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Thou shalt realize that I get 400 emails and 50 phone calls a day and have not been waiting for you to call with the urgency of someone without a date the day before the prom.

For my friends and family on the west coast, ongoing drought has taken its toll. With water rationing days, they’re always conscious of their usage, from the way they cook to the way they shower in the morning, to the ...

By 2016 the crowdfunding industry is on track to account for more funding than venture capital, according to a recent report by Massolution*.

Red HR Alert. A really bad idea is going around HR circles faster than lightning bugs flying inside a mason jar in Mid-July. Since posting my Happy Talk blog on corporate culture last year, I have really tried to stay ou...

Germany has a strong economy, and a sound political system. But it doesn't deserve to borrow at less than one percent, not if investors factor in the rising political tensions in south Europe where Germany has a sovereig...

There's opportunity for Ello to appeal to users who have been burned by other, more intrusive platforms.

Pat Hanrahan, cofounder and Chief Scientist of Tableau and professor at the Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, became the second full-time academic at the Silicon Valley institution to ascend to the billionaire ranks

More than 40 percent of hires at Intel are now women and underrepresented minorities.

DigitalOcean has been progressing beyond the domain of individual developers' side projects and one-off experiments from companies.

“If technology is a drug — and it does feel like a drug — then what, precisely, are the side-effects?” stated Charlie Brooker, who created the British TV series Black Mirror, in an interview. That question has st...

Firefox fans are not happy with Mozilla.

Oh, that's what they went with.

MBA Application season is here.   If we look to the trends, admission to a top MBA program remains as daunting as ever—despite the very minimal increases in admit rate when compared with last year.  In fact, the adm...

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich aims to change the face of Silicon Valley and the larger tech landscape.

The investment is part of Intel's plan to pump $125 million into women- and minority-owned startups.

In a matter of first impression, the Ninth Circuit held that, in considering whether to regard a transaction under the first part of the Stern test, a court “must consider the relevant subjective and objective factors ...

VB EVENT: 10 companies will be given seven minutes to showcase their innovative X-factor to the influential MobileBeat audience.

EXCLUSIVE: Location, location, location. No, it’s not the old adage of real estate — it’s the new “last mile” of advertising. While e-commerce and m-commerce are growing fast, old-fashioned bricks-and-mortar pu...

Fo.cus has released a gamer-focused electrical neurostimulation device called Moovs.

Even as early as the 1920s, women with a passion and a vision, like Mariet Almonte Giolito, were finding entrepreneurial success.

We are here in Nashville for the next few days for 36/86. There are a ton of great speakers and startup pitches in the lineup. Kyle went over the event in broad strokes a bit earlier. Anyhow, the event kicked off with a ...

Screw the Zoo, written by Sam McRoberts, is a new book on the subject of escaping from the mental and societal cages in which far too many of us seem to be trapped. Sam sent me an advance copy of the book to read, and I ...