Startup News

(By Joseph Menn, Reuters) – In 2009, Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of one of the world’s top security companies, told some of his lieutenants that they should attack rival antivirus software maker AVG Technologies by ...

Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac has acquired some newly leaked photos that show the new camera and screen of the next iPhones — likely called the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The new phones will be introduced at Apple’s fall...

GUEST: Tech giant Facebook recently announced plans to bring Internet access to areas where many people have never touched a computer before -- using solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles as Wi-Fi hot spots. The potenti...

Confirming rumors, ArenaNet announced today that the Guild Wars 2 core online game is going to be available for free, starting today. At the same time, ArenaNet is preparing a paid expansion pack, Guild Wars 2: Heart of ...

Is social media the great equalizer that allows small businesses to compete with bigger rivals?

GUEST: As the founder of a growing startup, one of the most common questions I get asked whenever the topic of competitors comes up is, "Can't you just buy some of these companies out?" From the very beginning of the dot...

Apple apparently didn’t like its new music service’s poster boy, Drake, appearing on a rival music service. The music service Tidal was set up to stream Lil Wayne’s Lil Weezyana Festival in New Orleans Friday night...

The decision to terminate one of your employees for poor performance is a hard one. Here are three questions you should ask yourself before making the decision to let an employee go.

GUEST: Since SparkLabs Global Ventures launched 20 months ago, we have made 50 investments across five continents. We have six partners, based in Silicon Valley, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Singapore, and London, which gives us a u...

The cofounder and former chief executive of struggling Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has joined Hong Kong-based visual effects studio Digital Domain Holdings, according to an exchanges filing Friday. Peter Chou’s appo...

LinkedIn has acquired the predictive sales and marketing firm Fliptop in an effort to boost development on its own Sales Solutions offering. The professional social networking company says that the integration of the tea...

Nexon showed off the first gameplay video from Cliff Bleszinski’s new first-person shooter game Lawbreakers. In advance of the PAX Prime game fan event in Seattle, the trailer from Bleszinski’s Boss Key Productions, ...

By Andrew Chung NEW YORK

By Joseph Menn and Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO

The answer to work-life balance is not creating more hours in the day, learning productivity tools, or adhering to a specific ratio of work versus life hours. The power to create work-life balance is not in execution but...