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GUEST: Dating apps are more popular than ever, especially in the run up to Valentine's Day. According to Pew Research, 38% of U.S. singles may have a dating website or app to thank for their Valentine's date this weekend...

GUEST: Apple's purchase of Emotient last month, a California-based firm that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interpret emotions from facial expressions, signals that big changes are coming to mobile devices. The mov...

GUEST: What's 4% of your company's global annual revenues? Are you prepared to pay this amount in fines? This is what you might face if you're not paying attention to new data privacy developments in Europe, as penalties...

What do all music streaming services have in common? They have colossal user bases, but no profit. Recent headlines paint a particularly dismal picture of the streaming market: two days ago, we learned not only that Sou...

Blizzard Entertainment is the division of Activision Blizzard that's brought us games like StarCraft, Diablo, and World of Warcraft, and it turned 25 this week. We ran an interview with Blizzard chief executive Mike Morh...

GUEST: Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon have been dubbed the four horsemen of the tech industry. They are the biggest consumer companies and dominate the discussion through new initiatives such as drones and acquisiti...

GUEST: We live in an age where 85 percent of millennials in the U.S. have a smartphone, and they are fiddling with their apps 15 times a day. So you have to wonder: Why aren't presidential candidates using mobile in thei...

Many call it the “Platform Economy:” rather than making and selling products and services and sending them over the wall to customers in single serial transactions, customers become an intimate part of the entire pro...

Rethinking The Theranos Diagnosis

What are the aspects of your product or category that are humerous, relatable, or might unveil some interesting tidbits that no one would guess?

FEATURE: Monster Hunter hasn’t always been a success in the United States. Worldwide, it’s another story. Capcom’s Monster Hunter series has sold 35 million copies worldwide as of December, making it bigger sales-w...

Visa, the world's largest credit and debit card company, said on Friday it currently has about a 1 percent stake in mobile payments company Square Inc based on a 2011 investment.

Some on-demand workers are thrilled with their work while others are miserable. What separates them? Steve King, partner Emergent Research, shared some fascinating new insight with me into his recent study with Intuit--...

Four years ago BioTrackTHC, which is based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., had fewer than 20 customers for its “seed to sale” marijuana tracking software. Now the company serves more than 1,600 businesses and five state go...

It’s easy to think of career advancement as a straight line. But what if there was another approach?

My great grandmother used to say “hard work never killed anyone, but worry does”.  These days we call this stress and it is talked about everywhere we go.  Billions of dollars are spent on de-stressing – whether ...

Facebook can be a great tool for marketing a small business. However, it takes a carefully crafted and well executed plan to be effective.

We’re investigating the nature of these Innovation Engines in a series of What To Think podcasts, sponsored by Pivotal Tracker, and columns by VentureBeat editor at large Dylan Tweney. Tune in here to learn the secrets...

Apple today announced that it will now offer free replacements for charging cables for MacBooks that use the USB Type-C specification, because some of them have not been working correctly. “A limited number of Apple US...

VB WEBINAR: Email marketing is the undisputed marketing ROI leader and the preferred channel for your customers — so why are you losing money? Join our live webinar to find out from the experts how personalization can ...

Binge-watching should come naturally to someone like me who grew up glued to a TV set, but I could not binge-watch YouTube Red‘s first three original movies. I failed. Red is YouTube’s new premium service that offers...

Do you know what robots, Abe Vigoda, and the Internet of Things have in common? They're are all part of the future of the retail customer experience, as you'll learn in this discussion of what's new and/or interestin...