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Inversions Are All the Rage and Reform is Likely, But Which Reform, and Will it be Retroactive?

By Paul Glader

Traveling for business can be a pleasure, but it can also be a pain. With the goal of making it less of the latter, I've compiled a list of my favorite business travel apps--a little aid for any type of situation you may...

Zendesk, a site where angry customers yell at incompetent service providers, today posted solid second quarter results on revenue of $29.5 million, beating analyst expectations by more than $3.5 million.

Take-Two Interactive has delayed its big Evolve title until February, but it will still have a lot of releases coming this fall. Evolve has moved to Feb. 10. But don’t worry, gamers. On Oct. 24, the 2K Games label will...

A classic example of needing your fans to defend your brand: financial services firm J.P. Morgan unwisely decided to schedule -- and soon cancelled -- a Q&A session with a company executive about the lively topic, "how d...

Etsy Wholesale launches to give sellers a significant boost.

MongoDB wants to be a big, big company. An executive who brought his company onto public markets and sold it to a legacy software company should help there.

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

SurveyMonkey buys up Fluidware for $20 million + to lockdown more tools that appeal to the corporate sector.

World of Warcraft still has millions of subscribers 10 years later.

Groupon today reported disappointing second quarter results for the 2014 fiscal year, with revenue of $751.6 million and earnings per share of $0.01.

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A tight integration between product developers and marketers can work wonders.

Onetime superlawyer Stanley Chesley feels the sting of joint and several liability as a court orders him to pay the entire $42 million judgment over a fen-phen scandal.

When Amazon can sell almost anything, deliver it on the same day, and for less money than you can find it elsewhere, what is the role of the store? For Circuit city, Borders and thousands of other dead or dying retailers...

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I started some research on some of the ways people waste time on social media and came across a bunch of articles from the late 2000s discussing whether or not social was a big waste of time for businesses. It’s funny ...

With its latest iPhone app update, Rounds outdoes one of the best features from Google's Hangouts video chat.

Drucker said, "Culture eats strategy breakfast." Post GM we could amend it to, "Culture eats safety for a snack." I doubt anyone at GM said, ?Forget safety, earnings are what really counts.? But in the absence of a clear...

This post is the second in a multi-part series about the future of marketing and the role that semantic, context and intent will have on how we experience the internet.