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Robert Herjavec, a star investor on ABC's hit business reality show Shark Tank, achieves uber success in every endeavor he partakes in. He founded Herjavec Group in 2003 and turned it into a leading global information a...

As one would-be father of bitcoin falls by the wayside, squabbling among the web-based currency's lead developers is exposing a fundamental flaw: it must evolve to meet growing demand, but may lack a governance structure...

In the previous article I introduced you to a list of mistakes businesses make when searching for investment capital. The list came from a book by my friend, Andrew Sherman, titled, Raising Capital. As we learned, there�...

ANALYSIS: When it comes to investments, spring showers are bringing inside sales flowers. In March and April, more than $200 million was invested in nine inside sales related companies, a $50 million increase from the $1...

People like Blizzard’s new game so much that they are doing a lot of searches in an effort to see its characters naked. On Thursday, searches for Overwatch on the adult-video company Pornhub jumped 817 percent, accordi...

The Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) does not think the IRS has been aggressive enough in pursuing hobby loss cases. Section 183 "Activities not engaged in for profit" denies deductions in excess...

GUEST: A few months ago, a pair of grown (but not necessarily grown-up) men discovered that Amazon's digital assistant Alexa swears. You can use her Simon Says command to make her say "crap." They also found that if you ...

FEATURE: As someone who has been a part of the esports world in some fashion or another for a nearly a decade, the transition into working in the industry has been fascinating. Over the past several years, I've moved thr...

Up in arms about a change in Upwork's business model that will raise the fees some freelancers pay to find work there, workers on the platform have taken to Twitter and Reddit to make their voices heard.

GUEST: Here's what we're all hearing: The number of new bitcoins getting into circulation every 10 minutes will halve from 25 to 12.5 on July 12 at 00:20:18, and the bitcoin price will surge as a result. Maybe it will su...

This millennial entrepreneur achieved Tier-1 press as a first-time author entirely on his own. Here's how.

One of the most common sense aspects of customer service is to show appreciation. If you've seen my keynote speech at a conference, you most likely have heard my story about Frank the cab driver. The story does not end w...

Naguib Sawiris built one of the world's biggest telecomm empires, founded a political party in Egypt and stood up to dictators around the world. Why aren't people taking his proposal to help refugees seriously?

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Judge Marcel Montalvão joined some of Brazil's top politicians as one of the country's most-hated public figures when he ordered a 72-hour shutdown of WhatsApp this week, abruptly cutting off the messaging service for s...

Hyakusenrenma, the Japanese startup behind vacation rental services such as Stay Japan and Tomarina, has secured about $13 million (1.4 billion yen) from AID Partners Capital Holdings, Tokyo-based railway/department stor...

Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:

Nvidia confirmed that it is unveiling a new generation of consumer PC graphics cards based on its Pascal architecture. The company is unveiling the graphics processing units (GPUs) at a live event in Austin, Texas, this ...

Nvidia is expected to unveil a new generation of consumer PC graphics cards today based on its Pascal architecture. Update: Nvidia confirmed the launch. The company is unveiling the graphics processing units (GPUs) at a ...

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox users visiting popular torrent site The Pirate Bay today were greeted with a malware warning, just like Kickass Torrents visitors saw last month and in October 2015. Navigating to ://the...

VB LIVE: The second in our 30-minute series on mobile marketing focuses on user acquisition — not only getting them, but turning them into loyal advocates and influencers. Join VB’s Director of Marketing Technology, ...

(Reuters) — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Alphabet Inc’s Google have yet to determine who would own data collected in their collaboration on self-driving vehicles, FCA Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said Friday. �...