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We asked three who’ve gone from Wall Street to the C-suites of the cannabis industry to tell us what they found. Derek Peterson, CEO/Founder of Terra Tech, the first publicly traded cannabis company in the U.S. worke...

If you run a blog, you probably already know that one of the keys to content creation is ensuring that you are writing about interesting, unique topics that will draw in an audience. You can't just write about the sam...

These three remarkable social entrepreneurs demonstrate there is hope for Haiti's future.

As the largest developer of ad blockers, Eyeo, with its popular Adblock Plus, has found itself at the center of a fierce debate about ethics and, potentially, the legality of blocking mobile browser ads. The subject has ...

Winter in Europe is not the same without the Christmas markets, whose history goes as far back as the late Middle Ages.

The IRS takes tax return preparation and tax advice seriously, and so does the Justice Department. Be careful whose tax advice you heed.

Benson Leung, a Google engineer working on the company’s Pixel C laptop who recently took to Amazon to identify potentially dangerous USB Type-C cables, is back at it. He’s now warning people about smartphone maker O...

Cyber security has long become a standing issue for boardrooms, a core focus area for major corporations. The perceived risk of cyber-attacks is so great that for the first time this year, it was categorized by 1,400 bus...

GUEST: In the first six months of 2015, Indian venture capitalists (VCs) invested $2.46 billion into startups. And you'd better believe Indian angel investors are getting in on the action too. So far this year there have...

After dozens of startups over more than forty years, this serial entrepreneur is still addicted to creating new businesses.

Bookish Owen Robinson, founder of Haiti Cardiac Alliance, is taking responsibility for getting treatment for young heart patients in the poor Caribbean country, working with a partners including Rotary International and ...

To combat hacking, more IT professionals are turning to a surprising place, the cloud, as an effective and affordable way to fight cyberterrorism.

Back when I declared 2015 to be the year of the millennial customer, there was an out-of-date perception still lingering that millennial customers weren’t really customers worth pursuing: that they were ramen-eating, ...

GUEST: Now that it has become easy to create mobile applications, there’s a trend in enterprises to create lots of small apps - one for each department and each business process seems to be the norm. The hope was to av...

GUEST: This November, San Francisco is hosting two major SalesTech events, Sales Hacker Sales Stack Conference and SiriusDecisions Technology Exchange, on the heels of Oracle Open World in October and Dreamforce in Septe...

GUEST: The tech business loves virtual reality, and a wide range of companies are about to lovebomb consumers with some fancy new VR toys. Samsung and Oculus will be first with Gear VR, a $99 product designed to transfor...

Chinese mobile upstart OnePlus launched its third smartphone a few weeks back. The OnePlus X is a smaller, cheaper, more design-focused device than the OnePlus 2, which launched a few months earlier, and the OnePlus One,...

We've sorted through the world of golf gifts and identified some of the best "His & Her" luxury items to make your holiday shopping hassle free.

Has your world become more predictable, or less,  over the last couple of years? I'm not aware of any survey, but I'd bet that for a huge majority the answer is "it's become more unpredictable."  So far, so unsurprisin...

Electric car owners get to enjoy a certain level of pride in saying that they never have to deal with gas stations and dirty fuel-filler nozzles. Most of those owners would likely agree that not having to deal with cords...

Startup Boomio has removed its iOS music streaming app from the App Store. The startup explained its move in a letter it posted on its homepage earlier this week. (Hat tip to GeekWire for reporting the news.) The app all...

Update: Reddit is back online. See below for detail. Online discussion board Reddit is having issues today — some are unable to access the site. The downdetector website shows that Reddit is currently not accessible fo...