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"Every single day that we wait to change our name, thousands of users are signing up and learning our old name."

Pinterest isn't showing any signs of slowing down on efforts to monetize its platform. The interest-based social network has hired Nipoon Malhotra to join the company as a product manager. Previously he was head of Twitt...

(By Noor Zainab Hussain, Reuters) – Daniel Negari could not be clearer – his company is not for sale. XYZ.com LLC’s founder and CEO Negari says he was literally shaking with excitement when he read Google Inc’s a...

As more enterprises adopt more cloud for important applications, they're finding they're dealing with new types of relationships, unlike anything they've encountered before. Unlike software purchases in the past, there's...

The term "personal digital assistant" is still relatively new, but PDAs have grown to be quite integrated in mainstream society. Cortana isn't revolutionary in its range of functionality, but its expansions, improvements...

Microsoft today announced the availability of a virtual machine of Windows 10 that comes with the new Microsoft Edge browser. You can use run the VM on Windows (with Hyper-V 2012, VirtualBox, and VMware), Mac (Parallels,...

(By Devika Krishna Kumar, Reuters) – Liberty Interactive, which owns home shopping network QVC, said it would acquire Zulily Inc in a deal valued at $2.4 billion to tap into the online retailer’s younger clientele an...

There is a (deservedly) popular idea that entrepreneurs -- and indeed learners of all levels and kinds -- should fail and fail often (Richard Branson has put up a nice collection of quotes on this topic). Failure, rather...

Today's news and insights for business owners, including Jeff Bezos' response to the story about Amazon's management practices.

In addition to formally confirming that Marshmallow is the official name of Android M, the forthcoming version of the Android mobile operating system, Google today announced the final preview for the new OS for certain d...

In the sparkling popping bubbly world of marketing technology, where we’re tracking 2,300 martech companies and reporting on new and emerging technologies daily, one company raised $1.2 billion in funding, upended a ve...

M stands for Marshmallow. That’s the name of the new Android operating system, Android M. People were wondering what M would stand for — back in May my colleague Emil Protalinski threw out foods that start with M, li...

In 2012, I was working evenings as a VIP Reservationist at one of the world's most exclusive restaurants, while designing small fashion collections, plodding toward my dream of becoming a fashion designer. The restaurant...

The acquisition gives Chinese company a footing in Western markets.

EXCLUSIVE: The lowly product catalog is now having its day in the sun. Buy buttons are transforming product images on social networks into purchasing moments, and new automated ad tools are turning some kinds of product-...

Nearly seventeen months ago, the 13th Department of the National Labor Relations Board ruled the scholarship athletes on the Northwestern University football team are employees and thus may vote to form a union.  Toda...

The recent controversy over whether Uber drivers are employees or independent contractors ignores the obvious: The answer is somewhere in between.

A couple weeks ago, the United States House of Representatives voted to increase the SBA’s lending authorization ceiling to $23.5 billion for the 7(a) loan guaranty program. This is a huge deal for small business owner...

Andy Pandharikar, founder of Tall Idea Labs, a startup studio with emphasis on startups with global potential, previously headed a San Francisco-based startup, FITIQUETTE, which was sold to India's Myntra/Flipkart and ...

Mapbox has signed a partnership with Runkeeper, in a move that will leverage the route data traveled by runners and cyclists to create a more comprehensive mapping product. Anonymized and aggregated routes publicly share...

Keen IO, a startup with a cloud-based data analytics tool, is announcing today that it’s releasing one of its tools for customers, the Data Explorer, under an open-source license. The Data Explorer first became availab...