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An employee isn't designed to be treated like a piece of a machine—like a cog or like a bolt. For a leader to treat employees this way is immoral. It also doesn’t make business sense: A bolt can’t stretch to help a...

If you work out, you'll love this.

Something so integral to the success of a brand when acquiring a new agency -- the pitch process -- is notoriously flawed. Long lead times, long pitch lists, layers of consensus needed to select a partner, meaningless pa...

Guest Post: The "always be testing" bug runs deep amongst my colleagues and I, but our experiments extend far beyond simply testing images against text or personalized subject lines versus generic ones.

Rhapsody picks up a pair of music startups.

The phone's marquee new feature doesn't really work, and the Amazon Appstore is not the best platform for people looking for the latest mobile games.

I recently met Ana Burmudez at a 1 Million Cups event sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, where she had just presented her amazing app that lets you find and buy apparel/accessories that you see on your favorite televi...

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...

By Craig Hatkoff and Rabbi Irwin Kula

Uber is angling for a more benevolent appearance with a new "non-profit" service in Beijing.

Yes boys and girls I am back with yet another article on the topic of integrated marketing communications, cross-channel marketing, omni-channel marketing, marketing orchestration or any other name you wish to refer to i...

Mobile analytic player Tune gets acquisition fever, buys app intelligence startup MobileDevHQ for undisclosed sum.

One New York hotel is learning the hard way that you can't control what people say about you on the Internet.

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Arkansas bills its Freedom of Information Act as "one of the most comprehensive and strongest open-records and open-meetings laws in the United States." One would think that if that were true, the state would provide out...

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...

Guest Post: 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...

By Edward D. Hess

To succeed with a fast growth company, you need to learn to be a quitter.

More than 250,000 people attended the latest game expo in Shanghai, including thousands of "booth babes."

"Office politics" is simply the career-development art of getting along with other people. Of not letting your ego rub others' egos the wrong way. Of putting yourself in a position where others will notice your good work...

The anti-virus software company will not be allowed to bid for certain Chinese government projects as of late last night.