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Shoe Care Innovation can sanitize a shoe in 15 minutes.

Customization is being used in a range of industries including health care, marketing and advertising, toys, cosmetics, food and fashion. How should companies develop customization strategies to maximize brand appeal and...

Over the weekend, I regaled you with the ballad of Susan Crile, who landed in front of the Tax Court after the IRS alleged that her 40-year run as an accomplished artist amounted to nothing more than a "hobby." Crile ...

Hong Kong is half a world away from Wall Street, yet lately we hear the clamor of protestors as if they were next door. Many US businesspeople already live and work on the island of seven million, which is the world's th...

As entrepreneurs, we have the opportunity for unlimited income. But when sales go soft, the comfort of a steady paycheck can seem awfully attractive. And what happens when a red month turns into a red quarter? The future...

The team is split between San Francisco and Canada.

Anyone following HP’s corporate developments closely in the last three decades has seen many rabbits pulled out of a hat.

IBM's Watson supercomputer is on a roll.

Lift Hero shows how luxury technologies eventually help the disadvantaged

Jane Wales, CEO of the Global Philanthropy Forum, is leading an effort to apply the Silicon Valley model of venture philanthropy and impact investing to developing markets, especially Africa and Brazil.

Entrepreneurs and investors alike get committed to a company. We see the upside case and work feverishly to bring it off. And, there is always a way to stoke more hope: entrepreneurs and VCs are very good at selling hope...

It’s no secret the capital needs of a startup are significantly different than those of a successful 10-year-old small business. What’s more, the startup needs of a potential high-tech behemoth and those of a startup...

No, that's not a submarine periscope -- that's a camera. And it could just be HTC's future.

Patient engagement, patient empowerment, patient centered. The buzzwords have been around for a while, but with technology now catching up to the concept, the notion of patient as full participant is revolutionizing hea...

Rory Read steps down in a surprise move at one of the chip industry's biggest players.

The PC market is no longer falling drastically, and the reason may come down to the strength of the top five vendors. Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 79.4 million units in the third quarter of 2014, according to Gartne...

If you are confident that you have a product or service people want, don?t allow the lack of capital to deter you from your business goals.

Entrepreneurs don?t know what the future holds, so they choose to build it instead.

One of the bigger developers in mobile gaming is looking to grow even further with talent that recently left the FarmVille company.

Peter Thiel says anti-aging technologies are "grossly" underserved. He plans to do something about it.

Many executives worry that they are not doing enough to fend off low-cost rivals by targeting down-market customers.  For instance, reaching young consumers as they begin forming buying habits and settling down offers a...

It’s one thing for Microsoft to use its computers in sophisticated ways to lay out content elegantly. Today a little startup called TheGrid is revealing a related service for automatically designing webpages using what...