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The Pirate Bay is down again; the site couldn’t even get through the first week of 2016 without an outage. As always, the cause of the downtime is unknown, and the default message (Error 522 — Connection timed out) i...

The Lean Advisory Board Eric Ries' Lean Startup is virtually the bible of the startup community. Despite the fact that many startups adhere to Ries’ principles, they break that adherence when it comes to advisory board...

Sales is the lifeblood of any company so finding the right sales force is absolutely crucial to growing your revenue. But how do you find and attract the top candidates? Here is the secret to hiring the best salespeople ...

It was my first day of class as a first-time Skype instructor, so I got right to it: "How many of you pay for content?" I asked a dozen or so University of Iowa journalism students as the fall semester got under way at ...

We’re reaching the saturation point on smartphones, demand for tablets and TVs has turned sluggish, and people have grown concerned that connected devices (the so-called “Internet of Things”) may lay bare their per...

Jon Sebastiani, who sold his startup KRAVE Jerky for $220 million last year to the Hershey Company, talks about his latest venture, Sonoma Brands, which will launch new consumer packaged goods brands and invest in food s...

With the replacement of Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza by board member Robert Fornaro, who orchestrated the sale of AirTran to Southwest, speculation is swirling over whether this move could signal possible merger acti...

Companies like LG are showing off 98-inch 8K TVs at this week’s 2016 International CES. But those TVs won’t be practical in the real world without the right cables. So the MHL Consortium, a group with roots in mobile...

Investors fixated on Chinese economic indicators may have missed a Korean index--corporate debt downgrades-- which is flashing like it did back in the 1997-98 Asian crisis. 61 Korean companies had their debt downgraded l...

Qualcomm announced today that car manufacturer Audi is adopting Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 602a processor for its next-generation cars. Car electronics are a huge opportunity, and they take up more than 200,000 of the 2.4 m...

Meet the 15 African billionaires who lost the most money in 2015.

Qualcomm chief executive Steven Mollenkopf said today that China’s Letv will be the first announced customer for the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor for smartphones. Mollenkopf said that Letv will use the chip in...

(Reuters) — Apple Inc is expected to cut production of its latest iPhone models by about 30 percent in the January-March quarter, the Nikkei reported. As inventories of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have piled up since the...

GUEST: The last decade has seen incredible progress for mobile. Smartphones have moved from a communication utility and entertainment distraction to playing an expanded role in our day-to-day lives: grocery shopping, dat...

Sony’s popular console continues to roll. The company announced today that it sold 5.7 million PlayStation 4s during the holiday season. This brings the system’s cumulative worldwide total to 35.9 million PS4 units s...

This article is by Caren Fleit, a senior client partner and leader of Korn Ferry’s Global Marketing Center of Expertise. She specializes in senior-level executive search for marketing-driven and customer-centric compan...

One in five new TVs sold are 4K, with four times the number of pixels of high-definition TVs. And now there’s a new generation of 4K organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs coming from the likes of Panasonic and LG. Th...

The Oculus Rift is opening up for preorders tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean HTC is going to let you forget about its new Vive development kit. As part of the promotion for the new Vive Pre, the name for the second deve...

LAS VEGAS — With the average home having over 100 endpoints that can connect to the Internet, the house of the future will need something to tie all those devices together. Panasonic introduced today Ora, their smart-h...

Panasonic has teamed up with the city and county of Denver to transform the place into a “smart city.” The Japanese electronics company will provide infrastructure and gadgetry to help the city save energy and manage...

The hardcore virtual reality headsets are on the verge of release, and everyone is freaking out over whether their PCs will be able to handle the strain, even VentureBeat’s Jordan Novet. Now, you don’t have to be a h...

Panasonic is carving out its niche with rugged tablets for military and government employees. And its newest product for that market is the Toughpad FZ-Q1, a 12.5-inch tablet with enterprise-grade ruggedness. Panasonic u...