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Many think of LinkedIn as a great place for professional networking, but using LinkedIn for content distribution can actually be an even more effective strategy for increasing your connections, traffic, and influence.

Flipboard is further integrating technology from its acquisition of Zite and it's aimed at advertisers. Today the publishing platform company has opened up its data to enable marketers to better target their ads based on...

The organizers of Casual Connect Tel Aviv paid my way to Israel. Our coverage remains objective. Social casino games have become a $3.4 billion market and are on their way to $4.4 billion by 2017, according to Eilers Res...

Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Ecommerce software TinderBox raises $7M for product innovation TinderBox closed a $7 million funding rou...

Dyson, the U.K. company famous for its bagless vacuum cleaners, has acquired solid-state battery company Sakti3 in a deal worth $90 million. The news comes just seven months after Dyson announced a $15 million investment...

The Obama administration, faced with rising safety and security risks from a surge in unauthorized drone flights, announced a new task force on Monday to develop a register for the owners of unmanned aerial systems.

EXCLUSIVE: Some of the first few people to work on the Druid open-source data store are today launching a new startup, Imply, with $2 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures. Think of this as the next big-data start...

Nevada’s ruling that daily fantasy sports is gambling has implications that reach beyond football and traditional athletics. Daily fantasy esports company Vulcun, which runs matches for video games like League of Legen...

Facebook has a vision of connecting the world together and in doing so, it’s facilitating the spreading of ideas, whether it’s about political ideas, social issues, or simply how to Whip and Nae-Nae, it’s all takin...

Free-to-play monetization has helped turn mobile gaming into a $30 billion industry. But many tactics of the successful leaders reflect a “slash-and-burn” mentality. They squeeze consumers for more money and put “p...

Google has teamed up with Udacity to introduce the Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree, a program aimed at teaching students how to build sustainable revenue-generating businesses. Google program manager Shanea King-Roberson to...

Jason Rubin is a 30-year veteran of video games and the cofounder of Naughty Dog, the maker of the Crash Bandicoot series and many of the world’s best-selling titles. He sold Naughty Dog to Sony in 2001, and left in 20...

Google is going after enterprises with a new offer to cover costs associated with switching over to its office software. “If you’re worried about switching to Docs because you still have an enterprise agreement (EA) ...

Citi is helping corporate treasuries get away from paper processes and writing checks to fully electronic workflows.

SAN FRANCISCO (by Julia Love) — Apple Inc’s aggressive recruitment of auto experts as it explores building a car has left a promising, if financially troubled, electric motorcycle startup in the dust. Mission Motors,...

Game companies deal with uncertainty all of the time. But it’s usually not the kind that Jessica Rovello, the chief executive of New York-based Arkadium, and her husband and company president Kenny Rosenblatt have had ...

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Nearly every human experiences some level of fear at some point in their lives. Entrepreneurs are no different.

Mention the word creativity, and people begin to squirm in their chairs. The very thought can prompt anxiety, fear, and doubt - even in the most accomplished professionals.

If you thought Amazon might have moved on from the scathing story the New York Times published back in August, well, think again. That story labeled Amazon’s workplace culture as “bruising” and contained a number o...

For much of the past couple of decades, marketers struggled. The world moved at the speed of technology, and shifts in customer behavior disrupted the enterprise's business model. But it finally looks like marketers are ...

Amazon took another step toward boosting the reach of its voice-activated assistant Alexa by announcing an investment in Paris-based Invoxia. The amount of the funding is undisclosed, but comes from the $100 million Alex...