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Today's insights for business owners and entrepreneurs, including Uber's plans for a delivery service.

Nobody said becoming a successful entrepreneur was easy--but with a little bit of planning and a little bit of money, it is possible to create and grow a successful business.

MENLO PARK, CALIF. -- Facebook says it's going to help small businesses make themselves more accessible on mobile devices. The social networking company announced today that it's updating its Pages offering to now not on...

With contributing author Cat McManus, Penn GSE Doctoral Candidate. 

Evan Carmichael is an entrepreneur who started doing what he loves at the early age of 19. At 22, he was a VC helping companies  to raise $500,000 to $15 million. He soon found that he had a true passion for helping ot...

FEATURE: Apple is the company most responsible for ushering in touchscreen gaming, but a rumor now claims the company will reveal a new device tomorrow that will rely heavily on a physical controller. By this time tomorr...

The mobile enablers space is converging rapidly. Localytics does analytics, sure, but also mobile marketing automation. Tune is known for attribution and mobile marketing measurement, but just added marketing automation ...

Christian catches me at a quarter to six on Friday afternoon.  I’m staring at my spreadsheets, trying to make the numbers look better.  I didn’t realize he was still in the engineer’s office - when I’d last gla...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, September 22 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. The recent avalanche of customer data has created a bounty for marketers. The ability to trac...

In her book Yes, Please Amy Poehler shares witty and insightful advice about life, love and success. You will never climb Career Mountain and get to the top and shout, 'I made it!' You will rarely feel done or complete o...

Team communication software startup Slack today announced the availability of a public beta of a version of its app for Windows Phone. The app is live now in the Microsoft Store. It’s not perfect, though. Slack mention...

GUEST: As a user experience designer for games, I keep a close watch on new trends and apps with cutting edge marketing and consumer psychology principles that free-to-play titles employ today for monetization & retentio...

GUEST: The point of using celebrity brands to reach mobile app users is straightforward: Your app needs a large, engaged audience to succeed, and celebrity brands have them. You pay the celeb, or license rights to the br...

One in five Android devices is now running the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system. The company released its monthly update to the Platform Versions page for Android today, and once again the latest vers...

To manage the $15 minimum wage, fast food restaurants can increase productivity by taking one big step, says Noah Glass.

The mobile ecosystem of applications for enterprise, plus enabling technologies for developers, will shortly be at least a $100 billion annual revenue opportunity, according to Emergence Capital, a venture capital firm f...

According to eMarketer’s U.S. Digital Travel Metrics, 2013-2019, U.S. travelers will spend $168 billion in 2015 and $177 billion 2016 in online travel bookings. Add to that the fact that by the year 2017 more than 30%...

Microsoft today announced that its newly released Edge browser will be getting support for VP9, an open-source video codec that Google initially developed, in upcoming Windows Insider preview builds of Windows 10. Google...

Today Google announced its same-day delivery service is now available in states across the midwestern U.S., including Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. The service, called Google Express, first laun...

Few leaders understand SEO well enough to vet an agency's credibility, but it's a critical business decision with far-reaching impact. Here are four ways to evaluate any proposals you receive.

Winter holiday preparations are starting earlier and earlier, and not just for retailers, but for all kinds of businesses. If you go online right now, you can book a December cruise to a warm-weather destination or get t...

Bua Group, a Nigerian industrial conglomerate owned by Abdulsamad Rabiu, one of Nigeria's wealthiest men, has signed $600 million worth of contracts with Sinoma International Engineering Co, a Chinese cement manufacturin...