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Over the years, I have had many clients with problems in their business that they didn’t know how to solve. They would invite me in to take a look to see if I could solve their problem. And, sure enough, a very easy so...

While the market anxiously awaits a Thursday Fed decision on interest rates, Main Street is quietly going about its business.

Hello Fresh, the Berlin-based company that delivers meal kits and recipes to subscribers, announced today that it has raised another $85 million. The company, which is a product of Germany’s Rocket Internet’s startup...

Every effort to drive quality website traffic starts with understanding how visitors find your site. Once you discover how people find you, you can then determine how much each channel contributes to conversions and reve...

As if CMOs didn’t already have enough on their plates, they increasingly are being tasked with—or voluntarily taking on—driving a corporate innovation agenda based on customer wants and needs, budgetary boundaries,...

Hyperloop, dubbed “the fifth mode of transport,” is real. At least, that’s what the introductory video released this week on YouTube is trying to communicate. Hyperloop is a project envisioned by engineer and inven...

5.3 million people now subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud service, the company revealed in its third quarter 2015 earnings report today. Adobe hopes to hit nearly 6 million paid subscribers before 2015’s end. The co...

Advanced Micro Devices said today that its latest family of processors is 46 percent more energy-efficient in terms of its carbon footprint than the previous generation of chips. In 2014, AMD set its 25X20 energy efficie...

We’re on the precipice of the virtual reality future, but we’ll probably have to wait a few more years before augmented reality is a part of our daily lives. The Microsoft HoloLens AR head-mounted display (HMD) is �...

Age means little to the hungers that nag within a committed entrepreneur. Over the past year the ongoing saga of George Zimmer has proved that.

One of the biggest challenges for a startup seeking to hire top talent is knowing when to engage a professional headhunting firm - either contingency or retained.

In an Internet-connected, information-saturated world some businesses are finding that the more they narrow their focus the easier it is to find success. Niche, highly specialized businesses once had difficulty staying p...

Y Combinator is growing its partnership team with the additions of the chief executives and cofounders of 23andMe, Pinterest, and Airbnb. Anne Wojcicki, Ben Silbermann, and Joe Gebbia will be part-time partners with the ...

Yahoo today announced the availability of the Yahoo Mail app for Windows 10. It’s available now in the Windows Store. “The app brings you brand-new ways to effortlessly access mail and get notified of new messages,�...

Microsoft today announced the availability of a technology preview of a tool that developers can use to convert Windows Phone Silverlight 8.x apps to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. UWP is a big deal because it ca...

On-demand delivery/courier service Postmates has just undergone a major expansion. Today it announced that it’s in 10 new cities, bringing the total number of markets to 40. Cities that are now online include Baltimore...

With the BBC facing increasing criticism over its publicly funded model in its native U.K., the broadcasting giant today revealed plans to boost the coffers of its commercial “BBC Worldwide” arm by launching a new vi...

At about 11:04 a.m. PST today (2:04 p.m. EST), Facebook went down. VB staff from across the world confirmed they couldn’t reach the social network — the site either merely loaded a blank page or a generic “Service ...

PRESS RELEASE: Force Protection Video Equipment (OTC Markets: FPVD), which sells HD body camera systems and accessories for law enforcement, announced that the LE10 on the body camera has been chosen over several other m...

Facebook is joining the 100 Percent Viewability Club. Today, the social networking giant announced a new ad buying option where advertisers only pay for ads that are actually seen. The digital ad industry is beset by a m...

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Facebook today announced the availability of Signal, a new free tool that journalists can use to keep track of activity on Facebook and Instagram. “Journalists interested in seeing what conversations are resonating on ...