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It stands alone in a quiet valley in the Czech Republic, bordered by a magnificent countryside. The estate is surrounded by high walls, and is not visible at ground level. From the air, the compound appears to be a large...

Don't be blindsided by low IRS audit rates. Assuming that you won't be audited can be one of the biggest tax mistakes you can make.

The WestHouse hotel sits just on the fringe of Times Square—quiet and unassuming 55th street property has seamlessly dipped into the madhouse Manhattan mix, offering a glam Art Deco hotel experience with a bed and brea...

“In our school we have 67 cases of Hepatitis A, because of the water,” begins one of the high school girls behind Apa Pura, an app that maps the level of contamination from E. coli, hepatitis, and heavy metals in wel...

Nvidia released third-fiscal quarter earnings today that beat Wall Street's expectations. The world’s biggest standalone graphics chip maker reported that its revenue and earnings both exceeded expectations. The non-GA...

Glu Mobile said that its fourth-fiscal quarter earnings would be down significantly from past expectations, sending its stock into a tailspin in after-hours trading. The company also said today it has appointed Nick Earl...

Publicly traded company New Relic, best known for its developer-focused application performance management software, announced today that it has acquired Opsmatic, an early-stage startup with a cloud service for devops m...

It turns out that the company that makes Grand Theft Auto also knows how to make money. Take-Two Interactive reported the results of its fiscal second quarter today, and the company revealed that it generated $364.9 mill...

New research finds that expectations shaped by B2C interactions are rapidly making their way into B2B decision-making. The research comes from Accenture Digital and SAP Hybris, and it also shows the growing importance of...

Ads are coming soon to some of your favorite Apple TV apps, thanks to a new SDK that’s being released this month by AppLovin. Built around the tvOS platform, this offering lets developers incorporate videos ads into th...

Blogging platform Medium, known for its interest in fostering intraplatform discussion, is now allowing writers to hide response posts. Here’s how Medium introduced the new tool: We live in the real world and recognize...

Google today announced that the iOS version of the Google Keep note-taking app now allows users to export notes to Google Docs. It’s a nice addition that became available on the Web in March and on Android in August. T...

EXCLUSIVE: Philadelphia-based startup PeopleLinx is announcing PeopleLinx 4 today, on the heels of a $3.5 million investment led by Osage Partners. The announcement brings several updates to the PeopleLinx platform that ...

EXCLUSIVE: The chief executive of Booking.com, the company widely acknowledged as the largest spender of advertising on Google, says Facebook still hasn’t cracked the code on direct-response advertising. But Booking.co...

Today Twitter is making its Answers analytics tool available as a kit for everyone from developers to executives. The new kit is available on Fabric for both iOS and Android. Since Answers first broke out of Crashlytics ...

She’s a sensation on YouTube with her original songs, as well as with her cover songs, and Ali Brustofski is making quite a name for herself. Brustofski has almost 100 million video views and 500,000 subscribers on You...

VB WEBINAR: Missed it? Access this on-demand webinar for free right here. In life, there are three things you can always count on: death, taxes, and the unexpected sales tax your business must pay without ever knowing wh...

One in four Android devices is now running Lollipop, but this isn’t even the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system. The company released its monthly update to the Platform Versions page for Android today...

From the ground in San Diego, it almost feels like you could slap a 737 on the belly if only you could jump like LeBron James.

Some people start companies because they're tired of working for someone else. Some start companies because they find the right partner. For Kirsti Tcherkoyan, it was a little of both.

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs. Unlike the past few builds, this one doesn’t have any new features and is instead “focused on bug fixes and general improvements.” Gabe Aul, Microsoft’s ...

CNBC's Kate Rogers reports on how Microsoft is boosting the Seattle entrepreneurial ecosystem.