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The new wave of wearable devices, flying drones, electric cars, and what-have-you are going to have higher and more specific power needs than what you get with our current lithium-ion (like in phones) and alkaline batter...

The billionaire is setting his eyes in Latin America, and Brazil is an strategic partner.

New research from the Kauffman Foundation shows that business incubators may not be helping startups as much as they claim to be.

Survey shows disconnect between how consumers want to use online banking, what banks are offering, and what offerings consumers are aware of.

Lots of publicity has come to DirecTV for its annoying, bizarre, hilarious or highly effective (you choose) television ads.  Rob Lowe and his evil twins, alternating between those super-creepy, painfully awkward, or far...

At stake is a big up-and-coming $77 billion market that VMware desperately needs.

Who knew a simple board game bore such a fascinating history? Journalist Mary Pilon uncovers the story of individual creativity, corporate strategy and legal battles over the game Monopoly in her new book "The Monopolis...

Now serving a broad range of fields like car rental, smart devices, and environmental protection, the platform integrates a development kit and big data.

VB Event: Deena BahDeena Bahriri, CMO for Birchbox, and Perry Hewitt, chief digital officer for Harvard University, join 180 top execs at GrowthBeat Summit to explore how creativity and technology merge to drive growth.

Guest: A quick search in hacker forums will turn up hundreds, if not thousands, of cracked iOS apps. The download numbers are sometimes comparable to legitimate downloads from the actual App Store.

On Wednesday night, parties claiming to belong to the Islamic State (ISIS) blacked out broadcasts on 11 channels of French television station, TV5Monde, as well as breached and defaced the network’s social media accoun...

Guest: Where CarMax differs from many in the current crop of Silicon Valley startups is CarMax knows they aren't the actual creators of the product.

  Financial assets are on fire around the globe. The S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) is hitting one new high after another; NASDAQ (NASDAQ:QQQ) and the StoxxEurope 600 Index are racing towards the elusive pre-dot.com crash mark; Asi...

When you travel, sometimes you just don’t have the time to spend days researching hotels. All you want is an easy way to find a good place to stay for a reasonable price in a convenient way. Sometimes you even want to ...

Recent controversy over “brushing” on Chinese e-commerce sites has come to a head as a merchant on JD.com (NASDAQ: JD) exposed a seemingly company sanctioned brushing campaign.

Guest: Many of us never went to school for advertising or marketing. Instead, we cut our teeth in the real world. AdWords, SEO, social media, radio, TV, and print -- we learned these skills on the fly and have hodgepodge...

Guest: Unlike the 2001 bubble, this one is on late-stage private startups. In fact the bubble is so obvious that these billion-dollar startups don't even want to go public because they know they'll not get the same valua...

Amiato built a data warehousing tool in the cloud before Amazon even announced its similar tool.

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