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GUEST: The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus began shipping a few weeks ago, which means that iPhone fans everywhere are looking forward to the moment they can unbox their brand new device and start playing with Apple's newest offer...

Apple has emerged victorious in a class action lawsuit brought against it by its retail workers over the company’s bag search practices. First cited by Reuters, a court filing indicates that Apple doesn’t need to rei...

Given the outrage that Republicans have expressed about the "targetting" of the Tea Party by the IRS, you would think that they would be slow to advocate IRS political targetting.  Apparently  it is more a matter of wh...

Google Life Sciences and the American Heart Association (AHA) announced that they’re joining together to fight heart disease. The organizations have committed to donating $25 million each over the next five years to th...

I had a visit this past week with Nora Flint, PR Manager of TruConversion. Her company is developing an app to assist companies in optimizing and tracking their social media results. With her editorial team, she provided...

GUEST: (Spoiler Alert: Accredited investors will be the primary VC source in 2016.) Startups will soon be able to solicit investments from anyone, thanks to new SEC rules. The crowdfunding regulations, known as Reg CF (o...

GUEST: Companies make acquisitions for many reasons. For a high-growth company, I think the best reason is to grow faster. You can gain access to talent, speed up time-to-market, and snap up innovations that allow you to...

One in four websites is now powered by WordPress. Today is a big day for the free and open-source content management system (CMS). To be perfectly clear, the milestone figure doesn’t represent a fraction of all website...

GUEST: The quintessential tech entrepreneur? Names like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin come to mind. Each created a company, weathered some early bumps and turned their businesses - and themselves – into i...

Ephemeral messaging app Snapchat isn’t messing around when it comes to videos, showing that it can generate views which brands are probably paying attention to. The company has reportedly said that 6 billion videos are...

GUEST: Anyone who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s might remember Choose Your Own Adventure books that let you choose how the story progressed. More recently, artists like Pharrell, Arcade Fire and Bob Dylan delivered th...

Question: What is the biggest single foreign policy success of President Obama’s two terms of office? The Middle East? Unlikely. Russia or China? Probably not.

After years of hearing how Millennials prefer renting over home buying, the tide may have finally turned. More than ever before, Millennials are seriously considering a first-time home purchase; however, with student deb...

Social media lit up on Saturday night with reports of streaking lights across the skies from California to Arizona, but...

There's probably never been more demand for technical talent, but how do you find the right person for the job? And if you're a techie who's job hunting, you might regularly be faced with the blank face of a HR person wh...

What are the top predictions for marketers related heading into 2016? To find out, I turned to some of the leading experts, including CEOs, Presidents/GMs, CMOs, authors and executive recruiters.

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Coat Systems, a security vendor owned by Bain Capital, is acquiring Elastica, a startup that detects potentially dangerous use of cloud applications. Blue Coat is paying more than $300 million for the sta...

Former General Motors product czar Bob Lutz has never been shy about sharing his opinions on the industry he’s worked in for decades. So it’s not surprising that he has a few thoughts on one of the biggest news stori...

"Our aim is to carefully connect a wide variety of supply with demand. 30 to 40% of farmed products in Japan are not sold on the market..."

GUEST: You have heard many examples of successful growth hacking techniques mainly used in B2C websites, social networks and market places. Facebook, Twitter or Airbnb have great stories about how they hacked their growt...