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There's no shortage of Yummy Mummys in Hollywood who have figured out celebrity plus motherhood plus a clever marketing campaign for a family-centric product can equal the beginnings of a business outside of Tinseltown...

Guest Post: A wave of new online businesses -- many of them digitally native -- are raising the bar for how customers are being served.

While it’ll still be a few more months before we hear anything official about the forthcoming iPhone 6 from Apple, at least one person decided they couldn’t wait that long. Reddit user lawrence_uber_alles asked his b...

Colleges and universities will need to rely upon their best creativity, critical thinking and wisdom to develop new economic models, to prosper in the new digital age.

Amazon definitely isn't going to like this.

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

When a billionaire investor responsible for disrupting credit/payments, automotive, and space travel industries communicates a warning to the world about a trend in new technologies, it’s best just to listen. Case in p...

Since the 1980s. the distrust of scientists in the United States has become a growing ideology used for political purposes. It is extremely dangerous to our democracy. Obama touched on this very subject recently while sp...

"Occasionally when you're in that zone, striving to operate at your highest levels, you get consumed. You forget to eat and shower. But that can be a good thing. No one makes money eating or showering." - Brandon Steiner...

With the domestic talent pool shrinking, Japan desperately needs foreign talent to fill the gap and revive its ailing economy. But judging from the overwhelming response to a previous piece of ours on the topic, foreign ...

Microsoft wants you to ditch the second screen and settle in with fantasy football on your TV -- through its newest home video game console.

As we move squarely into the second half of 2014, Israeli startups are experiencing what portends to be a record year. In fact, total transaction volume has already exceeded all that in 2013.

Survey: Small businesses snub lenders via @Sageworks When it comes to business loans, many small business owners say thanks but no thanks.

Sure, you can send passwords and credit card numbers through NoteShred. But you can also send your special recipes. And people do that.

The deal is the latest proof that OpenTable is thinking hard about diversification, particularly with mobile services.

Remember Second Life? Launched in 2003 by Linden Lab, it was an unprecedentedly wide and open free online world (which allowed real-money purchases). Complete with its own in-game currency, it was a virtual reality with ...