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Startup founders and freelancers are more in need than ever to have access to flexible work spaces that go beyond cafes. Croissant, a membership service for people to use coworking spaces at their own pace, aims to disru...

The word marketing has gazillion definitions. Yes, a gazillion. But for the context of this article let’s go with: “the action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and ...

Updated at 2:45 p.m. with a statement from the group claiming to be Lizard Squad. The long arm of the law is also patient and persistent — as customers of the cyberattack group Lizard Squad has just learned. The United...

EXCLUSIVE: Qbox, a startup that operates a cloud-based version of the Elasticsearch open-source search database for use in other companies’ applications, is announcing today that it has raised $2.4 million. Currently t...

GUEST: According to eMarketer, digital marketers have a “love affair with data.” Spend on data-driven campaigns continues to grow annually, along with profits attributable to those same initiatives. It’s undeniable...

Sony and Activision announced today that the Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer beta test on the PlayStation 4 was the biggest ever for that platform. Millions of players played the beta test for the game from Augus...

Today Twitter revealed its latest staff diversity statistics and announced its intention to be slightly less white in 2016. In 2015, U.S. Twitter employees are still predominantly white men. Since last year Twitter has m...

On-demand parking service ZIRX is changing the way that it classifies its workers. The company is in the process of converting its parking attendants and dispatchers to employees. The company says that it expects to comp...

BRUSSELS (By Julia Fioretti, Reuters) – Brussels will launch a study in September of the taxi-hailing app Uber, in an effort to settle the legal disputes that have pitched the U.S. start-up against conventional taxis a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters, Lawrence Hurley) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a judge’s ruling that would have blocked the National Security Agency from collecting phone metadata under a controversial program that...

As the global game industry makes its way toward $100 billion in sales, the growth is happening on all fronts. Mobile either has or will shortly become the biggest part of the market, based on various market research rep...

Lionsgate, the maker of blockbuster movies such as Divergent and The Hunger Games, has agreed to make a movie based on the Borderlands gun-filled sci-fi video game series. The movie company will collaborate on the projec...

Market turmoil is forcing some on Main Street to worry and start planning for a possibly lower consumer demand.

A $148 million ruling in the Dole Foods represents the good side of Delaware shareholder litigation.

Austria isn’t synonymous with big-money tech acquisitions, but Runtastic put the country firmly on the global startup map this month when it was snapped up for a cool $239 million by sports giant Adidas. VentureBeat ca...

Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman is no longer working at the company. His departure comes after subsidiary site Ashley Madison suffered a major hack and leak of its internal data. Ashley Madison, with its famed tagline ...

In its report, Educate and Empower: Tools for Building Community Wealth, Democracy Collaborative discusses 21 tactics different groups use to ensure economic development really benefits residents of low-income communitie...

EXCLUSIVE: Marketing automation software penetration is still on the wrong side of “woeful.” Even if you reduce the total marketplace to B2B organizations alone — those that are more likely to use a marketing autom...

Cincinnati’s entrepreneurial community just got more tightly knit. On Wednesday, Union Hall was officially opened for business. Union Hall will house three of the city’s most influential actors in the startup space: ...

With stock markets around the world going bonkers this past week, analysis has inevitably turned to how this will affect Silicon Valley. This is natural, because many of us are conditioned to use things like IPOs and sto...

Being a young, first time entrepreneur is hard. Without a stunning success story or years of applicable experience, a new founder can face significant challenges starting and growing a company. A study by the University ...

Today's CTO needs to be more nimble, adaptable and capable of good leadership than ever before.