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If you did your holiday shopping on Amazon, you know how hard it is for small internet retailers to beat the giant marketplace on pricing.  Despite the competition, there are still many tiny online stores—often run...

REVIEW: As we usher in another year, we brace for the next wave of innovation, disruption, consolidation, and dissolution. What will be the next big thing that everyone talks about? I've been asking around and looking at...

As another tax season looms, some Republicans still want IRS Chief John Koskinen out.

As you wind down the year, the best preparation you can make for 2016 is to create space for intentional rest time to recharge and start the new year off strong.

Every year, Christmas results in the highest number of new device activations and app installs. 2015 was no different, and once again Apple dominated the results. Just under half of device activations (49.1 percent) were...

Entrepreneurs know it can be difficult selecting the right investors to fund their startup. But instead of choosing firms based on which has a celebrity partner or offers the most money, Norwest Venture Partners‘ Sergi...

If you’ve ever bought anything online, you’ve encountered a typical online review. You might have found an aggregated “star” rating for a product you wanted to buy, or a poorly-spelled review about one user’s t...

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Reverb, an online marketplace for buying and selling used and new instruments and gear, just landed $25 million in investment.

SPONSORED: This post is produced by BeMyApp. According to researchers, 2016 will be the year of AI. Believed to be replacing the screen age as one of the "hot consumer trends,” the latest in AI allows for much more tha...

The Pirate Bay is down today, though not everyone is experiencing the issue just yet. Four of the site’s domains have been suspended, meaning once the DNS entry updates have propagated, The Pirate Bay won’t work for ...

About $70 billion worth of products may be returned this holiday season, according to returns logistics firm Optoro.

The movie was packed with a lot of great and positive lessons for entrepreneurs, but I want waste your time with the obvious ones like Joy didn't quit. I am going to share with you 5 lessons from the movie that are usual...

Many online marketing trends are just that — trends.

The reason most businesses avoid expanding globally (or do so and fail) is simple: they don't do their due diligence.

In 2015 for the third year in a row the NBA scheduled a regular season game in Mexico. Rajon Rondo and the Sacramento Kings faced off against the Boston Celtics in a game at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico on December 3. The ...

What entrepreneurs are expecting to see in 2016

It’s the end of the year already, and it isn’t too late to show your boss that you’re worthy of a promotion. Maybe you’ve been holding down the same position for a few years and are ready to move up. Maybe your c...

Starting a new company is typically no day at the beach. But it could be, thanks to Blue Builder, a new French accelerator that focuses on surf and action sports startups. Located in the southeastern coastal town of Sain...

Marijuana legalization is expected to go even further in 2016.

Three days before Christmas, and the release of Will Smith’s movie Concussion, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) announced that in 2016 the committee will begin a review investigating the causes,...

Crystal ball for this year fuzzy on Macau, Vietnam, clearer on Philippines and Australia.