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For the tech industry, it’s becoming quite clear that we’re in some very unusual times. Valuations are sky-high, venture capital is flowing, and exits are occurring at a high rate. Because of this, many entrepreneurs...

When is it possible to buy a security for 100, sell it for 150 after 9 months, and get fired for underperformance? Answer, when the end of your next reporting period is three months after the sale, and at that point the ...

After having used the new iPhone 6s for a few hours, I have mixed feelings about some of the phone’s most important features. l You’ve probably seen the initial reviews of the new device, all of which reach the same ...

I can imagine a creative judge in a juvenile court hearing punishing a high school student athlete. Say the student drilled a referee in the back in retaliation for bad calls. There could be banishment from the school pl...

GUEST: Silicon Valley often hosts world leaders, but rarely gives them the rock-star reception that it is planning for India prime minister Narendra Modi this weekend. Seats for an 18,500-person event where he will be sp...

Atlassian, the company behind project management software JIRA and team communication app HipChat, has submitted a confidential filing for an initial public offering (IPO), according to a new report. Atlassian, which has...

EXCLUSIVE: Candy Crush Saga is still one of the top-grossing mobile apps in the world, and publisher King is planning a weekend event to keep its player base engaged. Starting today and running through Sunday, King will ...

A quarter century ago a list called “Rules For Being Human” really caught on.  

These days, unfortunately, "disruption" has become the most overused word in business, with many companies implying that the latest tweaks to their products are "disruptive." Sorry, a new smartphone feature does not qual...

ANALYSIS: Mobile browser traffic is actually twice that of mobile app traffic, according to a just-released Morgan Stanley report that rates Google’s stock as a buy. This appears to fly in the face of recent, strong, a...

Facebook is beginning to roll out a design update for its Notes feature, that will let users add a cover photo, captions, and improved formatting. The intention appears to be aimed at encouraging people to compose more n...

Smartphone upstart OnePlus scored a minor success with its first phone, the OnePlus One, shifting 1.5 million devices globally in its first year in business. But all eyes were on the China-based company when its second p...

Dropbox has released Zulip, a group chat app, under an open-source Apache license. The move, announced today, comes after Dropbox acquired Zulip in March 2014. The client and server code is available on GitHub. You can d...

There might not be a more appropriate way to spend a weekend in Miami Beach than with a cocktail in your hand. Those of the rum persuasion, particularly in the form of a Mojito, pair well with a Cuban sandwich, a beach c...

How to make sure packaging design achieves the desired outcome, and dovetails with the objectives of brand strategy.

The city where you go to college or get your MBA may impact whether you can raise start-up cash.

Google may be testing video ads in search results. What would this mean for the online marketing industry?

D.A. Wallach wrote an article nearly a year ago entitled, "Bitcoin for Rockstars: How Cryptocurrency Can Revolutionize The Music Industry." George Howard checks back with D.A., and discusses the current and future state ...

Twitch is larger than ever. The game-broadcasting behemoth is holding its first ever convention this weekend in San Francisco, and it revealed some of the numbers behind its success. This includes a total of 1.7 million ...

Flash suffers another blow. Emmet Shear, chief executive officer of Twitch, announced that the game-livestreaming site will switch over fully from Flash to HTML 5 in the second quarter of 2016. With 1.7 million people br...

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon’s Twitch division, announced at the TwitchCon 2015 convention today that the company will add video up...

  Volkswagen’s (OTC:VLKAY) stock has proved to be a toxic holding -- for investors who purchased the stock recently, before the scandal broke, that is. But with the stock down 40% in the last month, isn’t time for c...