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The spread in South Korea of MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, has stoked fast-rising anxiety about a disease for which there is no known cure.

EXCLUSIVE: The funding came after The Influential Network posted its request on Flash Funders, an online funding platform that matches investors with companies.

  Starbucks and McDonalds are in different businesses. In marketing theory, that is. Starbucks is known for its coffee and lattes, McDonald's is known for its hamburgers and fries. But there are overlaps. In practice, t...

OPINION: Huge data sets, and the ability to cross-index them, give marketers powerful new tools for attracting customers. But that data can attract some bad actors, too.

The White House refused to address whether the attack may have originated from China.

Ninja Metrics is raising money to expand its social analytics for entertainment companies.

Few CEOs would dispute the importance of continuing education and professional development for their team members. However, those same CEOs may be wondering how they can fit learning into their own days when each hour se...

Recently I traveled to Nigeria with Michael Petrucelli, the former Deputy Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service and now representative of the U.S. Freedom Capital regional center in Texas and Dillon Co...

LONDON – Mexico’s June 7 midterm elections pose a test to President Enrique Peña Nieto and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In the first half of his term Peña Nieto made remarkable headway on muc...

The 70/30 "Apple Tax" was implemented back when Steve Jobs and company launched the iTunes music store in 2003.

Some health insurers are proposing big premium hikes in 2016, up to 51%. These increases would be painful for consumers who don't shop for best value. Consumers need to acquire resources and knowledge that makes them eff...

Dangote Cement, the cement producer controlled by Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, has commissioned a $500 million cement plant in Ethiopia.

The company says its sales in China have been suffering because of the success of premium phones from Xiaomi, Apple, Samsung, and LG.

GUEST: The Holy Land is also the promised land for some game developers.

Today the Thiel Foundation announced its 2015 fellows, and one of the new fellows already has a launch announcement. Nineteen-year-old John Meyer is releasing the next generation of his citizen journalism app, Fresco. Fo...

As part of an ongoing effort to reboot Tidal's image, Vania Schlogel, Tidal's chief investment officer, appeared today at the Midem music and technology conference in Cannes to explain the company's vision and defend it ...

So far in the year that Tim Cook called “the year of Apple Pay” only a quarter of the top 100 retailers have signed up to support the mobile payments service, and almost two-thirds said they definitely won’t be sup...

Check out our entire week's worth of coverage on VentureBeat's channel for video games, GamesBeat.

It’s been announced since early February, but now, the Twitter-Google partnership is in full operative force. This isn’t the first time the two tech giants have worked together—in fact, Google had full access to Tw...

One of the attractions of London's Tech City district is the availability of co-working spaces where ambitious entrepreneurs can set about bringing projects to the market in the company of like-minded teams and individua...

Your company may be suffering from a genuine talent shortage. It may be suffering from a flawed hiring process. It may be one or the other or even both, but the end result will be the same: Companies that can't find crea...

The big game trade show will be in a couple of weeks. Does it need a shot of creativity?