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One of the reasons Tinder has been such a resounding success is that it functions like a game. Even if you never go on a date, swiping this way and that, and seeing who thinks you’re attractive, is just inherently fun....

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer downplayed the threat posed by activist investors for more than a year, dismissing the danger as a noisy distraction and setting the stage for a showdown that could now cost Mayer her job. The fig...

In 2009, Robyn Fisher, with an MBA from Stanford University, launched Smitten Ice Cream in a Radio Flyer Wagon she pulled around San Francisco. She made her ice cream to order using a tank of liquid nitrogen. Today, Fish...

What to do if your product launch goes awry?

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks that technology will eventually help us reach immortality, at least in some form. He considers death to be “a great robber of meaning, of relationships, of knowledge” and ove...

GUEST: My startup, Phenom, recently left our home base in Cleveland for San Francisco in order to join 500 Startups. Our decision to move sparked quite a bit of debate over whether it was a positive or negative move and ...

In the middle of the year, no one is thinking about Santa. He's out of site, out of mind. For many, fear of the Naughty List is an end-of-year thing. Fear of taxes on the sale of a business can't follow the same approach...

GUEST: LinkedIn's valuation has been hotly debated by everyone from technology publications to Wall Street insiders in recent months. According to Morgan Stanley's analysts, "continued faster than expected deceleration a...

TOKYO (By Thomas Wilson for Reuters) — A laggard in embracing the ‘fintech’, or financial technology, revolution, Japan is set to ease investment restrictions that could free up the flow of capital in an economy si...

You made a New Year’s resolution to lose the tire around your waist and do whatever it takes to pump your body weight with one arm. You buy a bench press and a set of weights to motivate yourself. And after a few weeks...

You made a New Year’s resolution to lose the tire around your waist and do whatever it takes to pump your body weight with one arm. You buy a bench press and a set of weights to motivate yourself. And after a few weeks...

If you think working at a startup is as glamorous as it’s portrayed to be in “The Social Network” or even in HBO's “Silicon Valley,” you could be in for a rude awakening. Veteran journalist Dan Lyons’ foray i...

Spring is finally here, and now that the first quarter of 2016 is just about over, it?s a perfect time to pause, assess, and reflect on the state of your business. I love this time of year. As the dull days of winter giv...

What are the ingredients necessary to turn a region into a hub for great game development? That’s a good question, and it’s an economic gold mine for any region that figures it out since games have become a $90 billi...

Scenes from Atlantic City after Trump's Taj Mahal went bankrupt.

REVIEW: HP’s new 15-inch Spectre x360 convertible laptop is great fun. It’s powerful and full-featured, it’s good looking, and it doesn’t feel like it’s going to break if I hold it wrong. It has the best attrib...

FRANKFURT (By Eric Auchard, Reuters) – Nearly a decade after the iPhone broke the mould for mobile phones the question being asked is whether the evolution of the smartphone has finally come to an end, as even Apple no...

You might have noticed that the new iPad Pro has a high-performance 12-megapixel camera that can record 4K video. Sure, you can use it to take photos and videos of your family vacation, but that’s not what it’s for. ...

Most virtual reality experiences are over after about 20 minutes, so of course I just spent six hours doing my job inside of a simulated computer environment. Virtual Desktop is an upcoming PC program that will enable an...

I?ve interviewed a few tech CMOs lately and noticed that most have an engineering or computer science background. This is contrary to the dozens I?ve interviewed for other industries (retailing, CPG, financial services, ...

Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram has another addition to the homepage in its Web version: a little compass icon that takes you to a new page where you can “discover” other users. The new button is located n...

Today Oculus VR cofounder and chief executive Palmer Luckey made the first delivery of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Many more will be shipping soon. For the past few months I’ve been...