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Accel's Michael Treskow discusses the firm, what it's looking for in startups, and the potential in Berlin.

SalesPartners' holistic approach doesn't just tackle the mechanics of selling but also works on everything that needs to be in place for a business to succeed. Co-founders Mac Attram and Kurt Won explain how they help bu...

Department store magnate John Wanamaker once said: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is I don't know which half." Wanamaker’s conundrum vexes marketers to this day. With the exception of d...

Editor's Pick: TaskRabbit's pivot has left some of its contractors furious, disappointed, and out of work.

There were $49 million in inflows to loan funds for the week ended July 9, marking the first positive number in nine weeks. The previous eight-week outflow totaled $4.94 billion, representing the largest multiweek deplet...

Guest Post: Many marketers dive into mobile with too much focus on mobile-specific tactics.

Retail-cash inflows for high-yield funds totaled $107 million in the week ended July 9, with a $133 million inflow to the mutual fund segment dinged by an outflow of $26 million from exchange-traded funds, according to L...

The startup removes its app, which auctions off public parking spaces, from the Apple App Store.

By now, most of you should be familiar with Elon Musk. He’s an inventor and entrepreneur, the current CEO and CTO of SpaceX, and the CEO and Chief Product Architect at Tesla Motors, makers of the near-universally prais...

VentureBeat’s seventh annual MobileBeat event just wrapped up, and we brought VB’s mobile expert Devindra Hardawar into the studio to tell us what the mobile tech industry is all hot and bothered about. Among other t...

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised.  After all, Lou Reed was the man who famously crooned, "Hey babe, talk a walk on the wild side."  The late lead singer and guitarist of The Velvet Underground -- and of course, a musici...

Congress is in the midst of another Perils of Pauline political showdown: This time the drama is over how to finance the highway trust fund, which will be unable to pay its bills in a couple of weeks. House Republicans h...

Philanthropy.  We all know what it is:  “the practice of giving money and time to help make life better for other people.”  But not everyone may be aware that it’s much more than a way for corporations to give b...

Half of all radio listening happens in the car. Pandora's success there may spell hard times for terrestrial radio.

A tiny Seattle-based company thinks we’re doing it all wrong. In the bad old days of enterprise tech, integration of services was a painstaking, manual process that required plenty of developer hours, more than a littl...

Pizza is a popular second-day dish. Can cupcakes survive as leftovers too?

NFL players and their financial planners will be carefully watching the recent lawsuit filed by actress Lindsay Lohan against Rockstar Games, which alleges that Rockstar Games violated LiLo's state law publicity right...

There’s no denying McDonald’s iconic status and global ubiquity. Indeed, at this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, McDonald’s was honored with the Creative Marketer of the Year Award.

In a bid to differentiate itself from the slew of media sharing apps out there, Kanvas is focusing on something a bit different: stop-motion videos. With Kanvas 3.0, launching today on the iPhone, the company has upgrade...

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is leading the company toward a new brand. In a memo hinting at operational changes coming soon, Nadella gave employees today a new phrase with which everything Microsoft should be described. ...

Web host/domain registrar GoDaddy, which recently filed to go public, has acquired a small Cambridge-based smart calendar service that could help increase its appeal to small businesses. But the purchase of Canary is mor...

Jobandtalent recruitment platform raises $14 million more in funding.