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Crafting a customer experience that works for today’s changing customer base–including millennials–is no easy task. Key decisions  to be made include self-service vs. human-delivered customer service. And, as muc...

Sometimes, it takes a series of events to turn a number of unrelated instances into a glimpse into the future.

Emu offers a Siri-like A.I. assistant that listens in on your IM convos, detects what you're doing, then helps you do it.

The world has become increasingly global and interconnected in the past 10-15 years.  And while people have been on the move since time began, welcomed immigration has tended to move in step with economic conditions—r...

Google-owned streaming video service YouTube has purchased video editing startup Directr for an undisclosed amount, the startup announced today.

Fewer than 24 hours after alternative cab service Uber announced a way for multiple people to share rides, Lyft jumped on the bandwagon and said it’s rolling out a ride-sharing service. Now another competitor, Sidecar,...

Here are some highlights from today's showing.

Sponsored Post: The Tabby Awards, the only global competition for the best tablet apps and games, unveiled the 2014 list of Tabby Awards winners, as well as the first Users' Choice app list.

Veteran Black Hat attendees tend to leave their mobile devices in their hotel rooms -for good reason!

Spotify is the latest web company to look to deep learning to improve recommendations for millions of users.

Sponsored Post: The management of Boston Millennia Partners is pleased to announce that two recent liquidity events, the sale of Precision Dermatology, Inc. and CardioMEMS, Inc., have created $105 million of value for it...

The new features come in a software update, and include both new design tools and more options for 3D printing.

An entirely new wave of health care reform is coming to rural America with financing from Vital Healthcare Capital, a nonprofit community development financial institution (CDFI). V-Cap, as Vital Healthcare Capital is kn...

When federal regulators forbid you from partnering with your would-be acquisition target to jointly acquire spectrum, it doesn't bode well for your ultimate merger goals.

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Despite a growing consensus that some action is needed on inversions, there is widespread disagreement over whether tax reform, targeted legislation, or expanded regulatory authority would be most effective.

Fun fact: When Facebook goes down, much of the Internet industry suffers along with it.

Practice Fusion hopes to add a cloud-based physician call-back service to its EHR (electronic health record) offering via an acquisition of the medical communications startup Ringadoc. Ringadoc has developed an automated...

What are some options for a small business with a very low Yelp rating? This question was originally answered on Quora by Mike Holovacs.

The technology platform enables "video visits" between doctors and patients. The company also announces Comcast as a new customer.

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Unlike physical retail stores, e-commerce companies are much more capital efficient because they don?t require brick and mortar stores and have a direct distribution channel to their end customers.