Startup News

As 2015 ends I'm looking back at the Mexico stories that dominated the news over the past month.

CHICAGO (By Nandita Bose for Reuters) — Samsung Electronics Co plans to expand its fledgling mobile payment service in the United States next year, allowing users to shop online and with more smartphones that support t...

Google is ditching the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android and moving to only OpenJDK, the open source version of Java. The news first came by a “mysterious Android codebase commit” from last mo...

Most of us are going to be making at least one or two resolutions pretty soon. Mine involve weight loss, of course and my beloved Philadelphia Eagles - it's a long story. It’s just that time of year. Whether for busin...

Big data changes the way a company functions and provides services ? taking this concept, technology firm Cambridge Technology Enterprises has formed a new kind of accelerator to absorb the risks a young startup faces, w...

Sidecar has announced it’s shutting down at the end of the year. Company chief executive Sunil Paul explained in a Medium post (not the company’s official blog, strangely) that the move was intended to help pave the ...

GUEST: The VRX event last month in San Francisco brought together 500 of the top executives in the VR space across gaming, entertainment and brand marketing to demonstrate the latest hardware, unreleased content and real...

It’s a question angel investors have wondered about every year: How much will they be taxed for their successful investments? Since 2009 it’s been unclear if there would be a 50 or 100% exclusion or something in betw...

The term "visual marketing" is a broad one. It encompasses a range of media and strategies. Where should you be focusing your attention in 2016? Start with the following trends.

It’s been an exciting year for marketing tech. The space is maturing rapidly and money continues to flow in from the investment community. And if 2015 was good, 2016 will be even better as the space continues to evolve...

There have been a lot of great stories on technology this year that track hot topics like artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, self-driving cars, cybercrime, and the like.  Each of these topics among others ...

After releasing November 13th, Justin Bieber’s fourth studio album Purpose managed to swiftly surpass Adele’s incredibly successful release of 25 to peak atop the Billboard 200 chart, earning Bieber the sixth No.1 al...

A woman was inspired by her young daughters to create an allergy-friendly cosmetics line. Will it fly? Carol Roth weighs in.

We often act like we live in a binary world, where we have only two choices: 0 or 1. This works for computers, but not for humans. Luckily for us, there’s a better way.

An independent computer security researcher uncovered a database of information on 191 million voters that is exposed on the open Internet due to an incorrectly configured database...

I often speak about not playing fetch and avoiding the pitfalls of giving away free consulting. You might be wondering the same thing in your business. So, let me explain the difference between free consulting and buildi...

One of the reasons that the market for initial public offerings plunged so much in 2015 is that too many of the companies going public do not offer IPO investors a compelling reason to buy their shares.

In the last twenty years, e-commerce has entirely revolutionized retail. It went from being an essentially non-existent business model to becoming a potential threat to the traditional mall as we know it. Jeff Bezos ship...

Millennials are here to stay -- and chances are, you'll find yourself working for one sooner than later. Here's what they really want.

The annual performance review isn't the only way to evaluate how your team is really performing.

All industries-especially the sleepy ones--are at risk of being disrupted and preyed upon by technology-driven startups, often funded by venture capitalists. Midsized businesses must invest in technology to become the di...

Change is hard—especially when it completely transforms the way a company operates. Business owners and employees alike must become familiar with new protocols and processes, and understand how to correctly use this ne...