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With Millennials becoming a larger part of the workforce, we Baby Boomers are quick to point out the apparent differences in our work habits. Surprising to some, we are not too different. So, how can we both work togethe...

China’s exports plunged 8.3% in July, far worse than expected, as China gets a taste of the other side of globalization -- whereby a slow down in one area of the world spreads to another, in a vicious cycle of decline....

“The Struggle is where greatness comes from.” - Ben Horowitz Startups are hard, but they’re especially hard when things don’t go as planned. And that’s not a distant possibility, no matter how strong of a produ...

A targeted approach and a killer follow up could net you a new deal

The consumer and retail industry is undergoing a rapid transformation. Innovation, and the young, emerging brands driving it, are rarely celebrated, even when they perform exceptionally well and help to change lives.

Nearly a year after Foursquare’s relaunch, we caught up with chief executive Dennis Crowley to talk Foursquare’s future, its plan to cash in on ad tech, privacy, burrito discovery, and why the six-year-old startup do...

Camilo Pardo, the edgy automotive and industrial designer who was chief stylist for the increasingly revered, second-generation (2005-06) Ford GT supercar, is accustomed to being pursued by a wide variety of interests se...

It's crunch time for Tesla Motors.

More and more customer service interactions are being initiated over social media. The vast majority of these (80%) are via Twitter, according to figures just released by--wait for it--Twitter, with the rest of them oc...

GUEST: You've heard it again and again: The cloud is the new black. Only ever eclipsed by "big data" or "IoT" buzz, it remains a massive focus for all data-driven companies. But while the cloud has worked very well for b...

  Let the crowds decide. Yes, the crowds. That's Xiaomi's innovation model, which places the customer at the center of its universe. "We continued to move forward," stated Xiaomi's Vice President Hugo Barra, in a recent...

Kevin Chou is a young chief executive, but in six swift years, he has grown Kabam into a $400 million free-to-play mobile gaming company with 800 employees.

Most marketing articles today focus on tactics (e.g., social media, Big Data, attribution modeling, etc.), all of which are very important. However, to better understand what it is like to sit in, and prepare for, a C-le...

(By Devidutta Tripathy, Reuters) – Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and a key supplier to Apple, on Saturday signed a pact with India’s Maharashtra state to invest $5 billio...

The Evil Geniuses esports team won the fifth annual Dota 2 International Championships, taking home a prize of $6.6 million. With a total prize pool of $18 million, the event was one more indicator that esports, or video...

GUEST: Enterprises want Docker. It's on many 2016 roadmaps and has become the tech darling of startups and financial services conglomerates alike, notwithstanding its extreme youth. Despite common perceptions, enterprise...

Silicon Valley startup Strivr Labs just keeps signing up football teams for its virtual reality training system that relies on the Oculus Rift headset. The New York Jets have started using it at training camp ahead of th...

This week people searched for Jon Stewart on Google a lot — more than 500,000 searches on Thursday alone. That’s probably because Thursday was the last day when Stewart appeared on television as the host of Comedy Ce...

The Google Cardboard virtual reality headset and app platform has been out for a while now — it was introduced at the Google I/O developer conference in June 2014 — but it’s not the most well understood technology ...