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Amazon may be looking to expand its private-label brands to include more perishable food and household items such as nuts, spices, coffee, diapers, laundry detergent, and baby food. It’s reported that this roll out wil...

The sale of YouTube from a Denny's booth is a fitting way to begin a story about how one of America's most enduring eateries transformed from a digital laggard into a digitally-savvy leader. While most marketing leaders ...

Investments can make or break a company, which is why it's vital that leaders attract the right investors at the right time under the right terms. Unfortunately, too many companies fail to set themselves apart -- and fai...

The world's most prolific offshore jurisdiction has recently come under intense scrutiny for its policies in maintaining records on the Ultimately Beneficial Owners ("UBOs") of companies formed there. In this offshore ju...

Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson have been toiling away at augmented reality for years at their startup, CastAR. Their ambition to make a fun AR product has been cooking for a while, and they’re taking a very different ...

Look beyond Silicon Valley's successes — Uber, Google, Facebook — and you’ll find a wasteland littered with the withered corpses of vexed ventures. These startups failed for a variety of reasons, but some of the mo...

GUEST: If the recent Microsoft Tay debacle tell us anything, it's that we're very far away from a robot takeover, no matter what the movies say. Standalone artificial intelligence (AI) is merely a teenager in the technol...

Learning a language has interesting parallels with marketing to your audience. Here are a few language-learning lessons you can translate into marketing success.

Never a war buff, this writer mines ancient history--and finds compelling lessons about how to gain competitive advantage.

GUEST: The list of top crowdfunding campaigns is becoming increasingly blockchain dominated as of late. As a quick refresher, the concept and structure of a "blockchain" was first introduced to the world in the bitcoin w...

For years, Amazon.com was an IT powerhouse amassing the scale and scope to compete effectively against Google (now Alphabet), Microsoft and the like.

While Danish crypto currency exchange CCEDK has signalled that it is to become a hub for a series of “diverse projects” and services, with the current trading engine ceasing for good this May, investors should not pa...

GUEST: In November of 2013, Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, introduced us to the Unicorn Club. Since then, the club has grown from 39 members to several hundred. Earlier this month, we all read Bill Gurley's much...

Global conglomerates like Samsung dominate the tech landscape. But when it comes to games, they’re underdogs. Samsung knows this, and that’s why it recently announced at our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event that it is ext...

Some of the most successful Instagramers in the world have leveraged this powerful platform and their million-plus followers to build up wildly-popular businesses. Find out how some of them did it, and how you can possib...

Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gave an powerful speech at UC Berkeley’s commencement on Saturday about resilience and loss. The speech addressed how Sandberg coped after her husband Dave Goldberg died unexpectedly in Mex...

EXCLUSIVE: When it comes to making Internet video, free is a pretty good price. Playwire is announcing today that it has created a free version of its video player for independent publishers who want to be self-sufficien...

Wildly successful billionaires and millionaires are people with substantial net worth who inspire, support and contribute to others.  I met many of them at Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting two weeks ...

GUEST: First Prince's entire catalog, then Beyonce's Lemonade, and now, Radiohead. Yes, streaming music service Tidal has scored yet another big get with Radiohead's recent announcement that they’ll stream their new al...