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In 2016, you have an opportunity to take some risks, change how you market and sell, as well as define your niche in your market. Here are my predictions for ideas and trends that will shape sales and business for top pe...

If you're looking for "giftspiration," here are 9 places to start.

PRESS RELEASE: Skype Meeting Broadcast is an extremely powerful feature in Skype for Business that enables enterprises and organizations to do very large scale live meeting broadcasts to its employees. To protect the Ent...

With the stock market at all-time highs, parents whose children will not qualify for need-based college aid can combine their investment gains with this gifting tax strategy to wipe out $28,000 in capital gains each year...

Jim Murray?the man behind the Whisky Bible?named Canada?s Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye as the world?s best whiskey for 2016.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is a dad, a proud one at that. In a post on the social network, he announced the newest addition to his family, a baby girl named Max. This event has transformed Zuckerberg and hi...

Google today launched Chrome 47 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with cooperative multitasking, automatic dismissal of desktop notifications, security improvements, and new developer features. It also removes the desktop noti...

You may not need a television to play Halo 6 — you may end up playing it as a hologram. YouTube user Varun Mani has uploaded a video of him streaming the Xbox One exclusive Halo 5: Guardians from his Xbox One to his Ho...

These days, it seems rare to meet entrepreneurs who have opted to bypass the route of raising venture capital in favor of a building a business that sustains itself through revenue. Josh Goldstein and Chris Muir, cofound...

The check-in app Foursquare has a unique take on the shopping season, as it can track not only when its users are shopping, but where/how. Perhaps the top line from this year’s Foursquare data is that people are stayin...

The IRS bit off more than it could chew when it tried to claim that Roy Stanley did not qualify for real estate trade or business relief from the passive activity loss rules.  The decision in his case has not attracted...

Meet the Chinese Modular Traveler.

Maybe it’s my game industry roots talking, but when I think of virtual reality, the last thing I imagine is checking updates on Facebook or poking through a Reddit thread. Yet come tomorrow, December 2, Samsung is goin...

First we had Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday, and then Cyber Monday. So after a long weekend of spending money on ourselves and loved ones, why not turn that towards those less fortunate? Today is the third an...

As you analyze this year?s metrics and consider what adjustments you?ll make in 2016, remember these five lessons we learned over the past year.

ANALYSIS: To people of a certain age, Sony is a brand that is completely synonymous with consumer electronics. It once had a Midas touch and a brand cachet that was beyond reproach: if you wanted to buy a product that wa...

Microsoft today announced the launch of a new website called Share Your Idea, where people can go to post and vote on what would be cool to see on the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality system. So far the site is despe...

Small Business Saturday took place this past weekend, marking its' sixth time celebrating independent businesses across the country. Founded in 2010 by American Express, Small Business Saturday was created to help brin...

Following record Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales, Cyber Monday also set a new record in 2015: $3.07 billion, up 16 percent over last year. Furthermore, 26 percent of sales ($799 million) were made on mobile de...

Quick, name your top priorities as CEO of a growing startup. Funding? Sure, of course. That’s huge. Hiring? Yes, especially in the beginning, when getting the right team in place is so important. Product development? C...

70% of all corruption in Kenya is related to procurement-related contracts, and it is holding Kenya's prosperity

The Google Cultural Institute is making room for the performing arts. First established in 2011, the Google Cultural Institute is an online home for works of art from hundreds of institutions, and with today’s launch o...