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Without a smart strategy, committing human and financial resources to a social media campaign could cost you big, draining resources and generating negative ROI.

The State of the Wine Industry report from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has become an annual touchpoint for business people in the wine industry. Here are six highlights of the report, which is released today.

I recently interviewed over 200 ultra-productive people including 7 billionaires, 13 Olympians, 20 straight-A students and over 200 successful entrepreneurs. I asked a simple, open-ended question, ?What is your number on...

Many American investors and entrepreneurs are still puzzling through the impact of the end of the U.N. sanctions and the imposition of a new set of sanctions by the U.S. administration over a series of ballistic missile ...

IRS is deleting emails again in violation of a court order. Meanwhile, you have to keep your records or face IRS wrath. What gives?

TSheets is a thriving tech company in the nontech hotbed of Eagle, Idaho, just outside Boise. It makes an unsexy product, time-sheet software, which it sells to small businesses. Cofounder and CEO Matt Rissell stumbled o...

Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services today announced the launch of AWS Certificate Manager, a service that developers can use to obtain transport layer security (TLS) and secure socket layer (SSL) cer...

There is a nascent tech startup scene in Iran -- here's one way investors can get in to it.

Move over “Gangnam Style” and make room for “Hello”. YouTube announced that the popular song from Adele has become the fastest video to reach 1 billion views, toppling previous record holder PSY’s catchy dance ...

Three years ago, Noa Santos was a recent Stanford grad working for a high-end New York residential interior design firm. Now he runs Homepolish, which has raised millions in funding.

The public relations industry does a terrible job of public relations.

When your mum tells you to "learn how to DO something," what do you "do?"Here's what Jane Wurwand, founder of Dermalogica, did.

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, the second build of 2016. The release adds a new Microsoft Edge feature and fixes a slew of bugs. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Mi...

Microsoft today launched a slew of Microsoft Office improvements as part of its monthly update for the productivity suite. January brings the launch of the Office Insider program for Mac, new inking tools for iPad and iP...

Fundamentals point toward market balance but pessimism is dragging oil prices down. IEA has apparently succumbed to this negativity but their data suggests that things are getting better, not worse. In a business-as-usu...

BitTorrent today updated its file synchronization app to version 2.3, adding a handful of new features for free and Pro users. You can download the latest release now from getsync.com. BitTorrent’s goal with Sync is si...

At its Video @Scale conference at company headquarters today, Facebook is announcing that it’s open-sourcing Transform, a piece of software it uses to stream users’ 360-degree videos in an efficient way. At Facebook�...

Over the past few weeks, I have met with the CEOs of some highly successful retailers and brands to discuss the momentum of their individual companies and where they see the industry headed. My discussions included talks...

As we start 2016, the rate of change in the content marketing world is as fast as it's ever been. Here are 5 upcoming technologies, in particular, that will change the content marketing world forever.

Exploding Kittens made a huge mark as a quirky tabletop card game last year. And now it’s been adapted for an iOS game that debuted today in Apple’s App Store. The creators at Substantial hope to carry the explosive ...

Sentenai, a cloud service that aims to “[apply] machine learning techniques to automate data engineering,” announced today that it closed a $1.8 million seed round. Boston’s Flybridge Capital Partners, Founder Coll...

Dropbox today released its long-awaited Windows 10 app. You can download the new version in the next few days from the Windows Store. Microsoft and Dropbox announced a partnership in November 2014 and have since released...