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Transportation startups Uber and Lyft today announced support for bill AB 2293, a measure which will require “ridesharing” companies to insure drivers as soon as they log into a ridesharing app to pick up passengers....

The concept of working full-time from an office is completely dead, a point I tried very hard to get across in a previous article I wrote here called the 8 Indisputable Reasons Why We Don't Need Offices. To build on that...

It was the third day of the year. As thousands of workers took to the streets of Phnom Penh demanding an increase in minimum wage, Cambodian security forces, including the army, came at them with batons and assault rifle...

Managers at London-based Mexican restaurant chain Chilango have got good reason to put the cerveza back in the fridge and crack open some Champagne instead. This week the company successfully completed a £2m mini bond i...

There's no mistaking it: Small business owners are psyched about the future. Many are hiring. They're getting financing. They're feeling confident.

Guest Post: The message again is simple: Online video is king.

Sensor-based waste bin purveyor, Enevo, just landed $8 million in funding to expand operations.

Apple plants as stake in the ground in the increasingly worrisome discussion over the privacy of our health data.

HP gets it: Servers for data centers have become a commodity. Now the Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT corporation is coming out with servers that companies can buy to satisfy their customers’ application needs. Today HP rev...

Sponsored Post: With enterprise-grade mobility solutions, one of the common missteps is having different business units develop their own solutions independently, creating havoc and complexity for the company in the long...

Mozilla's Firefox slated to get sponsored ads in its new browser tab feature.

Superstar list of investors including Peyton Manning, Carmelo Anthony and rapper Nas are part of group that provided ticket search engine SeatGeek $35 million in Series B financing.

Ryan Palmer co-founder of London Sock Company is the new king of luxury socks. Mr. Palmer, a senior manager at a Fortune 500 company was inspired to leave his career and turn to entrepreneurship. As he put it, “life i...

Now, a user can find out if a certain perfume is available locally via search on either a mobile device and on a computer, even if it's only available in the store.

Sometimes the world gives you sprinkles, sometimes it gives you a data breach. This time, Dairy Queen has found themselves the unlucky victim of a data breach with ice cream on their feet. It seems that they have joined ...

Entrepreneurs using the Internet to research their markets and clients or suppliers need to know that it's being doctored again. This time it's nothing to do with Europe or Google (see previous entries) but something ori...

Hiring, Branding, And The Secret Of Eternal (Brand) Life

The fourth of a 7-part series. I will be checking in with each company and founder interviewed here in the past two years.

For once, custom headphones don't have to cost a fortune.

How I dealt with the fake IRS over summer vacation.

Asian partners are coming into the West, and Western game companies are headed East. How do you make it work?

So what if Microsoft isn’t the company behind the Android operating system? Millions of people own Android phones and tablets, and Microsoft wants to provide the one app for creating, storing, and sharing files, whethe...