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Dollars made from mobile startup exits — that is, acquisitions and IPOs — have dropped below the number of dollars earned from venture capital investments (per quarter) for the first time since 2013, says a new repor...

Shinohara, Philanthropy list.

  The real value of software automation isn’t just about efficiency, and it’s certainly not just about cost. Instead, the real value of software automation is about moving employees up the value add chain, reducing ...

The more than 600 million users of China’s most popular mobile messaging app WeChat may now have one less reason to buy a dedicated fitness tracker or third-party app, after the company today announced a new official c...

The venture capital community and its outside lawyers used to have real expertise in problematic bridge rounds, in which investors provide interim or "bridge"’ funding for a faltering startup in a choppy market. Now I ...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, August 27 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. Like a lot of traditional business sectors, the energy management industry is notorious for rel...

Windows 10 ships with two browsers: the new, modern Microsoft Edge, and IE11 for legacy sites. When Edge determines that a site is old and meant for Internet Explorer, it will prompt the user to fire up the ancient brows...

A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape:  Greg Schott, CEO, MuleSoft.

GUEST: The China stock market downturn and currency changes have started to impact the global market. With 50+ startups in my firm’s global portfolio and a fast growing startup of my own, I thought it would be very tim...

Education is the next great frontier for tech startups.

The top games on mobile in 2015 are the same games that were at the top of the charts in 2012 — and that incessant domination of just a handful of apps is starting to take its toll on the audience. Gamers spent less ti...

Evernote will cease all work on Evernote Food on September 30. Users will be able to still use the apps, but no further updates will be provided by the company, including syncing back to the Evernote service. In a blog p...

GUEST: Any CMO or VP of marketing will tell you: It’s challenging to find genuine marketing talent. Specifically, one of the most competitive positions within marketing to hire for is analytics, which is why it’s his...

It appears that Facebook is getting into the personal assistant space. In a post on the social network, vice president of messaging products David Marcus revealed that the company is testing M, a personal digital assista...

HandUp has unveiled a new product designed to make it easier for anyone to give directly to their homeless neighbors. The company has teamed up with Project Homeless Connect in San Francisco to launch its HandUp Gift Car...

Miss playing Snake on your Nokia phone? Don’t worry, you can now experience the nostalgia by just searching for “bing snake” or “snake game” on Bing. A version of the classic will show up directly above the sea...

“I couldn’t find a place where I could work, live and surf,” says Peter Fabor whose solution has given birth to a trend. The 29-year old user-experience designer-turned-entrepreneur founded the Surf Office to satis...

I created "The Millennial Handbook: How To Beat The Youth Trap" for my guest lecture at Stanford University last month. Lesson No. 1 is all about luck -- whether it's at the White House or in the middle seat, here's how ...

In the first installment of a three-part Q&A series about knowledge, power and the technology industry, I sat down with hip-hop and rap recording artist Divine to talk about his entry into the technology industry, his cu...

PRESS RELEASE: Principal Solar, Inc. (PSI; OTC Pink®: PSWW), a solar power developer and operator, has agreed to terms to co-develop its first major solar asset with affiliates of Entropy Investment Management, LLC ("En...

EXCLUSIVE: When it comes to diversity, Intel has had a very busy year. Last fall, the company was stung after one of its missteps made it seem like it wasn’t pro diversity. At the beginning of 2015, Intel chief executi...