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Most successful businesses are defined by the sum of all of the little decisions and interactions that happen each and every day, and not by grand strategic moves. This simple truth puts the responsibility on both leader...

Entrepreneurs have always believed that their product or service must show real value to customers, but today the smart ones are even able to make their marketing valuable. The days are gone when marketing was all “pus...

Apple has reportedly acquired the San Francisco-based mapping data visualization company Mapsense. The deal was struck earlier this month, according to a report by Re/code, which cites several unnamed sources. The report...

Nigerian billionaire oil magnate Femi Otedola has crashed the price of House Hold Kerosene (HHK) in the country.

ANALYSIS: The subject of downloads has been a major talking point in the video-streaming realm this month, with three major companies all laying their offline-viewing cards on the table. Kicking off on September 1, Inter...

Salesforce and Microsoft — companies that traditionally compete in the customer relationship management software market — today announced a deeper partnership, building on the big one they announced last year. The ne...

It really should surprise no one that the first app Apple built for Android helps you ditch the platform. In addition to launching iOS 9 today, Apple also released Switch to iOS, a new Android app that helps users of Goo...

The last several years have seen an incredible transformation in how people buy.

This single feature may make upgrading to iOS 9 worth the effort. About 10 times every day some “Unknown” person calls my phone, and fearing an untimely/uncomfortable/tedious/unnecessary conversation, I often don’t...

Ideas that are generally considered clever should expect strong competition. Ideas that are considered foolish to start have a tremendous opportunity to win big.

Today Lyft and Chinese ride-hailing company DiDi Chuxing (formerly DiDi Kuaidi) unveiled a major partnership allowing users of each service to hail rides from either app. Specifically, the deal will enable Lyft users to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick says that UberPool isn’t as profitable as the rest of his company’s offering, but he’s not worried about it because it’s all about inducing carpooling in all the cities it operat...

Amazon Web Services, the largest public cloud provider, announced today that the Docker Trusted Registry software — a tool for storing and managing container images that can be used to run applications — is now avail...

In July, Microsoft launched Send, a new short-form and lightweight email app. It was only available for Office 365 business and education customers with iPhones, though the company said it would eventually bring the app ...

If you’ve ever wanted to walk past the gym where Filipino world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao trains, now’s your chance. Google announced the launch of Street View in the Philippines on Wednesday, making the Southeas...

Here’s a few telltale signs that fall is upon us: Leaves are changing colors, pumpkin-flavored everything lines shelves, and a new OS release from Apple hits today. The company’s most recent mobile OS release, iOS 9,...

Twitter and Bloomberg are taking their existing partnership to the next stage today, as the companies reveal that more Twitter data will be integrated into Bloomberg’s financial platform. The Bloomberg Terminal is a se...

Microsoft is enhancing the capabilities of its Cortana personal digital assistant within the company’s recently launched Edge browser. Microsoft announced today that it has begun a pilot program to make Cortana automat...

Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have introduced the Small Business Lending Enhancement Act into the U.S. Senate. The legislation would increase the credit union member business-lending (MBL) cap for credit...

Dropbox says it’s made some tweaks to its iOS app to exploit new features in Apple’s latest operating system, iOS 9. Chief among them is support for Spotlight, Apple’s universal search tool for rummaging through as...

The unicorn club has expanded at an unprecedented rate. How do entrepreneurs get their hands on such large sums of cash?

iOS 9 is launching today, and Microsoft’s OneNote team is wasting no time. The company updated OneNote with support for iOS 9, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Handoff, and Spotlight all in one go. You can download the new vers...