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This year's combo of low consumer spending, lower projected sales and retail workers with itchy feet is the perfect petri dish to see who's right about retail worker's pay.

Having been recruited by my husband into our entrepreneurial lifestyle some twenty years ago, I wondered how many other people were in the same boat as us. At that time, back in 1995 when we were first married, we did no...

Popular photo messaging app Snapchat may be having a change of heart about its foray into original content announced back in January, with a report via Deadline late Monday that it’s shuttering Snap Channel and laying ...

Publicly traded customer service software company Zendesk today announced that it has acquired We Are Cloud, the parent company of BIME Analytics, a startup with a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) tool. Zendesk pai...

Robots now perform 10 percent of manufacturing tasks, and that’s projected to reach 25 percent by 2025 according to a recent study by the Boston Consulting Group. This scares many people because robots and automation a...

Twitter's CEO may be cutting jobs, but he knows how to reward employees, even when it comes out of his own personal pocket.

Today, it's not up to the company to provide mentoring or "take care" of employees in the same parental way that defined the past. The onus of personal and professional development is on the individual.

The most successful people in the world share a number of time management habits that lead to higher productivity. But it's what they don't do that's most intriguing.

Chip maker Intel today beat analysts’ estimates for financial results in the third quarter of this year, coming up with $3.1 billion in net income, or 64 cents in earnings per share, and $14.5 billion in revenue. Analy...

Juan Deigo Prudot helped found IMPCT, a social enterprise that enables women in the developing world to provide quality early childhood education in place of mere daycare, winning the Hult Prize.

A new type of SEO is starting to emerge--one that threatens to replace site-based rankings as a primary goal for search. App-based SEO is already here, but you can still have a thriving SEO strategy without worrying abou...

The 2015 Forbes Under 30 Summit is in the books. Here are 15 important facts & figures culled from four days in Philadelphia.

Some on Main Street are pessimistic and feel America is on the wrong track, according to a new NFIB survey.

Facebook is testing out new video options on its social network aimed at helping you better “discover, watch, and share videos” that you might find interesting. Included in the updates are the general availability of...

The email and notifications marketing automation firm Boomtrain has taken another funding round, this time a $12 million chunk from Sierra Ventures, Cota Capital, and Lerer Ventures. Boomtrain uses machine learning to he...

SAN FRANCISCO — John Koetsier, vice president of research at VentureBeat, took the stage at GamesBeat 2015 to talk about the changing world of user-acquisition. Koetsier noted that user engagement is the new user acqui...

Nearly two years ago, Pinterest debuted Place Pins as a way to help you better plan trips. With this feature, people pinned specific activities, interest-based content, and more related to places where they’re looking ...

Google is acquiring a platform for building mobile and web applications called Divshot and folding it into its cloud services provider, Firebase. Divshot will shut down operations on December 14, 2015. “Moving forward ...

SAN FRANCISCO — “Authenticity” in the gaming sphere is both a simple and profoundly complex topic, representing the connection between the ideas, people, and brands being presented in games and the people playing t...

Next time you're turned down by a busy C-level executive that you're trying get time with to pitch your new product or service, don't be discouraged. A little understanding and empathy for what that CEO is up against mig...

This article is by Graham Brown, director and founder of global media advisory firm MediaSense.

We’re onto day two of GamesBeat, and you can watch it here. Today, some of the gaming industry’s top minds will take the stage to share their thoughts about the future, and we’ve got many of the panels and presenta...