Startup News

Yahoo is today announcing the release of a large-scale data set that describes people’s usage of news feeds on several of the company’s web services, including Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance. The idea is to empower mac...

Over the past few months I've been working on a series of articles all around the employee experience which I define as being a combination of three distinct environments (physical, cultural, and technological). I shared...

The hoverboard market has been a mess, with litigation over the invention of the devices and videos of knock-offs catching on fire going viral. Razor is one of the big companies that hopes to bring some sanity to the eme...

Riding high on the launch of its code-named Skylake processors, Intel reported earnings today that beat expectations for the fourth quarter. The world’s biggest chip maker reported earnings of $3.6 billion, or 74 cents...

At KPCB's recent CEO Workshop, marketing executives from Facebook, Zynga and Slack gathered to discuss the ROI of brand-building for early-stage startups.

Startup CEOs reflect on what they learned in 2015 about building successful businesses.

The rumors were almost true: Foursquare today announced it’s raised an “oversubscribed” $45 million round from existing investors Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and others, plus new investor Morgan Sta...

Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Data analytics startup Looker raises $48 million, led by Kleiner Perkins Looker, a startup selling data ...

Hardware is going through the first phase of a shift from desktops and smartphones to, maybe, virtual and augmented reality. And Microsoft wants to help developers get involved as soon as possible. With the goal of bring...

Twitter today announced that its Answers tool for application monitoring now supports Apple’s Mac OS X desktop operating system. Support for the Apple TV’s tvOS operating system is now available in beta. Among other ...

Radio host Colin Cowherd doesn’t like it, but corporations that specialize in traditional sports are taking more and more interest in competitive gaming. And now that includes Disney’s flagship cable sports network. ...

Retailers and state officials are giving up on Congress and instead hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will act to provide clarity and uniformity on the taxation of remote sales.

Only a very few pop artists enjoyed careers as diverse, colorful, and successful as David Bowie.  He remained fascinating and on the cutting-edge, up until the very end, in ways that extended far beyond making music.

California farmers worry El Nino will bring fast and furious precipitation and damage crops and land.

An indirect tax is imposed on dividend distributions that serves to place a higher tax burden on the bottom 90% of household incomes. The cause: U.S. corporate tax policy serves to frustrate U.S. personal tax policy.

In today's world, busy work is a serious time sink that can distract you from the objectives of your small business. Automation can assist you in saving a few minutes here and there, or it can takeover some processes ent...

FEATURE: As press at CES, you don’t so much cover the entire show floor like at other events, as much as you lay claim to a specific chunk of turf and roam that section for the entire duration of the show. If you’re ...

Chinese Web company Baidu is announcing today that it is releasing key artificial intelligence (AI) software under an open-source Apache license. The WARP-CTC C library and optional Torch bindings are now available on Gi...

It seems that just about every International Consumer Electronics Show is billed as the beginning of a breakthrough year for virtual reality. This year was no different. Whatever your opinion of virtual reality is, there...

Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, which makes the crowd-sourced encyclopedia 15 years old this week. To mark the milestone, the Wikimedia Foundation has revealed the most-edited articles since Wikipedia’s inc...

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Eric Kim, co-founder and managing partner of Goodwater Capital, a global venture capital firm focused on discovering emerging startups on the verge of breaking out. Goodwater...

Skype today launched a preview version of Skype integration for Slack. The app essentially lets you easily make a Skype voice or video call directly from within Slack. To set up the integration, visit skype.com/slack and...