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More women and younger women are learning how to become angel investors and that's likely to open doors for women entrepreneurs.

As GOP presidential hopefuls prepare to take the stage on Wednesday, small businesses weigh in with their top election concerns.

The Sochat messenger app uses Bluetooth to quickly connect with people it recognizes in the the vicinity of the user’s phone. Sochat founder and CEO Lukens Orthwein said the app acts like a beacon and can connect with ...

Earlier this week, MarTech chairman Scott Brinker hosted the third conference in London. While I was attending CEB’s Sales and Marketing Summit, my longtime colleague, Anna Bird, was able to take in the MarTech confere...

The chief marketing officer in most companies is turning into a data scientist, but the actual results of data-driven marketing remain mixed. Still, the trend toward data is likely to continue as most companies believe t...

VB INSIGHT: Email has a tremendous ROI: a return of $38 for every $1 spent, according to VB Insight’s research. Yet at the same time, consumers are blocking marketers out — by blocking cookies and ads, turning off no...

Upstarts from Southern China and Taiwan are making progress in attracting venture capital to scale up but still have a long way to go to reach the unicorn status of Beijing and Shanghai startups.

SEATTLE — Philip Rosedale wants to build the Metaverse, the virtual reality experience depicted in the Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash so many years ago. His first-generation attempt to do so was Second Life,...

Today PayPal beat expectations with Q3 non-GAAP earnings of $0.31 per share on quarterly revenue of $2.26 billion. Analysts were anticipating earnings of $0.29 on $2.27 billion. The slight miss on revenue may have caused...

Two Bit Circus, the traveling tech spectacle, scores $6.5 million in funding

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook announced that its global developer program FbStart is growing rapidly, with the number of participating startups rising by 61 percent in the past five months. The company also revealed that to...

Google today announced that the Android version of Google Keep, its free task-management app, will allow users to draw on images that are saved in notes. The new feature of the app wasn’t immediately working for me on ...

Google is continuing to aggressively expand its fiber optic network to more cities around the U.S. Today, the company invited Tampa, Jacksonville, and Oklahoma City to join its Fiber service. Google has been moving quick...

Microsoft today made its free Android launcher, Arrow, available for download on the Google Play Store. Previously the app was available in a private beta. Microsoft seems to have high hopes for it. “Arrow … is the s...

Friendly regulatory environments in favorable tax/trust jurisdictions, combined with lower costs and higher efficiencies, have allowed families with ?reasonable? wealth can enjoy the same control and protection that the ...

I recently wrote about an article by Professor Victoria Haneman concerning the interaction of student debt planning with joint income tax filing.  One of the things I discussed with her is a disturbing trend of schools ...

Former Skype chief executive Josh Silverman will be joining venture firm Greylock Partners as an executive in residence next year. A LinkedIn post by Reid Hoffman, an investing partner with the firm, reveals Silverman wi...

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Smaato. With all the hullabaloo around mobile ad blocking cresting in recent weeks, it's been interesting to watch fingers pointing and flying in all directions. Consumers do...

VentureBeat is searching for an ambitious mobile staff writer to lead our daily coverage of the mobile industry, gadgets, and apps, with a significant focus on Apple. Based in San Francisco, this position is responsible ...

October Consumer Confidence And Impulsivity Flat, Spending Forecast Up From Last Month But Flat From Last Year

Jon Winkelried is joining TPG Capital as co-CEO as the private equity firm plots a new phase of growth after raising $18.4 billion for new investments since 2014.

Finding suitably skilled people can be a huge problem for small and medium sized companies. It's partly a question of skills shortages. Here in the UK - and in many other places besides - it's still the case that too few...