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IRS can't tax churches, but making yourself a church could mean a real life vow of poverty, and possibly even a monk's cell!

Guest:Marketplaces are notoriously one of the hardest types of businesses to start because you have to acquire two different types of users at the same time: buyers and sellers. You need to launch with both, and you need...

With the new year quickly apparoaching, here are my thoughts on the most important trends in the Sports Industry for 2015

While much of the wearable hype tends to focus on consumers, a new report argues that businesses may be far more critical in driving adoption.

Like other tech companies, LinkedIn could stand to become more diverse. And one thing that could help is a program to support women who work in technology at the company.

I was charged for supposedly travelling 0.03 miles in 5 seconds, and yet I never even saw the car.

Making the site easier to traverse will help get eyeballs on promoted content, although a link between the redesign and advertising is not explicit.

Over the past two decades, the financial services industry has dramatically accelerated its rate of product development.  The first online banking service was introduced in the U.S. in 1994, and, since then, customers h...

Tempo Smart Calendar now has new widgets for easy interaction, and it comes in nine new languages.

A service that purported to be an online business directory listing agent will have to pay out $1.7 million to the Federal Trade Commission for charging small businesses for listings they didn’t ask for. Defendants Fra...

This is G2 Crowd's first Grid report on social collaboration tools, using its customary metrics of user satisfaction and business presence.

Of course -- Microsoft is now supporting its own PlayReady encryption technology for live streaming from the Microsoft Azure public cloud.

Aviate, Yahoo’s smart homescreen app for Android, is getting a search function to help you find exactly what you want in your phone. The app, which Yahoo originally released back in June, is a location-sensitive, intel...

Are we stuck with the illusion of ?the decision-making animal? when, in fact, our decisions are so often biased, compromised, trumped by short-termism and, ultimately, bad for us? We try to use the power of process to re...

Sixty-six percent of small business owners support a minimum wage increase according to The Hartford?s 2014 Small Business Success Study. Jen King, co-owner of New York City?s Liddabit Sweets describes why paying her em...

Hearthstone saw a boost thanks to its Android debut.

What?s missing in the ?CMO is dead? or ?alive? debate is the role of the CEO. Just as a coin has two sides, CEOs bear significant responsibility for the state of marketing. While most CEOs and board members have not been...

Sixty-six percent of small business owners support a minimum wage increase according to The Hartford?s 2014 Small Business Success Study. Jen King, co-owner of New York?s Liddabit Sweets describes why paying her employee...

In case you missed the 2015 Marketing Predictions Pop Culture Style, here's the link. It includes insight from some of the finest minds in the world.

The retail sector, with its oversupply, declining sales and heavy exposure to the U.S. real estate market, is turning into a proven winner for hedge fund activists and private equity investors. Don't expect that to chang...

Google released its ninth transparency report today, revealing 3,105 government requests to remove 14,637 pieces of content during the period spanning June to December of 2013. That brings the total number of requests fo...

A 2014 The Hartford Study finds that 77 percent of small business owners are feeling successful. Entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz explains what the secrets to that success are and the key lessons learned from the last rece...