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Today's news and insights for business owners, including a woman who is trying to build a Whole Foods for animals.

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Panasonic Lab 1.0. Noah Karesh and his girlfriend were traveling in Guatemala, longing for authentic Guatemalan cuisine -- and couldn’t find a place that served it. In a la...

T-Mobile’s latest publicity stunt is a doozy. Today the company announced that free, unlimited video streaming will soon be offered to all its customers. The feature, like T-Mobile’s music streaming promo, promises e...

Florida, multi-level marketing and an appeal of a criminal tax case. Seems like I'm back with Ernie Land and Kent Hovind, but no.  I declared a close to L'affaire Kent Hovind in August and it stays closed at least on th...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar. Register here for free! The digital video revolution is here. If you think we watch a lot of online videos now, just wait until 2016, when 69 percent of internet traffic is expe...

For many music consumers, the growth of streaming is a win-win. There are now a bevy of options for listening, meaning that there’s something for everyone—including those that don’t want to pay for their music. Whi...

By Patrick Holohan

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FEATURE: I spent the weekend spent playing the three new Overwatch team-shooter heroes that Blizzard introduced during the annual BlizzCon convention, and they offer some interesting new wrinkles to the game. The BlizzCo...

Formula One auto racing made history at the start of this month when the Mexican Grand Prix returned after a 23-year absence. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg raced to victory in front of a record-breaking crowd of 134,850 a...

This guide will provide everything you need to know about fundamental SEO in 2016.

Transfix is the latest beneficiary of the logistics boom, as VC firms hunt for the next “Uber for trucking.” The New York company revealed today that it raised a $12 million series A, bringing its total funds to at l...

Facebook today announced that it will add a subscribe button to the Facebook Mentions livestreaming app, allowing fans to tune in right as people are beginning to broadcast a new stream. Mentions opened up to Facebook us...

There are many online marketplace business popping up, but it can be hard for investors to know what they're worth. Here are some clues.

Business-oriented social networking company LinkedIn has successfully cut the number of emails it sends to users — about other people connecting with you, endorsing you, getting new jobs, making news, and so on — by ...

Babson College, a school of 2,200 undergraduates in Wellesley, MA, takes the No. 1 slot in a new ranking of the top undergraduate schools for entrepreneurs, released today by the test prep company Princeton Review in col...

Instagram has launched a partner program aimed at providing its business customers with experts to help them grow on the photo-sharing platform. The company hopes to entice businesses with not only its 400 million monthl...

The Apple Music subscription service is now available for Android devices. The new Android app is free at the Google Play store as of today. It will work on devices running Android 4.3 or higher. Android users can do the...

Tumblr is rolling out instant messaging on its blogging platform. The company announced the new feature in a blog post ostensibly written by Aziz Ansari (we’re told this moniker was used in good fun and the post was no...

Lufthansa has taken to the courts to seek an injunction to stop the crippling strike by the cabin crew union that has grounded more than 1,000 flights so far and hundreds of thousands of passengers.

ARM, the chip design licensing company, announced that its newest applications processor is the Cortex-A35, which it called the chip for the “next billion smartphone users.” ARM’s designs are used in billions of li...

Government Mandated Wage Hikes Are A Fast Ticket To Welfare Lines