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You are running your first startup. You are starting to build your team and gain customer traction. It is starting to feel like you might be living the dream after all. Then, bang! You get an unsolicited offer to buy you...

While Amazon does not break out Amazon Web Services revenue, its "other" revenue for North America -- including AWS and advertising services -- was $1.67 billion for the fourth quarter of 2014.

If you schedule a meeting for an hour, it's remarkable to me how often it takes an hour, even when it doesn't need to.

Everyone makes mistakes. But when you run a large business you mistakes can burn a lot of people. Here are a handful of deals gone wrong, foolish negotiations and downright failures from business lore.

We've talked about MOOCs. But here's a company teaching prospective entrepreneurs the practical skills for creating or growing a business entirely from courses they can engage in online.

Google missed the ball a bit this quarter.

What's making investors happy is a profit of $240 million despite those lower-than-expected sales.

Under the FCC's old definition of "broadband" at 4 Mbps or more, Big Telco and Big Cable could truthfully say that consumers have choices. At 25 Mbps, the monopoly is revealed.

Mixing and matching free services

Amid lagging sales, McDonald's announced yesterday that CEO Don Thompson was out, replaced by Steve Easterbrook, previously chief brand officer at the fast-food giant. Easterbrook had been charged with marketing, menu...

While Go was first developed at rival Google, Amazon wants to serve developers who prefer Go over other languages for which Amazon already has SDKs.

Google today rolled out a new feature for Chrome OS users: Smart Lock. In short, it lets Chromebook owners unlock their computer just by having their Android phone nearby. Smart Lock requires a Chromebook running Chrome ...

It's more about your mindset than anything else.

By AT&T Business Circle Contributor

Every year the crop of candidates applying to top MBA programs becomes more and more competitive. Many applicants may think that the ideal candidate from the perspective of the admissions committee is largely based on a ...

The company that kicked off Android gaming on televisions may get a second chance to make that a reality in China.

Harvard tops the list of largest college endowments with a market value of $35.8 billion, but almost all endowments did very well in 2014. According to a study released today, college endowment funds grew 15.5% on averag...

Facebook knows that being able to target users with information about exactly where they are can be extremely lucrative. Today, it invaded the territory occupied by Yelp and Foursquare, launching a new feature for the Fa...

When Reddit revised its Privacy Policy and User Agreement terms a couple of weeks ago, it promised a transparency report. Today, it’s delivering on that pledge. The new transparency report reveals a total of 55 governm...

Delivery startup Postmates made major moves on the web today with the launch of online ordering. VentureBeat first revealed Postmates’ plans back in December; the feature, we’re told, had been on the table for quite ...

Unstable prices for agriculture have turned two British farmers into potato chip producers. Childhood friends Rod Garnham and Ross Taylor drove tractors before they were 16 years old, but they had never made potato chips...

Mophie makes battery phone cases, and it has been in business since 2005. But it has never advertised on TV—until now. And in fact, its first TV ad will air on the biggest broadcast platform—the Super Bowl.