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There are PR lessons galore in the events surrounding last Sunday's Miss Universe gaffe, when host Steve Harvey mistakenly named Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez, the winner.

Semantic Machines, a startup with speech recognition technology and talent from Apple and Google, disclosed today that it has raised $12.3 million in new funding. Investors from Bain Capital Ventures and General Catalyst...

GUEST: Facebook is blocked in Iran. So is Twitter. Instagram is partially blocked, since you can target individual pages without blocking the whole site. Surprisingly, the only social media channel available in the count...

No marketing strategy is complete without the one element that accelerates viewer traffic and creates a competitive edge: the blog. Those who forgo this invaluable lead-generation tool are missing a golden opportunity fo...

VB WEBINAR: Missed it? You can still access this webinar on demand and catch our stellar panel discussing how small and medium-sized companies can emulate the killer martech solutions the Fortune 500 crowd is using -- wi...

Kim Kardashian seems confident, all evidence to the contrary, that her latest app “broke the entire app store.” It certainly shot up to the top of the paid app charts — yes, paid apps still exist — like a SpaceX ...

Can technology improve the act of giving, or devalue it? Alfred CEO Marcela Sapone and MakerBot founder Bre Pettis met CEO Sonny Caberwal at the offices of his startup, Bond, to discuss.

REVIEW: From Netflix's new parental-leave policy to Mark Zuckerberg's two-month paternity break, 2015 was marked by a number of large tech companies revamping employee policies aimed at fostering a work-life balance in t...

Joe Jamail Jr., the true king of Texas trial lawyers, is dead at 90.

GUEST: Talent Inc. CEO Diego Lomanto joins 99Designs CMO Pam Webber and VB Director of marketing technology, Stewart Rogers, for an essential discussion on how localization helps brands conquer global expansion. Register...

Recent reports of discord at Imagination Technologies, the U.K. company that designs graphics chips for Apple iPhones, illustrates what can happen when investors fall out with the executives of businesses. Poor trading n...

On Monday, a blog post popped up on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign site. “7 things Hillary Clinton has in common with your abuela,” announced the headline. It’s a tired recipe scraped from the bottom of ...

Here's a look at the megatrend of 'open source' software

The stories of how these five successful women changed careers may just inspire you to make that job transition that you've been thinking about.

One of the key rules in business is to develop performance measures to understand your progress and learn from successes and failures.  Most angel investors insist that the entrepreneurs they invest in have a vibrant se...

SPONSORED: them back on. For example, iOS now makes it mindlessly easy for the user to select "no" because the notification screen is generic and gives no real information.

Impact Investing in West Africa is starting to take off --slowly--and more incubators are needed, according to a report by the Global Impact Investing Network (GINN)

VB WEBINAR: Make the most of your data. VB Insight’s Jon Cifuentes chats with TaskEasy’s CEO and Upstart’s CMO about how to build a solid analytics powerhouse that drives killer results. Register here for free. Dat...

As the year ends, I like to look back on what attracted the most reader interest in 2015.  I find it intriguing that some of my posts have a long shelf life and that a couple of things I will mention were written well b...

There has never been more technological freedom and a demand for good ideas for advertisers than in this point of the Internet Age. Big companies can enable users to design their own shoes using WeChat and a smartphone, ...

For generations, tourists have been coming home from New Orleans and telling their friends, "We ate at Brennan's."

The holiday season is anything but slow for startups. As founders find themselves balancing social obligations and festivities with the need finish Q4 on a high note and plan for Q1, they can begin to view December as a ...