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Part two of a continuing series, which outlines how you too can become a truly awful manager instead of just mediocre. (Why write such a series? It's fun.) See Part one here.

Populous countries in Asia Pacific — most notably China and India — are leading a nearly-$3 trillion boom in the consumer electronics market between now and 2020, with smart home devices growing the fastest of any se...

For the third day in a row flights have been grounded across Indonesia due to ongoing eruptions from Mount Rinjani.

Google has acquired Fly Labs in a move that will likely see the startup’s media editing technology be integrated into the Google Photos app. Fly Labs announced the move on its website, saying that it’ll be “pouring...

  Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Theranos serve different segments of the healthcare sector. Valeant is a publicly traded company that develops, manufactures, and markets pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter products, and med...

In a world where innovation and entrepreneurship are being rapidly adopted as a leading strategy for economic development, it is somewhat odd that the negotiators of TPP included so little for high-growth entrepreneurs.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has revealed some results from his high-profile investment in Newark, New Jersey public schools. In a post on the social network, he shared that graduation rates in the city have ...

EXCLUSIVE: Aviary, the photo editing software development kit Adobe bought last year, has found a home inside Adobe’s social media marketing service. Specifically, Aviary will now power photo editing inside Adobe Socia...

EXCLUSIVE: Virtual reality is slowly pushing film into an evolutionary split. To one side are the traditional linear narrative techniques. To the other sits the multipath nature of interactivity. Interlude, a content pro...

Activision Blizzard has become the No. 2 publicly traded game company in the world, second only to China’s Tencent. It has done so by being singularly committed to making the world’s biggest video game franchises and...

Though we're still more than a year away from the actual end of 2016, I've compiled a list of effective practices today that I think will be completely gone by next year's end.

The hype around Call of Duty: Black Ops III couldn’t be bigger today as the game formally launches. Players around the world attended midnight store openings so they could be the first to get the adrenaline rush of the...

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Fans are the soul of sport. Without them, sports don’t exist. That’s why it was such unsettling news when we discovered that global sports fans feel a growing disconnect from professional sports.

  There have been better days and worse for Groupon. The better days were back when the company’s business model promised to change the consumer coupon industry: unite consumers to get a big discount from participatin...

VB WEBINAR: Watch this webinar now on-demand. Access it for free right here. For Jesse Grittner, one of the biggest pitfalls mobile marketers fall into is the shiny penny syndrome. It’s the idea that there’s always s...

Yahoo is expanding its search results to pull in photos that you’ve uploaded to your Flickr account. If you’re signed into your account on the photo social network and happen to run an image search on Yahoo, the syst...

I’ve written before about the importance of building a business with a strong sense of social responsibility. It’s a topic that’s close to our hearts at WebpageFX, so I thought I’d contribute a few more thoughts ...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! Activision-Blizzard sent shockwaves through the gaming industry this week when it bought King for $5.9 billion. We also covered the quarterly earnings for tons of gaming compa...

Galaxy?s top market share and Melco Crown?s $3.2 million Studio City highlight hopes for a Macau rebound.

Take-Two Interactive has shut down a 150-person game studio in China and stopped development on Borderlands Online, which would have been a free-to-play online game in the Asian market. The move is another sign that taki...

Seeking a more "tangible" music experience, more millennials are buying vinyl records and driving U.S. production and sales not seen in decades.