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Dropbox this week is launching the Dropbox for Business API, offering its business storage and security features to enterprise developers. The company also announced that Dropbox for Business now has 100,000 customers. D...

Guest:Tech-savvy businesses have known for years that they must market to those who influence a brand's customer experience the most -- application developers.

Adblock Plus, an open-source content-filtering and ad blocking plugin for all major browsers, today announced a new feature for Facebook users: the ability to turn off read receipts. In short, you can now prevent Faceboo...

Google’s successful advertising platform is showing no signs of slowing down development, even though it rests comfortably at the top of the food chain. Today, Neal Mohan, Google’s vice president of display and video...

Marketers, the numbers from Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) are in, but most of them do not match – not necessarily a surprise to many of us. Preliminary results from the holiday weekend’s sales have been coming in...

The abilities and contributions of your team often determine the overall outcome of your project. Yet there is one position often overlooked by the most ambitious and successful entrepreneurs. No, it isn't your VP or man...

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VB Webinar:In a shift that is both technologically and generationally driven, digitally savvy investors are demanding the ability to manage personal investments in a hands-on, online manner. The fintech industry needs to...

Google today announced an offline developer kit that includes select resources aimed at Internet-challenged regions. The content includes Software Development Kits (SDKs), developer videos, and documentation. Google offe...

UberPool aims to take a million cars off the road in the Big Apple by enabling car-pooling for similar trips.

Commissioner Pai says Netflix's insistence on using its own proprietary video compression standard doesn't tally with the company's belief that the Internet should be tightly regulated like a utility.

Google today announced a very useful new addition to Gmail: editing Microsoft Office documents that arrive as email attachments. A new Google Drive edit icon has been added to Gmail attachments that you can click to auto...

A beloved bicycle company in Riga is experiencing a rebirth. 29-year old Toms Ērenpreiss was born with a name that carries with it a faithful following. For decades, the eponymous Ērenpreiss bicycle company was known f...

You’ve probably heard about “disruptive innovation,” a concept from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. But prominent Silicon Valley Marc Andreessen wants to be sure that you actually understand ...

Online search is constantly becoming more sophisticated, and local businesses are in a prime position to reap the rewards of the many recent local-focused algorithm updates—as long as they know how. Google’s goal is ...

Back in 2000, tech giants were talking about the smart refrigerator. 15 years later, its day may finally be here.

It's finally over. The October 15th tax deadline is behind us, which means for tax practitioners, our return filings are mercifully finished for the year. Unless of course, you chose to make your career in the not-for...

Misfit says its relationship with Xiaomi and JD.com will help it scale up product development and open new marketing channels.

In a just world, consumers would appreciate all the firepower that sites and online publishers are harnessing to give them the right content at the right time. But at least VCs appreciate what Idio does.

When it comes to consumer attitudes and perceptions about mobile marketing, there’s good news and bad news. The good news, according to a 2014 study by Hipcricket, is that mobile marketing is actually reaching consume...

VB Insight:Google Analytics for mobile is essentially a monopoly, with almost 95 percent market share on Android. But the highest-rated apps use analytics packages like Mixpanel, Kochava, and Tune’s MobileAppTracking. ...

Twitter today announced it is improving the reporting process on its social network and launching a blocked accounts page. The new features are available now for a small group of users, but the company plans to roll them...