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Uber said on Thursday it has committed nearly $1 billion in additional funding for its China expansion as it readies its application for a new government-mandated permit that will soon apply to all car-hailing businesses...

Honduras may have the highest homicide rate in the world. The Association for a More Just Society is working on the ground in Honduras to restore peace to a traumatized populace.

It’s just days after the launch of Moments, and Twitter isn’t wasting any time finding ways to monetize its new offering. According to newly installed chief operating officer Adam Bain, Promoted Moments are set to ar...

The on-demand economy, and how the heck the U.S. should regulate it, is shaping into a pretty hot issue ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. President Barack Obama addressed the topic this week during the White ...

Starbucks will begin accepting Apple Pay later this year and will start rolling out the payment option to all of its 7,500 company-owned stores in 2016. Apple Pay VP Jennifer Bailey made the announcement at the Code/mobi...

The PC market has been having a lot of trouble this year, and Q3 2015 is no exception. Both Gartner and IDC agree: PC shipments are down globally, though Apple is managing to do alright in the U.S. Gartner estimates worl...

Twitter is expanding its Amplify offering in a move that will help creators monetize their work, while also making it easier for advertisers to get placement and reach for their brands. Starting today, video ads can be r...

For college football fans who are disappointed with the way athletic conferences and television networks have profited from student-athletes' work product, here is the perfect chance to voice a protest.

The best thing about PR are the dream clients.  The charismatic college president with seven published books who always wants to push the envelope; the globe-trotting entertainment attorney in the center of major intern...

Google is back at it, using its artificial intelligence (AI) know-how to improve its products. Today the beneficiary is YouTube’s little video thumbnails. Google has begun to use a type of AI called deep learning to au...

In a world where the average consumer is hit with about 5,000 marketing messages every day -- and growing, the requirement for ways to cut through the clutter of interruptive and irrelevant advertising and communications...

Everyone used to joke that it seemed like the airlines were “packing us in like sardines” more and more these days.

Social media marketing is a highly rewarding strategy, but it's also a volatile one. Fortunately, few mistakes are capable of throwing your campaign into chaos (just as few great posts are worthy of going viral). Still, ...

Switch Communications came out in January as a cloud communications platform that works well in businesses that use the Google suite of productivity products. But the company now says its platform integrates well with al...

As a mother of a professional working daughter, the under-representation of women at every level of the workforce concerns me. Women are 33% more likely to gain a college degree than men, and make up 47.5% of the country...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Lyft is releasing new driver tools aimed at keeping them motivated and making sure that they're able to be a happy driver whenever they want. The company has formed a new partnership with Hertz and Shell...

Well before you answer that question, it's already been answered for you as Mark Zuckerberg told the crowd at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday that it is. So I guess you can stop ...

The Xbox One is about a month away from getting a major overhaul, but we’ve got an early look and want to give you an idea of what to expect. The New Xbox One Experience (NXOE), as Microsoft calls it, is something of a...

Netflix is raising the price of its most popular package from $8.99 per month to $9.99 per month starting today. The updated price applies to new users in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Existing Standard subscriber...

Let’s face it: one of the biggest issues for many angels face is building liquidity into their portfolios.  Any time new ideas and alternatives come to build returns they are worth a good look.

This week’s topic is on the biggest challenge that most organizations are faced with today. This is actually something that Gary Hamel has talked about quite a bit. It is a fascinating paradox! The big challenge comes ...

I’m at a boring party with a bunch of my wife’s friends and find myself talking to one of the other spouses.  Surprise!  She owns her own marketing company, and works with local small business.  It’s just her an...