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Popular recruiting software, The Resumator, landed $15 million to expand internally and externally.

Search traffic rocks. Even though just two years ago only 44% of shoppers began their purchase by using a search engine (Interconnected World: Shopping and Personal Finance, 2012), today I am sure this number is a lot hi...

One hour ago Apple’s stock price closed at a record high of $100.53 per share. That closing price beats out Apple’s previous all-time high of $100.30 — adjusting for the company’s stock split in June. Investors c...

Hold up Spotify, Russia already has a free, legal music streaming service, and now they've got the funding to further support its ecosystem of apps, social media integrations, and a growing network. With over 15 million ...

Sponsored Post: Senior leaders from PlayStation Now and Gaikai show how gamers can stream PlayStation's biggest titles from all devices, making mass cloud streaming possible for PlayStations 4's large instil base for the...

Students now have another way to sell that textbook they hated to someone else. It’s an app called Classy, a peer-to-peer marketplace for students being launched by a startup of the same name. An iOS app is now availab...

A new study, taking in data from 1.6 million organic (non-paid) social posts across Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, has found that 99% of those updates create little to no engagement at all. The study was conducted by So...

The company's browser-based notifications are now being used on 2000 websites.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Y Combinator’s Demo Day for its Summer 2014 batch is in full swing, and a few startups have already impressed us, for various reasons. Take a look: Checkr Checkr is a API for background checks...

Across America, high school and college athletes are reporting for pre-season training camps and tournaments.  That giant closing sound you hear is beaches, amusement parks and campsites closing for the summer – in mi...

There is no video of the death of Michael Brown; there are only two diametrically opposed stories. Police in Ferguson, Mo., say an officer killed Brown after the teenager tried to take the officer’s gun. Witnesses say ...

The sale of Al Gore’s cable television operation, Current TV, to Al Jazeera for $500 million is very old news: the deal closed in early 2013, allowing the former vice president to monetize his investment and giving the...

Post IPO, Alibaba is poised to write $5 billion checks to acquire U.S. tech startups and spur a rush of venture-backed Chinese companies to go public on Wall Street.

It is the dream of most authors to have their books published and available in retail stores. The reality of this scenario is that publishing a book requires an understanding of the industry and a pile of cash, which is ...

There is an old adage that says "you never get a second chance to make a great first impression." Thankfully in my case I made a good (surely not great) first impression with my wife-to-be many moons ago.

Mailbox for Mac just hit public beta, debuting features like swipe to snooze and draft support.

The privatized space travel business is proving very successful for early player SpaceX, and now the company is rumored to be raising a major new round of funding. Since being founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Mus...

This article is by Margaret Molloy, global CMO for strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale. You can follow her on Twitter at @MargaretMolloy.

Zvooq is trying to sell a white label version of its service to other Russian content sites that might otherwise host pirated music.

The World Wide Web is officially a quarter of a century old, and it’s safe to say that the world we know today would be dramatically different without Tim Berners-Lee’s invention. In its short lifespan of 25 years, ...

Content Marketing: “The overarching practice of using information and entertainment to promote a brand or product”. – Contently

Trying to measure performance metrics? Here are five mistakes you might be making.