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It will get $50,000 in cash and $25,000 in Facebook Ad Credit. Regional winners get $5,000 in cash and $5,000 in ad credits.

Analysis:It's not exactly Facebook's Tyson versus Google's Holyfield.

When Sunrun started, in February 2007, cofounder and chief executive Lynn Jurich says she faced an enormous amount of skepticism. At one point, she even considered shutting the company down.

My financial advisor announced he was moving to a different firm. This is a guy I trust. He understands the financial markets and investments. More importantly, he understands me. When he left, I was faced with a decisio...

2016 is more likely, but you never know!

Whether Periscope will kill Meerkat is up for debate. Here's a breakdown of the two products -- we'll let you decide.

I am a mentor for the Chicago chapter of Techstars, now in my fourth year. In the first month of the program, the member companies are immersed with mentorship from the 150 Techstars mentors that are part of the local pr...

Fast-growing team-messaging startup Slack is almost finished raising a new round of funding totaling $160 million, if a new report is correct.

I recently caught up with James Altucher, who is the author of the new book "The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth". You can learn more about James and his ideas in his book by subscribing to "The James Altucher Report",...

Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only -- apply here. Ticket prices increase on April 3rd! F...

Microsoft has already made a change in Europe to help conserve energy, but the NRDC is asking it to do the same in North America.

Who doesn't love a good play on words? Readers of mine will surely know that yours truly has never met a play on words or pun he didn't like and no, I will not stop calling you Shirley. So when I got wind of a brand, a p...

Cognitive biases affect us all, whether we admit it or not. They are a product of human nature, and if we aren’t careful, they can easily distort the objective truth, leading us to incorrect conclusions or false belief...

Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only -- apply here. Ticket prices increase on April 3rd! T...

Brain-training outfit makes casual games with a serious purpose.

In ClearSlide's Engagement and Follow feature, a graph shows exactly which slide gets attention and where the audience drops off -- and replays exactly what the salesperson was saying then.

Small businesses may wonder why they need computers at all.

Over the lifetime of the Midas List, IT investors have beat out life science VCs for a number of reasons, including contrasted market dynamics, significant capital and time requirements, heavy life science regulations, ...

Our small group boardroom sessions will address the decisions that gaming executives have to make today.

I started BodeTree when I was 26 years old, and like most young founders I thought that as long as I was smart worked hard, the mechanics of running the business would be easy.    The obvious arrogance and naivety of ...

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The new stations will be located under Rdio's Browse tab in a section called "Label Spotlight," a title that previously only existed on the company's blog.