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Editor’s note: Cynthia McKinney Drayton leads global partnerships at Ashoka in support of social entrepreneurs throughout the world. Before coming to Ashoka, Cynthia founded and built a children’s and ladies’ appar...

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Phunware. With our mobile devices constantly connected to location-based tech like GPS, beacons, and Wi-Fi, the opportunities for brands to engage us as we s...

It's a scary world for hardware startups, who face a road far less traveled than their software counterparts. With fewer guides to help them navigate, founders are more prone to mistakes--and ultimately--failure.

The 4th annual FORBES Women's Summit brought together influential women from diverse industries and backgrounds. They shared how they're redefining power.

FEATURE: If you think all betas are glorified demos, you’re wrong. Gamers are buzzing about Overwatch, Blizzard’s upcoming team-based shooter. While it doesn’t debut until May 24 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC...

How to build a billion dollar company, with customers that include Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, through ethics and sustainability-- and without a single salesperson.

Automatic is laying off 24 of its employees, which equates to about 28 percent of its workforce. The connected car platform company said that the layoffs are distributed across the organization, impacting those in engine...

PR remains a mishandled and mismanaged discipline. It has evolved from being merely a way to generate publicity to a bona-fide marketing powerhouse, hence why it’s regrettable to witness PR agencies and in-house teams ...

“Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.”

Look out, Kim Kardashian. OK, maybe not. Look out … Willy Wonka? Ellen DeGeneres, the star of her own daytime talk show and the upcoming animated film Finding Dory, is now the face of a new mobile slots game. Compactly...

Why a Peer-to-Peer Loan Could Help You Pay Off Pesky Credit Card Debt

The phrase “everything is bigger in Texas” may get tossed around a lot, but it is certainly merited. Geographically and culturally, the Lone Star State has the reputation of going above and beyond—an ideology that ...

Virtual reality is already getting an esports tournament for one of its earliest competitive games. Colopl announced today that it will hold a competitive event for its Cyberpong VR game this weekend that it will livestr...

Amit Singh, the person Google hired away from Oracle in 2010 to head up its enterprise business, has taken on a new position inside Google’s recently formed virtual reality unit. He announced the move in a tweet today....

VB LIVE: Data is the key to attaining and retaining loyal players who pay: Join VB's own Dean Takahashi, Thumbspire's VP of Product Stefano Melucci, Appsflyer's Shani Rosenfelder and deltaDNA's CEO Mark Robinson--and fin...

Plus: Sam Adams brewer talks about the difference between sex and masturbation-and other business insights.

I've been thinking about the nature of sales a lot lately. My company, BodeTree, is going through a period of rapid expansion, and we've been growing our sales team in recent months. In doing so, I've had to make decisio...

In a recent study by Forbes Insights, “The Age of Brand, Agency & Customer Collaboration: 4 Keys to Success in Translating Marketing Visions Into More Engaged Customers,” sponsored by Oracle Marketing Cloud, 60% of b...

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Trust is one of the lubricants of business. If you buy a camera online, you trust that the vendor will ship the product intact, in good working order and within an acceptable timeframe. If you order the services of a plu...

Conventional wisdom tells us the OECD's base erosion and profit-shifting initiative is the most significant development in tax policy in decades. Not so, says Reuven Avi-Yonah, a law professor at the University of Michig...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Overwatch conquers the world of porn, Ratchet & Clank becomes a sales success, and Star Wars: Battlefront 2 gets a release window. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! ...