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There are three important lessons for businesses to be learned from the current episode.

EMC has a chance to land a strong position in the growing cloud infrastructure market.

Turn everything on your desktop into a game.

The Windows Store is getting a spring cleaning.

Today, smartwatch maker Pebble began shipping its latest smartwatch to the people who backed the $20 million Pebble Time Kickstarter campaign. The first 10,000 rewards ship this week worldwide. Pebble says that all campa...

One independent recruiter is quoted in the lawsuit as saying, "Fitbit's objective is to decimate Jawbone."

Aside from funding, the startups will get free office space and access to Athenahealth's network of doctor customers.

In this brand's thirty-eight year history, it never had much focus around consumer marketing.  In nearly every case, the brand has been presented as a “utility” meaning, if you want see artist X or team Y, you nee...

Bitfinder chief executive and cofounder Ronald Ro found inspiration for his smart air quality monitor from his daughter.

Twitter posted two major tools to GitHub for public use.

Reddit is taking an unusual measure towards diversifying its workforce: It has stopped negotiating salaries with potential hires.

ANALYSIS: Apple is trying to provide the ultimate cord-cutter package, a service for which consumers can ditch cable and never look back.

Tegile Systems, a company that sells hybrid and all-flash storage systems, announced it raised $70 million in funding. The round left Tegile with a total of $117.5 million raised. The company plans to use the funds to he...

China-based smartphone maker Xiaomi has announced its official entry into the U.S. and Europe with the news that its online store will be launching on June 1.

VB EVENT: AEG's Scott Carlis, Universal McCann's Gregg Colvin, and VB's John Koestsier share the critical strategies to optimize the mobile channel at an enterprise level -- including the best tools to do it with.

Before starting Local Marketing, Inc., I had a lot of notions about what’s important in creating and running a business. I was perhaps idealistic in thinking that as long as you had a track record proving you did what ...

Facebook's payments rollout continues.

The new tool integrates iOS 9 search data, augmented reality maps, and Siri.

I work with many angel investors and know that most hope and believe that their support helps the companies they invest in. Now they have proof. Two studies show real evidence that startups backed by strong angels really...

VB Insight's latest report helps demystify the burgeoning virtual-reality and augmented-reality landscape.

Audience Insights is Twitter's latest run at providing highly targeted ads, a sought-after feature for advertisers and a contentious one for privacy-conscious users.

The plot thickens. The sale of your company involves far more taxes than income taxes . . . some are known and some are unknown . . . and the buyer knows it. You and your buyer will need a strategy to jointly deal with t...