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This article is by Jim Moffatt, chairman and chief executive of Deloitte Consulting LLP.

If the Starwood-Marriott merger goes through, there will be 19 full service brands from Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis to Renaissance, Le Meridien, Sheraton, Marriott, Westin, AC, Autograph, Bulgari and more. Should they all...

Self-driving cars will be more about software than hardware. That is going to create a huge opportunity for entrepreneurs.

Until recently, HP, one of the world’s largest technology providers, was not doing such a hot job in extending its online presence and services to its quarter-of-a-million partner ecosystem. And HP (now divided into He...

International travel and cultural immersion is eye-opening and mesmerizing in its own right, yet sharing the experience with loved ones makes it all the more rewarding.

Marriott has just announced that it will acquire Starwood for over $12 billion, thus creating the largest conglomeration of brands in the hospitality industry.

Just two days after the last release, Google today updated its main iOS app with a new look. You can download the latest version of the Google app (formerly called Google Search) now from Apple’s App Store. This is lar...

Celebrating and supporting women entrepreneurs at the UN on November 19th and beyond.

It's likely that Roman Reigns or Dean Ambrose Will Be Making a Heel Turn at Sunday's 'Survivor Series'

Vine has added a feature that will allow creators to remix any audio file from any video on its service. The expectation is that with this audio collaboration, more engagement will occur and even memes will form. Users c...

The demand-side ad buy platform MediaMath today announced its acquisition of Spree7, a programmatic implementation firm based in Berlin, Germany. This acquisition gives MediaMath an entree into programmatic markets in Ge...

Google is considering adding a score to Chrome that measures your engagement on every website you visit. The browser would then use that score to allocate resources, including battery usage and space, among all sites bei...

As a climate change advisor at the United Nations, 35-year-old Cassie Flynn spends her days talking about hefty issues. There are rising sea levels wiping out entire countries, droughts impacting the food security of an ...

Encrypted messaging app Telegram announced today that it has shut down access to several public channels that people have used to communicate about ISIS. The news comes after days after the terrorist group waged attacks ...

On October 30, 2015, the SEC issued final rules governing investment crowdfunding. The rules will be effective in May 2016. Experts comment in a live interview on the rules.

On-demand transit service Uber has debuted business profiles, which makes it easier for people to keep track of which rides are personal and which are for work. Riders can keep trips separate by tapping on a button to ch...

Mobile marketers and publishers might have a lot of reasons to thank Google in the coming months. Millions of them, in fact, and possibly even billions. As VentureBeat reported this morning, Google unveiled new technolog...

Energy drinks company Red Bull has revealed it has “no plans or intentions” to leave Formula One auto racing by the end of the year as has been widely speculated.

Advertisers buying ad space inside new apps are seeing good returns, according to Twitter. Twitter sells programmatic ad space in a network of more than 31,000 mobile apps. Advertisers bid for specific markets at Twitter...

Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Ola raises $500M to go 'deeper into existing markets' as India standoff with Uber continues ndia's domin...

Earlier this year, Google introduced carousels into its search results page. It initially was aimed at letting publishers display multiple news items on a single page, but now the company has expanded this offering to in...

Intel will ship its first Xeon chips for servers with integrated field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to increase application performance starting in the first quarter of 2016. The chipmaker will be sending out the int...