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Quoting a Facebook mantra, COO Facebook Sheryl Sandberg said that gender and racial “inequities” are “everyone’s problem” in an Ask Me Anything-style forum on Quora. She was answering a question about what men ...

EXCLUSIVE: Companies pay supermarkets to showcase their products right at eye level; Mabaya wants to help online retailers to do the same. The Tel Aviv startup announced today that it closed a $2.25 seed round to help �...

More and more companies of every size and from every industry have begun to take the topic of sustainability more seriously these days, which you can define as the practice of cutting back on the environmental impact of ...

In order to build momentum toward your end goal, it can't all be about the words, the motivation or the planning. While these are essential tools in your arsenal, at a certain point we all must stand on our own two feet ...

About half of all American adults say that they play games. But only 10 percent identify themselves as “gamers,” according to a report by the Pew Research Center. The survey digs into some of the perceptions that we ...

Verlocal, a marketplace for classes and tours, raised a $2.65 million seed round from VenturesLab, Seven Seas Partners, Amidzad Partners, and Big Basin Capital, the startup shared today. Verlocal is like an Airbnb for ex...

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. ProSky gets a $2.3 million seed for its hiring tech ProSky announced today that it raised a $2.3 mil...

With FATCA and the U.S. inroads into foreign banks everywhere, global bank transparency is the new normal. IRS warns to disclose before it is too late.

Mozilla today launched Firefox 43 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include a 64-bit version for Windows (finally!), a new strict blocklist for the browser’s tracking protection fea...

Virtual meetings may not take place while you're sitting at your desk anymore -- they’re more likely to happen when you're on your mobile device. But what's missing in this scenario is the ability to share your screen ...

It's worth asking yourself if your brand is the best it can be - because a few simple tweaks might be all that's holding it back from becoming a household name.

Instead of taking dramatic measures like doing a full-scale overhaul of your content strategy or hiring a new content director, try some of these simple fixes to give your content quality a boost.

People who maintain data centers for companies don’t want to be caught by surprise in the event of a power outage or a hardware breakdown. They want to rest assured that everything will be fine in any eventuality. Year...

Hiring processes can be a pain for both the recruiter and the applicant. Dozens of people apply for one position, and resumes do not necessarily reflect the applicants’ skill sets. San Francisco startup ProSky found an...

Google today announced several enhancements to its BigQuery cloud-based data analytics service. The biggest one is a new option for setting quotas, designed to keep users from spending too much money with the product on ...

LinkedIn has added a new set of features to give you an edge in landing your next job ... assuming you apply through the professional social network, of course. When you choose a company, LinkedIn will give you insights,...

Peter Hinssen interviews technology futurist, start-up founder and a fintech industry expert Brett King about disruption, the shrinking workforce, corporate culture, start-ups, transparency and the skills companies need ...

In a constantly expanding world where everyone has more connections than they know how to handle, Chirag Kulkarni is bringing people together. Kulkarni is one of the founders of Insightfully, a SaaS app that scans and fi...

Like a real-life Pied Piper, Netflix has been quietly testing a new way to deliver all the streaming content on its servers. After a few months of testing these re-encoded clips on employees, Netflix has landed on a meth...

Cash is getting pricier for tech start-ups, many of whom weren't around the last time the Fed's rate was above zero.

When Captain Ahab set sail, he was looking for revenge. But the crew of the Pequod were after something less personal and more profitable: sperm whales. And thanks to an 18th-century form of profit sharing, they were mot...

By Peter Geier