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For an unusual and unusually authentic Christmas trip, take the family to Santa's

IMF thinks highly of the Chinese currency, the yuan or Renminbi. Very highly. That's why it decided last week to include the yuan in its basket of reserve currencies. That should have set up a race among wealthy Chinese ...

More than a million victims of a massive hack of U.S. government computer files have still not been officially notified that their data was compromised

Atlassian, the company behind enterprise software like HipChat, Bitbucket, and JIRA, went public this week, raising $462 million in its initial public offering (IPO) and picking up a solid pop in its stock market debut. ...

GUEST: Dropbox's surprise announcement Monday that it was shuttering two of its most popular applications, Mailbox and Carousel, was mostly matter-of-factly reported. Only a few articles even pointed out that Dropbox pai...

GUEST: Chief marketing officers are blessed and cursed at the same time with all the data coming at them. They are blessed because, as the buyer journey continues to become digitized, every touch point, every moment of d...

Side projects are a great way to support a startup. The key is knowing when to let them go and focus solely on your core business.

GUEST: We’re about to see a surge in “autonomous devices” — devices that are aware of their environment, their state, and incoming data and that have the ability to learn and make decisions on their own. By 2020,...

Google has begun circulating an updated version of Android Marshmallow that solves an odd problem some users experienced: the clocks on their devices running slower than they should be. The bug caused some people to stop...

The cofounders of a San Diego startup think they can convince people to feed cricket-based treats to their dogs – even if they’re not ready to chow down on bugs themselves.

January is coming up and you know what that means. Did you immediately think “a relaxing post-Q4 break?” Hopefully you’ll get plenty of rest during the Holidays because soon after the New Year starts, online retail...

Some touch the plant and some don't

GUEST: Last week, Samsung decided it was ready to pay Apple the $548 million that the federal courts said it owed for infringing Apple's patents. In the spirit of the holidays, however, Samsung gave itself its own money-...

Gearing up for the holiday rush, Machine Zone has launched a second video ad starring Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger to promote the modern combat Mobile Strike game. The new ad is part of a series of Schwarzenegge...

GUEST: Earlier this week, Dropbox announced it is shutting down Mailbox, adding to the long list of promising yet failed email products. Why do so few email services make it to long-term viability? 1. Building a good ema...

Therefore entrepreneurs can make VC more productive by learning how to grow without VC. This means that, inside Silicon Valley and outside Silicon Valley, the secret to making venture capital more productive is to develo...

VB WEBINAR: Want to chuck the day job and make the next billion dollar mobile app? You gots to have coding skills! We’ve got tips on how to pick the coding bootcamp that’s going to help you rise to the top of the app...

It’s no big revelation that trust is the gas the drives the car when it comes to relationships; without it, you may roll to a dismal halt. Families depend on it; marriages are built on it. Pretty much any kind of partn...

ROME - Rome is the city of reinvention, a town where nothing lasts forever, yet everything is eternal. That juxtaposition is manifested beautifully at G-Rough, an art installation transformed into a luxury boutique hote...

Recent years have seen record numbers of Americans renouncing their citizenship. Lines are long, and procedures are complex, but does not paying your taxes accomplish the same thing?

Entrepreneurship is a roller coaster ride unlike any other, especially for founders. When you think about a business, there are two kinds of capital, money and emotional investment. Founders usually have the highest emot...

For the past 22 months, I’ve been on a major personal branding kick that’s resulted in more than 250+ blog posts and guest posts, as well as several U.S. and international speaking gigs. I’m just starting to see th...