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Taxpayer Confidence in the Fairness of the IRS is Key to our Tax System. Should Americans Be Worried?

The only thing wrong with National Customer Service Week (which starts Monday) is that it doesn't last long enough. Here are six effective ways to extend the power of the occasion, to make every week Customer Service Wee...

Apple today updated its iOS adoption numbers, as measured by usage of its App Store and presented on the support page for developers. In doing so, they company confirmed that iOS 8 adoption has indeed been slower than pr...

Cambrios' thin film for touchscreens makes it more responsive without hurting image quality.

Guest Post: While almost everyone talks about the API business relationships, the liability concern brings the legal relationship to the forefront.

Plunging profitability at the Walt Disney Company’s Australian division last year took the sparkle off the bottom line of its parent company in the United Kingdom by contributing to a $63.3 million reduction in its div...

Today I’m proud to welcome two new members to the VentureBeat team: Senior Contributing Writer Emil Protalinski and European Correspondent Chris O’Brien! I first had the pleasure of working with Emil at The Next Web,...

It’s a highly competitive retail marketplace. Corporations are always looking for a competitive edge. With that in mind, here are five unique business insights with one goal—to arm business professionals with valuabl...

Tracking cookies are losing relevance. Here's how three heavyweights, Apple, Google and Facebook, are tracking you now.

As a gesturing hand moves closer through invisible layers toward the screen, the control panel can appear, then an app can be selected, then a particular place in that app - or however the gestures at specific layers are...

Many developers are ignoring Facebook games in favor of mobile, but the social network still has a sizable audience that may love a release like Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.

It’s playoff season again, and Red Sox fans will ruefully remember the American League playoffs of 1999 against the Yankees, when amateur umpires made two monumentally bad calls favoring Yankee second baseman Chuck Kno...

Longreads today announced that the money received from paid memberships will go directly to publishers and writers. Furthermore, WordPress.com will now match all member contributions. Back in April, WordPress.com parent ...

Beepi, a peer-to-peer marketplace which touts itself as a hassle-free way to buy and sell cars online, raised $60 million in venture funding Tuesday. New investors Foundation Capital and SherpaVentures participated in Be...

The new money for Zoomdata will go toward sales and marketing at a time when the company contends with several other big data analytics startups.

Data-driven decision making is still all the rage. For those who don't know much about making algorithms hum, easy-to-use tools like Alteryx can help.

Being an entrepreneur can be challenging, rewarding, frustrating, satisfying, disappointing, and exhilarating. To help you navigate the highs and lows of starting your own business, I've gathered some of my favorite word...

The Washington Post, the paper of record for political happenings in the US and beyond, has decided to launch a news application that will appear on the next generation of Amazon Kindle Fire tablets. The move marks the f...

Charles and Ellerie Cleveland ("Debtors") had two Nevada LLCs. From PFG Advisors, LLC, the Debtors ran their insurance agency. That company leased the office building from the Debtors' other company, PFG Properties, LLC,...

Has anybody noticed the last two record albums atop the charts? Barbra Streisand’s “Partners” (with a bevy of big name musical partners) and Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s “Cheek to Cheek”!  Duets with huge s...

SMS Marketing has the power to deepen your customer relationships, raise your customer service performance levels, increase repeat business and generate referrals. What's not to like? However, keep the service/promotion ...

GitHub today launched the GitHub Student Developer Pack, a new initiative to woo students to its platform. This deal is actually a pretty sweet one: The company has pulled together 13 partners to give students free acces...