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GUEST: Bitcoin first cracked a $1 billion market cap on March 30, 2013. And by the following month, it had reached $1.504 billion. Meanwhile, the market for additional blockchain assets outside of bitcoin (“non-bitcoin...

Almost every employee or team member can remember that one special boss in their career who was the role model of a leader, always commanded respect, and was able to get the most voluntarily from everyone all the time. E...

GUEST: Whenever I hear or see the word “innovation,” a feeling of nausea washes over me. Unlike other cliché buzzwords (synergy, paradigm shift, value-add, etc.) that I have forced myself to accept, I'm afraid "inno...

If Elon Musk was delighted by the 115,000 orders for his Tesla Model 3 at launch, he should be positively jubilant with the latest figures which break the $10 billion mark. Today, the Tesla Motors CEO tweeted that his co...

Virtual reality is finally putting players into video game worlds, and one of the best early examples of this is an Oculus Rift launch game that plays a whole lot like classic games you remember from Nintendo 64. Lucky�...

GUEST: In the future, instead of carrying around your favorite technology like you do with your smartphone, your must-have technology may be glued to you. Before pulling on your jeans each morning, you would apply its si...

As a senior member of a family is nearing the end of life, so might a fifth-generation company business unless heroic planning is put into place.

For my service business, renewable corporate contracts are the ticket to massive scaling. At the same time, I'm not willing to turn our backs on small businesses, eager clients that have formed our bread-and-butter for f...

Digital health funding continues to increase with a record-setting first quarter. Signs point to a market transitioning from something reminiscent of the Wild West to the early stages of maturity.

GUEST: Apple's software quality has been drawing criticism for some time now. Marco Arment helped bring this to the forefront with his blog post "Apple has lost the functional high ground." What followed was a firestorm ...

Genuinely original ideas are a rare thing. Ideas with the potential to create a new asset class on financial markets are even rarer. Andrea Danese, CEO of New York City-based Athena Art Finance Corp. is aiming at nothing...

Saudi Arabia may soon have to use its last weapon in an all out war against American Frackers, and the Iranian and Russian oil producers: Break the riyal peg to the US dollar. For almost three years, the Kingdom has bee...

ANALYSIS: When it comes to going public, sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. The first quarter of 2016 saw no technology IPOs on U.S. markets, according to a report released last week by research firm Dealo...

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In the last installment of our lessons learned series, Mike Willee and I covered the topic of mentorship. Here, we move onto funding. As an accountant and entrepreneur, I’m guided by the motto “cash is king.” From ...

A group of Britain’s most famous names in motor sport are in pole position to bid for the country’s flagship race track Silverstone if a deal to sell it to auto manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) gets the red light...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters, Joseph Menn) – The FBI’s method for breaking into a locked iPhone 5c is unlikely to stay secret for long, according to senior Apple Inc engineers and outside experts. Once it is exposed, Apple...

Oculus Rift now works with Steam. Valve, the company that owns and operates the world’s most popular digital-distribution portal for PC games, has updated its SteamVR software to work with Oculus VR’s Rift virtual re...

IRS has released another Tax Time Guide, sixth in a series of tips, reminding individuals that they can check the status of their tax returns and refunds through "Where's My Refund?" which is available at IRS.gov or on t...

With expectations of agency performance increasing (i.e., linking agency performance to client in-market performance), the agency compensation model being disrupted, and new, leaner competitors cropping up, one could arg...

Filmmakers Kate Maloney and Michael Shaun Conaway are producing a film called RiseUP about the potential of socially conscious business to help the world face existential challenges; the filmmakers have faced their own e...

The Surface Hub, Microsoft’s large touch-enabled display that runs Windows 10, is not designed for consumers. It’s made, really, for businesses. That said, I had fun using it for a few minutes yesterday, when Microso...