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Tencent has blocked ridehailing app Uber — and other accounts that are promoting it — on its popular mobile messaging app WeChat that now has around 600 million monthly active users. (Some 200 million have credit car...

ANALYSIS: European tech IPOs have always been few and far between, but lately there's also been a trend of major players announcing, then postponing listings. What gives?

It's important to prevent passive-aggressive employees from taking a toll on your company's culture.

The holding companies are now starting to compete with their own agency brands and, in doing so, diminish them. If holding companies walk away from their brands by implying that they have better solutions, they would be ...

Australian’s love their food and eating out. But it can be frustrating when your favorite restaurant is too full to give you a table. So you want to order delivery, but often many don’t offer it, especially the highe...

In an effort to continue to improve what’s displayed on a user’s News Feed, Facebook will begin displaying a reminder note at the top of page that lets you pick which friends and/or Pages you have displayed first. Th...

By Ed Zimmerman & James Manly

Disclosure: I own shares of XOM Oil is in free fall, following OPEC’s decision to leave output unchanged last Friday. In early Monday afternoon trade, Brent crude (January) was trading close to $40-mark (down 5% from F...

Task-management app Trello is down. I was on a board and then I got errors and I hit refresh in my browser window and then I got an error message. I am freaking out, because so much of my life depends on Trello. And I’...

This article is by Jon Russo, a three-time B-to-B CMO at former divisions of General Electric as well as Silicon Valley start-ups. His global assignments include Luxembourg, New York, and Silicon Valley. He currently...

Financial institutions are working hard to fight financial crime and bank fraud driven by demands to protect the bank’s assets, as well as by regulatory compliance. One area of specific focus is that of Anti-Money Laun...

Dropbox once aspired to be more than cloud storage. Those dreams may have died today.

Every month hundreds of startups in the United States apply to accelerator and incubator programs. Their hope is that acceptance will grant them access to the wise mentorship, industry connections and money that will lea...

Google today announced that it has brought the Safe Browsing web security feature of Chrome to Android. The feature is turned on by default for Android devices running Play Services version 8.1 and version 46 of Chrome o...

New research confirms the origin of Stonehenge's bluestones -- over 100 miles away in Wales. Archaeologists think the stones' journey may have been part of a community-building ceremony, culminating in a monument to the ...

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. Andreessen Horowitz leads $10M round for on-demand developer startup Gigster Andreessen Horowitz led...

Internet marketing is an industry that gets a lot of heat. While it simply means using advertising or marketing to drive direct sales, leads, or opt-ins to follow someone online, like any industry there are a few people ...

New research suggests the doorstep economy represents a huge opportunity for technology-enabled new business models.

By Natalie Burg

Dropbox today announced that it’s shutting down the Mailbox email client and the Carousel photo app. Dropbox picked up the former through an acquisition in 2013. Both the products have gone without active development f...

Four luxurious trips where the force is strong, from a private pre-release screening outside Paris to spectacular desert and seaside filming locations.

Influencer marketing has been reimagined under the direction of Steve Smith, Founder and CEO of SharkReach. Smith’s company isn’t just working with influencers and brands; the company has become a millennial multimed...