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Last year, marketers were projected to spend over $10 billon dollars on native advertising. I came across that statistic in Bruce Rogers' post from last year entitled Publish Or Perish: Why The CMO Must Become A Publi...

Behind every good company culture, there’s an even better leader. In my experience, a workplace takes on the personalities of their leaders, for better or for worse. In fact, an honest evaluation of your employees’ o...

LinkedIn has launched a new way for marketers to target people at specific companies on the professional social network using their sales data. With LinkedIn Account Targeting, you can tailor Sponsored Updates or Sponsor...

What do you do if you want to get traffic fast? There are a few options, each with advantages and disadvantages. Here are five of the outright fastest.

Microsoft held an Xbox spring showcase last week, showing a bunch of games to the press. Here’s a summary of what they announced, as well as links to the interviews we did during the event. We saw a hands-on preview of...

Zynga has a new boss. The mobile developer and publisher announced today that Frank Gibeau will become the company’s new chief executive officer after current CEO Mark Pincus steps down. It’ll be Gibeau’s job to pu...

Zynga has returned again to the Electronic Arts well of talent. The social mobile game company has named former EA executive Frank Gibeau as its new chief executive. Zynga made the announcement today, after Gibeau served...

Ashes of the Singularity looks like a technical tour de force. In this real-time strategy (RTS) game for the PC, you’ll be able to take direct control of a full army, with as many as 100,000 combat units on the screen ...

Two recent events reminded me of how difficult it is for a business to retain key employees.  First, while addressing a group of small business owners about retention strategies, one of the owners jumped up and declared...

Oh what a tangled web we weave … when we’re playing and watching Quantum Break. I discovered that the story behind the big Xbox One and Windows 10 video game coming from Microsoft and Remedy Entertainment is very com...

Facebook is tweaking its News Feed algorithm for live versus recorded. The company announced that with more people consuming Live videos, it’s looking at making this format a “new content type” that’s different f...

It's great that many U.S. companies are announcing improved parental leave policies that include 12 months off. But who's doing your job while you're away? Emissaries is a startup with the answer.

This article was originally published at Stratfor.com.

Millennials aren't interested in mastering just one skill or one career. Ask a young person what they do for a living and it will sound something like....at the moment...I code, I blog, I freelance, I work at a startup, ...

At Kik, we’ve been thinking about the coming bot revolution for a long time. We first launched a basic bot platform a year and a half ago, and millions of users have been chatting with Kik bots ever since. Other messen...

Big changes are coming to Disney Infinity. Previously, a new version of the (according to the market research group NPD, most popular) “toys to life” game would come out every year. Those would support new playsets a...

Pebble has made a handful of announcements today as the hardware startup looks to increase uptake of its popular smartwatch. The price of Pebble Time, which first went on sale last July, has been slashed from $199 to $15...

PREVIEW: Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy that uses all the brains in your computer’s processor and graphics chips to render as many as 100,000 moving objects on the screen at the same time. That lets y...

EXCLUSIVE: This is our closest look yet at Huawei’s upcoming flagship phone. Thanks to a person who was given some hands-on time with the device, VentureBeat is able to share some of the premiere photographs of Huawei�...

In a unique Detroit housing program, select lenders are offering guaranteed second mortgages as a way to make up for appraisal gaps.

It's been three years since Livefyre acquired social aggregator Storify, and the company hasn't really made major waves in the service — until now. Livefyre announced today the launch of Storify 2, an upgrade to the re...

Facebook called the detention of its vice president for Latin America on Tuesday an "extreme and disproportionate measure" stemming from a case in Brazil involving its messaging service Whatsapp, which operates separatel...