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Attention spans have become shorter than at any time in human history. As a result, entrepreneurs who wish to get their message out and catch the eye of would-be customers must be more creative than ever before.

To be clear from the start, Chicago suffers from a strain of the same thing that affects most large metropolitan areas that, outwardly or not, lament their tech shortcomings. In short, Chicago is not the Bay Area. It doe...

Today Twitter announced its third quarter earnings for 2015 and during the subsequent conference call, chief executive Jack Dorsey sought to reassure investors and analysts that there’s still hope for the company. “I...

Today Apple shared how much cash it made selling phones during its fourth fiscal quarter. The multinational corporation raked in revenues of $51.5 billion and $1.96 earnings per share during the quarter, selling 48 milli...

As part of the company’s latest quarterly earnings announcement, Apple revealed today that it sold 48 million iPhones, 9.9 million iPads, and 5.7 million Macs during its fiscal fourth quarter of 2015. These are mixed r...

Twitter has released its earnings report for the third quarter and has beaten expectations with revenue of $569.24 million and a non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.10. Wall Street had expected the company to generate $559...

Today the New York Mets will face the Kansas City Royals in the first game of the 2015 World Series of Major League Baseball. Microsoft’s Bing search engine now has a prediction for the outcome of the series. And I hat...

Three British entrepreneurs share their experiences following a mentoring trip to Austin

Facebook is starting to roll out a new way for people to contact you without needing your phone number. All they’ll need is your name and Facebook Messenger. As a consequence of such action, your message inbox will be ...

Henrique Mendes, Jr. spent 16 years in the brewery business, and he knows all about the art of setting prices. Make your product too expensive, and consumers will reject it. Charge too little and your margins will suffer...

Game developer David Cage announced that Quantic Dream is making a new PlayStation 4 title about androids dubbed Detroit: Become Human. He made the announcement at the Sony press briefing at the Paris Game Week event tod...

What is a buyout? Clearly a buyout is a better alternative to being laid off with nothing. For us, 2015 has become the "Year of the Buyout".

Weebly, a website-builder and web-hosting service based in San Francisco, has announced a major localization program for Europe that will see the company cater specifically to businesses in the U.K., France, and Germany....

Nintendo’s fall sensation Super Mario Maker will get a software update next month, and among the improvements will be a new level designed by two Facebook engineers. This inclusion is thanks to a new feature called Eve...

Google today announced the launch of an early access program for Brillo, the open-source Android-based operating system intended for Internet-connected devices. Google first talked about Brillo at its I/O conference in M...

Although 3-D cameras have been around for several years, it is only recently that they have begun to evolve from a gimmick or peripheral gadget to a core and essential part of computing. Multiple industries that are depe...

This is a story about women who are willing to stop everything because they are driven by a passion to start something completely new, from creating an app of convenience to a technology that solves a life-threatening pr...

Budding programmers and tech tinkerers will be able to buy customized versions of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer, thanks to a partnership with Element14. The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s commercial subsidiary, Raspberry P...

There are times when gathering everyone together away from everyday responsibilities is just the ticket for re-energizing teams, recalibrating strategy and marshaling the resources to move your business forward with rene...

Oracle today announced a slew of new cloud services at its OpenWorld event in San Francisco today, including the Oracle Elastic Compute Cloud. The launch comes nine years after Amazon humbly launched EC2, which has becom...

Eight weeks ago, I predicted PayPal's small-business lending would top $1 billion by winter. Today it's reached that milestone.