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In a collaboration with Mastercard, the LAKS watch owners can make payments from their watch at merchants with contactless sale terminals.

Guest:On December 9, Amazon surprised the retail world with "Make an Offer", a new system that allows shoppers to negotiate prices on over 150,000 collectible and antique items. While some news outlets have compared "Mak...

We catch up with the vice president of YouPorn to see how Team YP is doing.

Saying that health and fitness wearables and apps are big at the 2015 International CES is an understatement.

Feature:The film's online release served as an interesting accidental experiment if nothing else, but the relative success of the movie doesn't prove or disprove anything about movie industry distribution models.

Guest:In the file-sharing world, The Pirate Bay — a search engine for finding files you can download for free with BitTorrent — has long been a major player, but it’s gone through a huge amount of upheaval in the p...

We're two months away from publishing our annual Midas List of tech's 100 top venture investors, the definitive ranking of risk-taking in technology, and our inboxes are already filling up with venture firms graciously ...

Guest:Contrary to popular belief, mobile is an untested channel for most Fortune 500 brands. Forrester recently found that mobile represents only five percent of brands' total advertising budget --- and the majority are ...

According to St. Joseph’s University, a sign of a good leader is his or her ability to keep a positive group dynamic. Leaders must learn to identify issues, assess situations and above all keep group emotions in check.

Lightbulb innovation may be finally on the verge of correcting the problems -- but it only works if everyone adopts it.

What do companies including Pinterest, Airbnb, Eventbrite, and Washio have in common? Well, they've all implemented into their mobile apps a nifty SDK from a company named Yozio, which enables them to make app downloads ...

Two new apps for this $200 toothbrush show kids how to brush their teeth properly.

Until now, users had no way to connect with their locks via the Internet.

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This article is by Margaret Molloy, global CMO for strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale.

An obscure marketing firm out of North Carolina just landed $250 million in funding from Silver Lake Partners -- a firm known for investing in tech companies like Dell and Alibaba Group. What sets Red Ventures apart from...

Firefly drones have collision-avoidance systems that can be turned into a game.

Cars of the future are going to have sci-fi style dashboards, thanks to cool graphics tech.

This article is by Rum Ekhtiar, executive VP of RF Radius, a division of communications agency Ruder Finn.

Happy, well-funded, confident, visible women entrepreneurs with strong networks can and will make the economy sing!

This article is by Charles R. Taylor, John A. Murphy Professor of Marketing, Villanova School of Business.

You can use the app to spatially direct where you hear sounds from and where you'll filter sounds out.