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Lisa Ingram is trying to jump-start White Castle, the 93-year-old family business. If she changes the menu, slider fans will bolt. If she doesn't innovate, the chain will die.

Let's talk, for a change, about the strongest link in your organization, the effect a single great employee can have on a company culture. That one shining employee with an unearthly desire-to-serve glow, empathy with yo...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Because no demo day would be complete without a roundup of what caught our attention, here’s what stood out today at 500 Startups’ demo day for its ninth batch: Stitch Stitch is a dating ser...

NOTE: GrowthBeat -- VentureBeat's provocative new marketing-tech event -- is a week away! We've gathered the best and brightest to explore the data, apps, and science of successful marketing. Get the full scoop here, and...

The founding of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) 20 years ago is remarkable for what it catalyzed, and there?s a lot we can learn from its achievements in the two decades since.

Sponsored Post: BitFury Group, the leading Bitcoin infrastructure provider, today announced it is making hosted mining services available to all business customers. BitFury has built its reputation as the world's market ...

BitTorrent (the company, not the popular P2P file transfer protocol) launched a new messaging app today that offers a greater degree of privacy than others.

A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape, Konrad Feldman, Co-Founder and CEO, Quantcast...

There are plenty of walking tour apps in the app stores. But this one has local flavor that's unbelievably delicious.

Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud (try saying that three times fast) has launched a new visual “Journey Builder” that promises to enable marketers to understand, define, and create coherent, unified customer exp...

"We provide a service that allows people everywhere to communicate. Yes, some people might use technology to do bad things. But we believe the world is a better place when people can communicate."

We received over 100 quality startup applicants to the GrowthBeat Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of VentureBeat's first annual event on the data, apps and science of successful marketing (next Tuesday and Wed...

Polyvore announced a new, simpler version of its iPhone app today. The new app makes it faster and easier to browse your favorite styles and trends. Polyvore, which is basically a mix between Pinterest and Amazon in that...

OkCupid is doubling down on a controversial blog post, where it openly admitted to experimenting on users. Monday, in a blog post titled “We Experiment On Human Beings,” the dating site openly admitted to randomly pa...

FreedomPop's new voice and data plans means it won't be long before you hear someone say "Call me on my tablet."

Three years, $6 million in funding and almost $400 million in debt commitments: that's the ledger at a Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup called Privlo. Not exactly the typical financial situation for a young startup, at...

It’s no secret that entrepreneurs need funding to launch or grow their nascent companies, and some will seek the support of venture capitalists (VCs) to fulfill their ambitions. For many entrepreneurs, myself included,...

"Technological change is the most important driver of this explosion in inequality," MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, wrote to VentureBeat via email.

NOTE: GrowthBeat -- VentureBeat's provocative new marketing-tech event -- is a week away! We've gathered the best and brightest to explore the data, apps, and science of successful marketing. Get the full scoop here, and...

NOTE: GrowthBeat -- VentureBeat's provocative new marketing-tech event -- is a week away! We've gathered the best and brightest to explore the data, apps, and science of successful marketing. Get the full scoop here, and...

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Russia is not on anyone’s good side lately. To ensure that SAP and Apple products aren’t vulnerable to spying, Russia suggested last Tuesday that the companies give Russia access to their source code, Reuters reports...