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How common is the issue of depression in the startup world?

Alain Crozier and his team at Microsoft have just spent a full day introducing 350 young girls, aged 13 & 14, to the digital world. The President of Microsoft, France, is determined to see more girls choose technology �...

We often hear that failure is just a stepping stone to success. But how to you actually turn a setback into a stepping stone? It begins with how you explain your failures.

PayPal, which already submitted an SEC filing about the spin-off, will be cutting 2,400 jobs in Q1 2015.

So, what did investors make of this mixed bag? Not much.

Apple's guidelines forced a developer to get creative to release its game about growing illegal substances on iOS.

The Detroit Zoo is launching a crowdfunding campaign today to "harness the power of poo," as its promo video says.

Nearly every gaming sector has a representative in the top 10 publicly traded companies except for Web-based social apps.

VB Webinar: VB's VP of Research John Koetsier took a beneath-the-hood look at the utterly confusing array of could-based martech tools and platforms. The best solution for an enterprise organization isn't the same as the...

HBO just "acquired" a Vimeo original series.

Local SEO has been around for a while, but with recent changes to local search ranking factors from the Google Pigeon update, it’s easier and more worthwhile than ever to get involved. Combined with the fact that natio...

For Jeff Braverman, doubling the sales of his family's nut business isn't enough. Can he turn Nuts.com into a household name?

A year-round seasonal business sounds like an oxymoron, or maybe an exercise in pretzel logic. Seasonal spikes go with the territory when you have a calendar-sensitive operation. For example, even though Americans spend ...

I used to think that Millennials got a bad rap when it came to their performance in the workplace.  To me, people who complained about young workers were just relics from another time, painfully stuck in their antiquate...

To drive engagement, the microblogging platform is reinstating a feature first introduced (and pulled) in 2013.

What are you really communicating to the people around you?

Analysis: New tools provide more productivity features for sales departments very much in flux -- and investors love flux.

If you read business news, you might think that crowdfunding and peer2peer lending are very popular sources of business financing just by the volume of media coverage that they get. But P2P and crowdfunding platforms are...

Lawyers should be able to buy competitors' names as keywords except for an anachronistic North Carolina ethics rule

"There should be more willingness to take the blows of life as they fall. That's what manhood is: taking life as it falls. Not whining all the time and trying to fix it by whining." - Charlie Munger

A rookie mistake some startup make after raising a bit of money is to hire a public relations (PR) firm. This is akin to asking a marriage counselor to propose to your long-time partner on your behalf.

Push notifications are no longer just for apps.