culture clash between SF politicians and the ap...

Cutting back on greenhouse gases is only one part of the fight against climate change. The planet will also need to capture and store — or, better yet, capture and re-use — the gases already out there. Now, new resea...

Grovemade's Apple-compatible tech accessories are beautifully handmade out of natural wood in Portland, Oregon, and ship around the world. Co-founder Ken Tomita on making an artisanal craft product into a global brand

Picture this… A singer nervously walks up on stage for her big audition in front of the director and producer. Given that this is a tryout for the lead role in a musical theater production, she’s prepared a variety o...

Eastern European gamers will account for $2.3 billion in revenue in 2014.

This article is by Allan Chernoff, principal of Chernoff Communications and former senior correspondent for CNN and CNBC.

Net new jobs totaling 288,000 were added to the economy last month we learned this morning (July 3, 2014) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a good number, one of the stronger figures we have seen in the recove...

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IBM says it can identify contaminated foods responsible for disease outbreaks more quickly using big data analysis.

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left! Fac...

Finding a new place to live is often pretty stressful, especially if you’re a college student on a limited budget who needs to live somewhat close to campus. Student housing startup Comfy wants to simplify this process...

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left! Thr...

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Without lofty goals, it's important that everyone on the team is working toward the same end. Great project management ensures that will happen.