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When private equity firms work to boost profits at portfolio companies, they often focus on growing revenue. But particularly when working with legacy companies, controlling operational expenses is an equally essential �...

If we do what social anxiety tells us, we miss so many opportunities for enjoyment and career growth. Here are some tips for succeeding alongside this common fear!

As services like Twitter have become critical infrastructure for people to communicate and share ideas, maintaining security and uptime is essential. But these companies can’t do it themselves and some have turned to b...

(Reuters) – Billionaire media owner Pierre Omidyar is backing news and entertainment web site Gawker Media in its lawsuit against wrestler Hulk Hogan, adding a new twist to a case pitting technology money against press...

GUEST: In 2011, my startup at the time raised $2 million from some of the top investors in Silicon Valley. The startup, SocialWire (later renamed Manifest), helped online retailers instantly personalize the shopping expe...

You may not have heard of Aeria Games, but it has grown into a 300-person mobile and online game publisher in Berlin based on a single model: It takes popular games in Asia and publishes them in the West. Aeria Games has...

Aziz Memon, founder of the Kings Group of Companies in Pakistan is a social entrepreneur who, with a $100 million empire, may well deserve the title of "King" of Pakistan's Social Entrepreneurs.

GUEST: Uber is consolidating its food delivery business, shuttering an instant delivery option only a few weeks after its official launch. The move suggests that the company’s courier-provided meals posed a greater log...

Investing in a startup is risky. It’s often difficult to pick a “winner.” Even after you’ve done all your research and due diligence on the state of the market, competition, and the business itself, you can never...

Graduating from high school, college or professional school dwarfs nearly all other life events for the majority of young people. Grads deserve the most awesome gift you can find because the next chapter of their lives -...

GUEST: Last week saw an unusual development in the field of ransomware: The cybercriminal group that operates the TeslaCrypt malware published a universal decryption key for their software. Any victim can download and us...

GUEST: As we outlined in our previous post in April, Nintendo's first mobile app, Miitomo, debuted and quickly shot to the No. 1 rank on both the iOS and Android app stores. The big question is how has the game fared ove...

GUEST: The Netherlands is already known as an innovation hub. Indeed, this past April the European Commission awarded the European Capital of Innovation (iCapital) to Amsterdam. The country has built an outstanding infra...

Globally, the travel and tourism industry is being shaken by the impact of technology, rapidly changing consumer markets and the emergence of new business models.

A new government report on Wednesday revealed that America’s nukes are still being controlled by antique computers with 8-inch floppy disks, but a former white hat hacker says that’s not necessarily a bad thing. “T...

There are two major types of marketing that lie at the center of most debates: product marketing and content marketing. Which is better, and why?

"Just because I didn't see the pop-up reminder does not mean I agreed."

Last year marked a dubious milestone for the global order that emerged following World War II: violent conflict had forced more people to flee their homes than in any year since 1945. These people are looking for hope fr...

(The Bridge) – Tokyo-based Creema, the Japanese startup behind a consumer-to-consumer marketplace for handmade items, announced that it has raised about $10 million (1.1 billion yen) in its latest round led by Globis C...

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

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EXCLUSIVE: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is one of the greatest video games of all time. It wraps up the four-part adventures of Nathan Drake, the light-hearted adventurer who started as a Lara Croft clone and became some...