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Mozilla today announced that it has begun shipping its “Flame Developer reference phone” to Firefox OS app developers, “Mozillians,” and anyone else who opted to fork over $170 for the device during the pre-order...

In my interactions with women entrepreneurs, I often get the question, how do I develop my personal brand when I’m just starting out and I don’t have any money?  For women entrepreneurs, boldly putting themselves ou...

Discover The Courage Within to Create Something Bigger Than Your Ego

Guest Post: Companies that score high for customer experience appear to perform badly when it comes to employee satisfaction, and vice versa.

Cash outflows from bank loan funds were more than halved this week, falling to $687 million in the week ended Aug. 13, from $1.5 billion the week prior, according to Lipper. The influence of bank-loan ETFs diminished dur...

A methodology for businesses to systematically use social media for maximum business impact regardless of vertical, product, service or stage of the company.

This week, we talk with Ryan Hoover, the co-founder of the increasingly influential Product Hunt, a "Reddit for products" that's the talk of Silicon Valley.

The passwords you use to log into company network are making it easier for hackers to breach your network.

Right now, the Sunnyvale, California company has designed a sleeve that goes around your arm to help you shoot a basketball correctly.

As writers and researchers, we typically focus our attention on companies and people who achieve great things, and lead people to extraordinary results. We love to share stories about how leaders somehow tug out the best...

With recent reports on diversity from Google and Yahoo and reports in the WSJ that diversity programs can do more harm than good, the right way to approach Diversity and Inclusion is a hot topic.  The thing is, almost n...

Whisper founders launch and invest in a non-profit site for those suffering from mental health problems.

For centuries, historians have theorized and analyzed the fall of the Roman Empire. It’s fascinating to view something that was so powerful, at the height of heights, and watch it fall so dramatically, crumbling into n...

Everyone now and then, we stumble upon a strange product that’s somehow attracting multiple celebrities’ money, and we have to stop, look, and ask, “What in the world is going on?” This time, it’s DripDrop, a m...

Luminal, a stealthy startup that’s developed what its chief executive describes as a new model for deploying and operating cloud infrastructure, announced today a $10 million round of new funding. Josh Stella, Luminal�...

Big data is everywhere. It’s usually used to push brands and fatten wallets, but it can also be used to enlarge brains. The Canadian company Desire2Learn has announced that it’s raised $85 million to build big data s...

Can salespeople close more sales if it's more fun? LevelEleven has just scored $2 million in venture funding to continue its goal of doing just that.

Humin, an iOS app that intuitively organizes your contacts, launched today and stands to make the Phone app obsolete.

SpiderOak is getting a warrant canary to warn users when the government is trying to poke around in its data.

Colorful invitations have party goers hoping Motorola will roll out new products in addition to its smart watch.

If you like shopping and have a few minutes to kill, there are a bunch of ways you can scratch that itch on social media, following brands you like on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. You can open up a discovery app lik...

Ever look at your cell phone and wonder how you’ll be wearing your phone in five or 15 years from now?  Think the answers will be found in smart watches and Google Glass? What if you push the envelope a bit more and q...