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Writing a formal business plan is not helpful when launching a new business, but business planning is critical. This article explores the difference.

A powerful vision, which produces clarity in mind and in action, is the guiding beacon that I use to set course and be a leader through good times and bad. If you want to be a leader who makes a difference, builds a comm...

French auto giant Renault booked a $169.1 million loss on the sale of its championship-winning Formula One team in 2009 according to company documents which have come to light as a result of the motor manufacturer buying...

FEATURE: As we near the end of another year, VentureBeat takes a look back at some of the highlights from two companies at the forefront of the cord-cutting movement: Netflix and Amazon. From awards and big-name content ...

As a new year calls, I make my annual resolution: Let me be lifted up by visionary, other-centered individuals and accompany them for part of their journeys. It's an invitation we receive each day and every year, but New...

It's hard to believe that when the iPhone launched in 2007, Apple planned to eschew third-party native apps altogether. From that nearly missed opportunity, iOS went on to not only change course and offer the App Store, ...

WhatsApp isn’t working today for some users. We first spotted the problems at 9:58 a.m. Pacific — we couldn’t send messages at all, and then they started to go through, but were always delayed. The outage seems to ...

Oculus VR announced today that its Oculus Touch hand controls for virtual reality will be delayed until the second half of 2016. In a blog post, the company said it needs more time to perfect its Touch controls, which al...

Reddit today announced that in 2014 it served an impressive 82.54 billion pageviews in over 88,700 active subreddits. The company also shared that it saw 73.15 million submissions, received 725.85 million comments, and e...

SPONSORED: A closer look at the challenges facing procurement organizations shows that procurement may be on the brink of a breakthrough not seen since the eProcurement boom of the late 1990s.

Chances are that you are not going to find this on display next week at the 2016 International CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. The creators of the $5,000 Novena Heirloom, a laptop built with a completely open ...

BlackBerry has reversed its decision to exit Pakistan completely, citing the national telecom authority’s own reversal of its demands for access to large swaths of BlackBerry customers’ communications. The Pakistan T...

Impact investing experts assess billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II's JUST Capital rating system

Surviving the Consumer Electronics Show is no picnic. Veterans will walk miles and miles of exhibits next week at the 2016 International CES. Newcomers, on the other hand, will be lucky to escape Las Vegas with minimal n...

An important part of culture and values for many emerging businesses has been the benefit package they provide for the team. For many businesses, bricks and mortar, and a common location are less and less important. More...

During my holiday break, I always like seeing what the relatives enjoy when it comes to gaming. The kids always lead the way. One nephew was playing Crossy Road on his brand-new Apple TV. But virtual reality stole the sh...

Which software had the most publicly disclosed vulnerabilities this year? The winner is none other than Apple’s Mac OS X, with 384 vulnerabilities. The runner-up? Apple’s iOS, with 375 vulnerabilities. Rounding out t...

Twitter officially announced the return of Politwoops on Thursday. After a four-month absence, Twitter reached an agreement with political watchdog groups the Sunlight Foundation and the Open State Foundation to revive t...

VB INSIGHT: There has been $17 billion in funding, spread over 313 businesses, generated within the marketing technology industry this year. While that is down from last year’s impressive $47 billion total — which wa...

SPONSORED: Netflix launched its video streaming service in 2007, while Spotify first went public in 2008, and since then streaming has been on the up and up, except in one area: games.

If you’re unfamiliar with it, brand evangelism might sound a bit gimmicky.

When I was dating in my early twenties, I remember the question that really irked me was, “Where do you see yourself in the next five years?” That question also seemed to pop up during job interviews, with investors,...