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There are many instances when the lowest price is not the best deal. This is particularly true when buying and selling business services. I firmly believe price matters when the seller believes price matters most. It see...

Executive recruiter and Spencer Stuart Senior Partner Greg Welch forever has his finger on the pulse of what’s happening in terms of CMO moves and trends. Moving into the new year, he offered suggestions for marketing ...

The IRS describes 401(k)s as "a feature of a qualified profit-sharing plan that allows employees to contribute a portion of their wages to individual accounts." Beyond this fairly black and white overview, 401(k)s also p...

Apple has announced its Q1 FY2016 earnings, and while it may have beat expectations, there’s some concern as sales of its iPhones have slowed down. But amid all of its financial disclosures, the company revealed that i...

Apple just reported the largest quarterly profit of any public company in history, again. With profits of $18.4 billion for its first fiscal quarter of 2016, Apple beat the record it set last year by $400 million. Apple�...

The iPhone continues to carry Apple, but sales are flat for the first time in the device’s history. As part of the company’s latest quarterly earnings announcement, Apple revealed today that it sold 74.8 million iPho...

About a year ago, the relatively small and obscure company I run called Daddies Board Shop, bought a much larger business, CCS, from one of the biggest companies around, Foot Locker.

Generational conflict in the workplace (Millennial employees vs. Gen X, Boomer employees vs. Gen X, and so forth) has become a growth industry lately for consultants, speakers, and authors.  But industry's central premi...

Earlier this month, when people started noticing some major volatility in search rankings, the SEO community got excited--was this the Penguin update we were waiting for all last year? Something to do with Panda? Some ne...

Team communication app Slack has hired Foursquare executive Noah Weiss to head up a new Search, Learning, & Intelligence Group for Slack, which will be part of the well-funded startup’s new New York office. “The focu...

Apple is working to make subscription content available through its News app, giving publishers with paywalls a new way to control who sees their articles, two sources familiar with the matter said.

I recently became a parent for the second time.  And I’ve now started several companies – one that failed, one that did all right, and one that is currently ongoing.

Intel plans to measure competitive snowboarders like never before as they plunge down runs and perform tricks in the skies at ESPN’s 2016 Winter X Games this week. The marriage of real-time analytics and sports is a fi...

VB WEBINAR: Content marketing isn't just another arrow in your quiver — our panel of top marketing professionals argue that when it’s used correctly, it's a nuclear-grade weapon in the war for customer engagement and...

Google today launched a new security panel in the DevTools section of Chrome 48, promising it will roll out over the next few days. The goal is to help developers deploy S on their websites and services. S is a more secu...

Effective internal communication is incredibly important to any company, and any entrepreneur. But skillful communication is so much more than that: communication can mean the difference between your business succeeding ...

EXCLUSIVE: Memeni, a social tool for brands to create their own communities, announced today that it closed a $2.5 million investment from angel investors. The Los Angeles-based startup said it wants to help brands to �...

San Francisco's largest taxi operator, Yellow Cab Cooperative, is scheduled for its first bankruptcy hearing.

Prices of mighty almonds are down amid El Nino-related cold and rain that could dampen pollinating activity and crop yields.

Juniper Networks, a major player in the world of data center networking hardware, announced today that it has acquired BTI Systems, a company with hardware and software-defined networking (SDN) tools. Terms of the deal w...

Microsoft today announced that on Friday, January 29, it will release the first technical preview of Azure Stack — a package of cloud-computing services that are similar to what’s available on the Microsoft Azure pub...

By Jacqueline Prause, Senior Managing Editor, SAP Women make up the fastest growing segment of business owners in the United States today. That doesn't mean success is given, however. In comparison to their male counterp...