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In my experience mentoring new entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders, I see far too many who seem to be driven by all the wrong reasons. Everyone seems to espouse extrinsic motivations, such as getting rich, having...

One of the strangest phenomena in the tax news of late is the scam in which people are called and persuaded to transfer money to people pretending to represent the IRS.  J. Russel George, the Treasury Inspector General ...

Google has been working with Adobe to make Flash content more power-efficient in Chrome. In March, a setting was introduced to play less Flash content on the page, but it wasn’t turned on by default, and in June, the o...

Artificial intelligence startups faces big challenges in competing with Google, Facebook, and other giants for investment dollars and talent, but success may also mean a big acquisition by those same giants.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced today that on Monday the company had 1 billion people logged into the site. This is the first time in its history that Facebook has hit this milestone. In a posting, Zuc...

The NLRB issues a widely expected ruling expanding the definition of "joint employers" required to engage in union negotiations.

Microsoft today launched a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with improvements to context menus and themes. In addition to the usual bug fixes, this build also makes it easier to share Windows feedback with others. Windows ...

Microsoft’s new browser, Edge, has a new rendering engine, EdgeHTML. Like Edge, the new rendering engine is only available in Windows 10, but it does more than just power the company’s new browser: It’s also readil...

This article is by Margaret Molloy, global CMO for strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale.

Like most investors, Sunil Nagaraj of Bessemer Venture Partners is always looking for that next big thing to invest in and turn into a significant return. While the global venture capital firm has primarily invested in t...

Samsung Pay is now being beta-tested in the U.S. The new digital payment method will be available to select owners of Galaxy devices including the S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, and the Note 5. Samsung Pay allows users to upload...

Whether it?s asking Bill Clinton for a selfie or a VC for funding or your boss for the raise you deserve, you need to ask with conviction. That means you need to "step it up and turn it on."

After months of shaky service and false alarms, The Pirate Bay is down again. As always, the cause of the outage is unknown, but the site has been down for more than an hour, so this isn’t just another random blip. The...

The rumors have been flying for months about a possible 4-inch iPhone, but the device will reportedly not be announced at Apple’s September 9 event. The good news is that Apple has indeed been developing the 4-inch scr...

If you're turning 30, 40 or 50, you're probably haunted by some outdated notions of what real progress looks like for someone at your life station. But you don't need to be.

Instagram is making it easier for people to post photos to its service without having to unnecessarily crop and adjust their work. The company announced that it’s adding support for landscape and portrait formats. This...

EXCLUSIVE: For larger websites, the days of one-experience-fits-all-visitors are long gone. Today, Palo Alto-based Commerce Sciences announced it has scored a $4 million investment — including backing from Google execu...

Despite what economists like to think, people do not always make rational economic decisions. That’s nowhere more apparent than in today’s service-centric, app-based consumer Internet. The fact is, people are willing...

As expected, Apple will hold its fall press event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco Wednesday September 9. Apple sent invites to the event out today. Apple included in the invite the information that S...

The new iPhones, which will likely be announced at a press event September 9, will reportedly feature better cameras with bigger image sensors. Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac cited sources saying that the new phones — likely c...

Two startups, Homebase and When I Work, aim to help small businesses with scheduling hourly employees and tracking those hours.

SPONSORED: Mobile apps must continually seek new ways to differentiate in a competitive market that is only getting fiercer by the second. Brought to you by Skyhook, this post is part of a series called “Apptitude” l...